The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-27
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1929.


The capitalist press likes to flap its wings and
crow about our great democracy a form of gov
eminent based on popular rule and the submission
OF the minority to the majority. Nowadays, trust
owned editors, ease prickling conscience Dcca-
slonaly by taking cracks at the Fascist dictator
ship in Italy and particularly at Mussolini, the
brain that directs the daggers of the Black Shirts
and issues the orders that send his political enc
mics to prison exile. Yet it is this great Ameri-
can democracy of that enabled Mussolini to
retain power by means of millions of dollars of
loans secured from Wall Street bankers with the
approval of the federal government When the
Fascist dictatorship was crumbling after the MUIR
der of the Socialist leader Matteoit a hundred
million dollar loan from the House of Morgan gave
the duce the necessary purchasing power to corrupt
a sufficient number of opposition leaders to enable
him to prop up the shaky edifice of state. And
MussOlini given that particular loan to pro-
tect minority rule in Italy and save it from the
rule of the workers and farmers of that country
the overwhelming majority of the population 1t
must be said, to MuSsoni's credit that he scorns
democracy and declares that it is the wasp's waist
line.
Getting down to brass tacks, what is the essen
ial difference between the Fascist dictatorship in
Italy and democracy under which workers are
lists to give them a living wage or that permits
spectators and financial pirates to fleece the
farmers when the harvest is bountiful as we'll as
when it is lean? In terms of bread and butter
and REAL democracy there is no tangible differ
ence. 1t seems that human beings like to "kid"
themselves into believing that what is not, really
is
1t requires less than profound study of cur
rent events to convince fair-minded person that
there cannot be real democracy under any form
of government where the machinery of wealth
production, which is essential to the well-being of
all the people, is owned and controlled by compar-
atively few, under system where mans econ
omic life is at the mercy of somebody else. The
majority of the people of the United States are
composed of workers and farmers, yet there are
thousands of industrial workers unemployed in the
midst of prosperity" with their number constant
ly increasing and have millions of farmers
faced with want tho they raise the food that
stands between the people of this land and star
vaion. But the spectators and grain gamblers in
their Wall Street lairs gather in the dollars
whether the harvest be fat or lean and the indus
trial magnates that own the mines, factories and
transportation facilities roll in luxury while those
out of whose bone and sinew they coined their
profits are holding the devil by the tail"
OF course, the American workers ard farmers
have the right to cast their votes for their favor
tie candidates on election day. But the candidates
Of both major parties are merely servants of the
overlords of land and industry. And long
the workers and farmers have not brains enough
10 organize and support a party of their own that
will be controlled by them and long as they al
low themselves to be fooled by the promises and
frothy vapOrings of the capitalist blatherskites,
they will be permitted to have all the democracy
their hearts crave for.
But, should the producers of this country take
the necessary steps to establish real democracy
here, through workers and farmers government,
we would not be the least bit surprised to see our
capitalist politicians in Washington give them
something patented by Mussoni.
While our capitalist editors administer an occa-
sional slap the wrist to Mussolini, our govern
ment is on the best of diplomatic terms with the
fascist government but spurns such relationship
with Soviet Russia where real democracy exists,
where the farmers and industrial workers control
the government and have their say in how the gov
eminent is conducted.
In the United States telephone call from a GER
tain office in Wall Street is more potent in Wash
ington than a million demands from the workers of
the teeming cities and the farmers of the wide
open spaces