Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-03-21

Whoever those farmers and directors referred to above
may be, we have this to say concerning them-they have
been very careless in their selection OF a spokesman.
The bit we quote is a part OF last week $ TRADE against
the Herald in the local communistc publication.
Surely the Hon. Carries E. Taylor couldn't be guilty OF
such nonsensical drvel. 1t sounds more like that man
Moore. But whoever he is, he may we'll serve as Webster's
unabridged definition of a Damphool. (Brlng on your farm
ers)
Presuming to speak on behalf of the farmers, he has
chosen as his particular anathema, anything that partakes
of the nature of a chain institution. The Herald. being one
of several Montana publications cojointly owned, is listed as
a curse particularly odlous.
The indictment is most scathing. The owner of the
Herald, according to the TRADE, is so little interested In Plen-
tywood that he doesn't even live here, and the editing OF the
Herald is left to a hiring
Now ism that just too bad3
We never before realized how terribly cursed Plenty
wood is in this respect. There's the Mountain States Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company for instance-Mr. Bell. the
head push, lives in New York; and the Great Northern Kali
way-Mr. Hill lives in St. Paul; and the c. Penney Co.,
Mr.. Penney lives in Miami; and the lngwasen Co,-Mr.
lngwalsen lives in Crosby; and the Westland Oil Company,
The Northwest Service Stores and SO on down the line
even the Hon. Charles E. Taylor spends most of his time in
the boglands of northern Minnesota and Pat Wallace down
in Utopia.
And run by a 'hreEng!' We will be brazen and make
no bones about it. The editor of the Herald is a hireling.
He works for wages and would like to know what the would
be Arthur Brisbane of the Producer News considers himself.
He is not an owner of the pubication-we doubt very much
that he owns a cents worth Of stock. We protest any infer
cnce as to his being an emisary sent from on high. The near
est conclusion we can come to, if he is not a hireling, is that
he is one of those pathetic creatures of communistic itera-
ture known as a wage slave minus OF course, the wages.
1t surely was some editorial.
With a great deal Of bombastic flourish he tells about
his publication S great fight to bring right to the front. The
people of P~lentywood were terribly corrupt and crooked and
be had to deal with them very severely. The publication has
no apology to offer for what it has said and done; 1T will
fight graft and corruption wherever it is found in the county
and broadcast it to the world.
Grand heroics indeed, but it does seem strange that the
graft and corruption they treat of always concerns some one
on the opposite side of the political fence from their own
never one of their own black sheep.
Take for example
If an employee of the Herald owned grocery store
property, doing a poor business, highly insured. and destroy
ed in two fires that came in quick succession. The Producer
News would lose little time in telling the world about.
IF Herald employee owned a back alley shanty and
rented it with the full knowledge that it was to be used as a
blind pig, the Producer News would lose little time in telling
the world about it.
If the editor of the Hereld peddled patent medicine stock
among those who placed confidence in him and later refused
10 give out any information as to how their investment was
taken care of, the Producer News would sure tell the world
about it.
If the Herald editor betrayed the confidence of an old
man in his doage, told him to take his money out of one of
tie local banks because it was likely to go under and then get
him to lend him the money without and security, the Produc-
er News would tell the world about it.
But
If The shoe was on the other foot and those connected
with the Producer News were the offenders, the Producer
News would tell the world about it
Yes it would-Hke so much
The Producer News staff knows as we'll as anyone that
the reason why they maigned and abused the local merch-
ants was because they were not in sympathy with commun-
ism and refused to support a communistic newspaper. The
merchants were neither guilty of graft nor corruption, but
because they refused to be bossed by a bunch of reds. they
and the town had to suffer.
The wage slave would have US believe that Every wor-
thy institution has always had the support of the Producer
News He must be suffering from amnesia. A few wears
ago the r. N. pictured the commercial club as an organiza-
ton whose chief function was to tell the hayseeds where
to tie their horses. The paper tried to boycott local merch-
ants for being unfair to the farmers" and surely the wage