Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-12-12
"~IMPERIALISTIC AMERICAN

IMPERIALISTIC AMERICA
Soviet Russia, according to the versatile columnist on
the Producers News staff, is the only country whose govern
ment has assumed anything near the state OF economic per-
lection
The United States. in common with England and France
!, an "lmperialistic Nation, whose government is domineer-
ed by INSCRIPTIONS captains of industry and the moneyed
interests.
According to him, the move on the part OF Secretary
Stimson, to invoke the Kellogg Peace Pact IN settling the
d;spute between the Soviet government and China was an act
of bad faith and that this country and the other lmperlallst-
ic' countries were not SO much interested in settling the Chi
no-Russian dispute, as they we're to further their domination
of Asatc affairs.
We hold no brief with tie News columnist for his SEN
timent. Concerning Soviet Russia we know little. And OF
our own government-we freely admit that it has its short
comings. We are prejudiced enough, however, to believe
firmly that America has an in .nitey better government than
Soviet Russia and that the loi of its people is infinitely bet
ter than that of the Soviet Union.
We know that a pubGcai ion in Russia that would dare
to criticize and question the good faith OF public officials In
their country the way the Producers News does those OF this
country, would not remain in existence very long.
Trotzky, once the greatest figure in Communistic circles
disagreed with the leaders that were in power and is now a
man without a country trying in vain to find domiclle In the
'Imperialistic Countries" he once scorned.
From the issue of the Daily Worker on November 10Th,
we learn that Charles E. Taylor is also in bad With the Com
munist party. 1t is most fortunate that he is in America and
not in Russia, where disfavor Of that nature would mean a
long dreary treck in Siberia or facing a firing squad.
We do know that the farmers of the Northwest are not
getting a square deal, but they are in a position to bring pres
ure to bear in their behalf and they are gaining ground. We
also know that the farmers lot in Russia is infinitely worse.
The American farmer can held his wheat or livestock and
sell when prices are most advantageous He also has the pi
vilege of organizing marketing organizations with a view Of
getting a letter price for his produce. The Russian peasant
has to turn over his grain when ordered to do so and accept
the prices the government srecihes-prces dictated by the
industrialist element which has control of the government.
We do know that right now in this land Of ours, mil
lions of people are preparing to celebrate Christmas. In
thousands of churches, over the radio and in millions Of
homes, Christmas carols. childrens festivals, Christmas Mass,
and the reverent retelling of that old, old story of the COM
ing of the Christ Child will bring comfort, cheer, peace and
good will to people of all faiths and conditions of life.
Over in Soviet Russia the government will use the ra-
do to tell the people that Christmas is a pagan holiday, that
Jesus Christ is only a myth and the Christian religion is but
a superstition fostered by the Bourgeois to overave the mass
es and keep them in check. The government owned thea
tres will continue their policy, as in the past, of running COM
petition to the churches by giving performances lampooing
and buresquing the things which pious Russians consider
sacred.
And Christmas Day will be just another working day in
Russia.
Yes, America may have its serious shortcomings. Its
people may be sorely beset with the trials and vexations in
icdently to getting on in this world. But we are thankful
that we are living in the United States of America and not in
Soviet Russia and that the Communist objective-World
Revolution-has not as yet been attained.
Somehow or other, we have a sneaking suspicion that
the Producers News columnist feels the same way as we do
about it.