The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12

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it will and must finally collapse
before it.
Fully dozen major develop
ments are now taking place which
have for their purpose the central
ization of authority into the hands
of the executive-that is, into the
hands of Big Business, of which
the President is the spokesman.
The passage of the administration
farm relief bill and the appoint
ment Of "Business-Minded"
Farm Board marked the climax of
the development. Under the slo-
gan of "Farmer-owne farmer
controlled the country's largest
and still most characteristic in
dustry has been taken almost com
pletely cut of the jurisdiction of
IT'S individual producers and has
been drawn permanently into the
net Of the Money Power.
Nothing is now so important as
a clear understanding of the pro.
cess into which the agricultural
producers are being drawn. What
ever part the farmers may ulti
mately play in the battle agains
Big Business, they are most Ger
tainly destined to become the frs
shock troops in the coming clash
And the most vital information il
any battle is knowledge of tn
plans and program of the enemy.
The manufacturing and indus
trial interests which took owe
control of the government follow
ing the Civil War have been con
solidating their power until at tn
present time practically every Ell
ecutive department is under thei
complete domination. The exten
r of their stranglehold on these dc
! partments is realized by very few
Nor has sufficient attention bee
S paid to the fact that more an
: more into the channels of thes
f administrative departments al
r flowing functions previously exc
cised by the legislature. The in
d portance of this process cannot
= exaggerated. 1t cannot be stol
/. ped. The trend, like the growt
Of trusts, is inevitable.
The administration of Presidel
Mckinley which marks the begil
ming of Americas rise to the sta
us of world power, in this r
spect as in many others was
- turning point in the nations hi
~ tory. During this period, a who
20 series of acts were taken over u
~ der the presidents wing. Amor
- - them were those relating to Anne
n lean power over the Hawaiian, I
- Porto Rican and the Philippi
governments, and the control {
Z tablished over Cuba; the establis
IL ment of laws relating 10 the "a
~ roads, the regulation of corpol
: tions and many others no less il
= portant. President Taft. it is
nj ported, for a time sought to ave-
Il moving with this inevitable trel
~ but it is on record that in o
in month, that of June 1910, he us
a his influence to push through CO
as gress the greatest array of
he spired legislation ever to pass IL
body. No less significant was
sb trend during the administration
&c President Wilson who while U
be versity professor had written
m book, Congressional Government
al to prove that Congress had becol
~ supreme. But the first Congr'
~ of his administration yielded
the process to push through a t.
if bill, an income tax law.
ri Federal Reserve Act, laws furtl
~ centralizing control over corpo
" tons, and others.
The process has since gone s
tie further. The president can &
ell does take over the war maxi
his power by conducting big or lit
tb skirmishes in Nicaragua, in Ha