The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-11
As We See 1t
Nv Tom 0'FIaherty

ri. month is the thirteenth h
ms i n Of the declaration OF
aril'eL'Ic!e Germany by the Wilson
va J.;ratratiOn. Wilson was elect
sinlln pIatfOrm of peace and a
ed Oh 10, he kept us out of war:
p Plea In'j Glynn, governor Of
VA, saL'TYI York who made the wilson
New aiOsting speech at the Demo,
D0lil l Invention eloquently told
Ga'ES .legates that Wilson "hum-
tF u tbs 1Uroudest spirit that ever !,
6ea I ..1 aver the field Of battle"
No soinc Bill, the Kaiser. If ne
ns ]a any particulars of the man.
gave IN which the president ac-
Rl I;sbed this great deed we do
@a on ppocolIect. But we do reoollect
no ', M sooner had Wilson's cleo
M, ton be been cinched than he began
. actively prepare Tor war WIN
Germany.
Tho war is over and we are
.nsr preparing for the next. 1t is
~. ar less futile to deliver a
Ioeture on the g-r-r-e-a-t
I'no-q.I.e for democracy
g.t started in 1914 and into
~Sicb our muti-milliOnaires jump
INV prOxy-in 1917. The
".0vies ladies' and gentlemen,
zero the sons of the workers and
farmers. More money is now be-
NO spent on military and naval
.r ~ than before 1914 and
be threat of war is today more
.nnarent than on that summer
S,y when a Serbian terrorist
Arew the fatal bomb at an Aus
trian archduke that set the match
IA the powder barrel of European
dplOmacy and intrigue.
*&*** =
The war was to end war and
make the world safe for demOcra'
g. Lloyd George declared that
England would be a country "fit
far heroes to live in" after tht
Kaiser was hanged by the necl
10 some sturdy English elm unit
he was dead. Well. the Kaisel
is still living in luxury and idle
ness as kings have lived sincS
feudal days, but if there are an.
heroes that find England fit t.
live in they are not of the work
mgclass and particularly the un
employed workers. And if yOl
ask the seven millions of jObles
workers in the United States /
they are any better off for hav
ing licked Cd the Kaiser, mayb
they will lynch yOu-particularl,
il you bear the look of a patriot
And we might add that the farm
ing classes. thousands of who's
sons laid down their lives in tn
CORY trenches of France an
Flanders would give you a SIM
lar answer.
&&&&& 80
We have already stated in Til
Producers News that the govern
ment spent S49,OOO,OO0,00O
prosecuting the world war, a goo
part Of which was used to ia
anybody charged with expressin
an opinion that the war was
crime against the American PEI
pie. Our gOyernment-I am no
writing facetiOusly, 1 mean Il
government of the House 4
Morgan = loaned $12,OOO,00O,0 (
70 the Allies, One-tenth of whit
It will never collect. The san
government fed a few milliOI
Of Frenchmen for several year
let this government is now dan
! Ing half a billion dollars befO
Ihe eyes Of the farmers, who a
IN the position of the tradition
dOnkey with the carrot in fro
Of his R0se-a carrot manipul;
Cd to lead him on with his ma
lers load to the desired destir
ton.
80 &&&&
Oh yes it was a great W
and It spawned so many bra
new milliOnaires that / hesit;
% hurt your feelings by remil
mg you of the number. One
i 'hem is Mr.. Levine. the ira
/ Atlantic flier. a lOwly junkm
j Eno made his fortune on SER
] PEG battleships. OF course
ISOoed the government but w
] Ol 1t! He was not a radical.
was not against the war.
vas a patricia dealer in iu
~ must be a great consolation
1Ie millions of unemployed
snOm many are heroes" to c
template the defeat of Germ,
SuO the kaiser dining and win
unurlOusly at Doom, HOlls
surrounded by servile funk
anu The tnappings of roy
snle they walk the streets Il
Tor a job. That shOuld
'ue mental food indeed.
$3.50 SIS
Now, if Hoover aup,eare1
I %1 Joint session Of congress
@ %nSCa did in 1917 and decl,
g 's' state of war exists betv
~ e employers and the unemr
49,, 'ne former having thrown
@ .'er out of work and threat,
%len and their families with
askas ueath from starvation
Ea @eu congress for an appro,
Non Of slO,OOO,OOO, GOO to op heir
unemployed os survive until the
over, what DO Won /
maE sress would do? It would
% ;;ulalely appoint a lunacv
MAJ On or permit Hoover
t,sa u guilty to second 4,
ss0 ssOn and take a five !
nD.a nce' with the approval .
vss'. court. But we
SO1 WON much if the supreme
w%I G accept such a pIe,
cUt s'G insist that congress- Sie :
n " M. MN for first-degreea' I trt
Sm course this should he in in
oYWrrel. Fol- uc III