The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-05

Dagmar Cooperative store used the PRODUCERS
News exclusively. 1t has huge crowd on lts OPP
ening day. People come from Plentywooo, from
Medicine Lake, from the 500 Line country-fots VI
Them and they got their moneys worth too. Ana
a few days ago a Plentywood grocer put ON huge
sale-he bought page in the Producers News and
found that he made good investment.
So the business firms on Main Street who adver-
tise with the Herald and boycott the PRODUCERS
News do so TO fight the farmers and the farmers
paper, because they hate the farmers and the farm
ers paper-and for other reason
Then they howl because the farmers and the
farmers paper strikes back by telling the truth
about them and their prices
But the Mainstreeters are getting away with
nothing: the farmers are watching. Several OF
the leading farmers of the Raymond country were
in last week and were at the Producers News OF
flee and told the editor: Zone OF us gets the heI-
aid: we pass it around among US, and see whaI
merchants advertise in the Herald ana tne Frouuc
ers News and compare the size of the ads, and
note those who advertise in the Herald and VINO
do not advertise in the Producers News. Those
who advertise in the Herald and do not advertise
in the Producers News we do not patronlze and
we are organizing ourselves and the stockholders
on the basis of 1--WE do not patronize those who
do not patronize us, which is fair enough. we Know
these business men are not for US, that they want
to destroy us and party, and we know tnat
when we quit patronizing them there will be some
more Closing-Out sales. We know they are hold
ing up prices Prices everything are higher
here than any other place in the country. we pay
more for everything use and get less for every
thing sell, and when we try to organize TO pet
ter ourselves they get out and fight us, and help
pile heavy taxes on US besides. If they do shut
down our paper, can patronlze the mail ORDER
houses, and don't think we are not doing it now
We don't owe Plentywood anything-that place
never did anything for us. Even Sen. walsh called
attention to the fact that Montana merchants do
not follow prices down. The vote shows US what
Plentywood cares for the farmers
And also, for the information of the old lady ov-
er at the Herald the Producers News tho located
in Plentywood, is not Plentywood institution. 1t
is a business owned by the farmers of Sheridan
county Plentywood gets the benefit of its being
here, but the paper belongs to the farmers and Its
mission is TO promote their interests and to fight
their battles, and long as it is owned by the
farmers and published in their behalf it will con-
tinue to do so-if it goes down it will go down
with its colors flying. 1t owes nothing 30 Main
Street.
AS far as the employees of the Producers News
are concerned, they spend larger part of their
earnings in Plentywood than the Mainstreet-
themselves. They patronize home industry,
the local merchant, the local bakery, the local
flour mill, and every other industry of Plenty
wood which the Mainstreeters sabotage and under
mine and destroy while prattling about patronizing
home industry and home merchants, while they
themselves buy nothing here which they think they
can buy cheaper abroad One merchant, down
the corner, with whom the writer has spent more
Cnan 9lZOO IN the last SIX years, with WnOm every
member of the Producers News force has spent
hundreds of dollars each, and with whom the Peo-
Piles Publishing Company has spent bot of money,
is now boycotting the Producers News and adver-
Using in the Herald-not because it not pro-
ftabe to patronZe this paper but because it hates
it Why should any farmer patronize that firm
until its puts on a bankruptcy sale.
The Producers News owes nothing to Main
Street: it was not established to cater to Main
Street, and it is not going to do it. It has never
been fooled by Main Street: we have given it more
than it has given US.
We are here, prepared to serve Plentywood on a
business basis, giving 100 per cent in service for
everv dollar received-but the Producers News be-
LONGS not to Plentywood but to the farmers of
Sheridan county and serve them first and 9TH
er people afterwards
And Main Street can put that in its pipe and
smoke it.
We are not looking for trouble, but we never did
a. I'd will not run from it.