The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-02-21
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Fl, 1880
MAKING SCOBEY SAFE FOR
IECHERY

LENf1ENI
Two weeks ago serious crime was committed
in a prominent hotel in Scobey and tho the chief
of police of that town and Burley Bowler, editor
of the Daniels County Leader are in full posses
sion of the facts of the case the did not place
any of those responsible under arrest and the 9TH
er did not mention the incident in the columns of
his scandal sheet.
1t appears that two travelling men, took two
young girls to the hotel, piled them with drink
and entertained" them until the screams of the
girls-one of them under fifteen-attracted the
attention of an employee who ordered them from
the place.
The girls were so overcome from liquor and 9TH
er causes that they had to be carried out into the
street. The girl whose age is less than fifteen
years was unconscious
Now, despite the fact that Scobey's chief of po-
lice had knowledge of this outrage two young
girls, he took no action in the matter.
Despite the fact that Burley Bowler, the editor
of the Daniels County Leader had knowledge of
the outrage he failed to publish the facts. Meth
er did he don his crusading armor and sally forth
in defense of pure womanhood in his bailiwick.
And "Liar" S. Olson, the windbag who appro-
priately edits the local Bladder and who is so
hypocritically righteous about a somewhat similar
incident in Plentywood passes off the attack
"Is further evidence needed" to prove that the
invasion of Plentywood by Burley Bowler of SEQ
hey, Hugh Marion, the X. of c. defender of virgin
ity of Wolf Point and Harry Polk, the Daddy"
Browning of North Dakota is simply sewer-pipe
politics And is it not sight for the gods to see
the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan marching under the symbol
The Fiery Cross-in defense of the sanctity of
American womanhood, while similar case to the
Plentywood affair is kept under lock and key in
the Roosevelt County Attorneys office for nine
months and the Scobey case is passed up with
cynical grinl
It is entirely fitting that the Klu Kun Klanites
of Plentywood, Scobey and North Dakota and
their inverted allies, should essay this task They
are only running true to form. The Ku Klux Klan
had its motto '"The Protection of American
Womanhood" And it did pretty well financially
by this slogan until practically all of its outstand
ing leaders landed in Jail for rape and arson muir
der and all-around criminality. The list of Klux-
ers who are now behind the bars for such crimes
reads like the casualty list of the victims of pro-
hibition.
1t was thus. AS ostentatious patriotism
has always been the last refuge of the scoundrel
has ostentatious morality been the last refuge
of the roue the rogue and the rascal. Men whose
lives are pockmarked with moral lapses are the
first to leap into the fray to hound Others parti
cularly when there is a prospect of snatching
material benefit from the crusade.
Here in Plentywood, the "nickel under the heel"
is the aim of the Pollz-Bowler outfit and their
wild-eyNd, empty-headed poodle, Lard S. Olson,
TO grab off the county printing next year In
their hunger for the spoils they lose all sense of
proportion and like angry prostitutes because
The Producers News stands in their way This
is the explanation of the drive for moral purity
en- the part of this bawdy trinity and their shady
supporters. They want monopoly on vice. gamb-
ling and bootlegging as we'll as grip on the
county treasury. With that end in view they are
grooming the sanity and sober Oscar Collins for
sheriff and initiating that mental giant, Albert
HOLMAN, the county treasurer, into the mysteries
of K. K. XXX. of c. politiciandom "Unholy al
Hance" you say. Unholy, but perfectly logical.
Politics makes strange bedfellows but the bedfel-
lows always have something in common That
something" is graft.
So while assistant-attorn general is brot
in here to help County Attorney Grant Blackwell
win against attorneys Babcock and Greer
and incidentally 10 do little campaigning for his
friend Mr.. Kidder, we hear-crime in Scobey is
rampant and immune, the angels of virtue flap
their wings in dismay over Wolf Point and the
devils laugh on Harry Folks lecherous trail over
the wind-swept plains of North Dakota