The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-11

ing. You are always trying to
hide behind personalities, when, if |
you had an iota of right or truth |
on your side, you should be refut-
ing some of the other fellows ac-
cusations.
Takes Himself Serious.
Here is the way you work. You
know that there are a few people
in my neighborhood who dislike
me and would be pleased to see
me referred to as "swell-headed."
In fact | have letter in your dis
tinguished handwriting, under date
of May 8th, 1929, in which you
discuss the matter at some length.
You hope that by speaking of me
in such a way as to please these
people you can divert their atten-
ton from what l say.
Interesting As Freak.
But as it happens, it does not
matter to the peope of Sheridan
County whether my head is swol-
len or shrunken or merely normal
/ except insofar as the more near
, ly normal a head may be the less
> interesting it is to people in gen
eral. 1t does matter to these peo-
pie that gang of liars and sneak
! thieves are trying to put the coun-
: ty In their capaciOuS pockets. And
if | can help to take a little of
o the wind out of the pretensions of
q any such gang, shall do so,-with
! torpedo, Standardization, or a
bomb, airship-fashion, l do not
care which.
o Boasts Df His Vices.
: Now, to prevent you from using
D my peculiarities as a smoke screen
: behind which you may hide your
:. inability to reply convincingly to
!: my charges, l shall admit at once
a that l am indeed swell-headed
a whatever that means. And that is
o not all. l am, besides that, cor
: rupt, self-seeking, and even vi.
d cious. l have violated all of the
q ten or twelve commandments, anC
intend to violate a few new ones
as soon as | conveniently can.
n have robbed old men and widows
le of their savings, and have bought
,e bad booze with the money. 1 have
" burglarized county treasures, anC
n accepted brides from hoodlums.
N have done everything that you anC
If Salisbury have done, and thel
s. some. In short, l am a bad, wick
ed bogey-man who is troubled wit
= perpetually acid stomach (prob
. ably the result of eating too man,
e live babies), and who is an enem
of mankind.
Feels Better Now.
II However, since the Producer
News began calling me names,
feel honest and respectable agar
And now, with my persona
character disposed of, we can &c
* down to brass tacks.
e Tut. Tut, Tut.
Brass, Tacks, First Series: R,
fer to my letter of February thir,
: You haven't answered it and 20
won't. because you can't.
Raves At Razor Waivers.
Brass Tacks, Second Series. You
latest piece of inconsistency is tt
aid and comfort you have give
/ to the two Plentywood razor-wa'
ers who have just succeeded
closing the shop of a rival for tt
second time within a few week
You, who are continually squaw
ing about your sympathy for tt
poor down-trodden wrkingman WI
does not get a fair chance, becau
4 smeone else who is richer al
more firmly established insists
= walking over him! You, with yo
~ fatheaded assumption that you a
- the original plumed knight ridil
y boldly out in defense of the we
~ and the oppressed A fine pro.
tartan you are! With one ha
you wipe away huge tears of pit
and with the other you slip
49, knife between the ribs of the m
for whom you pretend to be
sorry.
You Sure Do.
l have just read what A. M
(for once one of your anonymO
scribes seems to have chosen
appropriate pseudonym) says
. bout the matter. He remarl
- "Well, we have a barber law. w
should it not be enforced? WI
are these laws for?" Splend
/, Mr.. Mutt; you are credit to yC
name. But, dear Mr.. Mutt, hs
YOU heard that we also have c
Oh tain laws concerning alcoholic b
. erages, their use and abuse?
- we find the Producers News r
~ ommending that these laws be
III forced? Do we?
And yet the same writer ref
to other people as Sinking ny
tie crites!"
Real Labor Spokesman.
Here is a choice fact or
about those remarkably pub
- spirited men, the established b
\ bers of Plentywood. They
sanitary, all right, and they
good BARRIERS, too, when they r.
/, ly wish to please. But l am spe
ing now for the farmers and
boring men,-real laboring m
-@e not the kind who get themsel