The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-17

S--
Editors Communication fol
publication in this column must
be not longer than 500 words.
POLITICAL FOG
By HANS RASMUSSEN

We have listened TO Erickson,
Walsh, Galen, Leavitt, Young and
Tom Stout throwing Oratorical
smoke screens in all directions.
The air is full of political smoke
and fog. People are wandering
and don't know in what direction
they are going. Some will vote
for Walsh and some for Galen.
Not until after election is over
with, will it dawn upon them that
they were fooled again-just what
happened two years ago and just
what will happen again as long as
people are o. King a system which
allows a few to grab everything in
sight.
We are selling our wheat at 1c
pound and buying it back in
form of puffed wheat at CSC per
pound. 1t takes Al pounds of rye
to buy one pound of bread and 200
pounds of wool to buy a suit of
clothes. Still we think we can beat
the game by voting some more
for Walsh and Galen. Don't you
think it makes them laugh? Why
shouldn't it? They are in the
neutrality-suspicious. and get a
lot of kick out of playing it.
They have been talking tariff
and tariff. Tariff is the cause of
all our troubles and hard times.
Tariff is the only thing that has
saved the country from complete
destruction. Tariff is what we
should have. Tariff is what we
shouldn't have. Some will vote
for more tariff, some will vote for
less tariff. Some will vote for
Walsh and some for Galen-and
we will keep on selling our wheat
at 1c and buying it back at CSC.
Over the country is travelling
young LaFollette boosting for
Walsh. Like a good christian he
is forgiving and forgetting that it
was Walsh who did all he could
to kick the elder LaFollette out of
the Senate.
B. K. Wheeler is out, too, max
ing a lot of noise, having big
meetings, making Farmer-Labor
speeches for Walsh; telling people
about the terrible conditions, about
the starving people, the bread
lines, abiut a few getting richer
and the rest of US poorer. The au-
dience is listening, they are inter
ested, they applaud, they don't
want to lose their home, their
farm, their little store, their job.
They expect Wheeler to lead the
way out. And then he comes out
telling them to vote for Walsh
and Stout, when he knows that
Walsh just handed a juicy piece of
the State of Montana over to the
Montana Power Company in form
of the F1athead power site. So
they can skin US some more and
would be willing TO hand over to
them the whole state if they ask
ed Tor it. He also knows that Tom
Ste ut is running a paper control
led by big business and would not
dare doing anything to harm
them.
l can understand that people
like Young and Leavitt-probably
some would include Galen too-can
go out for the purpose of fooling
the people. None of them are ov-
erloaded with brains, although
they think so themselves. They
are out TO land a job no matter
how they get it. But it is a pity
that men like Walsh, Wheeler, La
Toilette and Stout, who are really
smart men, will keep on spending
their time on fooling the people
into voting for a robbing system
which is bringing them nearer and
nearer to the poorhouse every day.
And it is a pity that the produc-
ing class will keep on throwing
their vote away for something
they don't want.
After the political fog is over
and people have voted for Walsh,
Galen, Leavitt, Stout and Lars
Angvick we will be that much
nearer the poorhouse.