The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-26

predicted Russian wheat would
not be a menace. But it appears
that the Russian farmers under
the direction of the Communist
government are getting ahead.
The government helps them with
the best machinery available and
so we read: Chicago, Sept. %
Russia held the whip hand on
grain prices today, offering large
quantities of wheat abroad 10
cents bushel lower than similar
wheat from North America. But
regardless of how much or little
the Russian government was ac-
tually selling in speculative mar.
kets here or elsewhere, the out.
standing fact was that Russia
was making a price standard low
enough to shut out competitors
in Europe" Now, if competition
is the life of trade. the sporty
thing for our Dlutes TO do would
be to take off their hands to the
superior efficiency of The Soviet
farmers and wish them luck.
Nay, nay.
!lI!!I!
1t is almost impossible to be-
lieve but il looks like the Hoover
administration is organizing
rip-snOrting war against the So
Wet Union. This and similar
charges may be the justification
needed to rouse the people
against the 'Red menace" Our
ruling classes have tried almost
every other trick in the bag. The
people refused to get excited
when they were told that mag
gOty orthodox priests were ham,
pered in their Dan-handling ac-
tivities on the sidewalks in front
of their churches. They failed to
get sufficiently indignant over
the refusal of the Soviet govern,
ment to pay the Czarist debts or
to turn over their wells to Stand
ard Oil and Royal Dutch. But
they may get mad if they are
convinced that unemployment and
the agricultural crisis are caused
by BOlshevik conspiracy. HOOv-
er is desperate enough to try any
thing.
!!l!iI1
Chile has the honor of being
the seventh Latin American coun-
try in six months to stage a rev.
OlutiOn. Hardly had the wreck
age of the Argentine coup de etat
vanished from the front page
than Chile leaDeA into place. Two
American airmen are held in con-
nectiOn with the attempt to over
throw the existing government.
Whether the attempt is success
full or not is not known as this
is written (Tuesday). The pres
ence of American airmen suggests
interesting suspicious. Is the
present Chilean government dick
ermg with the British capitalists?
Chile is famous for its nitrate
deposits. Can it be possible that
the government of the United
States is interfering in the do
nestle affairs of other countries?
Surely government that refuses
to recognize the Soviet Union on
that alleged ground would mot &C.
self be guilty of similar con-
duct Still. Uncle Sam butts in
to the affairs of Nicaragua, Mex
leo, Panama, and other Latin
American republics. British and
American capitalists are now re-
sorting TO arms against each 9th
er in Latin America. OF course
the capitalists 10 not do the
fighting. But they don't have to.
They have the money.
!Il!I!l
The biggest news event OF the
year was the result of the Ger
man elections last week. The
Communists standing for a dicta-
tOrship of the workers and far
mers DOlled 100000 votes. The
Fascists standing for the dicta-
tOrship of the capitalists, polled
6,5OO,OOO. The Socialists posing
as a wOrkingclass party but
standing for the interests of the
capitalist class under the flag of
a spurious democracy lost sever
al seats in the Reichstag. The
Communists won seats from the
Socialists and the Fascists won
over a great section of the i'm
pOverished middle classes, The
Fascists are reported to have
plans made to seize the govern.
ment. They are armed and
ready. They have been permitted
to arm by the department of the
interior, while all wOrEingcIass
organizations have been disarmed.
The question that cOnfronts the
German masses today is: which
dictatorship they prefer - their
own or that of the capitalists
!!l!lll
The writer is informed that
collectors for machine cOmpanies
and auto finance companies are
ailghtlng on the farmers this fall
like flOcks of lOcusts. They are
ugly and they are tough. When
farmer hauls a load of grain
to the elevator those buzzards are
right there at the scales and if
the farmer sells he is lucky to
take enough money out of there
20 buy tin of snuff. This seems
to be sufficient justification for
publishing the following editorial
from the Helena Daily Indenend-