The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-07-11
OUTSIDE OUR DOOR
Rv HANS RAMUSSEN

If YOU want to see people who are actually fac
ing starvation; people who are revolving against
the present conditions and ready to do anything IN
order to eat, you need not go to China or lndla,
Just go couple of hundred miles west 20 TO
Phillips county where l have been lately.
Out there, hundred of farmers have no food In
sight-grain fields potatoes and everything 1I are
burned up. If they have few cattle they have
no feed to carry them over the winter. Irrigation
bitches are dry bone around Malta and water
paid for in advance.
expressed himself in this way. Stranger" he
said, 81 don't know who you are and don't care,
but will tell you one thing. l have 1920 rifle
and it is the last thing am going to part with"
Lots of others feeling just that way.
Oh my! how the business men of Malta do love
the farmers and workers. circulating petit
tons for the Workmen's Compensation Law, some
thing which would not hurt or affect the farmers
in any shape or form, nor the average business
man, but would benefit people working for big
companies like the Montana over and the Ana
conda Copper Co.
The business men in Malta told me-not very
politely either-that ought to be kicked out of
the county. The paper got busy Cars got busy.
People were sent out warming farmers ana worn
ers not to sign. They would lose their birthright,
lose their land their homes, their jobs lose every
thing if they signed Oh myl How the profiteers
in Malta do love the farmers and workers and how
| they want to protect their homes and jobs-and
] how they fool them. While was there, eight
| garage were laid off in one day with 9TH
er job m sight. Every two years the profiteers in
Malta Put up ticket for the farmers to vote
| But the farmers of Phillips county are waking up
! some day they will be running their county.
III Malta they had jailbrd on the streets, cut
ting weeds with round pointed shovel. He was
some sheepnerder had spent his money in town
and COTTON into drunken row so they put him IN
jail. Turning him out on the street. they hoped
he would jump train and get out of town. but
they couldn't fool him. He wasn't going to leave
town as Cig he had a place to eat in the Jail.
/ In Malta, met barber Rogers. Rogers knows
what is wrong with this world and knows how it
can be cured. The profiteers can not argue with
MN without losing the argument, so they put him
IN jail. His solution is not new but some people
nave got to starve before they will listen and
think; we all want to be proffteers; cut out the
p1c-ltsers, let each man be able to exchange his
one days work with the other mans one davis
work Let the one who does not want to do useful
work go without eats That would give everybody
plenty: People would not have to starve because
there is too much food go without shoes because
tnere are too many shoes at present time
outside of Rogers shanty is a sign FREE
SHAVE. Most people pay and some DON'T The
cnlidren climb up into his rickety BARRIERS chair
ihey smile to him and he smiles to them while he
Is cutting shelr hair free of charge They are not
\ the protlteers children. To them he is crank 3
BAD man, who ought to be in jail-And, after all
IL TINS world is going to be made better place Il
nve 1t is people like Rogers who are going to Ieac
the way out. ems " 'o"'
In the middle of the night picked up a mar
ana VINE, they were their way to Wisconsin
walking. They haG farmed 600 acres south o.
1aVre and dried out / left them in Wolf Point
IN the middle of the night with SOC between then,