The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-18
CITES COUZENS' GIFT OF ONE
MILLION DOLLARS AS EX-
AMPLE TO FOLLOW - DE-
CLARES FAILURE TO PRO-
VIDE WILL FORCE ESTAB-
LISHMENT OF DOLE.

Cottonwood, Idaho, Sept H.
Senator VIM. E. Borah declared in
an address here that the rich of
the country must feed the unem-
ployed during the coming winter,
and warned that eff they do not
do it voluntarily, they will never
theless do it."
| The address was delivered at the
dedication of amonument to II vol
unteers in the Nez Perez Indian
war, who on July 5, 1877 fought
desperate battle against $50 red
men that nonplussed the savages
and turned the tide of the war in
favor of the whites.
GAS We approach winter, the
task of taking care of these men
and women and their dependents
is uppermost in our minds" he
said, referring to an estimated
five or six million unemployed in
this country and 20 milliin in the
world.
Plenty of Money
"How is it to be done? There is
plenty of food in the country,
food going to waste. There is plen-
: ty of money in the country, hoard
ed and idle. When the secretary
of the treasury offered certificates
for sale to the amount of some
$800,000,000, they were over sub
scribed many times.
[ "The bankers have extended a
credit of some $40OyO0O,OO0 to Eng
: land in her distress. Last year the
: gold mines of the world turned out
$ $4OO,000,0O0 in gold. And the
! United States imported S404 ,000,-
J. 900. We got it all, or at least, got
h the full amount.
e "There is plenty of money, anC
those who have it must feed the
a hungry and clothe the naked. L
n they do not do it voluntarily, they
n will nevertheless do it. There Il
considerable discussion in the coun
/ try relative to establishing a dole
If the public dole system is estab
n lished in this country, It will b.
forced by those who, having tn,
= means, refuse TO do their part il
(. feeding the hungry:
a He cited a donation Of one mill
IS ion dollars by Sen. Couzens as al
; example of what may be done t.
ID alleviate the suffering.
lie Must Aid
% "The men and women who wan
* work and who are unable to fin
lie work are not going to be permit
4 |, ted to starve, children are not go
1t ing to be permitted TO go hungr
and physically undermined an
n n crippled for life.
n eff the wealth of the countr
does not voluntarily contribute t
lg the end that we may take care Q
j. them, there is only one thing to d.
ST and that is, to feed those peopl
from the treasury of the Unite
y, States and increase the income ta1
re particularly in the higher bracl
cts, to enable US to do it.
a "I take the position that me
who have acquired fabulous fol
as tunes do not hold these fortune
y. free of all obligations to humanit
ne ne and to the welfare of the countr,
rs They hold them in the last analy,
n is in trust for the benefit of oil
C. common country. And in gre;
" exigencies, in great calamitie
when men and women, through I
q, o. fault of their own,ar forced
Mt distress in some measure throue
laws and policies which too oftt
lr- have favored the few at the e,
III pense of the many, they dare n
he be Indifferent to the public int
Re- est"
as Quotes Sentiment
nd He quoted a statement attribu
ay ed to a famous American state
-, man-"Though the people shou
az support the government, the go
eminent should not support t
IL people," and replied to it by as
Ire ing. "who got the people into tt
situation?"
nd Furnishing his own answer
am said:
eft was governments, not t
nd people, that fomented and broug
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