The producers news., 1931-07-31
GOD HELPS THOSE WHO
HELP THEMSELVES
BY HANS RASMUSSEN

COME PEOPLE ARE WORRIED about letters
y being sent out by the county treasurer telling
people that after the first of August the sher-
if will! be sent out for the purpose of collecting
unpaid personal taxes. The sheriff will be expect-
ed to seize and sell your few belongings at public
auction to the highest bidder. The only thing most
Of you have left, which is still worth little
money, is your livestock your milk cows A sher-
iff is not supposed to have any heart-he is SUD-
posed to collect taxes so the people in the court
house can keep drawing their salaries He is
supposed to sell your milk cow no matter if your
baby dies from want of milk or not He is the
law and the law is something you and I are sup
posed to obey, but not understand
People are asking another: "What are we
going to do?" What you are going to do all de-
pends on what you are ready and willing to do
If you are willing to protect what little property
you still have left not only protect what little you
have yourself, but also protect what little your
neighbor has left, end if the neighbor feels the
same way towards you, then you need not worry.
The sheriff is not going to sell your COWS. When
ever couple dozen people meet up at sheriffs
sale and make it plainly understood that no prom
erty IS going to leave The place, the sheriff is not
going to get bid on cows or on anything else.
At a meeting the other day in one Of our country
school houses, out Of 80 farmers present the SO
joined the United Farmers League No COWS are
going to be sold by the sheriff in that neighbor-
hood.
Personal property taxpayers are not any bet
ter or worse off than real estate owners-we are
all IN the same boat Practically all land and
homes in the county can be sold at any time for
taxes or otherwise A sale of that KIND takes
place In the courthouse and we can not prevent
the change of title. But there is one thing we can
prevent We can prevent person being put off
the land; we can prevent families being kicked out
OF house and home and it is our duty to do il.
Whenever 38 out of SO are willing to co-oper-
ate nothing stop them
1t will probably not be out of place callino
attention to what small groups of people with
little united and direct action have been able IN do
IN the past. Some years ago the farmers of Sber-
ldan county elected Mrs OGrady to office. The
bunch in charge of the court house at that time
refused to seat Mrs. O'Grady. One dav few
hundred farmers met at the court house Soms
carried ropes and others carried pick handles One
deputy sheriff got hurt little and one farmer
was put IN jail few hours but Mrs O'Gradv was
seated right there and then Had the farmers
taken their case to court they could have snan+
thousands of dolladrs on it and the case ro;b+ not
have been settled yet.
few years ago the land erabhers oo+
malnstreet judge 10 decide that farmers bod M
right to the crop for the year of redemntion after
foreclosure. Judge or no Judge. the farmer d;d
not like it. North of Raymond when tba cnllac+o-
came to grab farmers grain burcb If fov,,-
ers met him with ropes and castor oil They did
nVs use sne ropes but they did use the castor oil
ABOUT lO cents worth of castor oil settled that