Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-29
COLD DECK THE FARMER
BEAT THE
BUT SAVE THE PAPER

There was a time when the public read
with awe the variou charges published by
the Producers News discriminating many
more or less apparently good citizens. The
News, starting at an opportune time, grasp
ed old opportunity by the forelock and led
him around.
Opportunity placed the News in the
saddle and Editor Taylor rode the gallant
steed to his death. AS a political expedient,
and to cover a multitude OF sins, Taylor
again started the cry of wolf, wolf
Where was the wolf this timea
The first cry elected the help of some
900 or more farmers, according to Editor
Taylor himself. That gallant 900 charged
with their dollars and their notes and their
farms and, routing the enemy dumped the
spoiIs of war all in Taylor's lap.
Now let us see what has happened.
Neither Taylor nor Paddy Wallace or
any of the other opp%ortunists had a dollar OF
their own money either to invest or lose.
They lived like kings, gorged on the highest
price booze and travelled hither and yon.
Yet, while the farmers farmed and
the wage slaves shaved, Taylor, Wallace and
one or two other leeches, in control OF the
books and records, did more than 500 farm
ers and laborers out Of their stock. Today
there are less than 100 stockholders in the
Producers News.
The stock really didn matter because
it never paid dividends, ever though as high
as SIS, 0O0.O 90 of county treasury money
was paid to Taylor in two years-not men
tioning the county robbery. Income tax col
lectors found that the Producers News had
made tens of thousands of dollars Of profits
and showed where the News owed some
thing over ST, 10000 for income taxes,
which were not paid. County and state tax
es were not paid.
But that was not all.
Editor TAYLOR and his Producers News
started a Farmer-Labor party. Sure, the far
mers and laborers were the salt Of the earth.
TAYLOR, Wallace, Salisbury ct al, would sac
rifice and bleed and die for them if neces-
sary. And how!
We have already explained how he
helped the farmers by beating 500 Of them
out of their stock in the Producers News.
How about the laborerp
Taylor beat one old man, about 90
years Of age, out Of 81 10000 in wages and
cash. Another old and helpless man he beat
out of So, 000.0 90 in cash.
The laborers at the Producers News Of
flee have around $500 coming for wages.
They can't get it. Two Of them are out of
work, but they can't get a dollar of the
wages they have coming.
Taylor and the Producers News wall
and weep and scream for help. What for2
To pay the laborers2
No!
To save the paper!'
Yes, sure, it is a farmers paper and a
laborers' paper, but neither farmers or la
borers have any voice in it's management or
policy. But, save the paper!'
It's a great and noble policy!
Cold deck the farmer out of his stock
and his cash. Beat the laborer out of his wag-
es. But save the paper.
And yet this rock Taylor screams
that business men are not playing fair, that
officials are not playing fair, that statesmen
and politicians and the entire cock-eyed
world are not honest or just in their dealings
with their fellow man.
But it is fair to
Fleece the farmer and beat the laborer
out of his wages
But please Mr.. Farmer and MIR. Wage
Slave, give until it hurts to save the paper
the miserable, Shiny, blackmailing, high
lacking, prevaricating sheet that for years
protected the honky-tonks, the bawdy
houses, the bank robbers, treasury robbers,
murderers and firebugs-the Producers
News.