The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-30
HOMESTEADING IN RUSSIA
Bv HANS RASMUSSEN

Some years ago it was Socialism, and Socialism
was bad, very bad. Now we don't hear much about
it any more; it has kind of died away somehow
Now it is Communism, and Communism is some
Thing terrible-there couldn't be anything worse
but what Is it? AS far 1 have been able to find
out 1t is kind of contagious disease specially
adopted for hard times for which no effective cure
seems to have been found yet, except the bullet
cure, and that doesn't always work satisfactorily
either
They tell me that the Russian people are the
ones who are most infected with this terrible dis
ase and the Russians are some low down rascals
Ihey even have the nerve to ship pulp wood into
this country, and the pulp is chuck full of germs
communist germs so when the wood is made into
paper the germs go with it and are spread all over
the country.
There is limit to what a respectable Republican
country should stand GRAND pulp wood with COM
lnunist germs should be the limit We have
little pride left yet, and we simply don't want
their dirty pulp wood exchange for our nice new
machinery.
The Fish Commission has been investigating
ard you can't fool Fish Commission; the papers
are full of their report. They have found out about
che pulp wood, even found out that the Russian
rascals ship wheat to Italy and actually sell
Il. The report is very alarming and saws if
Russia succeeds in carrying out her five year plan
then: "The Soviet Nnion is to become a great
money making machine" And the commission
recommends that anybody who is in any shape or
form IN sympathy with such a communistic idea as
leaking money should be kicked out of this country
Just what this fiv year plan which they saw
some day will become "a great money making ma
chine is, they don't say, but l understand the
Kusslan people have gone out hOmesteading Not
one or two OF them, but all of them, and they have
mace up their mind they are going to prove up
their homesteads in five years time.
They are hOmesteading the same as we did
som years ago. Digging rocks building fences.
digging wells, planting trees, building homes and
school houses and breaking up the soil. In order
to buy little while they are doing this work
they cut few cords of wood and sell it. They al
SO sell few bushels of wheat, not because they
have it to spare but because thy want their SINUS.
SO they just tighten up their belt and hope for
plenty to eat after they prove up
But, they are not going after it just like we did.
They are not proving up the land by the half Sec
tion No. They are hOmesteading and proving up
the whole country and they are helping one an
other doing it. Some digging rocks, others build
ing houses, some making bricks, others making
iron and machinery, some building railroads and
others factories. Great bi cones where thew can
help one another manufacture everything every
body needs, and plenty of it. Whenever the pile
gets too big they all intend to take vacation and
GO fishing
From New York 500 carpenters sailed the other
Gay for Russia and ship load of railroad
men will go over there and help the Russian
people prove up their homestead
This is all wrong and should be stopped at once
The Fisk Commission says if we let them prove up
they are going to make loads of money and that
should never be allowed What right has a bloom
ing Communist, Bolshevicky making money when
the rest of the world is starving?
If anybody should happen to have friendly
feeling towards the way the Russians are running
their own country he better look out or the great
big powerful editor of the Plentywood Herald is
going to get him. He is splitting all over the side
walk and swearing that he is going to clean the
county of bolshevicks Gas sure as the sun rises
and SETS" The poor simp doesn't know that the
su ndoesnt rise, neither does it set The sun lust
sits there and looks on while the world is going
round and round. Lard in his little, defective
mind, thinks the sun is playing hide-and-go-seek
with the earth while the earth is standing still.
And the Russian people keep on proving up their
homestead without asking the Fish Commission or
the mighty editor