The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04

who own bonds, farm mortoaoo.
and other securities. They donS
want to lose any interest monev
They want US to keep the "nays
complex in our minds whether we
have the money in our pockets ~
not. A moratorium would be ba5
medicine for them. Then there i
the telephone company, exactino
war time rates for service. TheS
should be cut one half. Then aOa;r
there are the private utility com
panies. They are on a war basis
as to rates. They are charging IL
times the cost Of production, while
our farmers are not getting one
third the cost of production. and
our business men are on the blink
ready for the sheriff or the bread
line. These monster corporations
should be put down along with the
rest of US. A special session can
do this. If you do not call this
session you will be held responsible
for anything that may happen. All
the big corporations are against a
special session of the Legislature.
That is one reason YOU are
against it. You dare not DEFY
these special interests.
The tax title sharks who are tax
ing advantage of the present break
down are against a special session.
For a few dirty dollars they can
rob people of their homes. And
they viii do it unless you call a
special session and get necessary
legislation to choke them off.
When the farm organizations
asked for a cut of only 80 per cent
in official salaries they were too
timid, as usual. The President of
the Farmers Union got up the
courage to say that. Too timid.
Lack of CUTS. If the farmers had
the CUTS they woulr not be where
they are now. They would have
raised row years ago that would
have been heard around the world
"a noise that would rivaled the
French Revolution, but they lack
ed the CUTS. Maybe when the skin
on their bellies begins to cleave to
their backbones they will find cour-
| age.
1 cannot believe that the farm
erS and workers are so slavish that
they will allow their homes to be
taken away fro mthem without a
fight, and yet that is Just what is
happening-has been happening
and will continue to happen unless
the interest sharks are cut off by
the moratorium and the unneceS-
sary overhead of government is re-
moved. Nothing less can happen.
The lawyers will Say-as usual
it is Observation-Disclosures we
cannot pass a moratorium. We
passed one during the war for the
soldiers in the service of the coun-
try. Let US suppose it is uneOnsti-
tutional. l suggest one sentence In
, a joint resolution of the South Da-
kOta legislature: Resolved that on
! and afte rthe date of the passage
, of this joint resolution it is not
: the policy Of the State of South
. Dakota or any of its political sub
: divisions to pay any interest on
: the public debts for a period Of
: five years" What could the bond
holders do? Nothing. Somebody
says "get a judgment in the Unit
5 ed States courts and send in the
e standing army to enforce the cOuTl
E order. / don't think that would
4 work either. There comes tim'
t when constitutions-made BY thu
e people FOR the people-can be un
made by the people or ignored D!
? them the same as they are noy ig
: noring the prohibition amendment
n Governor Murray of Oklahomi
e is using the state troops Of nj
e state to protect the Independent
e oil producers Of Oklahoma agains
o the beg refineries who are gaugini
d the independent producers as w
e are being gouged on our wheat an
h meat. We might find it possl0l'
n to use our own state troops to pro
d tect our people from bein dispOs
II sessed of their homes by orders Q
e the federal courts. It takes CUE
these days to get by. But if jus
n TICE is on our side we are JUST
4 fled In doing anything that WI
) "feed the people, clothe the peoPl
Y and shelter the people" That is IN
/ position that should be taken .
it every farmer, every worker, ever
X business man in this agriculture
Is belt, and until we organize to ina
ID end and carry out that program
d we shall get nowhere. The day o
le pussyfooting has passed.