The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-24

answered Thatcher's articles about
Russia appearing In the Farmers
Union Herald and was cheered and
applauded again and again as he
tore the Farmers Union takers to
pieces. He showed that they were
a bunch who were exploiting the
organization sentiment Of the
farmers that had been built up by
those who had been battling all Of
these years for the farmers and
workers and coming that senti-
ment into huge salaries for them
selves. He called attention 10 the
salaries these saviors Of the farm
ers were getting; how they lived
at the millionaire clubs in Minne-
apolis and st. Paul and ate and as
sociated in their leisure hours with
the bankers and grain gamblers
whom they denounced when they
were out talking TO the poor ex-
plotted farmers. He denounced
them as republican bell weathers
leading the farmer back 10 Hoov-
eh; he denounced the farm boar
and its role Of berayal Of the farm
ers. He denounced the acre reduc-
ton remedy as n deliberate policy
Of starvation Of the masses in or
der 10 force the rich and their
lackies 10 pay more for wheat and |
said that Il was the policy that |
Hoover and Wall Street had been |
advocating for the past ten years
and which the +. II. officials and |
paper had denounced until thew had
been given a place at the trough by
the farm board when for those 30
Dieces Of silver they were offering
The medicine b the farmers which
thew formerly threw out Of the
window.
Taylor created a riot among the
farmers when he wept with That
cher and his wife over the misery
caused 10 these delicate and refin-
I'd saviors Of the farmers by the
ack Of toilet paper in Russia. and
recommended that II they should
have occasion TO go again that
hey should protect themselves n
yainst such distress by taking a
Scar Roebuck catalog along on the
rip and that while IL might not
DC just what they got at the Min
rosetta club and in the swell Pull
nan in which they Travelled in u.
). at the expense Of the farmers,
hey would still be using what %
'er cent Of the farmers who fun-
sh him his $4,000 per year for ,
cling their wheat for them at the
anne price any other commission
nan would get for them, used and
'ot along with very nicely.
Taylor closed with an appeal for !,
rganization and urged every farm !
r and his wife TO Join the United /,
farmers League and to take posi- !.
i've steps TO see that they who :
adj produced so much should MOI !,
tarve in this time Of drouth. say I
~: "You should not lay down :
nd starve like a whipped dog. but !,
on should stand up like men and !
ght; fight for that which belong !,
you, that which has been stolen :
rom you" He announced that n },
leeting would be held in every !,
recinct in the county and that the =
nited Farmers League would be .
-ganized and that this League =
ould set up the apparatus 20 :
ring relief 10 the farmers outside =
the miserable dole of fbe pod :,
ross. and that no prune peddlers 7
ould be allowed TO make any prof
whatever off the misery Of the
,ploited drouth stricken farmers :,
they do now on the Red Cross :,
lie, and that they could come in -
cir cars Ike human being 20 -
t their relief and not on foot or =,
til a wheel barrow as IL required 7,
that great benevolent organiza- =,
IN which looks upon the farmer e
some lower order Of animal lRe a.,
d which spends about 60 cents -,
every dollar donated for relief n,
the support Of administrators ~
d surveyors and other parasites %
10 are more concerned about the
siness element and their profits 70
IN they are about the needy s.
irkers. -
He took n collection TO defray no
expenses Of the speakers which Wi
counted b $34 and some cents, n no
narkable collection for these da