The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-19
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WHY COMPLAINT.
Editor of the Producers News:

Why do the masses of American
farmers complain and what reason
have they got to complain?
Are they not themselves entire
ly to blame for the present condi-
tons? Not only have they blocked !
the road to independence for them
selves but also the way to better
ment for millions of others.
Do we not have more than Her
bert Hover and AL Smith to choose
from in the last election, and did
they not vote for Hoover and get
Hoover, and if they had got Al
Smith what would have been the
difference? Yes there were others
to choose from, but whoever both
cred to even think of them (mOst
farmers did not hear of them and
hundreds of thousands can not tell
who they were if asked) because
the average American farmer is a
Republican, if you please.
They were promised farm relief
and most of them are relieved of
their farm already and the rest
will get their wish too, the way
things look now, with the 40 cent
wheat and high taxes.
No that was not the kind of
farm relief they voted for, but did
they really expect any other? That
is as long as the country votes
republican or democrat, because
what are they working for and
what are the differences =? Money is
money and so long as the money
boys get their choice elected wheth
er it is republican or democrat or
Independent or what else, they will
have their way and that is what
they want and can have so long as
they can buy slaves to send to the
White House to look after their in
terestS as we'll as 10 state legislat-
ureS.
The farmers whine in disappoint-
ment and thousands of workers are
standing in breadlines like beggars
an dpeople's morals are now stand
ing test that it has never seen
before.
The masses are carrying their
burdens wonderfully we'll and US
ing all the sense there can posi-
bly, be in human beings or there
would have been revolution a long
time ago and as long as they keep
away from it it is best for both
the nation and individuals, because
even if revolution has brought lib
erty it has always brought destruc-
ton.
Something must be done, and
soon, that is besides agravating
the starving masses with some
surplus talk and telling them from
the senate how bright" things are
already getting and that the de-
preston is over. If conditions
really were so it would be differ
emit.
Why not grind all this surplus
wheat and give it 10 the farmers
in the drouth areas and the starv-
ing workers, and end this surplus
taEk2
Maybe this would make Uncle
Sam put his foot down on that h
must be paid all the war debts, be
cause naturally it would cost thu
government lot even if the whea
is cheap.
No, that will not do, that woul'
ruin the peoples morals, we ar,
told. What peoples, we might ask
Those that are In the bread line
depending on charity already o
those who are starving, or thos
noble people in Europe who Dor
rowed money from us. to slaugh
ter a few million young men 8
they could get the thrills of thei
lives" because that is about the on
" name they can give 1t, and Tn
only reason too.
If they wanted to borrow none
again over there for the same pul
pose it is very doubtful If the
would be turned back. but to Dol
row their own farmers money o
their wheat or other property {
give them something to eat, tn
is a crime against everything.
But if the farmers were fortu
ate enough to have their men
the White House and a few
them. there would have been SOM
thing done.
There might not have been an
money or work in this country
the farmers had got theirs elects
in the last election but there sure
would have been less surplus ia
if this government had given Il
, farmers a life.
|, The big boys laugh! They a
; teaching the farmers a lesson; tn
! is not to listen to either the sill
tongued machinery agent or t
! high powered automobile agent al
TO let them tell you about the
. easy payment plans, even if tn
- know it is too late for the farm
to profit by it.
. What the farmers have to do
the thing that is the hardest tn
have vet tackled, that is 10 orga
= ize, TO put a price on their pl
: ducts just like the manufacture
! merchants and others have dol
!, but this takes all the grit that
: in them.
4 And then they have got to elt
. men, both to the White House a
! the state legislatures, as well
: county officials, who have prov
q that they are on the farmers 81
) There is no time to take a
. chances now and there are actu
i ly men in this country who he
fought for the farmers even
they in most cases have been l
= erS.
d Now in the next election is |
10 time to reward these men and
"a single them out according to tn
~ work and promote all those v
u want 10 be.