The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-03-25
BY a Dagmar Farmer

of the free and Of equal opportu-
mites. When you read of the case
Of the State Of Oregon VS.. Boloff, /
you will wonder If II was not TAX
en- from the medieval ages, when
might was right and after you are
through reading It you will invol-
UNFAIRLY glance back TO the date
lines to make sure that IL was a
case which was tried in the state
of Oregon in the year aIino domino
1881.
This record tells a tale Of per-
verted justice, which would make
an inquisitor from the twelfth
century turn pale with envy. That
anything so unjust should be all
lowed 30 take place in the annals
of our courts in 1881 would seem
impossible. The victim of the
Goddess Of Liberty" was a Rus
sian emigrant who was making his
living as a sewer digger in the
city Of Portland, Oregon, and
while engaged there, Joined the
Communist Party. This fact was
discovered by some stool-pigeon,
who was lured by the police de-
! partment to join hands with the
reds for the purpose Of obtaining
inside information and 10 get the
names of members of the Com
munist Party. And altho several
organizers had spoken at public
meetings in halls as we'll as on
the streets, trying TO gain mem
! bers for their party apparently
= without being molested, this Rus
. sian immigrant who could neither
read or write, was arrested under
! the laws of criminal syndicalism
! and by the supreme court Of Ore
gon sentenced TO 10 years in the
: penitentiary, entirely on the
A strength of what those organizers
! had said, altho IL was conclusively
proved during the trial, that this
n man Boloff had neither said or
s done anything against our govern
7 ment. Out Of the seven supreme
court justices who passed on this
: case, four voted for conviction and
: three voted for acquittal.
: Usually here in Sheridan Coun-
e ty we are not much concerned
about happenings as far away as
: Oregon, because we feel it boo dis
> tant to have any direct bearing on
( this community. But the above
u case Is very similar 10 the one
which is just being enacted here
: in Sheridan county, in which Sim
4 on Swanson Is the defendant.
! Swanson, like Boloff, has neither
.s offended the law. He has been &C.
s cused Of being a member Of the
e Communist Party, but this the
i government officials have never
y proven TO be a fact, and even II
he had been a member Of said
\ Party, just what crime would II
& alone constitute in this land Of
y Liberty?
l. Yet some Of those flag-wavinp
q mainstretters in Plentywood, who
Is see red wherever they look, seen
q to think, that unless we senC
Swanson back TO Sweden, Their,
simply won't be room for them II
Sheridan county. But these para
,r sites who live off other people,
toll are only playing politics an,
If they forget, that the differenc,
es between the man who immigrate,
as to tn U. S. from a foreign coun
to try and the man whose folks cam
ne over here from a foreign countr
few years before is nil. Tn
= only true American is the India
and when you read some of tn
~ names Of those who signed th
ed complaint against Swanson, 70
he can't help but wonder If the
nd didn't come from Sweden boo.
Last week the Medicine LAX
so Wave took hold Of the Count
- Agent question where the Plenty
oe wood Herald left off. These tw
tie papers just can't bear to thin
he what would become of the Doc
te- farmer If we should have TO wo
* ry along without that person.
in But the main thought behir
the this move in behalf of the Age
me by the Plentywood business me
S Ses is not SO much TO save Mr.. Fe
'V' guson as IL Is to save his sala,
viii for themselves TO divide up at q
de- end Of each month. The closii
in Of the County Agents office won
the mean the loss to Plentywood
lis about $5500.00 each year, a su
Ter of money well worth consideril
Oh in city Of that size. And for I
~ same reason would they oppo
mo every other move for economy
1t affected the payroll Of the eli
low Joe Dolin is, Of course, opposi
'ac- the movement to close up the
,ac- flee on general principles, he III
ket ly having In mind the old sayir
me, you scratch me and I'll scrai
YOU" figuring that his turn to
IA scratched will come later on.
!: / even goes so far as TO quote fr
,orn an editorial in the Producers Ne
Ne which was printed In the fall
car 1918. Well lots Of water has
Inn into the ocean since then. w
j appeared 10 be good business