Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-02-25


ceived in the capitol, he exposed the
part-he was playing in the program
by trying to sell subscriptions to a
newspaper of which he is business
manager, and which is printed in
Plentywood. He announced that his
paper, 1.-THE Producers News" had
been chosen the officiol mouthpiece
of the Omitted Farmers League" in
the northwest. 1t is we'll that he add
ed that, for when one reads, the
sheet of rotten scandal against ev-
cry American institution, it does not
take long to make UP ones mind as
to the nature of the organization,
without seeing and hearing the type
Of him.
Mr.. Rasmussen left the floor, after
introducing the second speaker of the
evening, without one hand of APP
plause.
Mr.. Rodney Salisbury was the sec
ond speaker, and he made a feeble
attempt to explain the work and OBJ
iective of the United Farmer League.
He launched a bitter attack on the
farmers for not being organized, stat
ing that they are the only class OF
people that had not attempted to
protect themselves from the great
inhuman capitalistic system. He
launched a much more bitter attack
on the capitalists themselves, stating
that they must be overthrow. He
admitted that he vas such a jelly fish
that he could not hope to compete
in the present economic system anc
in the next he was pleading for more
organization of his type to demand
more aid from the now existing
government. In the next utterance he
would tell how the present govern
ment must be o~verthrown because il
is owned and controlled by capital.
Mr.. Salisbury told how the Rex
Cross was only a tool Of the capital.
istic class to keep the people half al
i've and half starved so they woulf
be satisfied. Ii the people did not gei
this aid they would rise and demant
a change for betterment In living
conditions. He then told of the vas
number of people in Sheridan count,
that could not have lived through
this winter without aid (which, b,
the way, came through the Rex
Crosse
All the way through his speech h
was drawing comparisons Of condi
tions in the United States with thos'
Of Russia. always claiming that Rus
STA had a distinct advantage owe thu
country because for the last thre'
years there had been no u%nemploy
ment there. After about Dis minute
Of knocking every existing institution
in the United States, without offer
irg any remedy except that we be
come like Russia, he asked for ques
tions. These came fast enough, first
concerning his organization TO
which he was trying to sign u
members. Many others were aske
him, none Of which he could answe
satisfactorily to thinking people
When asked where he got all his in
formation concerning Russia he ar
swered from books, but he was un
able to quote a single author fror
which he had read.
Every time a question aske
him he was in q hurry to close tn
meeting by asking if anyone woul
join the United Farmers League.
The crowd began to ask him t
move back to Russia and it becam
noisy and restless.
1t was a sad affair for this tri
(who ~journeyed all the way frol
Plentywood, to convert the peopi
here to q standard Of living wher
there would be no incentive, no In
tiative, mo Christianity, nothing I
make the individual worth anythin
to himself or others) when not
single member Joined them, when nj
a single subscription to the commur
ist scandal sheet was taken, whe
not one piece Of literature was sol
by their sales lady, and last but nj