Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-02-04

a Job ahead of them that must be done. 1t has already
beer too long delayed. 1t is to take stock carefully. to
effectively sand decently neutralize a few ~blatherng
scamps confined to no political faction, to regain san
iy and poise, and to proceed with the orderly develop
nent of as rich a country and as fine a home city as is
to be found in all the west.
That Job is everybodys business.
We suffer here from political doctrinaires. from
crooked and self-seeking politicians, from selfish ex-
ploiters, but we are still in the United States of Amer
lea. and we will continue to be, long after our closing
pioneer era and the rag, tag and bobtail leadership now
contributing to our distractions, has received that GER
tain measure Of justice that will come to it through the
inevitable operation Of the law of compensation.
Our Communist are feebly annoying because we
permit them to be. They are not Communists in the
true and broad sense Of that term. They prate of Rus
STA and the beauties of its new and interesting social
system. IF they were to be suddenly picked up in Plen-
tywood and sent to Russia by arplane, Russia would
1isown them for the selfish, incompetent, Uniformed.
visionary, grating doctrinaires that they are. They are
agitators laboring under the obsession they have social
end economic vision exploiting a hardpressed and dis
.tracted people by the collection of a few nickels and
iImes.
No age of the world, and no country, has ever been
without this type of people. There is a most definite
history Of their activities and the outcome of them. 1t is
most assuring. This cup will pass
In these distracting and unusual times it is quite
natural that many fine people will lose their heads and
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and frenzy than critical analysis of the course they are
taking, or whittier it leads. To such we may be most
charitable.
1t is difficult indeed to exercise restraint when
blatant and brainless agitators attack the institutions Of
tie home, the state, and the church, when they mouth
les. assasinate character, and by their spectacular and
frenzed appeals succeed in some measure in upsetting
calm public reason.
But the public never fails to get its reason back.
and when it does the doctrinaires are ever compelled to
1sk pastures green and fields anew or venture forth
on some newly devised millennial plan Of exploitation.
That will happen here In the logical course of
events. It will happen when an aroused and militant
public opinion asserts itself by constructive methods.
avoiding violence. and failing to react to the evident
methods Of the political provocateur upon which the
grating doctrinaire depends for his success.
We are not bankrupt in Plentywood, or Sheridan
county, in fundamental integrity. in a desire to do wor-
thily and well the tasks which life brings here in this
country of rich resources and certain future. With all
tt world we suffer from those perplexing problems
which a changing world order is bringing. In addi-
ton we are having the experience that is common to ev-
cry pioneer country, of crop failure, of pitiful resulting
human suffering. But we may be cheered when we look
about and see everywhere the inspiring spirit with
which these conditions are accepted
For ten years this county and this town has been
racked by political strife. We have placed our hope i'm
political factions and they have successfully betrayed
US. For a decade every political faction has promised
us that we should be saved from this, that, and the 9th
cr thing. We are not saved, and we still need saw
ing, a great deal Of it, when we look about us and see
what must be done.
First we had "Townleyism" to save us from the
grafters. who, obsessed with power. had looted
our county. In Fundamental principles the program of
the Nonpartisan league had much to commend itself to
honest thinking people. But those in control merely
used it as a tool to further carry on their well laid
schemes Of exploitation and graft.
Then came "Taylorism' with 'FarmerLabor
r~form, which under the guise Of lowering tax
es, failed even to provide reserve funds to meet con-
tracted debts, and the people, finally disilusioned, awoke
to fi,.d their county wracked by one Of the most ilLman-
aged administrations in its history.
Now, today we have the newly devised millen-
NAL plan Of the United Farmers. organized by Com
munists. on a basis where their explorations will be
made more easy by as mercfless and defiant a group OF
petty grafters as any community has ever tolerated.
And these are not all from whom we suffer. We
have leaders who counsel the organization OF an anti
Communist party.
Which is precisely the thing we do not need We