The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
SENATOR CAPPER SERVES
HIS WALL STREET MASTERS

AS the crisis deepens and the militancy of the
toiling farm masses grows the msleaders of these
farm masses begin to belch attacks" on the cap
italist system. They predict an end to it if it will
not reform itself. In recent editorial in his
weekly" Senator Capper delivered himself nf
thoughts along this line as follows:
Elm the first place, the civilization which
pauperizes agriculture commits suicide. 1t
is doomed.
'In the second place-and this is pecu-
Iiarly true since we have developed
PRODUCTION an economic system which
pauperizes labor also is the way to &C.
OnOmic suicide"
This civilization, this capitalist system, does
pauperize-not agriculture" Labor but-the
toiling masses of city and country the workers in
the cities and the small and middle farmers. and
farm workers.
Capper talks about the capitalist system "com-
uniting suicide" in order to make the farmers be-
lieve that if the system does not grant them de-
cent existence it will pass out of its accord.
He would have them believe on the other hand
that SO long as it does exist, has not committed
suicide. it does grant the masses decent exist
ence.
He wants to hide from the toiling masses of
the United States the lesson that the workers and
farmers of the Soviet Union learned. They learn
ed that misery only be done away with thru
the abolition of the system which breeds it. They
learned that the abolition of the capitalist system
cannot be accomplished by allowing it to commit
suicide, but by cleaning it out thru a Workers
and Farmers Government.
As long as the capitalist system exists, it COM
mits NOT SUICIDE BUT MURDER MURDER
OF THE TOILING MASSES THRU STARVA-
TON, TERROR, AND WAR The capitalist sys-
tenn will not put an end to itself. Only Workers
and Farmers Government CAN and WILL put an
end to it.
Capper tells the farmers, tho, how the capitalist
system can be made to function for the people"
"The monetary system should be the
servant of agriculture, industry transpOr-
tatiOn, mining, commerce, and labor, not
it's boss 1t can only be that if the dollar
has fairly constant purchasing power.
"AlsO the Federal Reserve system should
be the servant Of all the peOple-and not
SO much the servant of the money lending
class
"NOw, am not attacking money lenders
at all; they are necessary, useful. But
! they should serve business generally; not
rule it and ruin II, as there is danger of
doing under the present system"
The monetary system" of capitalism, which is
part and parcel Of the apparatus thru which the
masses are plundered should turn into good sa-
marian The Federal Reserve System, which is
the central organ for carrying out the financial
policies Of Wall Street should be something else
! "a Servant of the people" not of the money
| lending class" The "money-lenders" should serve
business generally"
This system which plumbers and Expresses the
great mass Of the tOiling population should change
it's leopard spcts-should become a system Of
faith, hspe and charity.
Capper, in telling the toiling farmers these vi
cious lies, does SO in order to make them heliev,
that they are possible. He wants these farmer,
to believe that this system can continue to exist
and grant decent living for the toilers
Yes, SenaOr Capper the money-lenders ar,
necessary; useful" under capitalism. thew ar,
capitalism. BUT, SENATOR CAPPER. MIS-
LEADERS AND LIARS SUCH AS YOU ARR
ALSO NECESSARY AND USEFUL uNDrr
.CAPTTALISM-AND YOU ARE DOING YoTTr
DAMNEDEST TO JUSTIFY YOUR ExISTENcF