The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19

imperiaist war means slaughter of millions of
workers and farmers just to keep the system
stabilized" The capitalist powers in order to
maintain their "socal stability" need new mar
kets To maintain the social stability" of their
system of exploitation, hunger and blood, they are
preparing to destroy the only country in the world
where there is social stability and not chaos, So
calism and not decay, the workers and farmers
fatherland, the Soviet Union.
at will serve itself best by serving the COM
mon good" For this reason the Hoover Hunger
government refuses every sign of relief to the
unemployed millions and to the destitute farm
masses The Common good" of Wall Street in
cludes the preparing of the militia of the various
states to murder defenseless workers and farm
ers as they demonstrate for relief. The history
of capitalism has shown that Capper is just a
damnable liar. The capitalist class has always
served itself best by exploiting the toiling masses
to the limit of endurance, by robbing them of ev-
cry necessity and joy that was possible, by offer
ing them only starvation when the crisis had
come. The common good" of the capitalist class
is the exploitation and grinding down of the toll
ing masses
'The Golden Rule is so fundamental require
ment of good business that no business can be
successful without it, ever has," Haven't the
railroads and the implement trust been successful
to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in
dividends to their stockholders, exploited from
their workers and robbed from the far mmasses.
Hasn't Wall Street been eminently successful in
robbing the farmers of hundreds of millions of
dollars each year in interest? Isn't it good bust
ness for Wall Street to have such able demagogs
as Capper doing its dirty work of deceivng the
| farmers, and hasn't it been successful in great
| part?
eve have not few of such splendid examples
of business integrity on large scale, already in
existence in the United States" Yes these "splen-
did examples" include the entire system of CAPT
talist monopoly controlled from Wall Street. Mass
unemployment, speed up, part time work. spy
systems thugs brutality-this is their business
integrity" on a large scale
Senator Capper is truly worried about the bur-
dens the farmer BEARS Speaking before the AS
ISOLATION of Life Insurance Presidents on Deem
Der 18th, he outlined plan whereby the farm
masses could throw off the burden of mortgage
Gebt that bears down them
In Capper's own words to the life insurance
presidents outlining the plan was:
az can see no way of shifting this
debt. No way of funding it. The Gov
eminent can not take it There is
no magic way of abolishing it.
"Yet believe there is a way in which
this huge QeDC can De pa1O, or pracClca1-
ly so, within generation. Business men
now make a practice of covering their
Indebtedness with life insurance. 1t
would be possible to provide for the farm
mortgage debt in the same way. The
farmers mortgage could be cancelled
with the maturity of the policy.
"The average farm mortgage debt is
approximately $4,000. l am informed
that ordinary life policy, taken at age
IS, would average less than $50 year if
carried during the average expectancy,
which is years for man of that age.
'"There are few farmers who would not
put forth the extra effort to meet the
payments on a policy that would leave
their farms clear for their families An
extra litter of pigs, 100 hens properly
managed, the produce from good mich
cow or two, two in a special
crop, few ewes, odd job or two
during the slack season would provide
the necessary funds.
another plan would he to place the
mortgage under the land bank system
and in that way the difference in interest
would virtually meet the life insurance
protection.
"In any event life insurance offers
possibility of nearly if not quite wiping
out the farm mortgage within a genera
ton. Should the farm owner, through
advanced age disability, not be insur-
able, the policy might be written for
some other member of the family who
is insurable, possibly the one who is to
inherit the farm and the mortgage"
This demagog has the brazen insoIence to tie
the toiling farm masses that they ought to pa
off their farm mortgages to the capitalist elias
by little extra effort" AS the reward Of ju:
such continuous little extra effort" to pay Of
their debts the farmers have had only continue
increase in them. Their debts and taxes have bt
come even greater and the capitalist class has q
manded continued extra effort in order to rob th
farmer of as much as he could produce
"An extra litter of pigs, 100 hens properI
managed, the produce from good mich cow
two, an acre or two in a special crop, few eve
or an odd job or two during the slack season
Brazen mockery-every bit Of it. With pig
hens, milk, lambs, and special crops of all sor
selling below the cost of production The odd r.