The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-15

intent upon keeping the farmer enslaved to
the capitalist class and to its agriculture
The capitalist class knows that if they get
the farmers to follow the advice of the county
agent from one year to the next, if they can get
the farmers to try out the schemes for increased
production that the county agent offers, then the
farmers will not organize, will not fight against
the immediate cause of their misery outrageous
taxes and interest, high rail rates, foreclosure,
sales for taxes and evictions.
The capitalist class keeps these county agents
everastingy at the task of misleading the farm
from attempt to another to increase their
income While the conditions of the farmers be-
desperate the county agents continue
their task of keeping the farmers disorganized or
organized in some reactionary farm organization,
which, as far as the farmers obtaining any relief
is concerned, means keeping them disorganized.
The county agents are one of the staunchest
supporters and advocates of the All club work.
Ii this work the same agents of the bankers try
to mslead the children of the farmers just as they
do the farmers themselves with their other activi-
lies. They try to interest farmers children, and
succeed in large part in the raising of chickens,
calves, goats and other farm products They try
to make of the farmers children the same slaves
to the capitalist Glass; the bankers, the implement
and fertilizer trust, and the railroads, as their
fathers are. They want to bind the farmers
children the same bonds of slavery and exploita-
ton that is robbing their fathers of hundreds of
millions of dollars annually. They want to pre-
vent the farm youth from realizing that their
place is with the militant advance guard of the
farm masses, that their place is in the struggle
against exploitation and robbery by the bankers.
hO1d kbo ioI ~ Auop
is direct tool of those who are interested in
keeping the farmer in subsection and source of
wealth for the exploiters. These exploiters are
interested in keeping the farmers paying hundreds
Of millions in interest and in taxes 1t is they
who rob the farmers thru high freight rates and
thru market monopolies. The job of the County
Agent is to keep the farmers trying everlastingly
to make enough to meet this robber demand.
And the farmers either directly or indirectly are
paying for this vicious parasite. The increased
militancy of the farmers is being directed in hun
6reds of counties against paying for this parasit-
ism any longer While the farmers are destitute,
the tax gatherers demand yearly tribute to keep
this parasite in good food, good clothes and
heavy mileage.
This parasite must be cleaned out of the county
budget. The experience of the farmers of Sheri-
dan County must be a lesson to all of us. The
farmers of Sheridan County demand the elimina-
ton of the office of County Agent first, because
| he is enemy of the farmers and secondly the
| five thousand dollars annually that goes to main
tain his office could be spent to the advantage Of
/ the farmers and not in order to keep them en-
| shaved. The experience of the farmers of Sheri
dan county with the County Agent in connection
with the feed loans were told in our two last is
sues All over the country similar experience
have been met with.
In the Soviet Union the spreading of increased
4cientific knowledge among the farm masses
means increased benefits for the entire worl1n,
population just as the benefits of Socialist pro
gress in other industries go to all the workers
In the United States scientific knowledge
spread by the County Agents, is means for fur
Their enslaving the masses of small and middle far
inesr Under system of capitalist exploitation
scientific progress tends to benefit the exploiters
The lot ofsthe masses under capitalism cal
only be improved by struggle, by class struggle
by the struggle of the small and middle farmer
IN solidarity with the city workers, against tn
robbers of all the toiling masses. In the struggl
o6 the farm masses against this exploitation tn
county agent racket as against all exploitation
and oppression by the capitalist class, their mill
tant leader is the United Farmers League
While the lot of the masses can be improved b
forcing relief from the capitalist class, there i
no security of existence for any of the toilin
masses under capitalism. For capitalism itsel
r'eans crises and chaos means exploitation an
robbery, means war on the masses and imperialis
war.
Only under workers and farmers government
can the masses be assured of life Only in societ
organized and run by the masses can they bene
fit from scientific progress.
And without benefit of stOOl-pigeon Count
Agents!