The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-03-04
Fentywood Herald Issues Attack on Petitions of Farm
ers Demanding Removal of County Agent

20 lnAI1utnnidtCer ana ne can care
for himself. 1t is the office l am
thinking Of" says Jack. He
wants to force the farmers to keep
the office for some other racketeer
and traitor by agreeing with them
that Ferguson should be sunk
without a trace. No, Jack, the
farmers can see thru such cheap
trichery. They want neither Fer
guson nor the office, which is a
working base for the bankers. the
implement companies and the seed
companies.
Jack says some of the actions of
the county agents office cannot
pc measured in dollars and cents"
We agree to that. We didn't
measure his recent actions in dol
lars and cents. We told the farm
ers that it was treachery to their
interests, playing with their lives
Tor his own political ends.
Some of us remember history.
TOO. We remember the history of
the firing of Anderson. While Jack
Is afraid to say it openly he tries
to lnsinuate that the Producers
News favored the firing of Ander-
son. This is an unabashed lie. The
reason Anderson was fired was
that ne would not play the game
the way the commissioners wanted
1t played. He wouldn't participate
IN their seed election graft. He
thought his duty was to stand bv
the farmers. This was before the
county agents had all been con-
WINGED that they were county
agents of the bankers, the imple-
ment trust, the seed dealers, for
the exploitation and oppression of
the farmers. And Jack has the
unabashed .insolence to try and
save stool-pigeon Ferguson's neck
and the county agent racket by
violating the name of the county
agent who was fired by these
malnstreeters because he didn't
know what the county agents of
flee was for. HE THOUGHT TT
WAS TO BE OF AID TO THE
FARMERS. THE MAINSTREET-
Frs TAUGHT HIM DIFFERENT
LY BY FIRING HIM. It's too
bad that some of US remember
some history, Jack, or else your
story might sound like the truth
Jack says with greater truth
Than is characteristic of him, az
can't understand those who are
considered fair-minded." No. we
don't wonder. Jacks mind doesn'!
run along those lines. He Just
can't understand fair-mindedness
when it happens to run contrary
to the interests of main street.
Jack says the county agents Of
flee was place where "all farm
ers can meet on common ground. !"
Not quite. Some got nothing and
some got it in the neck. But in
either case they don't want to nav
county agent for such a courte-
sy.
Nor do they think that the coun-
ty fair is sufficient reason for
maintaining stool pigeon in their
midst. A committee of farmers
can arrange for the county fair as
efficiently as the county agent
ever did and it would cost the
county only about half of what the
county agent gets out of it in
mileage and sundries.
TO carry thru his vicious pro-
gram of having the county agents
oftlce put on the county budget
again, Jack invites a select few
farmers to stand back of him and
other mainstreeters on March 9Th
at the commissioners meeting
The United Farmers League will
have a committee of farmers there
at that time to tell the commits
sloners that the farmers of the
county have not changed their
opinion of he county agents Of
lice one iota since the last meet
ing. '''
Which brings us to the Plenty
wood Herald. This main street
organ just by "chance" comes out
on the same day that Jack wrote
ms letter with a front page edi-
torlal attacking the petitions that
The United Farmers League pre-
scented to the commissioners for
the removal of the county agent
and the abolition of the office.
we want to mention one fact
apout the county agent and the
Herald. AT THE TIME THE AC-
INVITES OF THE COUNTY
AGENT WERE EXPOSED BY
The PRODUCERS NEWS THR;
BRENTWOOD HERALD SAID
NOT ONE WORD, EITHER IN
DEFENSE OF THE AGENT OR
FOR HIS REMOVAL. THEY
DID NOT MENTION THE COM
MlTTEE OF FARMERS WHO
WENT TO SEE THE COMMITS
| SIONERS.
but now they come out with a
VICIOUS attack, rivaling Jacks. on
these petitions. The Herald makes
several points. First, that the
names on the petitions were NOT
all taxpayers. This was clearly
stated In the petitions themselves
which were signed by taxpayers
and voters. The United Farmers
League takes the position that any
voter has the right to sign a petit
ton to the county commissioners.
1t takes the position that a farm
ers wife has the same right to
sign the petition as her husband
even II she doesn't pay taxes. The
United Farmers League takes the
position that the farmers who do
not own any land but rent it have
a right to say where the county
monies are to be expended. Even
as far as capitalist democracy
is concerned, which the Plenty
wood Herald represents +b;s c,os.