Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-01-05
Critical Appraisal Of a New Evangel

banded together in Il world wide or
ganiZntion which is as absolutely
antiehristian as anything could pos
sibly be. 1t is this organization
this Antichrist known as organized
Christianfty,-which Jesus himself
would oppose If he were here at
this moment; and just as there is
conflict between this organization
and the first Socialist, so must
there be conflict between it and
any true Socialist of the present
day.
Yet, because it fears that a few
fossils who are incapable of unde.
standing true Christianity even il
it were explained to them, may take
~offense. and probably cancel their
precious subscriptions, the Produc-
ers News, the paper which would
have us believe that 1t is radical.
hens and haws and sidesteps and
with the absurdly false assertion
that 1.-The Communist party is
not concerned with religion"
("God and this Election Campaign
by Charles E. Taylor; issue of No
vember 2, 1922.
fb) The Producers News is en-
gagged in scratching the backs of
farmers, not because it loves all
farmers. g II farmer, but
because its program for revolution
needs the support Of the farming
population. Also because farmers
are the only capitalists who do not
I-n,xxy That thaxr orn ,an54nfs,t. r.
speaks of the advantages which a
farmer.-like all other human be-
|fngs, including even Morgan and
Roekefeller,-would enjoy in a
truly communist state; but 1t care
fully avoids anything which, to a
farmer. might sound like a duty or
Il sacrifice. The fact, for example,
that a farmer who has been able to
accumulate some property would be
deprived of that property, the same
ms any other capitalist, has not been
stressed by the Producers News.
At present, of course, comparat-
ively few farmers really own any
thing. Nevertheless. they are still
capitalists at heart: give them one
or two good crops of wheat at S1.25
a busheI, and there will be scarcely
a dozen good communists among
them. The Producers News knows
this, and hesitates to state fully the
details OF a program which would
dash that forlorn hope which every
farmer still ch%erishes. the hepe-that
some day he may be able to afford
a bigger car. and consequently COM
mend trrpaf0r racrnrf nj nIsr~f Al
meetings. than his neighbor Pete
tc) And now we come to the most
charming jest of all the exhilarat-
ing spectacle of a new religions
Holy Writ being unable to determ-
ne just what the religion is that It
Is supposed to reveal the merry dill
ema Of q coterie of prpphetsH who
cannot decide ON what particular
gospel to base their propheteering
operations.
For several months the. PRODUCE
ers News wavered irresolutely he
tWeen a declaration and a denial of
lis communist party affiliations.
Said Carl Hansen, In an April issue
The writer (of a Herald editoriaIl
y laboring under the Illusion that
the United Farmers League and
communism are the same thing
hui 1t Is a safe bet that he has new
err read the platform of either organ
izat1oa. Said n committee of the
outlook e. II. L. in another AnriI
issue. We resent very much the
assertion made by Mr.. Prescott
Lerming US Communists. We are
me United Farmers League -
And Editor Bert printed a gentle
Dur firm rebnke for Mr.. rrescott,s
benefit: The meeting on April 0 il
\ meeting of the United Farmers
league. At the same time the Pro-
aucers- News n4nf
me Y r L, wa publishing more
columns of Communist marty nron-
uganda than OF anything else. Said
a prominent Plentywood Socialist
70 me: Its beginning to look sns-
p~ciously like the Father. the SON
ana the Holy Ghost,-all different
but yet the same."
FINALLY, late in May, there came
70 Hans Rasmussen the revelation
Tor which all the prophets had
prayerfully been waiting, and he
calmly announced that Communist,
was the only name which could
nightly be applied to O r.. r r,
ticket. Since then nothing has been
right which has not been Commun-
ist.
One could mention other faults
the Producers News, where 1t ne
cessary to write a book. but the
| have enumerated are enough ,
10 demonstrate it's general ignor-
ance. dishonesty and inconseouen-
TALLY to any intelligent person
and the only way to reach the minds
OF those others is by a OF their
a route which. were It not
so unreliable and beset with animal
pre1ndices. might be extremely use
fui from an educational point Of
view at the present time. AS 1t is.
II is useful only to charlatans.
CONTINUED next week.