Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-10
Farmer Versus MobsfeY

The difference between a mob and an orderly
organization with certain specific aims shouldn't be
hard TO define. However, when the two decide TO
act at the same place at The same time. with some
members of both organizations not knowing 10 which
organization they belong. and getting the identity
of their respective leaderships confused, 1t is not
surprising that Mr.. Average Citizen puts his stamp
Of disapproval upon the entire throng- Obviously. SO
placating the entire personnel Of the throng as bad
as the worst and less worthy than the best. is unjust
TO many of the well meaning citizens.
This confusion is the result of a deep laid plot
by certain wafp-brained political parasites who re
alize that their leadership is in peril and their very
existence at stake If they ever permit Mr. John
Farmer 10 see the real difference between the Com
munist mob and the Farmers Holiday Association.
Unless the Farmers Holiday Association lead
ership and membership purge itself OF the destruct-
i've and vicious parasites now boring from within
and seeking TO have the crime of needless violence
laid at its door, it is d doomed to be as short-lived, as
futile and as odoriferous as anything that this
c~ounty's ~thnggery and corruption ever fostered-
and It has fostered SO many corrupt organizations
now defunct that TO name them would be a waste of
time and space.
The Farmers Holiday Association. as We I'm
derstand it. was organized TO promote orderly re
adjustment Of the farm question while proving by
common sense that debts incurred when the dollar
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property. At times. in the face Of provoking circum-
stances and unreasonable creditors. its members may
have resorted 10 more forceful means. but never have
the members of the real Holiday Association resort
ed to wanton violence.
On the other hand. the Communist mob promotes
nothing but chaos. Its purpose is pomp and power
for the political parasites who never have done. and
never viii do, a days work. With the farm crisis,
the filching from the farmers came to an end. With
their Injuries euf aff their rnuree nf "a money
exhausted. their real selves began to show. Always
given to gangsterism, thnggery, hijackery and intim-
1dafion, it IS now developing in full bloom.
The Herald holds no brief for a corporation
which forecloses for profit. or one which disregards
the present plight Of the less fortunate. But that
gives no excuse for the wanton and brutal attack
made on an employe OF a machine corporation re-
Gently near Poplar.
AT the request Of the Holiday association he
called off the sale. The next move was up to the
corporation and those responsible for its policy
But no, the employe was dragged out behind
the barn, kicked, beaten. cut and Scared and
threatened with death If he did not hold the sale.
The mmun mob, angered at the success OF the
Holiday Association, forced the sale Red flags were
Haunted to the breeze-not that that demonstration
meant anything but the desire TO spill blood by the
thugs.
And, just what has the Holiday Association
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Of its name as the perpetrators OF the crime. They
floated an American flag But the event was a dis
grace to the flag. The red flag was the proper EN-
blem to float over that crime. The American flag did
not belong there any more than Ii does at the wanton
foreclosure of a farmer who asks for an extension
OF time or readjustment Of his debt.
The holiday association was made the scape-
goat. The people of Sheridan county are being made
the scapegoat of a few parasites whom the farmers
Of other counties and other states refuse TO tolerate
If the Holiday Association wishes to live up to
its statements of purpose. its program of readjust-
ment. it will refuse to be misused by the gangsters
who made a scapegoat of Sheridan county and will
continue to make scapegoats of the Holiday Associ-
alton members and have them branded as wanton
criminals by the farmers of other counties and
states.
The difference between the gangster-led mob
and the Farmers Holiday Association should be so
decisively defined by the latter organization that
there will be no doubt in the minds OF the public
as to which is which.