The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
CHEWING PRINTING
CONTRACT AGAIN

Last weeks brentwood Herald
is making a desperate attempt to
convince it's readers that the
farmers OH the Allotment Commit
tee made grave mistake in let
ting the printing contract, or even
a part of it. to the Producers
News.
One of the reasons given by the
Herald for barring the Producers
News from getting the printing is
that: "The Producers News has
consistently and bitterly fought
the administration that is endeav-
oring to bring relief to agricul-
ture. 1t has at every opportunity
belittled the MIRA"
We admit we have done those
things. We are rot running a
newspaper for the purpose of fool
ing the farmers. And, we want to
ask the Herald, isn't it the adj
ministration that has brought the
present crisis onto the farmers.
and has anybody done anything
vet to correct it. outside of making
lot of noise?
If the Herald has ever taken
the farmers part, if it has ever
done anything for the farmers at
all, we would like to know. All
it is doing is trotting along behind
those who happen to be in power.
no matter who they are, trying to
pick up few droppings.
Nobody could claim that Hoover
ever did anything for the farmer
but ruin him. But when Hoover
was IT. power the Herald was for
Hoover and the Republicans. AS
soon as Hoover was defeated, the
Herald was for Roosevelt and the
Democrats. Never at any time was
the Herald for the farmers. and
still 1T seems to think that it
should be put on the preferred list
when farmers hand out printing.
Harry Polk don't give a darn for
Hoover. Roosevelt. or the farmers.
1t is printing contracts that he Is
after. The party who can hand
hlm printing contract is the one
he is for every time. If a print
ing contract could be secured by
marching up and down Main street
carrying the red flag and singing
the internationally" Harry Polk
would be the first one marching.
While the Allotment Committees
were being formed and elected,
many secret meeting was hello
at the Herald office between
Harry Polk and Carl Peterson try
ing to lay plans as to how the
Herald could get the printing, and
when their plans failed, NOR
meetings were held and the whole
thing had to be done over again.
Not because the farmers had done
anything wrong, but because the
farmers were not supposed to run
! their OWL association.
: About the printing the Herald
says: "The committee certainly
got a fair price," But, what was
the reason they got this fair
price? 1t was simply because the
Producers News had set that
price, and the other papers had to
come down to it, although they did
not like it.
In the same article the Herald
has a fit over the Producers News
editor getting some money from
New York. Something the Herald
pretends to be better posted on
than we are. But what has that
got to- do with the printing con-
tract?
If there is anything we need
here in Plentywood more than
money, it is still more money. II
any of it could be sent from New
York and spent here we surely
should be the last ones to object
to it. But that is not the stand
that the Herald takes, which gives
a fair example of its editors
narrow mindedness.
That some money has come into
Plentywood the last couple years
Through the Producers News from
different parts of the United
States is something we should not
object to if we have any sense al
all. What we should object to is
a Plentywood editor living at Will
listen and draining our county for
every dollar he can get out of it
That the Herald is singing Nels
Olson's praise is nothing more
than could be expected and no
doubt Nels is proud of it. More
proud of it than the people who