Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-05-17
Reaping The Whirlwind
DANIELS COUNTY LEADER)

Al last the gang warfare has broken into the open
~ Pfcnfy~Ood- The internecine strife became too
strenuous TO longer keep hushed. Direct action may
Be looked for any day.
The battIe-which has been raging under cover
for some time-is between the two factions striving
fo< control Of the Producers Moose. Not much to fight
over but Il IL all that the gang has left.
I'm one side-the outside-is ranged charIav
Taylor. Salisbury, James Ostby and their little xroup.
On the other side-the inside-is Hans Rasmussen
r Miller and their little group now In control o. tho
notorious sheet
They are Quarreiing over possession OF something
which didn't cost any of them a penny, but which cost
me farmers upwards of $50, 100000 OF hard earned
money osiny Is no doubt the only one Of the bunch
Who ever put real money into 1t. He is a farmer OF
Roosevelt county The rest Of the gang now uuarreling
ust hsed like parasites off the farmers.
Ih years past those parasites and shysters made
= ~ ne farmers. who answered every call for
ADney. voted as they were told to vote cheersd a.
1neJ wers told TO cheer and howled when than ~
told to howl 80
And then Taylor and Salisbury and Rasmussen
and the Noes and the Torstensons and tha otha,
snys1frs deliberately stole ownership on the paper
1Tu" Inc iarmer. refused to present the books at 10
called stockholders meetings. refused to account for
anything Although 4 federal audit OF the hooks showaa
IA Inc Producers Moose gouged enough profit and
$500 ~a1idnt us paying an income tax or 81 00n
one year. the profit all went to the game.
Drunk with power and graft they sought possess
SION OF the farmerowned newspaper at Seobey. mig
ied enough farmers there to gain their point. robbed
me stockholders blind and plunged them so far into
deo& Inc paper mad to go out OF business to save the
corporation directors from further financial resnon-
sihdlity. ~
Because The Leader exposed their GRAFT and
s1heelnm they had their thugs set fire to The
I-oef Office And now everything that the punlic
= Ioad on them before is now being told nv ,har
f each other. "1
They are as constituencies a gang OF niratea :
ever scuttied a ship. 1t is amusing to watch the
Droadsades they now let fly at each other. The old
LICK 0e1ense- Hit US and you are hitting the farners.
- being used by the Tins" and the "outsn and tho
outs know It Is a lie. just as they knew It was . Ia
~Hen lney as the 'ins' used 1t as a smoke screen
fr quite . long time the pack fight was Ron,
frum the public As far as possible. For instanca whan
= q the crooks Was found to be stealing 3 ,nuch
-. "ere le1 short he was threatened and told to
oonN acrOss- III i go to the pen Won fe,,ous ru,, i,
= cunning with me- was his snarling replv ana :
- - ood chiils- He kept his loot. he d,dnst
81 y Inc Pen. ne wasn't threatened anv more
n1 the farmers have quit being snckars ona -
1sHse royal y on amongst the parasites
Knowing Salhsbury's tactics the 4in. gan
nHss sfr7d q HIM Unlike Jack Bennett, thew ,act
- Enfa to smack Salisbury or Taylor openly . : tho
D10 ~ on Farmer Jim Ostby, who thew knor -,
- rsfaliate like = Salisbury or his jolly crew II 49,
ni0ack1nE. thugxery and arson were lust q ~ :,