The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-06
LIKE THEM BAHLSHEVIKS
7

100000 worth of supplies the :,
eminent aportiOned It. gov
81 haven't another sack
left" Mrs. Kate Hardy. in VI .L l"G
Of the Red Cross said helNla large
And they're still coming b.essy'
anything except one box fnn 's I,
sheets and bedding and few W. Of
for the children So they can !" 81 sa0e'
school. And I've got to sav 50 q .
sheets and bedding for tbo'. ae
emergency cases like sickness IN
confinement. Most of the farD,. o.
simply haven't got a stitch If Lss
ding or clothes left" u OeO'
Outside the land agents ots
the federal emergency relief O 0ts
the Red Cross office wers O.slCe
groups Of Overalled farmer, Aliau
assed looking worried. vet uss'
hard lights in their eyes. WHO
This cOuntry's just BEING
for them millionaires," tbaT l@
repeating. "DO you know a nsep
Huey P. Long says? He saw. W y
wealth is in the hands of ; ~. 1s
men-ROckefeller. Ford-tSstt wen ~
Ter that Huey says was the =, -,
President when Hoover was tS 1sS
what's his name?" s
!. ANDREW Mellon" a farmer ~,
gested.
THAT'S the one. Andrew Nj
Ion. Huey Long says that wSs.
Andrew Mellon told the Pres;da~.
Z what to do the President diS ~
: That's what's the matter with ri.
country. 1t amt right for a fsw
5 men to have all the wealth and n.
S rest of US starving"
t "Well, what can you do abm
r it," 'O0@
: "Start a revolution, that's wb.,
t We can do. Them Bahlsheviks ali
n There amt no millionaires therp
Everything there belong to the
= government and you get what van
, need. Everything belongs to tbs
S government and when its grown or
J. made it's put in a government
r, warehouse. If you need one sack
y of flour you get it and if you got
n a bigger family and need two
IT sacks you get two. 1t amt like
y here where twelve men got every,
Id thing and the poor amt got moth.
ot ing"
De Huey Longs demogogic appeal
al to "divide the wealth" has struck
: a deep and sympathetic note in the
20 farmers of Louisiana's neighbOrRq
IL state. They have seen a man il
tn high office talk of revolution, con
nd fiscation, and they are talking O.
lg it now. They have no idea o
he what a revolution is, of what the!
he would do if one were thrown il
their laps tomorrow but they d
or, know they want a change.
lr- "What would you do if reyOu
IT. ton started tomorrow" l wOul
lot ask those who talked most earnest
ne ly of a revolution. They would
I'm stare at me, helpless.
lly eve amt smart enough" the
Dr. say. "You got to have leader
he have revolution. And we ain
got no leader"
m "I'll tell you what I'd do i v
is had a revolution" one farm'
he said. 1.-THE first thing I'd do
,,v pass a law so no man could nal
OCT more than a million dollars"
ii They keep reverting to the mi
ow lion dollars and the hated milhc
iii aires in the north and the eS
ont When I asked one cropper what
tbe would do with the land if a revOE
ton came tomorrow he looked
inn me in surprise.
he'd "Work it. of course" he said.
roc "The Bahlsheviks took all Il
or land away from the landowner
ws when they had their revolution a
the kent it."
is He shook his head adminngly
for "That would sure be fine if '
s3 could do that here" he said.
'5o The Negro, disfranchised, 0
for pressed, is ignored by everyo
, though he comprises IS per cent
$50 the county's population. The ie
5o eral relief agencies manage to ke e
: q him and his family alive but u
is about all. The black man ca
yn,- not utter his thoughts aloud 50
in. frequently exposes them in SI
net heard ore along a dusty mg9s,
,or in Lincoln county and two o. ~
lines tell the whole story. Id
b,,. tell what the Negro is getting
~ Of all this aid to the farmer;
e land owner is talking to ms Sn'
uoh cropper: ~
The "Accordin' to the CONTRACT ! "
the signed .ots
You gets the seed an the ''''
is mine"
de-
a1.o nHETT n(NK