The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-06-28

CHeTu TdclIlc claim agents would
be in the court room and town ped
ding propaganda for two weeks
at time. If any of the Alliance is
attacked the rest run in the dark
to help.
Medicine Men Propaganda
All the Grand Alliance send anv
injured servant to certain "com-
pany" hospitals. A claim agent
chases or is waiting for the am
bulance to make some cheap set
Element with the injured. The COM
pany doctors inform the patient
that he will soon be we'll to aid
these settlements. These same ply
sicians are dinner club orators
against the courts, juries, lawyers
and widows and cripples in suits
for personal injury or death.
In every town served by a rail
road, if there is a doctor, he has
an annual pass for local transpor-
tation and if he is a good boy can
get trip pass every few years to
New York or California.
Propaganda of the Clergy
Every clergyman in Montana, if
he is willing to do so, rides the
trains on half fare or a pass. This
whether Catholic or Episcopalian.
was amused to read in the
Congressional Journal some years
ago that the Rocky Mountain Pow
er Co., subsidiary of Montana
Power Co., in it's Poison Dam
Plant, had given a contribution to
the Episcopal church of which I
am member. This was of course
for some propaganda purpose or
else deposit on the Arc Light
Franchise in heaven.
The U. S. Supreme Court holds
that corporations have no soul to
be saved in our church or anv
other church. With the exception
OF the encyclical of the Pope some
months ago have not heard any
sermon in favor of labor against
capital. But then, I have not at
tended church as often as | should
have.
The foregoing are most of the
known organs of propaganda for
and against the happiness and
rights of the people of this state.
In the knowledge of anatomy of
the human body, the surface is of
slight use. What lies beneath is
hard to learn, harder to visutIize.
correspondingly more vital to
know. So also in the anatomy Of
propaganda. When it appears bv
name or token in the Billings Ga
zette, Helena Independent. Butte
Stadard or Post, nobody believes
1t and only one-third of the peopIe
wish it were true. Secret, con-
cealed propaganda is hard to re-
cognize, most dangerous because
like fraud it trails its serpentine
course beneath the slime. It strikes
without first rafting. It is more
deadly than snake or tick bite.
RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE
PROPAGANDA
In the last city campaign a fear.
less, progressive free mason and a
protestant was running for the
mayoralty. Two weeks before the
election it seemed CERTAIN that
he would win by between 1000 and
5000 votes. The powers that milk |
Montana began the whispering
campaign. Ancient lies were br1it. |
ed around about his being a Cath |
Ole hater, an anti religious fana- !
tic etc. His majority was thereby |
cut to $50.
There are active progressive
fearless, honorable men of Catho-
Tic faith in Butte and of the |
knights of Columbus. Had one of |
tnese been a candidate and tn ri
val a company sympathizer, the |
same crowd of stool pigeons for
the absentee landlords would have
lnflltrated the Masonic Socie4v
and the protestant denominations |
and whispered that the candidate !
Who opposed the company rule
was going to divert all the cash
IN the city treasury to maintaining
the parochial schools and if the
Baptist Church caught fire he
would order the fire department to
let it burn.
l got this ki1d of propaganda
from the cradle. My people were
Hugenots driven from France tn |
Virginia in the 18th Century by
Roman Catholic persecution. It
was not until my third year in the
University of Virginia in the adj
vanced history class that l learned
tnat religious persecution was tvp-
zeal OF the barbarous ignorant AGE.
Cnat the Hugenots burned Catho-
lies at the stake and Presbyterians
IN Scotland assassinated Roman
Catholic clergymen and similar
1anatlcism existed all over Luther
an Germany and Calvinistic Swift
erland. If a depression from the
main theme is pardoned 1.-THE writ.
er is a member of the Episcopal
church, the only progressive sen
Cence l have ever sen in the Mon
tana Standard for several wears Is
an encyclical Of the Pope not MANY
months ago in which he denounces
capitalists the world over as being
unIalr TO labor and forewarned
mat their sins will find them out.
TO be continued next week
SECRET SOCIETY
PROPAGANDA
Probably every one of the major
orders has a Ts1Io fbof 41,a o,.oo,, |