Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-12-26

says the manufacturers ASSOCIATED
offers the most reactionary and III
least constructive program put for(
in recent years.
Prohibition, long a troublesome i
sue in natinal plitics, seems slated I
plague politicians again. F. Scott Nd
Bride, superintendent of the Ant
Saloon league, says the saloon l
back" and that repeal has failed. H
predicts that a majority of states vii
be dry again by 1910 and that III
people of the nation will reject III
present law with its public appeal i'd
the trade of women and young PED
pie, its alcohol accidents on the high
ways" and growing corruption" b
liquor interests in legislative efortd
On the other hand, vets insist thu
temperance has made a distinct gat
that bootlegging has been lessene
and that the federal government ed
cured SAIL ,021,772 in federal Liquid
revenue for the 1934-35 fiscal year.
The national census of business (
be taken in January, is intended I
furnish a chart of the nations eco
nomic structure and to afford a baS
of comparison with conditions report
ed in 1929 and 1888. Some 5000 ped
sons will be used to interview buS
ness men Of many types. The censu
bureau points out that all informatioj
secured will be of a confidential M
ture and no one will be permitted &
examine the individual reports whicI
cannot be used for taxing purpose
and are not subject to subpoena \
courts. While most of the field worI
will be done in January, the projed
will hardly be completed before til
first of next July.
Senator Borah may have cleare
up his political stand but his recer
address, hitting the ideas of forme
President Hoover, as well as those d
President Roosevelt, has not dom
much to strengthen his position in thu
east. Conceivably it may gain addi|
tional support for him among repub|
lican liberals. The main theme of tn
senator is the abolition of ~monopolie|
to increase and distribute purchasinl
power and he seems inclined to ainl
between the Roosevelt and Hoovej
policies.
He criticises the president for negI
lecting the constitution and for hi
agricultural policies and Mr.. Hoove
for his course in the 1929 era, whic
was near wholesale legalized extorj
ton, with the government, like SAT-
of old, c~onsenting to the crime" Thu
Idahoan denounced the "over-produd
ton" explanation of u economic ill
laying them to monopolies which havI
produced inequalities in purchasinI
power.
The senator stressed the fact thai
in our period of prosperity, $500
families at the top of the ladder hal
an income equal to that of 11,635,Oq
families at the bottom of the ladde1
This, he explained, by the existent
Of monopolies. In 1929, says the sen
ator "the eliminating year of the pd
Rod of so-called prosperity" produc
ton was less than what the people i
"decency" were entitled to have.
other words the argument is that mill
lions of our families were living nee
or below the poverty line and unabl|
to purchase the necessities of lH
which would have used all Jul sur
plus of farm and manufactured prod
ucts. This disparity in purchasinl
power, says the senator, cannot b
attributed to the laws of nature or a
God but is caused entirely by the exI
istence of monopolies which, he in|
sists, is the private power to tax EVIL
cry citizen"
George N. Peek, who recently rel
signed all connection with the admini
istration, indicates that will carry od
a private warfare against the present
policy of unconditional most-favoredI
nation treatment in foreign trade
which, he says, is an innovation of thu
Harding administration. The clash bd
tween Secretary Hull, long an enemd
of tariffs, quotas and trade restrict
tons, and Mr.. Peek, who advocates 1
series of commercial bargains, hal
been one of the outstanding rivalrie1
for presidential support during thu
present administration
Mr.. Peek was the first agricultural
adjustment administrator. When h1
clashed with Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace, he was given a post connect
ed with foreign trade but here CAM
into equally as violent a conflict will
Secretary of State Hull. Possibly on1
of the reasons President Roosevelt hal
moved so slowly in developing hi
trade policy has been a reluctance 4
bring this clash to the breaking point
Mr.. Peek plans to open offices n
Washington and to finance his own
campaign. He is completely out q
sympathy with the administrator
policy on commercial and fnancdd
matters, although insisting that thd
conflict of views on foreign trade 4
not a party issue and that "all majo]