The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-07-05
Friday, July 5, 1885
Their Silence Speaks Volumes

The fact that group of farmers stood together June
% and prevented the sheriff from cleaning up neigh
Dor and seize his machinery while he was not even on the
Mace is certainly of interest to all farmers in Sheridan
county What happened at the Heberg farm on that day
was an act of farmers solidarity and such the story OF
it deserves space in any newspaper
There are four newspapers the county Only only
the Producers had space for the account None OF the
other three newspapers had word to say about it. Many
people will find that strange because after ALL 1t does not
happen every day that the sheriff hires small army OF
deputies for five dollars apiece to eze the property OF
farmer Tt is news any county paper and this news be-
comes particularly significant when the sheriff oo IN spite
of his deputies is frustrated In county with over
wheming AGRICULTURAL population newspaper one would
think could afford to pass by such story
But in Sheridan county they can-and still claim to be
newspapers This is really typical example that shows that
certain newspapers only print what of benefit to their
interests the interests of the masters they serve
This time there cannot be the excuse that the
papers did not know what happened in the Dagmar country
on that Saturday The PentywOod Herald had it's acting
editor Mr. Bill Hagen, right the spot He apparently
was informed by the shers forces He went down there
in a car with the deputies.
We are quite sure that if the sheriff had succeeded in
his job Mr. Hagen would have printed the story And the
deputies had successful in provoking trouble there is
no doubt that the Herald editor would have geeuy printed
the front page something in the order Of
"Reds Start Riot at Dagmar Farm
We take it, of course that Mr. Hagen was Of the
deputies which that down there get the
story Unfortunately for Mr. Hagen and for the sheriff
the story does not turn out they hoped Naturally the
Herald prints nothing
Farmers protect machinery of their neghbors while he
is away from farm This story not hot for OF the
Herads character Even the word is not mentioned
body forced to that the main point of the story
SOLIDARITY the solidarity of poor farmers who protect
member of their class against the attack of machine
pany and sheriff That farmers again put into action
the slogan "We and Children Have the First Mortgage
and Human rights Before Property Rights such
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pnes of the bankers and insurance companies etc. On the
is the order And the Pentywood Herald does not print
word.
1t also not quite possible for the Herald to print
of the statements made by the sheriff during this a
fair They not exactly but still they quite
characteristic and give quite few people something to
think about 1t is quite comprehensive that when the sheriff
says: 81 will have showdown with these farmers
any tme, and g" don't why Heiberg anybody
else shouldn't be cleaned up on and There lot OF
fellows here want to get with that this is
thing the Herald cannot print After all nobody expects them
to expose one of their clique.
This is, of course only single incident of the pro-
paganda OF silence But it is typical because shows the
class nature OF newspapers The paper that the
tereSt OF Big Business will not print story that would
compliment farmers their solidarity action matter
how important the story and how great the value
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