The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25

OF oil gushers in Mexico. The only =.
est you have in oil is when Won bn,, i :.
the gallon, using a potato for ston 10y
When times are good, meaning WHOM al
kind of folks who own strings of oil In. eIe
ers in Mexico let you work. Won b,,sS u .a
oil and throw the potato away. When tir me
are bad, you eat the potato and do wi ti,es
the oil. From this it might be reaso lOus
that those oil gushers in Mexico arc DnSo
OF your concern. But wait a minute "e
The cruel, hard-boiled and unscrumlon.
government of Mexico proceeds to tax the
oil gushing from the string of gnshS.s
owned by the gentleman you never mot
and what was "his'n'' but yesterday is omrs
today - 'u'S
Our interests are menaced in Mexico
Our country must not tolerate interior.
ence with American rights in Mexico
Our prestige is at stake
Our flag is insulted.
''We," Gus" and "ours" gushes from ev.
cry newspaper, billboard and four-minute
speaker.
Funny. Yesterday there was NOTHING
of we, us and ours about these oil gusbers
in Mexico.
They were the safe, sacred and elusive.
private property of the gentleman we new.
er met.
For some reason the gentleman win not
fight for his oil gushers in Mexico Neither
will he go down in his jeans and hire q
private army to defend his property. The
property is his. The profit is his. Up to
yesterday it was all l, me and mine. Now
it is we, us and ours, and woe unto the oil
can plus potato stopper toter who is not
willing to lay down his life for our coun-
try's interests, glory, prestige and foreign
investments.
Our country, my eye. The bulk of us
don't own enough of our country to be bur
led standing up in it. We work when its
owners let us; quit when they tell us: give
our lives in return for wooden crosses, peg
legs, and pewter medals while its real own
erS stay at home and make hay while It
rains blood, gore and broken stove lids.
We saved our country in the Civil War
but il anybody ever saw a Rockefeller. Car
negie, Morgan, Gould or Vanderbilt in q
GAR. parade, let him speak up, or forever
hold his peace.
We saved it again during the WOrll
War; and doing so made 10000 new mil
iOnaiTes, but if there was a millionaire
son among the killed, wounded or missing
we missed his name.
In almost every language there is
saying to the effect that. when kings wal
the people take the licking. The jayhawk
ers and hill-5illies of our own southlan
expressed the same idea when they Gale
the Civil War a rich mans war and a poo
mans fight.
Contrary and notwithstanding, all tn
patriotic balderdash uttered in every cour
try, countries do not fight each other Hill
and dales, vineyards and wheat fields d
not make war upon each other, and neithe
do the common people Of countries. Di
ference in customs, culture, art, science an
language may make them strangers. 81
their differences would not induce them
cut each others threats.
The chief function of war, like patrio
ism, is to hypnotic the common people il
to state of mind where they regard it
their duty, privilege and sacred mission
pull hot chestnuts out of the fire for Peep
who are too wise to burn their own finger
To speak of national or common interest
countries whose people are separated I'M
makers and takers, and in which the pri
! clple, you work. eat" is regarded as Il
first requisite of success, is bosh.-(Am
3 can Guardian).