The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
Friday, February Is, 1885
1.-THE EIks and Communism"

In last weeks papers there appeared the report that
the leading officials of the Eks with 14O0 lodges all
the country are organizing campaign to make the Com
muns Party Illegal The way this campaign being pushed
cannot be better illustrated than by the following editorial
reprinted from the Dawson County Review, Gendve Mont
of February z:
"The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, our
greatest and most vigorous purely American fraterna
order has inaugurated a campaign against communism
in America
"This is a movement that every red-blooded Amer
lean will support with enthusiasm There is nothing
subversive to American scheme of life and
civilization than the red communism of Russia and
cry stone thrown in their pathway should be greeted
with loud cheers
Russia, the home land of communism, the glorious
example held up before us by our pnks and boshevists
is the worst governed nation the world has yet
It is the boodest tyranny all history and the lot of
the people is the btterest and saddest in the
whole wide world today.
"Any person who wants to Russianize America
should be deported to Russia without delay. He has
business in this country and no right to spread his
propaganda here.
1T is scarcely the part of wisdom to poohpooh the
and bette the activities of the Reds in the
United States Every year they raise their Shiny heads
and prove that they both active and powerful Last
there more strikes than we have seen in
many years. The evidence shows that every one of
these strikes fomented and fostered by the
munists The most OminOus of all the red efforts
the general strike in San Francisco For two or three
days they succeeded in teing all business and block
ing all everyday activities. The American people are
patient and long suffering but there is limit and COM
"More power to the Eks' campaign against the
reds"
1t hardly possible that this KIND SnOuC
find any response in the minds of Dawson county farmers
and workers. for whom it written But the stupidity
of some editors of county papers apparently has limit
The editor of this particular piece Mr. G. G. Hoole
should have taken his from his colleagues in the Hears
organization who through their continued practice in dis
rbutng the worst of poisonous lying propaganda have
at least achieved certain degree of peIecness in the
filthy work He should have taken Harry Polk eX
ample who uses at least little intelligence in launch
ing his attacks .
We believe for instance. that the Herald editor
would print such statements as, Russia is the wors
governed nation the world has yet SEEM Mr. Polk would
tions without being laughed at He would know too wei
that there nobody in Sheridan county who would not know
at least few facts about the Soviet Unon such as tina
there unemployment in Russia that there 7OOO
900 children relief that there crops being destroyed
in the Soviet Union when 80 million people have not enough
to eat. -
The stupidity of Mr. Hoole revealed in his editora
and bordering complete idocy clearly shows what means
some editors will to accomplish their purpose, to make
the Communist Party illegal and to stamp out the radlca
movement of workers and farmers which they hate because
ent will wipe away from the face of the earth the system
that gives them and their masters in Wall Street privileged
positions and the opportunity to live in comfort on the ol
of the workers and farmers.
Hooe's editorial also reflects upon the yellow propa
ganda of the Hearsts and Pos and reveals the more subtle
efforts of these fascist their entire nakedness
Hearst Polk and Hoole would like very much to depor
every person whom they consider "Red" HE has nc
business in this country and right to spread his proa
ganda here" says the Dawson County Review They might
as well learn little about country that boT
deeds.