The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-01-04
Friday, January A, 1885
"Deport the Reds"---PoIk

Together with the Hearst press all the country
the Mansreet newspaper the PlentywOod Herald join
ing in the vicious drive to persecute the Communists
In last weeks issue of the Herald there appeared an
editorial headned "Deport the Reds" In trying to adj
in his political career Harry Polk is playing himself
up of the chief red-baiterS of the Northwest
The nation is up in the failure of the United
States Department of Labor to depor the host of alien
outonists who have been violently active recently" the
Malnstreet editor reports He is not satisfied with the eff
hclent deportation taken by Mrs. Perkins
mands mass deportation of all radicals and revoutonares
to Russia.
America in the past may have been considered the
Melting Pot of the world writes the Plentywood redbater
the nation In which all natOnaes and all people could
join in friendly efforts toward the maintenance of free
government But it not intended that America should
become political mad house, haven for all of the Old
World mischief Makers"
1t may be surprising but we largely agree with what
Polk writes here 1t to be quite evident that America
has become what Harry calls mad house. a country with
empty bellies because there is too much food country
where people freeze to death by the because there
is too much fuel and too much cotton and WOOL It q mad
house ali right, but is that the fault of the reds?
Mr.. Polk talks about America as the country where
naonahes and people could join in friendly efforts to
maintain free government Apparently he means to
imply that our present government is free government
tie would like to convince people that neither the Roosevelt
nor any other administration during the last five decades
was under the absolute control of the big Wall Street fin
anclers He likes to convey the impression that the Com
munsts interfering the friendly efforts to main
tam this free government of his and therefore they should
be deported
Harry Polk wishes to state that it is the Communists
the Reds who overlooking the people with taxes who are
advocating and putting into practice wage cuts cuts in
he who refusing to let the people have old age pen
sons and unemployment insurance He would like to get
the idea across that it the Reds who throw farmers off
their land workers out of their homes who small bust
neSsmen by the hundreds of thousands that the
are tie cause OF the depression of the fact that l6 million
people Tampng the streets in of work. and that
70 million have to be fed relief handouts This is what
Harry Polk implies, and for all these crimes he SAYS the
Reds should be deported.
After the deportation of all the Reds this political and
economic mad house Of will become utterly sane pros
wi he fO
farms and homes will be safe the enterprises of the small
businessmen will forsh again. farmers will oct high prices
workers high wages and everything will be hunydry onlv
get rid of those cursed Communists That the idea Of Mr.
Hearst taken up and prOpagated in Sheridan county by Mr.
Polk ' ~ 49,
Harry Polk calls the Reds "Old World mischief max
erS Tor which America should not be the haven
In the Inst place, wonder who creates all the mis-
chleI IN this country Do the Reds throw workers OUT of
the factories when certain people cannot secure sufficient
RoIltS! DO the Reds cut wages relief and cause all
the trouble that makes the worlds richest country an abso
lutte mad house? - ~
Or are the Reds those people who fight against wage
cuts and cuts the standard of relief who foht for old
pensions and unemployment Insurance for the bonn
for the security of farms and homes and for takn ont Of
the hands of the few all powerful onopolsts in Wall street
the control OF this government of ours and establishing
government OF the workers and farmers under which Il is
possible for EVERYONE to live IN comfort?
these militant efforts of the Reds constitute mischief
then the Communists the mischief makers But then
also those people who founded this country of ors
notnng put mischief makers OF the worst kind These men,
TOO reVolted against too high taxation against the cra
ment OF their liberties and those men finally launched
evOluuonary war against their rghtfuy constituted gov
eminent, the English Crown. so'
ana IN document, called the Declaration of Independ
the leaders of this revolutionary war laid down the
following principles 1--WE hold these truths 70 h % a.;
that all men created equal that thew are endowed
y ther Creator with certain naenable Rights That
ese are i1e Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness Thai
70 secure these rights Governments instituted
men, deriving their Just powers from the consent if the
erneu, mat WHENEVER ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT \
BECOAdE1S DESTRUCTIVE TO THESE ENDS TT rs THE
TSIGHi Or The PEOPLE TO ALTER OR TO ABOLISH
- ana 70 institute new Government laying its foundation
as to them shall most likely to effect their sfa an
Happiness" ~ i Surety ana
but OF course we cannot expect that Mr. Hearst nor
marry FOLK should know about these 'Od World a;sb;f
hakers VINO established this country and who wrote tb
DO O' sentences And why should Harry know ANYTIME
aOouI mem After ALL he does not BELONG to tha cio
PROFESSIONAL mischief Makers He is one of those t
zaa IT, people Of whom school children are not
ne = perlecty satisfied with the present free COW
ceenf opportunities to derive his income from an a to
guDe public And in return for these Opportunities Mo- Mo-