The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-18
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er than last year. Millions of work
ers face the prospects of keeping
their families alive on the barest
subsistence security wager
starving. Living standards drop as
wages trail behind increased pric-
Is. Mountains of debt make night
mares for farmers who fear to lose
their homes. SharecrOppers brave
vigilante terror in strikes for a
few cents more On cotton that at
best will leave them still half
starved and IN tatters. But happy
days are here again, is becoming
the theme song of political speech
es and newspaper editorials.
Why? Because the 1886 election
campaign has already been launch
ed. Because the citizens have to be
drugged with every sort of ridicu-
lous slogan and ballyhoo TO make
them vote right (if they voted in
their sober senses. whole parties
would be out Of a job.)
Washington correspondents re-
turning from vacations in all parts
of the country are puzzled by some
of the reactions they have found
back home. After observing the
rich grew richer under the New
Deal. while the poor have to cut
down on children because tie ''se-
curity' wage won't stretch fan
enough. they have been surprised
to find so much arti-RoOsevelt sen.
timent among the prosperous.
Every one Of them can tell stor.
I les Ct manufacturers and business
men who have coined money hanC
over fist under the radiance Of
/ ROosevelt's smile but who Tow bit.
terly complain, "Why can't ne
/ leave Us alone ,"
+ Government statistics have
shown all reports who will take IN,
trouble to read them how much
better the rich have done than the
I poor, out Of the New Deal. But the
man as in the street has emotions
as well as a brain and q stomach
and he doesn't always feel tina
way he should statistically. So tn
magazine Fortune has been max
ing a survey OF public opinion,
10 get some idea Of how people fee
about what has happened 70 then
/. It seems 70 indicate that feeling
are not tagging so far behind IN
figures.
As a result of the doOr-to-doo
interviewers of its reporters, tn
magazine. declares that of tn
prosperous and middle classes
nearly half feel better of and NOR
secure as a result of the NeV
Deal. and % percent less secure
( OF the poorer classes Intervene,
only a fourth felt their condition
had been improved while - per
cent reported they were worse of
IAN inference from the reptile
Is that the rich grow richer an
the poor grow poorer" says For
tune, itself a S1-a-eOpy rich man
magazine. Considered by Occupa
tiOns, of TIE unemployed, 80 pei
cent feel worse of, only 10 De
cent better; and farm and factor
labOrers feel nearly as dOIeful.
More content with the trend Q
affairs are salaried people and prC
prietoTs, respectively, 46 and
per cent more secure, p and
per cent less"
These and other known fact
of a similar nature might lead tn
man from Mars to expect tina
Roosevelt viii be the favorite so
Of all the prosperous, all the wa
from Wall Street to the fattes
grab-it-all of Main Street. Tie OF
er hundred million or so of the Do
ulatiOn he would expect to see "a
lying round a national Farmer
Labor party or some similar OIL
ganiZatiOn and candidate of the
own.
The man from Mars can't /
expected TO understand the Amer
can twO-paIty system. Who does
Nor, in his widest nightmare
could any but a human of tn
earth conceive OF the greed Of L
days wealthy classes, whose Or,
ut appetite and arrogance grow
with eating. Big money is u
questionably behind the food
anti-ROOsevelt propaganda tn;
comes from the right-the none
OF those who feel they have 90
ten all they can from him and ma
be able TO squeeze out more bloc
money thru a successor OF the
own choice. This money com.
also from those who do not fe
secure with their ill-gotten gain
while the cheated populace retai
any democratic liberties whatev'
who viii not be satisfied wit
any less than outright Fascism.
Roosevelt has also lost mus
support on the left, among di
cOntented farm and city workel
and unemployed, the returnir
Washington scribes report. b
still ne viii be reelected most b
heve-nOt so much because he W
be the peoples choice as becaul
the biggest battaliOns of baIIyh,
viii be on his side, and becau,
there viii be little else TO ch,OO.
from. The Republican candidate
so far proposed are a joke, if n
bywOrd-and there are some De
pie that even money can't eIeC
There are significant signs Of gro
ing labor and farm desires for
party and candidate Of their oE
but the boys still want more tn;
SIN L. IN