The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-12-18
;0InAY PRESIDENT WRITES
OPEN LETTER TO MONTANA
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
Continued from page one)

sSSes no FEED THEMSELVES FOR A THOUSAND |
@a &c vet now find themselves unable to buy sack
tb anr TbOne steak, or mutton chop; and this not
o. nnes to the drOught-stricken in the eastern
0 II the state, but also to the fertile valleys in the
western half "heFe aOui'u"n' c'OpS nave Oeen raised
every year.
e.. know well that emergency exists as devasting
ss the black ScOurge, but which is carefully ig
SS bv the copper press which is so much more
d with property protection than with human needs;
tb property right than human rights.
Ma NOW ask you as our representative in the Congress
= The United States tOsmash the LandOn slogan that
had been repudiated at the polls but which it seems
@. Rooseveh adopted Immediately after the votes
united: of balance the budget at the expense of the
Jucng classes by cutting both workers and farmers
W tbp relief rolls. If the farmers and workers had been
E the LandOn program of starvation, they would have
te3 for LandOn and if that program be correct why
al you democrats not run for reelection upon it, This
sa1s TO our mind the WilsOnian slogan: HE kept us
emf Of War;; and to suspect that all OF the
Iorratic promises of this year woven OF the same
O and wool as were those back in 1916 If the bud
M mist be balanced let it be done by graduate tax
= high dividends and huge corporation melons, and not
I taking the food out of the mouths off the starving
wives and babies of the unemployed workers and drought
stricken and bankrupt farmers, thru the cutting OH OF
relief Let us get the money to balance the budget IL
mist he balanced from those who have 1T and get WIN
t work thru the robbery of the workers. let us get
4 from the billions of dollars the miners OF montana
fine richest state in the unOn) have dug out OF our
rtaips let us get it out of the billions the lumber
Ec have taken out of the forests which grow on our
mountain sides; let get it out of billions paid 6y our
OeIe for the land given by government TO lOOters
by the gigantic land grants let us take II Out u t
nc earned nv the rairOadmen and turned over to the
railroad swnders; all for the plutOcrats VINO DO not even
i've within the borders of state the tacts OF winch
you are well advised.
The HOLIDAY ASSOCIATION of MONTANA re-
quests and insists that when the new congress meet
yu as our representative along with the prOgressNes Vi
other states Immediately get into the necessary POSe
action TO get the funds needed appropriated 10 meet @
emergency so that every unemployed ana Heeuv Pc
this rich and bOuntiful state ana III an O' e 81 I
are nut to work on public projects, full time Oh nOI &
than thirty hours per week -four weeks In the nOIll az
union scale of wages provided for WORKERS IN tlG ~
gOies in which they employed IL lnSlSUs tlaV %
welfare of the workers and farmers OF this STATE sn
b first In vour consideration rather than the prOlS JIG
money and property of the expOiters The interests d
welfare of the masses of the people OF TINS hdIOn
more sacred than the money and properly Oh 'lo
and the bosses.
This nrocram Of balancing the budget at this time anG
the stonnino of OOing further into debt, reminds me "a
certain farmer know who started into the "n1eA J
50 head of cattle. Like his nelghD0rs ne n4 his
but unlike his neghbOrs, ne refused 10 nv he 6udoet
herd to buv feed because he wanted TO keep ms Os
balanced During the insuing long, cold winter, VIZ" L
his neighbOrs were hauling home their %1O Re o+ Is
feed their cattle (hay their Big Hole DrOnets
per ton for raising and maklngl iOl +ift budget ba
nOrtgaged their cattle to buy, this thrifty so,
ancer, grazing his herd on the grdsSFeS 1orinor hi
aSides was skinning his COWS one Dy Onp ~ seIIin,
little SchOOlbOy sons out of schOOl 10 IO 49, Ga" rino n
the hides for two cents per pound. In the SP -
had "a honey hossies left out of his f1ttyzo Aa
to DEATH but he hadn't mOrtgaged ms ng.u -, onreaT
champion patriot and rugged indlVluuSIo'' ~ 5ov
Cd before the county commissioners III Ile r,,rir1
Of March and nrOtesfed against that august DCuy
the taxpayers money to pay old age and mOlS0 D.
Sons and house rent for some OF the unel"p o,ov
ing his chest he exclaimed: Why pay w. tSor -
Keep people alive when we have more PeOP 7 croft e.
need? Their hides are not worth as mucn dS : shIor
cow hide I am businessman ana LOON 0e AT ~ ~
IN businesslike way. And brag OF Denis h; cattT
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