The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-31
CHARLES E. TAYLOR
Edit0r and Manager
GUARDIANS OF THE PRESENT ORDER
ByR. CARLTON, Moore, Montana

BY e. CARLTON, Moore, Montana
The sentinels of special interests are on
the lob and earning their stipends. They
are the appointed watch dogs who guard
the papers, magazines, periodicals and rad
los against any educational propaganda
that points in the direction of new social
order or even admits the need Of a change
the stutus quo. Their keenest weapons are
sarcasm and ridicule, rusty swords that
have ever been employed to block progress.
Rarely do find these hired servants OF
the money barons satirizing system that
dumps produce in the ocean, burns coffee,
blows cotton under, tells the farmer not to
raise wheat, slaughters pigs let's fruit and
vegetables rot on the ground, dumps hun
dreds Of thousands of college students in
TO q iobleSs world, clubs and throws into
fail thoe who insist that the profit system
has broken down and demand a new order,
keeps 100000 of willing-to-work people
on the bread line, and 100000 on the
lowest plane Of bare existence; establishes
code wages as low as Sill, SIP and $13 a
week when government reports index from
$S2 to $8S q week for family of five, as
the minimum Of health and decency.
Why not hurl little of their vitrolic
tohasco sauce of sarcasm at system that
acknowledges it has found no cure for pam
ic, destroying the life earnings of millions !;
forecloses 100000 farmers per year and
forces them into tenantry under absentee
landlordism; keeps millions Of loyal Amer
lean people underfed and UNDERGRAD when
we can produce food and clothing in abHn-
dance; destroys or refuses to put on the
market hundreds of valuable inventions
that would enrich the people; electrifies
only one farm in ten, when electricity is as
abundant as the air we breathe; deprives
millions Of the travel, the art and music
which the few now enjoy; leaves the wage
Garner and the farmer with but little pur-
chasing leverage; allows goods to pile W
at the tail end Of our factories, warehouses
and terminals that profit system can find
no way Of distributing into the homes Of
the people; enforceS artificial scarcity II
IN age Of plenty; places money ahead Of
the material welfare of the people; encour
ages every rackeeter, within and withou
the law, under the money urge, to continue
his nefarious money grabbing schemes; re
pudiates production for use and demand
production for profit; insists upon plannet
economy always to make mney, never TO
service; measures markets in terms of dol
lars, not human needs; favors the compe
titive rather than the cooperative system
earrays segment of society against segmen
Of society, bloc agains bloc and natio
againt nation in savage jungle system
depriveS two out Of every five Of the Amer
lean people from much needed medical al
tention; allows two-fifths of our schoC
and pre-school children to go undernou
ished, and ninety-five percent of all thos
IS years Of age or over to be without eC
onomic security; grants to 46 people in on
nation an income Of million dollars or OF
er per year and reduces millions to bar
existence; always places property interest
paramount to human interests; subsidize
threatens, buys, intinidates or characte,