The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17

VerSaries even these Will finally |
be released from service. It is a |
professional suicide club. The
foregoing propaganda clubs are
national in prominence but Of no
local provincial chapters.
Far more insidious is the pro-
paganda of the dinner clubs, poly
anna societies, handshaldng, Shout
deu-slapping, star spangled ban
ner singing, once a week socie-
ties. The first of these to come
out was the Rotary international.
There was one part of its constl-
tuition that was never featured in
print but it should give every
workingman an idea Of political
designs. It is written in the con-
stitution of this society that
no wOrkingman may become a
member under any circumstances.
Naturally the membership of the
Rotary is much larger in Helena
than in Butte OF even in Great
Falls.
The Rotary with its propagan-
da got fine recognition from the
Masters of the Board. Large in
surance policies would go to its
members. Other business favOrs
would be shown them. It's roster
was quite exclusive. Rivals for the
crumbs from Divine table soon
sprang entered the field. The So
called NE TOO clubs began to
spring up. The Exchangeites, the
Kiwanians, the Lions soon came
to hold their weekly meetings,
propagandise for the interests
against farmers and workingmen
and get headline articles published
in the corporation owned press
of whatever any insurance agent
who bored them in his addresses
might say.
There is not q chamber of COM
merce in the United States from
the National Chamber of Com
merce down to one in Podunk that
, is not a business suicide club, with
its main purpose to destroy the
great source of the income of its
own members i. e. to lower wag-
es. and prevent shorter hours Of
labor and lower the price of farm
products.
J In the last two years big bust
ness control of politics by club
/ propaganda has entered both the
; Democratic and Republican par
ties. We have the young Demo-
Gratis club and the young Repub-
lican club. These are fed, finan-
ced, tutored and advertised by the
local Interests" Pretty soon the
young Democrats will hold a Jack
son Day supper in Butte. Their
program will be set by the Butte
Chamber of Commerce, the speak
ers will be Northern Pacific land
agents, insurance solicitors, stock
brokers, old guard politicians.
Some years ago l was on a
committee of the lawyers club,
the Bar Association to choose a
speaker to address our Annual
State Meeting. l suggested in
viting William E. Borah. / was
outvoted by Anaconda attorneys
who said Borah had voted in the
Senate to recognize Russia and
was therefore too radical. Such is
the method and trend Of the pol
itics of all the clubs. Il have for
gotten what runt we did have
make the address that year.)
Charles A. Beard, a member Of
the Brain Trust of Roosevelt is a
magnetic speaker, co-author with
Mary Beard of the most recent,
most learned, most readable, most
radical history of the United
States. No political or dinner club
ever invites him to address them,
Ten short weeks ago, H. E.
Barnes published a History of
Western civilization It is by
critics voted the most comprehen-
sive and learned disquisition Of
capitalism yet published. It is
already shaking the economic phil
osophy of the great universities in
both Europe and America. Ut is
in the Butte Public Library.
Barnes could not make the Pro
gram of speakers at the coming
dinner of the Young Democratic
Club, if he came at his own ex-
pense from the University of the
City of New York to address that
gathering.
Suicidal as are the tendencies
!. of these clubs when ons thinks of
their submerging snobbish atti-
tude toward farmers and working
men their, fear, sycophance, boot
licking of the masters Of the
bread is more deadly to their own
class. Everywhere the dinner
clubs are whining of high taxes.
It is a truism that the bourgeo-
este is being ruined by taxes. But
they as a class (there are many
Individual exceptions) allow with
out protaet, the master class TO