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

Ter IL by the barreIful to nations
who had no power nor intention
to repay it. Having made no
foolish loans they are not as I'M
popular as we are in the family
of European Nations. They fig
ure closer than any other people
and are more venturesome than
any other that succeed in their
enterprises: For instance, they
are retaining by dyking about
a half million acres from the bot
tom of the Zuyder Zee. The land
will be worth two hundred million
dollars. It is costing 100 million
dollars to reclaim it.
While nominally a kingdom
since the fall Of Napoleon, in
most respects, the o-called king
dom of the Netherlands answers
to the will of the people better
than our government. The lang
uage is closer akin to German
than to English. The Area
Of the Kingdom of Holland is
slightly more than 100000 square
miles-four times the size Of
Germany, fifty times that of
Switzerland. Therein is much of
the most productive soil known.
The island of Java, one third as
large as Montana, supports A.
100000 people. In 1880 there were
68,OOO,O00 people, exclusive of
Con Kelley, who gave allegiance
to Wilhelmina. Java's exports Of [
sugar are second in size. Java
leaves the European sugar mar
ket to Cuba. Cuba leaves the
Oriental sugar market alone. The
Dutch control Cuban sugar.
There is no Dutch trade agree
ment in Montana about petrol
with the Standard Oil or any To-
cal producer. The Shell Oil Com
pany, with filling stations in
every hamlet in Montana, is a
subsidiary of the Royal Dutch
Shell Oil Company. Probably
Shell gasoline is retailed in Shell
by, Cut Bank or Conrad within
sight Of our local wells. The
Dutch are not newcomers here.
The internal growth of popula-
ton in Dutch lands since the
Great War is one Of the best
arguments for peace. Batavia in
Java increased 70 per cent in ten
years to a population of $4,000. |
Other large cities in the Dutch
East Indies showed increase in
the decade of from SO to 76 per
cent.
What may we expect Of our
new masters. |
For my own part, / think that
as long as Montana people lacl |
the superiority complex or man
hood to rule themselves, rule by
the Dutch will be no worse thar
rule by the Morgans or Rockfel
lers' There is a funny methoc
at Washington. In Java the
Dutch must feed their own help.
less poems. In Montana, Wash.
ington supplies relief to keer
alive many servants of the Dutch.
Inc Dutch may cut some useless
expense. In progressing their
pIans' one strangers guess is
about as good as another. Per
haps they will eliminate nine
newspapers that have run behind
Tor years. This service can be
substituted by bulletins posted
daily on Shell Oil Stations. The
AIM. Lobby may be Quit claim
ed this winter in Helena to the
Montana Power Company or the
Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany. The recent slight rise in
miners I. wages without a labor
light looks more like prudence
from Amsterdam than sulIen
yielding from Wall Street 70 the
demands Of labor.
With Dutch control, it is not 70
be expected that any idiotic move
Will be. made like trying to neg
the price of copper at 19 cents
The pound for which Con raceivad /
a medal from Hoover. The new
masters are students of world
powerful ENOUGH -
unit production by International
trade agreements.
It is hard "to beat the Dutch y
as Landon and the Liberty To-
que would testify if thew we've Isr
alive to tell it. very