The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
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Mud Guns Bark Again
So It's Skullduggery?
Furnished the Dope
His Ears Pinned Back
No Sofa Pillows


out filth ON the efforts of the farmers
to market their own grain co-opera-
lively were thought to be silenced.
From 1913 to 1928 they kept up a
steady barrage of villification. Then
came the Cease and Desist Order
of the Federal Trade Commission,
dated December 2S, 1925 in which
the offenders against law and decency
were commanded by the Federal gov
ernment's agency to quit peddling the
poison. The whole tole of this dis
graceful affair can be found in what
| is called Docket 694'' on sale by the
Government Printing Office at Wash
ington, d. c., for sc.
Now, nearly IS years after the Gov
eminent cracked down on the farm
ers libellers, the mud warfare gives
evidence of resuming. Here's a sam
pie: The Grain G. Feed Review"
founded in 1911 by ]. F. Fleming and
published monthly at Minneapolis, in
its issue for September carried an
editorial headed with Shotgun and
Blackjack That editorial attacked
the farmers terminal warehouses en-
joying governmental largesse" as be-
ing government-suckled enterprise"
and demands an lend to this skull |
duggery," which involves a charge of
violation of the Minnesota law gov
erning public warehouses. Nothing |
strange about that Back yonder be-
fore the cease and Desist Order"
came, they charged the farmer organ
izations with everything from may
hem to murder
There is a neat connection between
that murky past and the lowering
present. On page % of the Findings"
of the cease and Desist Order" there
is paragraph of interest in this
connection. 1t is quoted:
"The respondent John II. Adams
and John F. Fleming were at all of
said times residents of Minneapolis
and stockholders of the said Man
ager Publishing Co., and the said
Adams was editor of the "Co-opera-
tive Manager & Farmer" until Octo-
Der, 1916 when the said Flemming
succeeded him as editor. The pol
icy of the cooperative Manager &
Farmer during all of said time was
dominated and controlled by the
secretary of the respondent Cham
Der (of Commerce) who furnished
the data and material for a great
number of articles showing the pol
icy hereinafter described"
1t could not be possible that the
j. F. Flemming whose name now
adorns the masthead of the Grain &
Feed Review" as founder was the
same chap who had his ears pinned
back for printing libels of the farmers
and their cooperative marketing Or
ganization? Possibly, too, w. ID.
F'lemming who is listed as publisher
and c. M. Flemming whose name APP
pears as associate editor, are no rela-
ming whom, the Federal Trade Com
says wrote, between May,
1912, and May, 1914, "defamatory arti-
cles" and published them in his paper
against the farmer-owned cooperative
grain marketing organization. If this
were true, perhaps it would be well
for Messrs. W. d. and G. NJ. Flemming
to write in and get copy of that
Cease and Desist Order" because the
Order" in its final paragraph says:
1T is further ordered that the re-
spondents, the Chamber of Com
merce Manager Publishing !.
Co., John II. Adams and John r.
Flemming shall, within sixty (60) /,
days after the service upon them
of this order, file with the Commits .
sion a report in writing setting
forth in detail the manner and form
in which they have complied with
the order to cease and desist, here
tofore set forth"
You can't teach an old dog new |
ricks any more than Hercules could
op off the nine heads Of the mythical
lragon, Hydra, because new heads
prung in the place of the old-until
Hercules cauterized the severed necks.
That burned up" old Hydra and he
lied for lack of heads. The Hydra
reads of greed, of envy, of hate and
# fear will continue to reappear even
When Topped off by cease and De-
list Order" until the necks are touched
p bit with a hot iron and dis
outraged from renewing their ennis
cIs Ia
{ this northwest, who have only
AIRED to face the dragon and engage
4 marketing the product raised by i
heir own labor. The Flemming boys Il
ak of Shotgun and Blackjack" II
What were Adams and Fleming using II
s weapons against the farmers back
here in 1912 and 1916? They were
OF sofa pillows or flapjacks that they
sed on the heads of the farmers
t least not according to the Find
lgs" of the Federal Trade Commits
ion.
And, by the way, what has the pri-
ate grain trade done to help the
lrmer with increased storage space?
lave they helped by taking out of
ublic storage lot of space to make
private so as to force the grain
to sell at loss?
id not deny-the obvious fact that |
-itler's involvement with the Soviet
MON lessons his potential threat to
lie IT, S. 1t is also an admission