-i THE PRODUCERS NEWS OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE Continuing the OUTLOOK PROMOTER FA 1*K J~OPLES. PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER Entered as Second Class Matter, October 18, 1912, at the Post office at Plentywood, Montana. Under the Act of March 3, 1879. Charles E. Taylor, Editor 0. A. Moe. Manager r Foreign Advertisin'? Representative ! THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Quack, fraudulent and ii responsible firms are not knowingly advertised, and we will take it as a favor if any reader will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the re •biiity of any firm which patronizes uur advertising columns. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1924 FARMERINE FALLS DOWN MISERABLY 'Last week's issue of Storkan 5 s Medical Journal contained a rehash of the fabrications told for two weeks before with many) charges left out, in fact the charges have now simmered down to almost nothing, but a lot of bunk about grafting without any thing to back it up. % The puny efforts of the Storkan Journal has been pitiful. It did its best and failed. The Plentywood gang thought surely when they got Editor Bowler of Scobey on the job, there surely would be some expose. He must surely know something that would throw a monkey wrench into the machinery of the Pro ducers News and its editor and manager. * Then with the addition of Popbottle Jack, everything seemed lovely, the Producers News and its supporters were going to be blown clear out of the lake as Jack had told them he sure had the real goods on the Senator and his friends. Storkan, Zeidler, Lang and Rue and a few others of the old gang who are looking for some fat contracts if they can put the Producers News out of business, could be seen joyfully scan ning the horizon and talking earnestly together at • almost any time during the day on the streets of Plentywood. They» could already feel the simoleons flowing into their pockets as-the results of their good management in securing the Farmerine and having f ramed up an expose on Taylor and Moe, who they erroneously think are the cause of all their misfortune in not being able to make large sums from the county each month of the year. But, oh how futile has been their efforts, a few measly dollars has been the best they could trump up. Just think of it, leaders, Taylor has been here six years and the best they can trump up against him is that he and the Producers News has! grafted the county out of an amount that has now simmered down to about $45. When one thinks of $240,000 in the Sheridan County State Bank lost because of the old gang tactics, of the 87,000 Joe Dolin had to kick back with at one crack, of the $7,500 Hex Movius paid back to Treasurer Olson, when the officails were hot on his trail, of the thousands of dollars that Link filched from the county in extra mileage at 15 cents a mile, of the thousands and thousands of dollars lost through the seed grain deal and the, amount of foul seed that was sown over Sheridan county through the machinations of the Beisekers, and hundreds of other like grafts could be mentioned, it is to laugh at the puny, assinine ef forts of this gang of grafters to hang something onto the Produc ers News, even to the amount of a few dollars. The expose has been a great thing for the people of Sheri dan county. No one doubts but that the old gang went its best. It proves to the world that the present administration with a few exceptions is running the county better than ever, reducing the indebtedness and showing that the affairs of the county can be run without graft. How would it be if these poor bench warmers, whose busi nesses are dwindling day because of against the farmers administration and the farmers naner had control of things? 1 P ' One could without much stretch of imagination see a Ford son tractor on every cross road hauling some sort of a road im plement and Ray Lang paying careful tab as to the number that were on the job; one could see fine steel bridges built at enormous costs gomof over every little creek and Leo Zeidler putting in bids to the county commissioners at fabulous figures and receiving the contract for furnishing the material. We could see Len Rue as he sits in a chiar in the Commissioners room telling them how he could furnish carloads oi lumber at such and such a price—a price * that would make a pirate blush with shame. We could see Storkan a raising the price for the County Health Office and County Poor Doctor per month and then trying to scheme to get both jobs, and thousands and thousands of miles at 25 cents per miles would be . nothing. a soon Even some of their ■■ A paper no more than an individual can live by hate alone, without at least some vestige of truth to give it a reason for liv ing. The Farmerine lives on hate it pages are filled with it and its hate is so apparent that it does not even try to cloak its lies ! with a semblance of truth. In its insane tirades against the Pro ducers News, it forgets even to publish the new^s of the w^eek,i thereby becoming merely a scandal rag of which the readers are! already becoming disgusted. The Producers New^s is here to stay, it has been vindicated by the Farmerine itself and the taxpayers are rejoicing over the fact that their friend has'again emerged triumphant skulduggery of these Plentywood bench warmers. Wouldn't it be great? The county is getting dowm to basis where it has a little cash and wouldn't these boys have time if they could get their hands into the county treasury. But the dream is too good to be true. These birds will wake up and find they have had a night mare, half-hearted friends are getting digusted with their efforts to prove something and a failure is not looked upon favorably in this day and Tige. some THE SCOBEY LIGHT FINGERED ARTIST in last week's issue of the Scobey Sentinel, Burley Howler, the Storkan tool of the Farmerine and the pen pusher for the Bennett-Stevens gang of Scobey says he isn't afraid to come into Plentywood in the day time and he is a straight-forward young man and isn t afraid to tell the world where he stands. . We do not have any idea that Burley can get very far with his smoke screen. His methods of living are too well known. His' midnight haunts are common talk with the general public, either in Plentywood, Scobey or Antelope, where he has spent the ,tW H You may kid yourself, Burley, that nobody knows much! about your gambling proclivities, and-your love for a life that contains no work, but you can't kid the public. Burler, the howler, thinks that no one knows he is writing the slush appearing in the medical journal down the street. Of course he is right out in the open, but no one sees his name ap pearing on the mast head of the editorial page containing a lot of meandering of a diseased mind—a mind gone sick from losing the easy money filched from the Scobey Sentinel. But Burley's prestige with the people is gone. He's a double crosser and he knows it. His friends know it and "Once a double Grosser, always a double crosser," is an old sayin« When a man can jump from one side of a vital issue to other side with the ease and speed with which the Stork™ tonl has showed he is capable of thrSr^làte fo^ of such an acrobat and Burley proved that which manv havp «-riri before of him: that he could not be trusted, his eye is too'shifty, What greater condemnation can be heaned unon a the fact that he is looked upon as having no honor, both byUs over the supposed friends and the general public. The pen pusher at Scobey can howl about Taylor, Moe and the rest of the Progressives of Sheridan county in the Faiinerine, but he can not point out one single instance when they have be trayed the trust the people have placed in them, and when people read the slimy articles in regard to these people in the Storkan Journal, in comparison with whom, Burley Bowler sinks into the deepest mire, they read it with disgust and loathing for the snake who dares not tell the world who he is. BURLEY APOLOGIZES FOR JUDGES AND GAMBLERS Strokan's Farmerine, which is peddling the "bunk ten by the famous "Knight of the Green Table," who it is report ed, has made peace with all crooks and grafters in Daniels coun ty, is now apologizing for Comer, Judge Borton and all the other so-called enemies of his at the time he was editor of the Scobey Sentinel. He is using the space, ink and paper of the Farmerine I to do this with. -We wonder if he will not also use the Farmerine with which to apologize for himself. If so, we would advise Sen. March to give him a cut-rate price on the space as he will need acres of it. writ aTTFMPT td ï7ni?nr QAVïmcc } MT a & »wc A1 ™ ..V FO *^ ZINGS INTO BANKS „ , , lhe att ® n 1 tl0 . n RE™ 6 read ers ot the Producers jailed to an article mtthis issue of the paper in which it states that r ° st ^a st er General New m conjunction with Secretary of Treas 1 y MelIon n . s ordered all pystoffices in the Northwestern States to ceas ^ selling treasury saving certificates. - . lais a jnove to torce the savings of the working man m . the banks > where he takes the risk of losing his hard-earned sayings of many years or it leaves him other alternatives such * n a sock at kome > where it also has dangers of being es • me 01 "?. .. .a , . ^^V 8 18 a vei ^ hi as tic action and plainly shows the direct leaning °ui government toward aiding the capitalist class at the ex Pense of the haid-working people of the country, . , feen ' 1 a ^ J 1 , anct a associates endeavored to get bank * avv s passed mat would insure the safety of the depositors' ™ 01 l ey a . tae ty-o session of the Legislature at Helena, but the i Banking interests of the State fought it and through such tools as ^. en * Lieemng, who has now been arrested for perjury in con section with a bank, prevented any legislation which would make l } sa . .,P U \ m P ne y ui a banking institution with the hope of rtrawm I 1 ou , e capitalists at the head of the United States Govern h°wj ver ' pay little heed to the banking laws of the State ana "tt le they care whether the hard-working man loses his httie nest f ^ these mea ^"O conti ol the financial end of the govern me l nt have so much faith in the banks and wanted to help them out '. why did th 4 ey not J let tke Postoffices continue to sell treasury ! saving .certificates. and as the money came in loan it out to the ! )anks dl8 f 11CL . ^ lom whehce it , .' n ?' government is taking no chances ! | eaBier to force the poor working man to take all the chances 1 'V - als JJ® a £ ei earnings while these officials sit in their nice soft C 5 a i£ s tt •i'Üf'Sï 0 ? 8 b° n ] es aR j pra * e abou ^ the great democracy , v, e .i ni tjd States and wonder why anyone should become i bolshevik, Communist, or Radical. , ft ^ time the working man—the wage slave—woke up and )e ^ an to investigate a little on his own account. Every time he tuins around he is the goa£. The moment he gets a dollar, a bands are there to grab it and the stage is set for him News is US came. It is so a lon ° )G rf,? le acquires the simoleon. , . , ^ le °! things is so rotten that it stinks to the R1 ^ Ï " eavens * The political gangsters have been shown up in the P asa w ® eks as never before, although the graft no doubt has be ® n Y aere ^ or y ears an d years and unsuspecting public has been 1 ollowlI ,$ a >ong like a band of sheep, vu T *'ap^-Wr party in the field and with men u La * ollett ® at the heild > the common people once more will | nave . an opportunity to free themselves from the clutches of the Parasites who are slowly strangling the government, and -^ 1 ti! 1Rdlca V J ° nS • people are doin ^ i ust thi s very thing and : Wlth the Vu° ? d pai 'Vj s ^ aspm ^ tor breath from exposure after exposlu ' e > th e farmer-labor paity goes steadily on gaining strength Wlth greater rapidlt y every day. WHY DAUGHERTY STICKS /'From the Daily Worker, Chicago" Time brings many changes and we fine! now staid and con servative senators making exactly the same charges against At torney-General Daugherty that the Communists and other work ing class elements made many months ago. # Senator Robinson on the floor' of the senate, has accused Daugherty of sticking in office in order to use the machinery of department of justice, under the efficient management of William J. Burns, for protecting the oil crooks and hampering and terrorizing those senators who are demanding a showri-down. No intelligent person reading the news stories of Daugherty's antics can come to any other conclusion than that reached by the Ar kansas senator. There is more than oil graft involved in the attitude of the attorney-general. The real danger t.. him and his backers is 111 tke . resolution calling for an investigation of private detective agencies, introduced by Senator Wheeler of Montana, With Daugherty out of office a change would doubtless be ma de in the executive of the bureau of investigation, the post no > v keld by William J. Burns, and w^e know just enough about tbis labor-baiter to feel reasonably certain that once the records of the bureau of investigation and of the department of justice meet the light of day a sensation will result that will drive the Teapot Dome scandal off the front page of America, every newspaper in depai *^ mea t of justice has been at the disposal of every labor-hating corporation before and since Daugherty took office. William J. Burns operates the largest private detective a *' e " cy f t. h ? t -™ 1 « 1 States; it is today an auxiliary of the de rf t^goveramenfthat ft ifimnossiblë'/i 0 ' ? ed i %vith +v> this win / f where the P rlvate 8 5 luTttTmMtSÄÄ?^ be « lns ' . J J its connection with the department of just ce'Jives Teml offi cial character. Its machinations prevented^ the imneach/lrt nnt ceedimrs hrontrht n-inwWfv 4 « iu u impeacn u m . ent pi ^ Ôu S 1v fons deréd It is uno^esüonaWe th^th 0 "® 6 eVel ' ïi! n f Se "n hp tr* cnilQ ôv, I ° \ - e ^\ a t the same methods will past,mainsInrfS threatened investigation if Daugherty ihe thrtatofouSc^s^re^Äft^f 1 * 6 -^ is to ?£ y u hol ï n | mo/ than onr^ve^n^ offi^l ooH fr Ï U ÎS over the * h ^.. of P ? 1 I ? ■ ™ e /I at th . e support of him thMPpubliän ^mrty l^a sSrt obtefned chairman of Tn .,11 t hl hiL pu pp^nk n fw^- by f f '' • f A «cal life the ferret^ m .irep L ^ Tlrp ri JvU bas been sniffing ' f u b iu C q 6 a^ aS app ? mted ; " e daikei incidents in the lives >ene -al ° Y supplement heroes are kniwn to the attorney * £ xta «v,« r u- M1 , ne P fbp^i-n nG i 'V 10 WI ! believe that he will hesitate to the knowledge that is his unless immunity is promised. thpLiHuJ.* Wheelei : ^solution if complied with, will wreck more fl • above all else, of the highest quality in every f. /J n Talcum PowofR Plentywood Dru^ «'Sr K - absence during the 27th. tendance and months \ver e pupils this woek - \u „■■■'• Jviin«< ' Reuben Nelson ^ a ace Wl 01 * Becker, Anna mA'p r! 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