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THE PRODUCERS NEWS
Paper of the people, By the People, For the People
By the Peoples Publishing Company, Publishers.
CONTINUING—The Outlook Promoter, The Outlook
Optomist, The Dooley Sun, the Antelope Independent,
The Sheridan County News, The Pioneer Press and the
Sheridan County Farmer.
CHARLLES E. TAYLOR, Manager
P. J. WALLACE, Editor
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928
SMITH, REED AND WALSH
A few weeks ago we gave our readers the "low
lown on Herbert Hoover, one of the republican can
didates for the presidency. We now turn to the other
party of capitalism—the Democratic wing.
Ihis year the Democrats have three leading candi*
dates now looking for the nomination. They are Gov
ernor Smith 'of New York, Senator Reed of Missouri
and Senator Walsh of Montana. All three are national
figures. They are outstanding men in their different
lines.
Governor Smith has been many times chief execu
tive of the greatest state in the union. Measured bj,
the yardstick of things as they are it must be conceded
that he has been a successful administrator—a man of
broad sympathy and independent thought,
iried to find the greatest common denominator in state
government and has given his people the advantage ol
a trained governmental mind. The people of his state
have appreciated this and have returned him to
A1 Smith, as he is affectionately
called, could well be perpetual Governor of New York,
if the presidential bee did not buzz too loudly in his
bonnet and if his urban admirers, longing for self
pression, did not fall victims to a consuming desire to
see him adorn the white house.
Senator Jim Reed from Missouri is another candi
He is by far the most
bidding for the presidential nomination.
President the people would know that somebody
in the chair of Washington and Lincoln. For Jim Reed
is the kind of man who was not hogtied by the
rupt Wilson machine during and after the
opposed the world court and the League of Nations
fiercely that the Wilson dynasty opposed his election
as Senator from Missouri.
because of the opposition of the international Bankers.
Jim Reed would be too independent a man in the White
House.
Then there is the Hon. Tom Walsh. We are all fa
miliar with the Teapot Dorn affair. The Standard Oil
wanted Doheny and Sinclair removed from the field of
competition for valuable government leases. And Tom
was put on the job backed by the publicity of the Oil
and Copper press. Thus Tom was made quite a hero
in the minds of the boobery. But there are some who
remember his Tory proclivities during the war; his
fatherhood of the Espionage Law; his General Leasing
act of 1920 under which the Oil interests looted the
public domain; his support of the World Court and oth
er Wall Street foreign policies and his lead in the fight
to give the valuable Flathead power sites to his straw
boss—the Montana Power Company.
There is an important difference between A1 and
Tom. A1 believes in setting up a state authority to
operate and develop the hydro-electric power sites of
New York state. Tom believes in giving the whole
thing to the Montana Power Company.
The democrats of Montana will have an opportunity
of deciding which man is the best and which policy is
the best, in May.
We will be there to help keep the Montana Power
Company and the representatives of the Standard Oil
neutral.
He has
power
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spectacular candidate
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Reed won't have a chance
SNAKE PROPAGANDA
Last week our readers received a copy of a publica
tion called "Labor" which is published in Washington,
D. C.
It contained an editorial which complained that the
Butte Miner did not publish the trash Wheeler is
giving out in Pennsylvania about the strike down
there.
Labor" professes to believe that the Clark
Copper interests are suppressing facts about our Junior
Senator.
But this so-called organ of Labor did not complain
about the Anaconda press. Why? Is "Labor" making
a united front with the Anaconda copper press to de
feat the progressive farmers and labor forces of the
state and help re-elect this stoolpigeon of the Anacon
da for another term in the United States Senate?
We await an answer to the following telegrams:
Keating,
Editor Labor,
Washington, D. C.
People of state want to know whether Wheel
er or agent of Anaconda Company paid you
for snake propaganda published in issue of
How many issues did you
send into state and why do you support can
didate of Montana Power against labor and
farmer organizations of state ? Let us know if
Editorial Committee of Brotherhoods approve
this snake propaganda favoring stoolpigeon of
Anaconda.
March 10 (stop)
Producers News.
N NIGHT LETTER
Robertson, President Locomotive Engineers,
Labor Building,
Washington, D. C.
Progressive Farmers and Labor Organiza
tions of state want to know whether Anaconda
Company paid for lauditory statements in
March 10 edition of Labor sent wholesale into
state. Wheeler opposed and regarded by La
bor and Farmers as stoolpigeon of Montana
Power and voted for giving away Flathead
sites to trust. If this snake propaganda con
tinues we will feel justified in publishing affi
davits in our possession showing looting of
Engineers Bank not yet brought to light and
will issue one hundred thousand copies.
Producers News.
Each member of the Board of Editorial Control
"Labor" received the following telegram:
"Several thousand copies of Labor praising
Wheeler stoolpigeon of Anaconda Copper and
Montana Power distributed in state (stop)
Advices from Butte indicate copper interests
pay for this propaganda (stop)
meeting of your board to investigate whether
your editor has received cash for these issues
from Anaconda Company and why he is sup
porting candidate who voted for World Court,
the giving of the Flathead Sites to the Mon
tana Power Company, and who has caused the
labor and farmer forces of the state to seek
new candidate to oppose him at next election
(stop) Wire when board meets so that we
may have opportunity to present facts show
ing why Wheeler was forced out of United
States District Attorneyship and why he has
forfeited support of progressive elements of
Montana.
Demand
NATIONAL DIRECTORY,
Progressive Farmers of America.
By P. J. Wallace, General Counsel.
The telegrams tell their story. We await the meet
In the mean
ing of the Editorial Board of "Labor",
time we are sharpening our swords for the battle.
We submitted the information that resulted in the
Locomotive Engineers partially cleaning out the loot
ers of the Labor Banks. We stand ready to finish the
job.
And we are also ready to clean the editorial rooms
of grafters who accept corporation gold and in the
guise of friends of labor help to rivet the chains on the
people they profess to save.
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JOE DOLIN'S "CLEAN-HOUSERS
Joe Dolih of Medicine Lake has decided to put a
county ticket up at the next primary. He says it will
be called a "Clean House" ticket, named presumably
after the odorous one of that name which appeared in
Roosevelt County some years ago.
Joe is a clean houser from away back. The people
of Sheridan County will appreciate the fact that he is
making a ticket for them.
Following Joe's editorial warning that he was going
to inflict his "Clean House" on an unsuspecting pub
lic there was a meeting held in Plentywood, we are
informed by the Tribune correspondent, who is believed
to be Lard S. Olson, the finger print expert who was _
such a "clean" Justice of the Peace.
The people of Plentywood rubbed their eyes when
informed by the Tribune that delegates from each
precinct were present at the Plentywood meeting and
that the democrats of our fair city asked leave to be
present and cooperate in the "Clean House" campaign.
He said that one democrat offered a check in three
figures.
There are two democrats in Plentywood.
names are J. J. Gunther and Gus Riba. Draw, if you
can, a mental picture of J. J. Gunther or Gus Riba ap
pearing unannounced and offering to contribute a check
of three figures to the "Clean House" campaign of
Joe Dolin and Lew Onstad.
Some irreverent souls say that there was no such
meeting as that reported in the Tribune at all. In
stead P. G. Anderson, L. S. Olson, Aage Larsen, Ed.
Iverson, Frank French, L. J. Onstad, Joe Dolin, C. S.
Nelson, Carl Peterson and a few more met a la the
Three Tailors of Tooley Street and called themselves
the republicans of the county. Carl Peterson was fav
ored for Clerk of the Court. Old L. J. Onstad had a
big lightning rod protruding from his person.
But the lightning seemed to go in the direction of
George Cudhie. Perhaps Lew's rod was grounded and
aged in wood and for that reason became a non-con
ductor.
But the world is not so harsh, Lew will have the en
dorsement of the "boys" he met with as candidate
against Judge McElroy, If Lew beats Judge McElroy
he will, at least, have the coveted title of "Judge" pre
fixed to his name.
And that's that.
Their
Elements of
Political Education
17. WHAT WAS THE CITY ECONOMIC SYSTEM
IN FEUDAL SOCIETY?
The most trustworthy data about the formation of
the mediaeval city explains the economic system of the
majority of cities as a result of the economic develop
ment of the fuedal domain or village communities (the
German cities). Being originally nothing but the
täte of a lord or peasant settlements, distinguished
from villages only by their fortifications,
(walled places, fortresses) soon became market places.
In the cities of the ancient world, the city inhabit
ant is at the same time a landowner carrying on agri
culture with the help of slaves or lessees; there is not
yet any division of labor between the city and the vil
lage. The mediaeval European cities which
the 8th century are separated before all by their
omic activity. The village produces raw materials and
food products, and the city engages in the working-up
of these raw materials and by means of trade begins
to attract from other countries whatever it cannot pro
duce itself. The peasants and burghers exchange their
products thru the medium of the city market,
trast with the ancient city which was predominantly a
consuming center, the mediaeval city do not live
slave labor or
es
the cities
arose in
econ
In con
on
the tribute of subject peoples as did
the Greek and Roman cities. They live, if they are
landlords, on the rent and compulsory labor of their
peasants; if they are artisans, on the product of their
handicraft work; if they are merchants by the
change of products, by the sale of them beyond
borders of the city,
on
ex
the
Thus, within the city there develop two classes
known to former societies—the class of independent
artisans, and the class of merchants. These classes
arise on the basis of exchange economy which is cap
able of development to a much greater degree than the
closed-in natural economy of the feudal domain. Less
dependence upon the landlord, from whom the artisan
has bought himself off by paying rent, and consequent
ly comparatively free labor, the growth of the special
ization of labor, the development of ways of communi
cation and commercial relations, the raising of the pro
ductivity of labor, as a result of technical improve
ments—all this made possible the enrichment of the
cities, the growth of the economic influence and power
of the two chief city classes—the artisans and the
merchants.
un
While the city in the course of several centuries de
veloped great economic and political strength, beyond
its borders, in the village localities, there was stagna
tion. There land ownership was the only form of pro
perty, and agriculture the chief and almost the sole
occupation. The land was the property of the land
lords and the church, and agricultural labor lay on the
shoulders of the peasants, bound to the soil, personally
not free, immovable, heavily oppressed and the com
plete opposite of the burgher—energetic, mobile freed
from the power of the lord, and therefore rapidly
quiring an exclusive influence over the path and de
velopment of the whole economic life.
Altho the city in the first centuries of its existence
was still not completely cut off from agriculture, it
firstly took on more intensive forms—special cultiva
tion, gardening, wine-making, and secondly, an inde
pendent, variegated, branch of labor-the handicrafts
was developing and quickly reached a flourishing state.
V 8 016 f nter of "'»«Wal activity, the
center of exchange, the market, the place
rlrrnlnf' 011 ^*** place develops. Th
circulation of money draws the village into the sphere
if oTnaT 1 * 6 ; m g P ° SSible the rapid ann üdlation in
L / a Ural eC ° n0my Wlth its limited possibilities for
the development of the productive forces.
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where the
An Alaska store is creating much talk by passing
out pennies in change, the first ever seen by many na
tives—who think they are nickles with an inferiority
complex. „
The King of Arabia is having a motor car built laree
enough to take his twenty wives with him
Think o fit; twenty back-seat drivers I
on tour.
Land of the FREE and home of the BRAVE
Admiral Magruder who was brave and now is free.
Ask
Chinese in China
By Scott Nearine Federated Press
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Foreign penetration of China has
been the theme of a ereat deal of re
cent comment. It is overdone. China
still Chinese.
How many foreigners are there in
China?
The Chinese Economic Journal esti
mates that in 1925 there were 336,841
foreigners in a population of about
45,000,000. That is 1 foreigner for
each 1300 Chinese. In the United
States in 1920 there was 1 foreigner
for each 7 nativeborn Americans. In
comparison with the United States,
foreign penetration of China has
scarcely begun.
To be sure, the number of foreign
ers in China is on the increase. In
1890 it was 8001; 13,421 in 1898; 144,
754 in 1129; 326,069 in 1920 and 336,
841 in 1925 but the chief increases
came before 1919. Since that year the
foreign population in China has been
almost at a standstill.
Who are these foreigners in Chifla?
Two-thirds of them were Japanese
(218,351 in 1925); a
Russians; 15,247 i
Americans; 3,739 Portuguese; 3,030
ermans; 2,596 French and 216 Span
ish. All Europeans combined made up
only about 1-10,000 of the total Chi
nese population. The Japanese are
meeting with sharp hostility because
of their evident imperialist aims, and
the number of Russians (mostly coun
ter revolutionary Russians) is rapidly
quarter were
British; 9,844
were
Pearl of Pacific is Profiteer s
Heaven
Leland Olds, Federated Press
Hawaii may be a land of floweis
and exotic pleasures for millionaire
tourists but it is also a province of
the American capitalist empire in
which exploitation of cheap labor pro
duces a golden flow of dividends. Ac
cording to a Honolulu dispatch to the
Wall Street Journal, 29 Hawaiian
companies, chiefly sugar and pineap
ples, paid 1927 dividends totaling
$17,700,243, a gain of nearly $3,000,
000 over 1926,
Compared with the great American
trusts the Hawaiian dividends do not
appear startling. But the entire pop
ulation of Hawaii is under 300,000,
about equal to the number of workers
on the Û. S. Steel-corporation Payroll
in 1926, The cash dividends of these
Hawaiian companies actually repre-.
sent about a sixth of the value of all
the products exported from the islands
annually and they provide a high re
turn on the capital invested in the
enterprises.
Honolulu Consolidated Oil leads
with cash dividends amounting to $2,
834,700, a return of 30% on the par
value of the stock,
account the 200% stock dividend
1922, the stockholders are actually
ceiving a 90% cash dividend.
If we take into
For
1926 it was 91%% and in 1925, 84%.
Capitalists Worry About Jobs
By Leland Olds, 'Federated Press
Has capitalism still the vitality
necessary to throw up new industries
for the workers displaced by the
chine process? Or will the solution
throws an interesting sidelight when
he says: "It is only lately that orga
nized labor and its leaders have been
converted from their traditional
en
ma
found, as in all senile systems, in
widespread public works at low wages
or in doles?
"The unemployment figures issued
by the American Federation of La
bor," says the Wall Street Journal,
"really mark an advance in mechanic
al power which will work to the ulti
mate benefit of the entire population.
Power is one of the first essentials of
industry. Producers will and must
use whatever power is cheapest,
whether man or mechanical.
"Progress of industry and employ
ment of labor at good wages are de
pendent upon mechanical power. This
has put some men out of employment,
temporarily at least. But it does not
mean permanent unemployment,
means progress, for ultimately
industries will take up the slack.
To this the owner of the journal,
C. W. Barron, adds his word: "Pro
gress is not by keeping the same in
dustries running at or near capacity.
Prepress is by the destruction of
industries and the creation of
ones. The buggy and wagon business
has gone as progress has brought in
the motor car. We substitute silks
for cotton, steel and cement for tim
ber and boards, ' moving pictures for
books, telegrams for letters, and in
all these is the progress of man.
"Invention and machinery simply
shift employment, and new arts and
industries are needful for reemploy
ÏD ent an d for the progress of man.
We should always remember that la
bor consumes more than 90% of what
labor produces. The problem is there
fore the reorganization of labor
that it may produce to satisfy, its
and our ever-increasing wants."
It all hinges on whether capitalist
progress can go on forever. If not,
the reorganization of labor so that it
may produce to satisfy its own ever
increasing wants, will eventually
mean something more drastic than
waiting for new industries to develop.
It will mean a reorganization of the
wage system.
Irving Fisher of Yale university
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diminishing ((144,413 in 1920 and <9,r
795 in 1925.) . . .,
Tsingtau furnishes an interesting u
lustration of the place of foreigners
in China. It was held by Germany
from 1898 to 1915 and by Japan from
1915 to 1922. It was therefore sub
ject to the full influence of foreign
control for a quarter of a century. In
1925 there were in Tsingtau 284,73a
Chinese and 8,879 foreigners; 8,164
Japanese; 256 Russians, 173 Germans,
103 Americans, 21 French, 12 Kore
12 Dutch and 100 others from
ans,
various countries. The Japanese pop
ulation of Tsingtau has decreased one
third since 1922 when they lost their
monopoly. There are only about 600
Europeans and Americans in this pop
ulation of more than a quarter of a
million.
Hongkong is a part of the British
Empire. It was stolen from China in
1842 and has been held by Great Brit
ain for more than 80 years. Among
its 623,224 inhabitants there are 610,
368 Chinese, 8,359 Europeans and 4,
497 other foreigners.
These are coast cities—concessions
or foreign possessions. In an inland
province like Szechian, with it popula
tion of 55,000,000 Chinese, the total
number of foreigners, including Ja
panese would not crowd a single train
in the New York subway.
China is still Chinese. In a few of
the coast cities the foreigners make
up less than 1% of the population.
But in the interior of China foreigners
are almost as rare, in 1928, as Es
kimos in the United States
in Germany.
or negroes
Since 1920 the owners have received in
cash 470% on their investment.
Wawaiian Commercial Sugar, with
cash dividends totaling $1,500,000,
gave stockholders a return of 15%.
Bewer & Co. paid its owners $1,120,
000 or 51% on their investment while
American Factors paid its stockhold
ers $1,300,000 or about 22%.
gether 12 Hawaiian corporations paid
cash dividends in 1927 of more than
20% on the actual investment.
A study of the board of directors of
26 of the 29 Hawaiian companies in
the Wall Street Journal tabulation re
veals extraordinary centralization of
control over the economic life of the
islands. The Atherton family holds 11
directorships in 10 companies and the
Cooke family holds 16 directorships in
13 of these companies.
Control of the island appears to
radiate from 3 concerns. Alexander
& Baldwin has 28 directorships in 17
of the companies; American Factors
has 30 directorships in 15 companies
and Bewer & Co. 31 directors in 12
companies. To cap the pyramid, rep
resentatives of Aleaxnder & Baldwin
sit on the boards of both American
Factors and Bewer & Co. The con
trol of this group reaches every cor
poration in the journal's list includ
ing railroads, utilities and navigation,
as well as sugar, pineapples and oil.
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