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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.
CHARLES E. TAYLOR, Manager
P. J. WALLACE, Editor
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928
THE PRIMARIES TUESDAY—
AND JUDGE PAUL
Next Tuesday, July 17th, is Primary Day in Mon
tana: the polls open at 12:00 o'clock, noon, and close
at 7:00 o'clock in the evening.
The time for voting is brief, so it behooves the voter
to get out early and do this little duty and have it
over with, so as not to forget it.
If the Primaries are to be maintained as an Ameri
can institution they must be used—otherwise they are
bound to be abolished in time.
The primaries afford every voter a chance to take
the ticket of the political party he is affiliated with,
and in the privacy of the booth, alone by himself, put
his X before the persons whom he wants to be nom
inated for the several offices on his party ticket. In
this country every citizen of voting age has a vote.
Whether he be rich or poor, wise or foolish, prominent
or unknown, he has a vote no more no less. The mass
choose the candidates and later elect the officers from
those nominated. The sort of men elected and the
kind of government secured depends upon the judgment
and intelligence of the voters.
If the voter is too indifferent to study political ques
tions and too lazy to go to the polls, he has no kick
coming if things are not run to suit him. So vote be
fore you find fault. It is the plain duty of every
citizen to vote—if he is a good citizen he will not
neglect this duty. Of course the primaries are party
elections, and if you do not happen to belong to a par
ty who has the privilege of the primary system, it may
be hard for you to use the primaries, but even then
it may be well to do the best one can with the parties
available.
In this district, every voter is interested in the nom
ination and election of the Judge of the district court.
The office of Judge is a very important one, and one
which the proper filling of is of very grave concern
to every voter in the district and the county. The
contest is on the republican ticket. It is there that
Judge Paul is running for the republican nomination.
So every voter who wants to see Judge Paul renomin
ated and re-elected must get out and vote the repub
lican ticket in order to see his wishes realized.
The Producers News has the same interest as every
voter in seeing the best man possible on the bench in
this district. We have no axe to grind, no favors to ask
of any man on the bench, but we do w T ant a man there
who has ability, and the comprehension of the respon
sibility of this very important office, who has
clination to give each and every one a square deal at
all times.
The citizens of this district have such a man in Judge
Paul. He has held thç office with dignity, and ad
ministered it with ability and fairness and efficiency
for the past four years, as is attested by the fact that
during this time only thirteen cases of the numerous
suits he has tried, has been appealed, and in eleven
of these cases he has been sustained unanimously by
the Supreme Court of the State of Montana, in
sustained partially, there being two defendants, and
as to one sustained and as to the other reversed only
because the case was not properly appealed, and in
one reversed.
This is a remarkable record, and proves Paul's know
ledge of the law and his careful decisions. The very
fewness of the appeals proves the satisfactoryness of
the other decisions.
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The personnel of the office of Judge is very seldom
changed, and when it is, it is usually for good and
Most people are satisfied in keep
ing a satisfactory Judge in office as long as he cares
to hold it, and are not prone to experiment with
of unknown character and ability.
Judge Paul has been tried and tested, and has "made
good" in office. He has judicial temperament, and is
pleasant and approachable. The office has not
sufficient reasons.
men
gone
to his head, a thing which happens to many men in the
office.
The Producers News believes that it is well to let
well enough alone—and it believes the great majority
of the voters feel the same way, and that Judge Paul
will be nominated and re-elected by a huge majority
come Tuesday, July 17th.
And the people of Sheridan county should have
piide enough to cast a solid vote for a Sheridan coun
ty man who has so signally made good in the office.
We all want to keep the judges chambers in Plenty
wood and Sheridan county.
Of course just that thing is going to happen—it is
going to be unanimous for Judge Paul—he will get
them all without regard to party or faction.
But don't forget to vote next Tuesday.' It is really
a very important duty.
NOT SHERIDAN COUNTY BUT SILVER
BOW
In scanning the political advertisements
appearing
in the Butte Miner, the copper city morning paper for
Sunday morning, the writer's eye caught this gem in
the ad of Jack Duggan, candidate for sheriff of Sil
ver Bow county, kin of Larry Duggan, former sheriff
of Silver Bow county for a couple of terms.
"I'm not in the habit of making many prom
ises but if I am elected I'll promise you one
thing: I'll clean this county of the gang of
porch-climbers and sneak-thieves, who are
waylaying miners, entering homes, stealing
automobiles, mooching, cracking safes and
sticking up pedestrians practically
night in this county right now and -getting
away with it."
Conditions are distressing over in Butte if
believe the inferences of this candidate in his prom
ises. When we read it we thot that we were reading
something some one had written for Dolin's
about conditions in Sheridan county,
some of the dope that ripples sixty-five or seventy
times a week thru the press of the Wave, and
surprised when we recalled we were reading the Butte
Miner.
every
we can
paper
It sounds like
we were
No, the conditions described above refer not to
ditions of Plentywood or Medicine Lake or Sheridan
< ounty, but of conditions in Butte.
We doubt if things are as bad as this tirade would
indicate, but no doubt they are bad enough. The social
conditions are bad everywhere. Crimes are committed
everywhere—there is murder and arson and robbery.
When one man wants to be elected to office
opponent who is in, he tries to make it appear that the
Ms county is the only county in the world where such
conditions exist, and he promises if he is put in office,
con
over an
When he is elect
these conditions will be eradicated,
ed crimes continue.
The newspapers are reeking with reports of crimes;
in Butte, in Great Falls, in Helena, in Miles City, and
in every city and community of any size in the na
tion or the world.
Crime is a problem for officers everywhere,
have our share in Sheridan county, 'but when they are
counted and catalogued, and a comparison made, it
will be disclosed that Sheridan county is about the
head of the least in reference to freedom from crime
A • low nnniitiac nf it* citizens
and in the law-abiding quahtie. of its c .
The election of one officer or the defeat of another,
will not alter people or change conditions that dispose
to crime Sheriffs and county attorneys and courts
h i „„„ vw.,™ zi«
will always have something to d .
So says W, A. Clark, Jr., as he throws down the
cauntlet of battle to the Anaconda. If Clark is a man
- , . *. Q v v aa +>1 _ cfomina for the ficht it
of determination and has the stamina for the fight it
will be a war to a finish—and the octopus will be tin -1
ished as far as its domination of the fair state of
Montana is concerned.
We know of no better use to which W, A. Clark, Jr.,
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the son of the old warrior, whom we hope ha. inherit
ed some of the spirit of his father, could devote his
time, and some of the money his father took from the
hill of the Treasure state, than to rescuing it from
We
IT MAY BE WAR OR IT MAY BE A
BATTLE
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lt may be a war or it may be a battle.'
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A1 Smith wears suspenders and long underwear,
while Hoover indulges in B V D's and belt," says
while Hoover indulges in b. l» s ana D ^' J dy
headline. This may help many people in making a
choice between them—that is about the only difference.
the coils of the Anaconda.
Success to your sword, Lucius Brutus.
I The Story of the Promotion of !:
r Brotherhood Banking
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By John Gabriel Soltis
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We come now to the birth, organization and promo
tion of the Pacific Brotherhood Investment Company 01
Seattle, Washington, and the legal foundation of its
superstructure
The two wizards at Cleveland, Ohio, George T. Webb
, „ . " " . , . . , 6 , , ,.
and H. A. Paddock having assembled their trusted lieu-1
tenants and former associates assigned them for inc
territory of the Pacific Slope there to commence oper
ations in the world of finance, on the assumption that
labor suffered from a dearth of banks Thev rushea
labor suffered from a dearth of banics. iney rusnea
forthwith to fill the void, altho the economic condition
of the working class, we are informed on good author
ity, has not improved any as a result of these labor
banks, either individually or in the mass. On the con-1
trary, the situation is just the opposite.
The very first thing required to operate
banks and bond companies, is, of course, charters and
articles of incorporation. Therefore, the first step on
the part of Webb, Paddock Cass, Merrick and Company
was to get such articles incorporated.
A DELAWARE CORPORATION
(Continued from last week)
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE PACIFIC BROTHER
HOOD INVESTMENT COMPANY
labor 1
It is to be noted that the Pacific Brotherhood In
vestment Company, is a Delaware corporation, and not
a Washington one. This fact is extremely significant
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to those who know the reason why people go to Del
aware to form corporations.
Every American schol boy of average intelligence
knows that the state of Delaware is a breeder of leaky
articles of incorporation; that scores of fakes have
been incorporated there. It is a state where the swind
lers find legal umbrage for their rackets. It is the
Mecca of the dishonest promotor, where they gather to I
shear the bleating lambs. Mr. Geo. T. Webb and Mr
H. A. Paddock the two master minds at Cleveland who
know the legal meaning of the State of Delaware with
regard to articles of incorporation, made the Pacific j
Brotherhood Investment Company a Delaware Corpora-1
tion. It was incorporated in the state of Delaware
the twenty-fifth day of April 1924.
~ It is also of considerable moment to know that no-1
body on the Pacific Coast had anything to do with the
drafting of the articles of incorporation. Mr. Paddock 1
as wholly in
competent to draft legal papers such as the ones un
der consideration. Therefore, Paddock attended to this
all-important phase of the work himself directlv from
Cleveland. * I
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may regard the B. L. of E. as qualified to run engines
but its membership on the Pacific coast
It is true that Mr. Paddock was not on the scene in
person; that was not necessary,
clttfs on the jub. It was formed by Cass, Merrick
Company. They knew how to
orders from Cleveland and they did.
Mr. H. A. Merrick transacted all the business aper
taining to the articles of incorporation. He was in tel
ephonic communication with Mr. Paddock at Cleveland
during the formative period of the Pacific Brotherhood
Investment Company.
When the articles of incorporation arrived at Spo
kane they bore the pencil notations of Mr. H. A. Pad
dock on their margins. Very likely those were the in
dications to the keys contained in them that would un
lock the golden treasure at a given moment.
Naturally, a few representatives of the B. L. of E.
engineers were permitted to gaze upon the wondrous
words of wisdom sealed in the document; however, to
them it was all a Chinese puzzle. Furthermore why
should they bother about such matters
guiding stai of the B. L. of E. o .„
primature to the enterprise namely,
B. Stone? Yes indeed.
But wbzt the good brothers quite forgot was the
A'h? , n ° 0ne P® 15011 is infallible. Moreover, it
no difficult task for Webb and Paddock
old man whose senility favored their
their plans.
Finally, it is well to note that the Brotherhood
to rLmT 8 "- ° f CleVeland is an Ohio corpora
tion Right here is a very cardinal contradiction. Why
me n ? C „mpl77 With ^ ^
The terms of the articles of incorporation
ÎL qUe + wv We PUbli8h them to toto ' as they were
filed with the secretary of state of the state of Wash
^ 1924 ' ° r J"* ei * h * »»nths
rfter O.err b.rth m the state of Delaware at the citJ
of Wilmington.
While the careful perusal of this document makes
rather dry reading it is of the utmost importance that
he reader do so in order to be able to recognize the
leaks m it as we pomt them out below. Here it is:
(Next Week Breaches in the Legal Wall)
He had efficient nu
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execute the master's
Had not the
given his official im
the late Warren
was
to organize the
projects to okay
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E>oonomio Articles
By Leland Olds, Federated Press
S. O. Dividends Break Record
Domination of the oil industry by
a f ew integrated companies is shown
in the production statistics of the
companies in 1926. The figures re
vea ] geven i eadin companies produc
together at the rate of 837,000
barrels a day, representing control of
more than a third of the daily pro
Iduction of crude oil of the country,
These great companies are producing
tens of millions of dollars in dividends
v/1 jle the rise in value of .heir ?e
curities is adding hundreds of millions
to the wealth of the financial over
lords.
These corporations are a power in
the oil industry not only ou account
of their control of production but to
an even greater extent through their
control of pipe lines, refineries and
marketing. Their pipe Imes handle
more ^ 4Q% Qf ^ c0Un try's to
tal outpu t 0 f petroleum while their
refineries are responsible for consid
erably more than 50% of the output
all the refineries in the country
I The seven companies witn a daily
p j pe u ne capacity of 1 , 015,000 barrels
an jj a daily refinery capacity of 1,
415,000 barrels are:
(OIL Crutie P.Line Refine
cap.
GIANTS
Shell
Sinclair
Output cap.
110,000 100,000 150,000
42,000 110,000 90,000
IS. O. of Calif 160,000 200,000 200,000
S. O. of Ind. 130,000 125,000 215,000
S. O. of N. J. 220,000 270,000 440,000
S. O. of N. Y. 100,000 200,000 200,000
T ex. Corp 75 000 100,000 120,000,
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837,000 1,015,000 1,415,000
High Life for the Few
Trips to Europe and the South Seas
for the wealthy and their hangers-on.
Foreign securities for their strong
boxes. With these America's ruling
class compensates for the excess of
exports over imports. This injustice
to producers
a report of the U. S. department of
commerce on foreign transactions of
the United States in 1927.
The report shows that the interna
tional business of the country in 1927
reached $18,236,000,000 but that only
$9,526,000,000 or a little more than
half of this was exchange of goods,
M leagt ? 6 > 0 00,00,000 of the remain
der involved the tribute paid by
American and foreign workers to the
international owning class. Another
$1,000,000,00« involved the expenditur
es of persons privileged to enjoy for
ei(Jn travel ,
j n 1927 the United States exported
$5,037,000,000 of the products of its
workers, grouped by the department
under the g gneral head of commodity
rtg Thig should have entitled
the wor k ers to receive in exchange
the same value in products of other
lands. But instead the imports of
commodities amounted to only $4,
Howl Freedom But Help Finance
Clearcut admission that the United
States is dominated by a capitalist
dictatorship characterizes the official
.utterances of the democratic party at
Houston. But it offers no escape
from this oppression except a vague
F y defined and impossible return. to
the days before modern industrial
ism blinks the lact that the pro
Less of governmental centralization
was speeded up by the 8 years of
Wilson democracy and that individu
prev^fyeareln
the country's history,
tion assault on the multimillionaire
oligarchy, with no program for ren
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The result of the wordy conven
people into believing they have a lib
eral alternative to the republicans
when in reality the democratic lead
ership is in many respects more reac
tionary than the official party of big
business which convened at Kansas
City
1 preamble of the declaration that is
made a mockery", said Bowers, the
.democratic keynoter, "for the bill of
rights that is ignored 1 for social and
economic justice which is refused;
etc., etc." ignoring what happened to
the biU of rights and }° , ecoI î om î c
I justice under the hand of Wilson s at
torney general, Mitchell Palmer.
"The little gilded group that now
owns and controls the government,''
he said, "can pour a golden stream
into the slush fund and make no im
pression on the fortunes they have
legislated into their coffers. It is a
tragic thing to find a government
mortgaged to a little group that could
be crowded into the directors rooms
of the Aluminum Co. of America."
This democratic keynoter attacked
the republicans for following Hamil
ton who believed in aristocracy 01
money, who wrote that governments
are strong in proportion as they are
profitable to the powerful, who pro
posed to bind the wealthy to the gov
ernment by making government a
source of revenue to the wealthy.
"The Hamiltonian state, Bowers
said, "is necessarily a temple of gold
resting on the bowed hacks of Peas
ants in other people' 3 fields. They
would defy dollars and minimize men,
limit self government and centralize
ower, cripple democracy, empower
and welcome plutocra
We stand for the spirit of the
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uraeaucracy
cy.
All this is eloquent and true. But
the trend toward the Hamiltonian
plutocratic state was just as marked
of democratic
our ears when
during the 8 years
rule. So we prick up
he continues; "We wage no war on
big business if it be honest business;
we find no fault with fortunes, how
ever large, provided they . f o-nv
cumulated through themisu g v
ernmental power." Which is all that
big business requires. -j K1
The platform makes «ne.der^l.
concessions to labor ana
The democratic party wants tte 5 -
000,000 votes that went to LaFol
lette in 1924. But its most definite
offer to the farmers is ° ay '
nest endeavor to solve t ..
of d rtnbntion of th '" a,« f marked
le a fd S th"campaign
the attention of the pe»P le are more
It was through control of distribu
tion rather than crude production
that Rockefeller and Jus associates
built up the Standard Oil trust which
still continues the controlling factor
in the industry in spite of its appar
ent dissolution under the Sherman
Act. This is reflected in the 440,000
barrels a day refinery capacity of
Standard of New Jersey. Standard
of New Jersey has assets totaling
$1,541,000,000 of which about $1,200, •
000,000 are in the United States. It
represents about 10% of the $11,000,
000,000 investment in the domestic oil
industry,
Between the low point reached ear
i y j n 1928 and the end of April the
market value of Standard Oil of New
Jersey common stock increased $233,
343 275. In the same period the mar
ket value of the four Standard Oils
shown in the table increased $620,
996,014. This gain in wealth for the
Standard Oil owners reflected the
confidence of the investin* class that
the oil magnates had a workable
p i an f or throttling down crude pro
duction to the point where consumers
would be forced to pay more profit
able prices than prevailed last year.
This confidence is also reflected in
Standard Oil dividends for the second
quarter of the year which exceeded
. those of any other second quarter on
' record. Amounting to $55,832,760 they
1 have been exceeded only twice in any
quarter in Standard Oil history. So
far this year Standard Oil owners
have received cash dividends totaling
$104,695,938.
489,000,000 leaving a balance of $548,
000,000 to be made good in other
ways.
This $548,000,000 excess of exports
over imports is called a favorablebal
of trade. But it is favorale only
ance
to the privileged owning
well paid retainers. To the workers
and farmers who produce the goods it
is an unfavorale balance because it
means that they get less goods in re
turn for what they produce,
An important feature of the report
is the magnitude of investments in
the United States by foreigners dur
ing 1927. In a single year foreign
investors purchased nearly one billion
dollars of American securities. For
eigners are also collecting $271,000,
000 a year in ineoine on tte Ameri
can securities they already hold,
Such figures show the intemation .
al character of the owning class. The
wealthy exploiters in the ' United
States, England, Holland, Germany,
France and other capitalist nations
are all skinning the workers not only
of their own but also of foreign lands.
All are living in luxury on the pro
ducts of the wrokers throughout the
world.
likely to come from such sources as
Raskob with his antiunien General
Motors ana duPont connections th/.n
from organized labor.
Perhaps the most concise picture of
the democratic confusion appears in
a single paragraph in the preamble.
It says: "We hold that government
must function not to centralize our
wealth but to preserve equal oppor
tunity so that all may share in our
priceless resources, and not confine
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T-bearing crank
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BoadaiTle and Lav®»
jay shock abeorb
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mounting)
Torsional vflwatk®
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prosperity to a favored few. We,
therefore pledge the democratic party j
to encourage business, small and great
alike, to conserve human happiness
and liberty to break the shakles of
monopoly and free business of the
nation, to respond to popular will."
All this means npthing in the tidal
wave of economic centralization which
has been sweeping forward through
a generation, dominating republican
progressive and democratic adminis
trations alike.
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* Producers News Is Welcome
Dear Sir:
Enclosed find $3.00 for Producers
News.
The Producers News is very wel
come at our home, and we look for
it every week.
Yours truly
GEO. WUNDERLICH,
611 E. Gordon Ave.,
Spokane, Wn.
HAVRE COMPANY BUYS
CULBERTSON GARAGE
Culbertson.—The first of the week
H. Earl Clack Co. of Havre purchas
ed the interests of the Hudson-Essex
garage and at this time took pos
session through their local agent C.
H. Teeter. Auto repair work will be
continued as in the past, this part of
the work being in charge of Bert
Soppe. We understand that the build
ing will be remodeled in many re
spects but just what the improve
ments will be we have not at this
time, been informed.—Searchlight.
JEALOUS LIONS ATTACK THEIR
TRAINER
Syracuse, N. Y.—Seven veteran li
ons of Spark's circus became jealous
when a new lion was brought into
the act. They started fighting and
John Guilfoyle, trainer, in trying to
rescue the new lion was bitten and
severely clawed and is in a precarious
condition. Harriet Guilfoyle, leopard
There's no danger
of running out of ice
if your
electric refrigerator is a
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trainer was the first to
cage to help her husband Jv!- 016
pçcted to recover. Ther P no 18 ex '
1,000 spectators and a n! .ni Were 0Ve r
rowly aveted. P lc Was n ar
Montana Southwestern 'Rap—,
build 50 mile line
county mines.
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WHOLESOME
MEATS
FOR
BETTER MEALS!
Good meat Is the foundation of
every meal. Every housewi«
knows how impossible it is to
plan a meal without it At
Forman's Meat Market you re
ceive only the finest cuts—at
the most economical prices.
Our meats are received fresh
daily—and kept in modem re
frigerators — thereby assuring
you the best at all times.
Try us once and be convinced.
Forman's
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FRED FORMAN, Prop.
Phone 17
Plentywood