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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. an in (-ne 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., , , _,__ , „ • v •+ 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 a lt may be a war or it may be a battle.' _ 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 I * 1 . j By John Gabriel Soltis X 117 * a 1 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 j 4 -V. vi v . . 1 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 on 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 ani execute the master's Had not the given his official im the late Warren was to organize the projects to okay In answer ;■ I i 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, K ' _J_ _I [ Total 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 ÄTTM" Ä 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 6 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 THE WORLD HAS A NEW AND FINER MOTOR CAR * U The New s TUT If Series IS \ f « Other Important features 0k other tar has ail ihem Salon Bodies ADVANCED six models Twin Ignition motor BAirCrafttypMpatk plug» • High compression ifo to» tt Bohnalite alumi pistons (/»• miles per hour num vor Struts) T-bearing crank ■baft ( hoOou> crank pin») BoadaiTle and Lav®» jay shock abeorb (exclusive A ask mounting) Torsional vflwatk® damper Hew double drop frame Htjur oentrall**d ebassis Inbrk» SPECIAL SIX MODELS to ( Til miles per boor ■ * — 11 ' Exterior 1 •faromc STANDARD SIX MODELS Short turning nufius World's easiest steering pfcn -Nashbggp* 1 65-70 Ottos miles per boar The Farmer's Garage M. E. HILL, Prop. 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. w &d * 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 FRIGIDAIRE I s MONTANA-DAKOTA POWER CO Williston, N. D. if IN rk ær» l * PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS 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. ■»j ay to Beaverhead to *v I 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 i FRED FORMAN, Prop. Phone 17 Plentywood