The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 16, 1918, Page 8

re x 4 = the- legislative assembly. shall have | BISMARCK DAILY TRIB eae Doyle Bares Hidden . Meaning of League Movement in Address (Continued from Page Four) on which the candidates of the non- partisan league were elected to office two_years ago, and is the platform of the people the state had a right to ex- pect would govern the actions of these candidates if elected. I have no doubt that most of the candidates themselves honestly believed they would be so governed. “In this platform, which was the; Republican platform of 1916, the vot- ers of the state were promised that | a normal school would be established in the Missouri Slope country, in com- pliance with the wishes of the people, as expressed at the polls and by two] previous legislative assemblies. This | promise was not kept. Likewise as to the establishment of a terminal el-| evator. The present administration | was also elected on the promise that there would be submitted to the peo- ple a constitutional amendment pro viding for state-owned flour mills in| connection with terminal elevators. This promise was not kept. A com ! pulsory hail insurance law was also promised but not given, and so on down the line. Messrs. Townley, Lemke, LeSeuer, and the other gentie-! men of socialist faith, who controlled the members of that legislative as-/| sembly and the state administration, | had an entirely different program than the one that was given to the public. They caused to be drawn and intro-) duced into the lower house a meas: ure known as House Bill 44, which| was in.reality a new constitution for the state of North Dakota. The con-) stitution itself provides a specific man, ner in which it may be amended, but! at no time in the history of this coun-| try has anyone claimed that a legis-) lative body, of its own volition, could convert itself into a constitutional | convention. But this is exactly what} the members of the 1917 legislatiive | assembly attempted todo. Every man elected to public office in this state} takes oath, to uphold the constitu-! tion of the state, and this oath. of; course, was taken by every member of that 1917 assembly. Disregard of Law By Legislative Body. “I contend that every member ofj the 1917 legislative assembly, who voted for House Bill 44 violated his! solemn oath of office, and I challenge} the members who so voted, or any man who urged them to so vote, to} contradict this statement and sulstan-| tiate the contradiction by facts and proof. It will probably be argued that these-men were simply sudmit- ting to the people of the state certain amendments to be voted upon. But this argument is entirely unsound, for the reason that a legislative assembly can not legally submit to the people for ratification a measure which is itself a violation of the fundamental law of the state. The federal) government. the state government and the local government go to a great deal of expense to maintain a depart- ment of justice. They employ judges, prosecuting attorneys, marshals, sheriffs. jurors and all the necessary united to make up the machinery of :he department of justice for the puroose of en- and nation, and for the further purpose of punishing those citi- zens who disregard the laws. Now, | DOYLE CHALLENGES STATE SOCIALI purpose is to exempt farm improve- ments, but no man can read the pro- posed amendment in House Bill 44, or the proposed amendment which is be-| ‘fore the people at this time, and ar- rive at any such conclusion ;to understand the purpose of political principles: The platform up-| measure ‘we will have to go back a! little and study its meaning. George was the father of the single His theory was that all) ised from the land; | that the land was the source of all! wealth, and, consequently ss of property taxed. there is a deeper meaning even tna this statement. real meaning of this proposed amend-} ment is that if land pays all ta: es will become so high as to|{ be confiscatory with the result that the land will be taken ove: getting back once more to the soc ist doctrine that no individual has any right to own land. “They tell you this is aimed at the speculator; that the farmers of ‘North Dakota improve the land and the spec- the benefit of mprovements and tax doctrine. taxes should be ra sequently the ay no taxes on the! This argument sounds quite plausible insofar other than farm land. SS an be done by taxing all! found? Why should the man with one hundred thousand in farm mortgages pay no tax, while the farmer who is trying to pay off the mortgage also It seems to me that motives the class of people on earth who should of a single tax is the| ' i pays all the tax? “The purpose of taaation is to raise money to run the govern- If we eliminote personal property from taxation we must correspondingly raise the levy on real property, as the money must come from somewiere. any man to claim that in order to realize the small percentage of land which is owned in this state by outside speculators it is neces- sary to eliminate personal prop- erty from taxation, seems to be too stupid for serious discussion. ' U. S. MARSHAL S. J. DOYLE ¢ Good Government Candidate for Governor Whe Opened Campaign at Carrington on Saturday night. North Dakota, that they may try to | plant state socialism ‘in full bloom ; With one stroke. tism is an experiment. pure and sim- | ple, even friends of the theory will [debt limit prescribed in this article, |provided such bonds are secured by upon real estate or jupon property of public utilities or |first mortgag That state social-1 “Under these provi: |note the state has Patriotism and Morality Not Wanted. ight to go into lure of democracy! This js merely a vague platitude and means nothing. | “AN avaiable authorities on the sit- uation in Russia at this time agree that provably a great many thougands of the poor people of Russia will starve this winter under this ‘full measure of Aemocracy,’ as doled out to them under the leadership of Len- |ine and Trotzky. The platform speak- ers of the league. who campaign the state this fall, will talk in glittering, | generalities about the m<asure of de- mocracy, big business and the Min- neapolis Chamber ot Commerce, but at.no time and in no place will they stand upon the platform and discuss with you the probable effect, their economics will have upon the future of this state. “Now, | wis hto call your atten- tion to’ another peculiarity of these exponents of democracy. As ' soon as anyone adversely criticis- es them, for any of their acts or failures, they ammediaiely de- | clare through their Gang Press, ‘he is attacking the farmers of North Dakota’ and ! have no doubt that the Fargo Courier-News will declare tomorrow that Doyle in his speech attacked the farmers of North Dakota. Ticy will know, of course, that this is not true. But one of the many peculiarities of this morning echo of Townley- ism is that the truth or falsity of what appears in its nows columns does not concern the writers in | the least. They have made this statement probably a hundred times regarding different men, and, in every instance they know the statement was, not true. “I am sure it must strike even the most ardent Nonpartisan league mem- iber as a little peculiar that this co- terie of socialist lawyers. socialist lecturers and soap box orators-should suddenly develop such an overwhelm- ing interest in saving the farmers of North Dakota. It is the claim of these are pleased to term ‘big business,’ and that the opposition is directed by sin- ister influences outside the state’ o congress is now working on sever- al “Idle Lands tax” by means of which to properly tax speculators’ land holdings. “Section 147 of the present consti- ‘tution reads as follows: | Il classes of business. jhas the right to not only issue its own jbonds but to guarantee the bonds of ‘any political subdivision in the state |that may desire to enter into any of commercial large percentage of commercial en- 1, even when operated by men whose money and business repu- tations are at stake. ‘sonably argued that this same class enterprises will be more secure; ion and direc- patriotism, integrity and morality on| perhaps some of the members present jthe part of every voter in a govern-pelieve this is true. But if you will) joross its front page, declaring: “Gat just study the situation yourself for! yay to Paris falls to the Germans ja few minutes there is no possibility | That headline sent a chill of dread of beleving that this assertion iS; nq appreheas ‘of every | Extend Appointing Power. Ament: by the people, being necessary ‘in order to insure the continuance of and happiness of the people, the legit lative assembly shall’‘make provision ! true. for ‘the establishment and mainten- “e of.a system of public schools ! hich shall be open to all children the state. of North Dakot: of the procosed con-)) to the election amends that county office: “ «provided. that the legislative as Can it be rea sembly may provide by law for the appointment of all officers named in of | wy is, | With thes¢ same candidates. The} =| when under the supery jon of whatever political party or| “What demand is there now, in thi state. or ever has been, to take the election of county officers out of the) hands of the electors of their own); countis and make the offices ive, without even stating who shall; have the appointive power? possible reason could these men have for desiring any such change in the tate constitution, unless to build Up and perpetuate a political machine? Safeguard School Funds “Section 165 of the present con- stitution reads as follows: “‘The legislative assembly shal! pass suitable laws for the safe-keep- ing, transfer and disbursem state’s school funds, and shi forcing the laws of the state {all officers charged with the same, the safe-keeping 0 mple bonds for all monies and funds ; And if any of the t to his own hall be irrevoc able without the cangent ofthe United and the people of North Da- i {faction may happen to be in power? j|: requirement. | Certainly no sane man will That being true, for the people of this state enact legislation that will make it! 0: ‘ i maney to be|made to amend the constitution by handled in this manner, without stint | omitting the following words: ‘A high jor check upon, those who happen to | degre: ‘ ‘be in power? | “Every man knows that it is much/eev sier to contract debts then to pay |insure the continuance of that govern- It will be an easy matter for |ment and the prosperity and happi |the state of North Dakota to issuejne: bonds and get into dedt, but remem-jrequirement shall be irrevocable with- Ic islout the consent of the United States lan easy matter for a farmer-to go tojand the people of North Dakota. gency and plac jthe right’to control. House Bill 44 an ‘el of intelligence,’ patriotism, in- voter being necesary in ordec tc ot the people.’ This’ legislative then what has occurred to change the ]| ber, there is always a pay day. jmen and these issues. First, their at- tempt to foist upon the peopje a pro- there,about this his farm—no trouve at all about | language that. could be distasteful to! f ip|any good citizen? és not in contracting delts but in]son could anyone have ‘for purpose} ‘ lomitting this language from | “The debt limit of the state of tion of, tle constitution © North Dakota at this time is $200,000.!pertaining to ‘the. educati a mortgage! all require | Upon or jan action of that kind. What possible rea- ithe attitutle of Mr. Townley and some! | ithe received by them. if the law-making body itself does zens, how can we expect the ordi- (¢ nary citizen to have any respect | deposit in his own name or otherwise for the law and order? | Dakota, or shall deposit in any bank, jor with any person or persons, or ex- ichange for other funds or lany portion of the school funds afore- | said, or purposely allow any portion of House Bill +4. “In reviewing House Bill 44. time does not permit a detailed discussion of all its provisions. I intend, how-; ever, to touch briefly some of its pro-| visions which it seems to me, if er acted into. law, would result in i jury to the citizens of this state; and ‘for the further reason that some of these same provisions are before the voters, for ratifications or rejection at Why Protect Railroads? . “Section 141 of the present constitution reads as follows railroad corporation shall consolidate its stock, property or franchise wit! ing a parallel or competing line; and | in no case shall any consolidation take | place except upon public notice, giv-| en at least sixty days, to all stock holders in such manner as may be pro: vided. by law. Any attempt to evad the provisions of this section by any wise shall work as a forfeiture to it charter.’ “This section of our present consti tution was entirely omitted in the pro- posed constittujon as presented in House Bill 44. Now, the question is, why? the attempt of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railway companies to merge their interests under the single corporation known as the Northern’ Securities Company. which corpora-) tion. was dissélved by the courts. Now, what possible reason could these men; have for eliminating entirely from the constitution of the state a provision solely for the purpose of regulating Tailroad corporations within the state ‘and protecting the people against con- Solidation and monopoly? Single Tax Cunningly Planned. » “Section 178 of our present constitu- -tion, relative to taxation is amended to read as follows: $ «“ “The legislative assembly may by Ja wexempt any of our classes of per-! Sonal property from taxation, and with ‘the meaning of this section all fix- tures, buildings or?improvements of ‘any character whatsoever upon land | hall be uniform in their operations:| “The property ofthe United States, | ‘and the state, dounty and municipal | ‘corporations. and property used ex- elusively for school. religious. ceme- tery, charitable or other public pur- | poses, shall be exempt from taxation. as restricted by this article, Sage of afi property for the purpose | fri dreasure we have the simon- “pre cae nee tax doctrine of “George, the doctrine that no of: should be taxed ex- Now the gentlemen who said officers shall conver not respect the law which is made (use in any manner or form, or shal for the direction of all the citi- /loan with or without interest, or shall han in the name of the state of North 1; We have struggled along fairly well|children. This, language declares that | jup to date, but the gentlemen who.a high degree of integrity and moral-| jare not in control of our pudlic afta lity ‘by their action in attempting to pass necessary on the part of the i Let us see if we can pos-; ly find a reason why these gentle- | would be opposed to ion in the tonstitution. tf only one possible reason. the bitter enemy of all tian religion; and the were in charge of thi: 1 removed all!s |limits to which we might go in y,|a8 getting into debt wi The only question iseemed to be not how much debt it! |was wise for the jbut how much our resources would al jlow us to contract. bill was up for di: se. men who were opposed these vary, principles are advocated | me limit|by the teachers of all modern Christi-| In reply to this jargument one of the member: State to contract, | Chri the same to remain in his own hands ninvested, except in the manner pre- law, every such act shall an embezzlement of jmuch of the aforesaid school funds as | jshall be thus taken or loaned or de- | posited or exchanged oe wienheld a + shall be a felony. Any failure to pay the, gaming election. {over, produce or account for th | school funds, or No | same, entrusted to an i ate | by law, required or demanded, shall! n| be. held and taken to be prima facie levidence of such embezzlements.’ “This entire section was omitted in| proposed constitution known as i Can anyone imagine | There is just oné great fund of the state of’ North bill,’ being in- | have omitted ion on the flor |these words because of the fact that it"ty the tederal government, he pull- And when th: in : ‘constitute anity. Perhaps their friends will claim |’ who fa-jthat this was not the reason, but if| age of House Bill 44,!not, will some of them please come ideclared that the blue sky was the'forward and give reasons? What Frazier’s Re-ele¢tion Means. i “These ‘questions are of vital inter- before the people of the state atjest to the people of North Dakota; ; should be studied carefully and part of the “In the proposed amendment which | disputed facts which, in the language election thy have jof.the courts, would convince him be: ared to face the people with a propo-;as thoroughly as sition quite so wid asking now to raise the debt iimi an yother railroad corporation own-'© They are; mits, that each voter may bave an in- telligent conception of the questions from two hundred thousand dollars to involved when he goes to the polls to twelve million dollars, which | think | all will agree is a fairly substantial | i The amendment provides for; |why ? ‘money owned b: a and that is the |tived from the sale of school lands and interest upon such money. was set aside for school r oses, by the framers of the constitu- s s ba'lot in November. “If a majority of the voters be- lieve that it is proper and right to remove from the public money -1 . tis state all safeguards whict. now surround it. they shoud vote for Governor Frazier, for re-election. And if they believe that it is proper for the farmers of this state to pass “laws which will make it possible in the future for any political faction or clique, which may happen to be tn power, to plunge the state into unlimited debt, then the proper way. to bring result is to wote for Fraizer’s re-election. not believe that a mzjority of the. North Dakota, who have spent the best: years of their Mives in securing mores for them- selves and their families, will jeo- the issuance of two million dollars in| | unsecured bonds, and ten million dol-' lars in bonds which may be secured ! {on real estate at half its value or on ireal personal property of state-owned! utilities enterprise and industries, at railroad corporation by lease or belpge i that not one dollar of it has ever been ‘lost and no portion of it, except the} \interest, can be used, therel Most people will remember /Uating to the children of this state, a continuous income poses, which insures to them educa | tional advantages that it would othe’ | wise be impossible for them to enjoy. “It is customary for bank: als or corporations, to alw: p p an indemnity bond whenever their business necessities the handling of trust funds, in fact, insofar as I am aware, this procedure is absolutely un- | And still, this coterie of sec- alist patriots, so zealous in the in- terests of the people of this want to amend the state constitution | in such manner as to withdraw every § possible safeguard from a great pub- lic. fund entrusted by the federal go ernment to the citizens of North Da- kota for the education of future gen- What possible reason could these people have for withdrawing these safeguards if they really had the welfare of this state and the cit- izens at heart? I cannot imagine any Possibly you can, and if you can I would be very glad tp be enlightened. Easy to Bond But Not to Pay Off “Section 4 of House Bill 44 reads not to exceed full value. |the public funds of the state certainly as. much care should be exercised as |in the handling of any private funds. ; Now. who ever heard of anyone loan ing money up to the full value of any ‘h, the full value; something which In handling} jassist his country in her struggle |whose heart is burning with fever to lagainst the theory that government ‘by brute force is the kind that shall | {prevail throughout the world and un-| enterprise is {Governor Frazier used this language: [I have been criticized for not/urging | (the farmers to buy Liberty Bonds. I \eannot urge them to bay Liberty ‘| Bonds beeause 1 don’t know whether stances may depreciate its value quite A State Bond a Mortgage. | “A state bond is notiixg more or! jless than a mortgage on the resource! ‘ate and the property of its and because some of the peo-, pl of this state onject to giving these} gentlemen a power of attorney to mort-| tempt to argue that some of these in an unlimited: provisions are not betore the people this fall and consequently not in is- Neither. were tuey before the poeple two years ago, yet they at- ‘orth Dakota. | tempted to pas sthem througth the leg- lislative assembly. The facts are that pose would have happened to our war be out of place to look into this mat-|if Governor Frazier is reelected. to- iter a little and see wuose property ‘gether with a sympathetic house and jthese gentlemen are so eager to mort-| senate, no man in the state of is it Mr. Townley’s property? | Dakota knows what their program will i Bowen \is in ex- be, but it is fair.to presume that the jactly the same position. Manahan. in-|ecmasures they attempted to pass in | ras | know,, neve: owned a dol-| House. Bill 44, lar’s worth of property in this state, eitherd real or personal. property: interests here are small, if pardize titles ‘n their property by voting for any advocates of such jor net. And he made the \further jstatement that a man could not be “Our political’ opponents may at-jhungry and patriotit at the same time. Let us suppose that every gov- gage their property |amount they are ac mies of the community and represent-/ sue. atives of corrupt business interest: ed of being ene- }And in this connection it might not He has none. ‘speaking as “Townley did but even will continue ‘to be | keeping on their pay-roll as organizers their program,.if they have the pow- Lemke’s | er to: put -th i League-Leaders Bvade Issues. \ have been unable. to, ...“\Thege- statéments of. mine will be find any real estate which he owns} nswered. But if the past is a criter- i it matters not an’ ion ‘of,the future it will mot be ‘by ar- iota to any of these gentlemen wheth-| gument,.but by a tirade of personal er taxes increase 100 per cent or de-/ abuse crease 50 per cent. This does not con-| ment of*the ‘New Gang Press’ of the cern them at all because whether the / leaders of the Nonpartisan ledgue that , the auestion before the people if ‘the {been questioned by thousands of “ ‘The right of the state or any po- litical subdivision thereof, to engage in any occupation or lic purposes shall not be denied or iness for pub- in North Dakota. / in order to get the real,mean- nig of this section we must: di it in-connection with Section 173, of House Bill 44, reading as follows: “ ‘The state, or any political di id slander, and by the state- tax is high or low they pay none. Bui i and Trotzky used it countless times in stating to the people of Russia that they were to enjoy a full meas- CUSTOM TAILORING EXPERT REPAIRING G.E,BER6ESON & SON and other war activities most, of us would have ben ashamed if North Da-! / freedom inherited from the found- kota’s loyalty record today.. ‘Most of | ersof the Republic—the freedom our people were and are paying ‘in- |terest on heavy encumbrances, i Courier-News and the German Orie: “At the'time of the beginning of; Must be met by the American peo- | the great drive’ by the German army, on the 21st day of March this year. } the purpose of which was to destroy the allied armies and capture Paris | and the channel ports, the interest and | feeling: in this The nation almost literally held its men that those opposing them in this! breath for days.’ You aii remember | stdte are representaives of wha they | the strain ‘under which yoo lived those first days of that awful drive, the r sults of which meant so much to fu-) 8 s ture generations of men. Townley's} “This war is being conducted along North Dakota. No doubt a great many; morning newspaper at Fargo, whose “are a aus A \of the members of the Nonpartisa A high degree of intelligence. | jeague honestly believe this is a fact Sentiment Revised in Two Years. | vor d to be representing a farm their candidates to office by the larg-| est majorities’ ever given to the can. the state, Now this is conclusive proof that this ‘prejudice against their lead- ership did not exist two years ago; and if it did not exist two years ago, | mind of the public in regard to these! ram of almost complete’ state-wide socialism, without the slightest warn- ing of their intention; and, secondly, of his close advisers at the time of entrance of this country into the Ev¥opean wa "Tn Reverse on Loyalty. “That the great majority of the farmers of North Dakota, Irres- pective of occupation or national- | ity, are loyal to the federal gov- ernment, there is not the slight- it question, But they are loyal nd not beeause of Mr. Townley but in spite of him. “When Townley discovered that the farmers were loyal and would not fol- low him in his opposition and hostil- ed the reverse lever on the loyalty Issue. ; “1 realize fully that no man is just- ified in accusing another of disloyalty unless he has good grounds for the accusation. Not only this, but I be- lieve he should have knowledge of un- yond a reasonable doubt of the dis- loyalty of the person in question. On the 16th day of June, 1917, Mr, Townley stood upon the public platform at Williston,and.used the following language: ‘We are told that these be are being sent to Enrope to fight for democracy, but I belleve and fear that they are being sent there to tight for the profits of the damned, rotten rich, who make money out of our food and our products.’ “Are these the words of a Patriot | der which all men must live? And a/ tew days. later, speaking ‘at Minot, they have the money to pay for them ernor of every state in the Union had followed Frazier’s lead and taken the position that he took on the sale of! “Two years ago these same men jj, ent before the people of this state read those headlines, and | also re- member with what incredulous sur- t |prise I read the press dispatches in lers’ ‘organization;, that the - farmers | the body of the paper below the head- jwere in’ the majority in the State of lines There was absolutely nothing in jNorth Dakota and consequently had! ihese dispatches to justify any such And the people} statement as appeared at the head of| took them at their word and elected the paper. And nothing has appeared in the press dispatches from that day to this to justify those_headlines, and 2 morning that I got that paver and ‘there which will: justify any such .out- rageous statement by. any American newspaper. What Prompted Him. “Now let us for a moment. analyze the purpose or possible reason which : could prompt’ an editor to print such “Much of this propaganda I believe, is spread unconsciously. But whether paper at that time.» Do you suppdse| conscious'y or unconsciously, the man who spreads it is doing more harm to his country's cause tham were he in the German trenches facing the Ameri- can army with a rifle in his hands. The man who tells you we are fighting a headline in an American daily news- on that night in his office in Fargo, when he directed the setting up of that paper, he was prompted by a de- sire to do something which would give courage to the fathers and moth- ers of the boys who were over in|democracy’s battles in Europe, but France fighting their country’s bat- i tles; or was he prompted by the same cinister influence that the June be- | when he declared that this was a war of the rotten rich and that the son’ and dafghters of America were being sacrificed in the interests of profi- It is not because anyone be- lieves that’ any substantial number of farmers, or any substantial number of any particular class-of citizens in this | state, are not or were at any -time disloyal in, their allegiance to the fed- eral government, but there is a belief that these socialist leaders felt they owed greater allegiance to the ‘plat- | form of their party, as promulgated in| ditions of the mother country, Louis. than they did to ‘their }one hundred million plain. In order ‘tha: ‘you may‘ have | Americans. Let us show te the world ‘a better understanding of why these a second line of defense as well er- men might be loyal,’I\am going to) ganized and efficient as our ftrat line read to you ‘the last socialist national;in Europe. And if we do ihis then when victory has come to cur gallant (Reads Soicalist ‘platform which | soldiers and their allies at the front, continua! opposition to all/and we have destroyed torever this hellish doctrine that might means the right to rule. and when man shall have learned that unscrupulous ambition can only breed strife and conflict, and when they shall have learned that peace can only come when the weakest and the hum- blest nation shall. have a. voice movements to raise money for ‘war ee ‘Winning the War. the Great Issue. "While the economic issues here and sordid greed presented are of vital importance to the citizens of this state, it should be borne in mind that their settlement is of secondary consideration in compar- isow to the one great issue and pro- |gram which we have before us and which we must carry to a successful end victorious conclusion and that is the winning of the war. We were driv- en into this war, driven into it because Prussian autocracy and a democracy such as ours cannot live sidé by side|- in the world. The two ideas are dia- metrically opposed—on- or the other must fall. , And democracy is’not g0- AMERICA MUST FEED HUNTINGTIME Hunt wherever Fon wish and you'll not find better hunting of “Duck” and “Chicken” Hunting Coats Suits, Pants, Leather Coats, Leather Vests, Caps, Wool Sox, Boot Feet Waders, Stocking Feet ‘ , Waders, and Hip Booths DRY CLEANING THE UNION DAYLIGHT STORE , OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS-CLOSED SUNDAYS country was intense. support. Joyal now engageu. people of the world. termining its own government. A NATIONS Eat Less — Waste yothing Credte ‘a Reserve Etberty Bonds, and his lead had'been jing to fall’ We are not fighting for| | 120,000. OOO AILTES left unchallenged, what do you sup | territorial gain, for commercial gain jor for military power, »ut rather, for the great principles upon which our country was founded and upon which it will endure long after Prussian mili- tarism remains but a detested memory in the minds of men. But in any kind of a contest it is well to never under- rate your adversary. and in this con- test our nation is facing the gravest crisis in its history. program? Or suppose that Townley’s lead had been followed by C!S. Bar- rett, president of the Farmers Educa- tional and Cooperative Union of Amer. ican Federation of Labor, not only! and lecturers, men whose loyalty has p-ople.and many of whom have been convicted for sedition in various forms waat do you suppose would have hap- pened to our war program? Might not.the people of a nation that claim- €d to he and is the greatést democ- racy in a wat to preserve the very principles of ‘government under which thy themselyes lived and propspered. If only those who had idle money had es z they are perfectly willing to mortgage vision thereof, may issue or guarantee | your se =f yl! gto secure — a “a 2 i@ . sugar-coa' i at Noting that aoe payment of bonds in excess of the| the d repel enjoyets Savon can ee al ded to. th is to bi ibert: my erty enjoyed: one can wee the phrase, | responde: e is uy y as ‘of all "ene people of|the measure of democracy. Lenine|Bonds, aid he Reb Cfo, . CLA. “The last four years have been the darkest period of of progress and accomplishment a powerful and unscrupulous ad- ‘clusion’ if-it takes the last:dollar REWARD I the years to a successful con- Main Street. ri HAND PRESSING and the Jast man, for without the which cost the ‘lives of hundreds. and thousands of America’s brav- est sons—life would not be worth the living. The issue is clear and ple regardiess of the cost. American need have any doubt as to the'record which will be made by the sons of America on the bat’ tlefields of Europe.| Their conduct will ke such as to miqce us ull proud of them. They are our first line of defense and every energy at home should be directed. wards giving them our unquaiif. The Second Line of Defense. scieaufic lines such as have olicy Townley sw been known in warfare. Every nian and woman of America, who is not in came out with flaming headlines; the first line, should enroll himself or herself in the second line of deteuse. The duties of those in the second line are less arduous and less, hazardous m to the heart's core} than the duties of the soldiers at the American man and/jtront, but their responsibilities are woman who read it. £ remember well! equally as great and their usefuiness n cover a wide figid. The rulers of ermany, in their thorough prepara- tion for, this great struggle,.spread their propaganda throughout all civil- ized countries, and, wnfortunately. they spread it ‘to a considerable ex- tent in this country. J warn you against this propaganda and ask you to oppose and stamp it out with all the fo at your command, no matter rom, what quarter or in what form:it didates of any party in the history of/{ am morally certain now that there presentattself. Now, do not misunder- never will: be any news from over|stand me. No man fs entitled to yoar suspicion simply because of his na ion- ality, but no man is entitled to ‘your confidence who does not believe in. his heart in the aims which inspire this nation in the-conflict in which we are have lost our democracy at home, i éither entirely ignorant of the issues e-| involved in this war or he is at heart guiding Townley’s brain| disloyal to his country and its flag. “When you are told it is.a man’s war | ask you to stop listen to your own conscience. and the voice of a hundred American babies will come to you from the “While the Courier-News is protest- shattered hold of the Lusitar: ing its own purity and the greatness; from the icy deoths of Atian of Mr. Townley ana his hand-picked state. administration. I challenge him|, ig a lie. And the voice of thous- to explain to the people of North Da- kota any or all of these incidents. There are many of these incidents) which have caused the prejudice now existing against these men in the; tell yo uthat such a statement ‘is the most outrageous slander ever uttered.against the ideals of a na- ion fighting to preserve freedom, and democracy for the common silent waves, and tell you it ands ‘of tortured and outraged women and multilated children will come to you across fiye thou- sand miles of land and sea and “Let us show to the world v United America, not one hundred million peo- iple of various nationalities, soma of them clinging to the customs and tra- STREN' ISINITS FOOD SUPPLY I will give liberal reward for any information that will lead to arrest and conviction of mankind. We are dealing with || of party who took a bob sled: versary, who knows no law but out of my, mmastine shed Jast force and who will yield to noth. || Winter. This place was leased ing but force. We have accepted || and occupied by Miller at that the challenge and will fight this || time. 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