The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 1, 1917, Page 18

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The Minnesota meetings have all proved big successes, in spite of the attempts of petty politicians- in some instances to prevent the farmers from getting together, and the Ada meeting promises to be one of the best yet. The Law and the Fafmer (From Sacred Heart, Minn., Journal) E. E. Barsness, local Nonpartisan league organizer, had his meeting broken up last Friday night by Sheriff Sunde in school district No. 62, six miles north of Olivia. He was asked to produce his registration card, and when Mr. Barsness found he had come off without this, having left it on his table in Sacred Heart, the sheriff or- dered him to accompany him to Olivia at once, where he was lodged in jail. Mr. Barsness, however, was allowed to telephone to his assistant in Sacred Heart and in a couple of hours and at an outlay of $6 for livery he had the necessary card to free him from the sheriff’'s custody. Of course, the sheriff's demand for his card was simply a handy move by which to break up the méeting in case it could not be produced. This little ruse worked. But Mr. Sunde had come there with the avowed purpose of pre- venting the meeting. When he called for the card, the meeting had not yet been opened, so there can rest no -charge of sedition against that meet- ing—only the SUSPICION of sedition, at most. Why a meeting of farmers should more likely prove seditious than a meeting of business men or bankers' or manufacturers is up to. Sheriff Sun- de to explain. BARSNESS WILL FIGHT FOR HIS COUNTRY The sheriff is-reported to have said that he had orders from the state safe- ty committee to stop any meetings which he thought might prove sedi- tious. Personally, we have the warm- est regard for Sheriff Sunde and he has proven himself a most efficient sheriff, but to make out of him the sole arbiter of any man's freedom who A Big Plot in Minnesota (Continued from page 17) the purc folds of the American flag, the interests opposed to jus- tice for the farmers and workers in Minnesota, hope to work up a “patriotic” and ‘“loyal” sentiment in Minnesota that will perpetuate the political and economic abuses now existing in that state. Of all the attempts by the selfish, schem- ing and corrupt interests of the United States to turn the legiti- mate patriotism of the people into channels suiting plunder and ex- ploitation, this attempt in Minne- sota is the dirtiest and most inde- fensible, if the Duluth Tribune’s account of the matter is a true ac- count. As examples of how the gang in Minnesota opposed.to justice for the farmers and working people hope to proceed, the Leader here quotes a few more .passages from the Tribune re- port of the St. Paul hotel meeting: ARREST LEAGUE MEN, BUSINESS MEN TOLD “Anderson of Hutchinson insisted that the way to stop Townley and all his crowd (meaning, of course, League members) was to arrest them, lock them up and keep them locked up.” Again, this occurs: “Anderson of Hutchinson was for shooting such men as Townley.” The whole diabolical purpose of the proposed November “loyalty’” conven- tion, hatched at this St. Paul hotel meeting, is disclosed in the following paragraph from the Tribune's report: “The idea is to have the loyalty convention the most stupendous expression of loyalty possible; to arrange such a program that every loyal man and woman in Minne- sota will want to attend the con- vention and to make it so effective that it will stand as a final, crush« ing, cleansing answer to the pollut- ing Nonpartisan league gathering in this city.” The report says that a committee of 15 will be named to call the “loyalty” convention and have charge of its pro- gram and advertising. It also says; PAGE EIGHTEEN erpmTT obeys the laws -is dispotism; to-make him sole judge of whether a given meeting may or may not be held by peaceful and law abiding citizens is autocracy itself and is inconsistant with our cherished institutions, which Mr. Barsness. himself goes forth to fight for in another week. The Nonpartisan league is something new and out-of-the-ordinary. Be it ever so loyal, it was bound to make enemies and meet with bitter opposi- tion from those now in the saddle, who find themselves out of harmony with its aims—namely to give the farmer and the consumer a better deal by improving methods of distribution. That this opposition is raising heaven and earth to fasten upon this new or- ganization .the tag of disloyalty, we have seen daily evidence of. But we doubt that they will succeed, for the farmers, while discontented with cer- tain injustices under which they have labored these many years, are true blue and loyal at heart. it is not that they do not wish our government to win this war, for they are supporting it to a man,.but they want certain- measures” of justice to win recognition at the same time. They are not resorting to law violation, like the I. W. W.'s, to put through their program; but are proceeding in a per- fectly legitimate and orderly fashion to make their wills felt at the polls. That is true Americanism, or we don't know what Americanism is. Their aim is universal justice, and if we now shall proceed to use the government machinery against them and prevent them from . expressing themselves at the polls, then we shall stand -in danger of forcing THEM also to resort to I. W. W. methods, when no other recourse is left. “The gathering (at the St. Paul hotel) was primarily for the purpose of opening a campaign to combat the traitorous and- seditious influences in this state which have centered very largely in the Nonpartisan league.” FALSE CHARGE THAT LEAGUE OPPOSES BONDS In another place in the remarkable exposure of the details printed in the Duluth paper, this occurs: “The League is working tooth and nail to make the second Liberty loan a flat failure in Minnesota. “Loyal citizens of Nobles county are fearful that Townley . . . will make the sale of Liberty bonds impossible, and after considerable discussion as to what the publio safety commission is doing, if any- thifg, in a really practical way to stop Townley, it was voted that a committee of three request the commission to block him.” Readers of the Leader and members of the Leugue are familiar with Mr. Townley’s recent speeches throughe out Minnesota, and know that his ade vocacy of support for the Liberty bonds is one of the big things that has help- ed the government float the loan—BUT THE FACTS DO NOT MAKE ANY" DIFFERENCE WITH A BODY OF MEN SEEKING TO USE THE SA- CRED NAME OF PATRIOTISM AND LOYALTY TO COUNTRY AS PRE-. TENSE IN FORWARDING THE PO- LITICAL FIGHT OF THE BIG IN- TERESTS AND THE POLITICIANS: AGAINST THE FARMERS,. The Duluth Tribune report of the St. Paul hotel meeting proves ' that the anti-farmer gang of Minnesota, in its efforts to prevent the government be- ing restored to the people, WILL STOP AT NOTHING—not even at corrupting the authorities to make wholesale ar- rests of innocent, patriotic persons;' NOT EVEN AT SHOOTING PRESI- DENT TOWNLEY OF THE LEAGUE; not even at prostituting the flag of our country; not even at using a pretense of patriotism and a false loyalty to country to forward the political plots of the enemies of the League and the farmers. A : With them -