The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 25, 1918, Page 20

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Oor Bruises and Sprains | to W or lrouto " Townley Prosecution Is Denounced New York N ew aper Declares League President’s Words ’grue, Patriotic and American” E New York American, one of the most influen- % tial and widely circulated @ | newspapers in the United States, in a leading edi- torial condemns the at- tempt to prosecute President A. €. Townley of the Nonpartisan league for making what the American terms ‘“true, patriotic and thoroughly Amer- ican statements.” The American pro- tests against what it calls bringing prosecutions for political reasons; “to fasten the stigma of disloyalty upon the farmers of the great Northwest.” Following is the American’s edi- torial in full: “The arrest of A. C. Townley, presi- dent of the National Nonpartisan league, looks very much like a trick of politics—of politics of the low sort. “Mr. Townley was arrested in St. Paul by Sheriff Carver of Martin county, Minn.,, upon a warrant pro- cured by County Attorney Albert R. Allen. “The warrant charges Mr. Townley with conspiracy to discourage enlist- ments and to obstruct the draft. “The evidence upon which the war- rant was issued is the following lan- guage, contained in a pamphlet is- sued by the Nonpartisan league: “‘We are unalterably opposed to permitting stockholders of private corporations to pocket enormous prof- its while at the same time a species of coercion is encouraged toward al- ready poorly paid employes of both sexes in urging them to purchase government bonds to help finance the war. “‘We declare freedom of speech to be the bulwark of human liberty, and we decry all attempts to muzzle the public press or individuals upon any pretext whatsoever. The unwar- ranted interference of military and other authorities with the rights of individuals must cease. ' “‘The contrxbutory causes of the present war are various, but above the horrible slaughter loom the ugly incitings of an economic system based upon exploitation. It is largely a convulsive effort on the part of adroit rulers of warring nations for control of a constantly diminishing market. Rival groups of monopolists are play- ing a deadly game for commercial supremacy. “‘The rule of jobbers and specu- lators must be overthrown if we are to produce a real democracy; other- wise this war will have been fought in vain.’ “Let us examine this language: “In brief, Mr. Townley makes four affirmative statements: “l. That the Nonpartisan league is opposed to profiteering during the war. “2. That freedom of speech and of the press is the bulwark of human liberty. “3. That one of the causes of this world war was the desire of opposing groups of governments and groups of monopolies to gain financial and commercial supremacy. “4, That the rule of jobbers -and speculators must be overthrown in this country as well as in every other country, if true democracy is to pre- vail. “Now, we affirm that each of these statements is a true statement, a pa- triotic statement and a thoroughly American statement. “If the presudent of the farmers’ or- ganization in the Northwest, or any other man, can be arrested and in- dicted and imprisoned for making- such statements as those quoted, then the constitutional ‘guarantees have lost all their force and: the liberty of no man is safe.: i rm'm “The Nonpartisan league, of which Mr. Townley is president, is a body composed almost entirely of farmers living in Minnesota, South Dakota, | Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Wash- ington. “The League is not yet four years old. It started among a handful of farmers, made desperate by the ex- tortion of jobbers and speculators. It now has over 100,000 active members. “At the very first opportunity given by a by-election, the League elected J. M. Baer to congress. It will elect more congressmen next fall. ™ “During the past few months Mr. Townley and other officers of the Nonpartisan league have 23 meetings throughout th pledgmg support to the: Sare gmlty is that of making uncompromising and successful war upon the trusts and jobbers and speculators and other extortioners who have exhibited and robbed the wheat growers of the Northwest year after year, and who have debauched politics and stuffed public offices with their creatures and tools. “In North Dakota the organized farmers, with the assistance of sym- pathizers in the towns and cities, have knocked out both the Republican and Democratic rings and have put on the statute book economic legislation which has ended the power of the trusts and monopolies and jobbers and speculators to rob the producers -and consumers of that commonwealth. “In Minnesota, in Nebraska, in Colorado, in Utah and in Washington the same Nonpartisan league pro- claims its intention to repeat the ex- cellent results achieved Dakota. “Every day sees a new political or- ganization becoming stronger and stronger, and sees the profiteers more and more in panic. “Under these conditions, the fright- ened gangs of profiteers have re- sorted to exactly such tactics as the Mitchel gang used here in New York. They are trying to hide their own sinister purposes behind a camouflage of patriotism and to discredit the farmers’ organization by false accu- sations of disloyalty. “The whole thing is only another proof of how right old Dr. Johnson was when he defined ‘patriotism’ as the last refuge of a scoundrel. “There is nothing disloyal in the language we have quoted by the presi- dent of the Nonpartisan league. There is nothing unpatriotic either in the attitude or the purgoses of the Nonpartisan league. “On the other hand, afi body of men who propose in any .state or in any commumty( to unmaslg.the scoun- drelly profiteers who hide;#heir scoun- drelism behind the camouflage of pa- triotism; any body of men banded together to obtain social justice, to put an end to the exploitation of the industrious farmers and workers by the . unprincipled extortioners who prey upon both, perform 'a public service that is in the highest degree patriotic. “We protest against the arrest of » President Townley and this attempt to besmirch the organized farmers of the Northwest with the false accu- sation of disloyalty. It is an inde- fensible assault upon the. constitu- tional rights -and liberties of Amer- ican citizens. . “A mation is only truly free in ‘which ‘every individual ‘is free to s 8peak and to. wnte hxs opmion upon in North NEW = ON 30 DAYS Rich Geld Cases Seml No Money! 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