The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 27, 1918, Page 7

e o P LRSS e 08 L G CILOTIn, ) o G B g A of peace, the Red Cross had an efliciént liétidnal organization when . that stands for law and order and . we entered the war, and from the drop of the hat the Red Cross has been able to keep up its end and more. The Red Cross is doing everything possible to relieve the sut- - fering of our boys in France. But to keep up this good work it must continue to have all the funds it asks for. The $100,000,000 wanted now ought to be forthcoming at once, and it will be. The American people are giving cheerfully to this great and neces- sary work. Do your share. Give all you can. e The Red Cross ought to he so adequately financed by the people that it can confine all its efforts to relief work on and behind the battle lines, and spend just as little time and energy possible . in getting money to carry on the works It should not have to worry. " a minute about the money-.end, and it won’t. The American people will take care of that. Do your share. : GREGORY INCIDENT “CLOSED” HE Nonpartisan Leader recently gave the facts in the case of the outrages that took place at Gregory, S. D., where -League farmers were cruelly beaten by a mob and then driven, like a herd of cattle, out of town on foot, while their cap- tors rode in automobiles behind them. We quoted the official state- ment of the rioters published in the Gregory paper, whith dared Governor Norbeck of South Dakota to act in the case, threatening openly to use the governor as the League farmers were used if he brought those guilty of the outrage to justice or attempted to protect the farmers in the holding of meetings under their con- stitutional rights. ; Since we reported these facts the governor has “acted”’—that is, he says he has “investigated” and that the Gregory incident is now “a closed matter” so far as he is concerned. The governor has surrendered to the mob—completely “laid down” after the mob’s open defiance of him. The governor has officially declined to ‘order the prosecuting authorities of Gregory to prosecute the riot- ers, whose names are known, and against the peace officers of the town who stood by and let the farmers be beaten up. The only thing the governor has done is to remove the chair- man of the “council of defense” at Gregory and name a new man for the job. The man removed superintended the outrages at Gregory and his conduct was so “raw” that the governor had to do something. But there has been no effort to bring this removed defense council chairman to justice for his lawlessness; there has been no effort to punish the other known members of the mob; there has been 1o effort to remove the peace officers who stood by and made no effort to stop the outrage, but instead encouraged it. ~ And the governor of South Dakota says the matter is “closed”! But it will not be closed until the people of South Dakota sweep the present political gang out of office and obtain an administration the protection of honest and pa- triotic citizens in their rights. The incident may be “closed” so far as the governor is concerned, but it is not closed with the people of South Dakota. : THE ARREST OF JUNKIN. r I \OM PARKER JUNKIN, head “of .the Reliance Publicity e SN bureau of St. Paul, the agen- i ( ; cy through which secret enemies of | the organizedtfi’-armers are delugir;lg I 1_H i I Minnesota with anonymous pamph- —— g Ll lets, has been arrested for alleged -;—ag-‘e- "“' ""l‘ violation : of the corrupt practices DOCTOR =t ' act of the state. It is charged that "R == (] Junkin overstepped' the laws when ~NCFARMER. =5 pff he issued 25,000 copies of a pamph- let. making an attack on Charles A. Lindbergh, who has been indorsed by the farmers and labor unions ° of Minnesota for governor. The corrupt practices act requires that political pamphlets for or against candidates for office shall contain the name of tHe publisher, the cost of the pamphlet, a statement as to who paid for it and in whose interests it is circulated. The pamphlet complained of, issued by Junkin-on behalf of his secret ‘clients, was anonymous. - The prosecuting attorney holds that the pamphlet should have carried a statement that it was issued in the interests of Governor Burnquist, Lindbergh’s only rival for the Republican nomination for governor, and should otherwise have complied with the law. : ' But the most _remarkable'thin‘g about the case was a statement made by Junkin to the newspapers on his arrest. He stated that ~he did not think he had violated the law as the pamphlet was not a political one but a “loyalty pamphlet.” It was issued in the in- -terests of loyalty, and not in the interests of Burnquist, he said. 7 % _to sink the memory of the past in the glory of a new and more Is the cause of the United States in this war one that must be served by anonymous pamphlets? An anonymous pamphlet at- - tacking anybody or anything is generally a pamphlet of which its ‘publishers_are ashamed. They do not sign it because they are ~ afraid, if their names ‘are known, it will discount the effect of the R e s e e PAGE SEVEN - B N T R G L R A N S MO Tl he has refused to take action Nonpartidan Teader Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League—Every.Week . Entered as second-class matter September 8, 1915, at the postoffice at St. Paul, Minnesota, under the Act of March 8, 1879. 4 R AR e e ettt e s s b LB 5 OLIVER 8. MORRIS, EDITOR Advertising rates on application.. Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; six sn:n;}n:h Sll.:'o. Communications should be addressed to the Nonpartisan Leader, Box 575, aul, Minn. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS THE -S. C. BECKWITH SPECIAL AGENCY, Advertising Representatives, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City. Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly advertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our advertising columns. _ “arguments” made. Is our sacred cause in this war served by anon- ymous pamphlets? Are men who are honest and patriotic ashamed to_sign their names to pamphlets intended to forward the inter- ests of loyalty ? Does defense of our war aims and conduct in this war require the methods usually used by sinister interests and cheap politicians? Junkin infers so. He says the anonymous at- tack on Lindbergh was in the interests of “loyalty,” not in the in- terests of Lindbergh’s political rival. But of course it is useless to discuss Junkin’s defense. A jury will consider it. Was the pamphlet unsigned because he was afraid ~to sign it? The public, had it been signed, would have known that it was issued by the Reliance Publicity bureau, and the public knows the Reliance Publicity bureau has the spending of a huge fund raised by opponents of organized labor and organized farmers in Minnesota-——OPPONENTS WHO ARE ASHAMED TO HAVE THEIR NAMES KNOWN AND WHO USE JUNKIN AND HIS BUREAU AS DUMMIES. Junkin has issued a score of anonymous pamphlets attacking the League. He has been arrested for circulating one of them. We hope that he will have a fair and impartial trial and, if inno- cent, will be able to establish his innocence. If he has violated the law he should be sent to jail. A fine would be paid for him by his secret backers, the men and interests putting up the money he- uses to fight the Nonpartisan league. If he is guilty, a fine would be no punishment. EMERSON ON REACTIONARIES MERICANS have 4 great teacher of life in Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here was a man who saw the truth and preached it. Dishonesty, vice and poverty were the stumps that he wanted pulled up. And he blamed the do-nothing conservatives for the fact that the people did not enjoy greater welfare and happiness. Never did he miss a chance to show the people the vicious influences that held them back. His was the doctrine of self- reliance. He stirred men to straight- en up and make the best of them- selves. -When he spoke on national questions, the whole nation listened: Consider life as he found-it 50 years .ago in our country: “The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his so-- - cial frame is.a hospital; his total : legislation is for the present dis- tress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb tea. Sickness gets organized as well as health, and vice as well as virtue. Now that a vicious system of trade has existed for so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and misers are born. And now that sickness has ‘got such a foothold, leprosy has grown cunning, has got into the ballot box; the lepers outvote the clean; society has resolved itself into a hospital committee,.and all its laws are quarantine. “If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has enter- tained as good against the general despair, society frowns on him, shuts him out of her opportunities, her granaries, her refectories, her water and bread, and will serve him a sexton’s turn. * * * Its social and political action has no better aim; to keep out wind and weather, to bring the week and the year about, and make the world last our day; not to sit on the world and steer it; not excellent creation; a timid cobbler and patcher, it degrades what-~ ever it touches.” e Fifty years ago! ; G - Isn’t it time to improve these conditions?