The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 17, 1918, Page 11

g e B .‘_.;‘: e, - ] Aa.»‘fiaaméui Py lh--s.’\};.z»- \' bR s sty 7o) Wi 4V - o }lfi:.rm.wu&i“:fl-‘ e &-’4 o1t ! P i ¥ . v & s wrane e i ) e o B e R g ‘corporation gang. . ~fense were denounced day after day ‘because . they allowed - Mr. Horst to e i possession ‘of a wealth of raw material that musf for the most part, go elsewhere for manufacture. “Not enough, surely, to cause the introduction of- Pennsylvania methods into the politics of the state: to be contemplated calmly.” WHEN EDITORS FALL OUT This insinuation seemed to make Editor Jones very indignant and he replied the next day in the following editorial: “WHO OWNS THE JOURNAL? “The taking over of a great néwspaper always starts a rumor as to who is ‘behind’ it. The recent transfer of the Journal has proved no -exception to the rule and if it is a satisfaction to any rival or otherwise, they are welcome to information. “l. The United States steel trust has not one penny’s worth of interest in, or one atom of in- fluence with, the Journal. We do not know the steel trust or any individual connected with it. “2. Rumors connecting the transaction with al- leged candidacies for the United States senate are worthy of no more attention than is the rumor connecting the transaction with the United States steel trust. The Journal has no candidates in mind for United States senator. “3. ‘Rumors to the effect that the Journal is ownied by, or in the control of ‘alien’ interests are also untrue. The Journal is owned by H. V. Jones and W. S. Jones, both of whom. have engaged in the publishing business in Minneapolis for 25 years. For the first time in the last 20 years of its history . the Journal is owned" w!olly in the city in which it is published.” The Journal in iurn was unkind enough to allege that the Minneapolis Tribune was controlled by the Lowry interests. Perhaps both papers were not far from the facts.- The ancient adage may be paraphrazed to read: “When newspapers fall out honest men get the truth.” Although.Mr. Jones hotly denied that the steel trust had one penny’s worth of interest in his paper, when the late James J. Hill’'s estate came to be probated about two years ago, it was discovered that he had large holdings of Journal bonds, and it is significant that ] the Hill interests are large individual owners of mining ‘property on the iron range of Minnesota. In view of these facts, Mr. Janes’ protestations have not much effect. Still more significant is the fact, that from the date of its purchase down to the present day, the Minneapolis Journal has never printed a single line which in any way would be considered as an advocacy of a tonnage tax on iron ore property in Minnesota. The policy of the Journal changed over night, as it were. Not only on the matter of the ton- nage tax, hut on numerous other public questions, and, as might be expected of an ex- grain broker, Mr. Jones has been one of the strongest sup- porters. of the nefarious grain gambling operations of the Minneapolis Chamber of Com- merce and the Duluth Board of Trade. DEFENDING THE GRAIN GAMBLERS When James Manahan was in congress in 1914, he intro- duced a resolution asking for an investigation of the grain exchanges of the Northwest. The Minneapolis Journal at once attacked his motives and accused him of being an inter- ested party in a rival exchange, the Equity - Co-Operative so- ciety. The Journal stated that the proposed investigation would be “a Tuseless expense of money and time” and that “these -(Minneapolis - Chamber of Commerce and Duluth Board IF THEY TOLD THE TRUTH The Superfluous Middleman/ Useless, that’s me. All of the better informed people call me un- necessary because— well, because I am use- less. I do about as much good as black rust in June. If I did not exist the farmer would get more for his products, and the consumer would be given all of his living necessities at a much lower figure than he is now paying. BUT, would it be fair to do away with me and my dandy little graft for the sake of a few thousand farmers and laborers? Would you have my only source of income taken away from me? Why, think of it, T'd have to get out and crack safes for a living. of Trade) are state corporations which have been - under close state supervision and have come with . clean hands out of a legislative investigation, provoked in the same spirit by poiiticians.” The Journal has never made much mention of the fact that the legislative investigations into the affairs of the Min- neapolis Chamber of Com- merce and Duluth Board of Trade, showed that vast sums in the dockage of grain had been appropriated from the farmers. It was proved that between September 1, 1910, and August 21, 1912, the ter- minal elevators at Minneap- olis received 15,671,575 bushels of No. 1 Northern wheat, but during the same time these same elevators shipped out 19,978,777 bushels of the' same grade. Yet they had no wheat of this grade on hand at the beginning of the period ?. had 114,454 bushels at ‘the end of the period. The so- called inferior grades were- bought at prices ranging from 2 to 12 cents a bushel less than the regular price paid for No. 1 Northern wheat and it is " obvious that the elevators re- graded this.wheat and sold it at higher prices, thus robbing the farmers of millions of dol- lars. It was practices of this sort that the ex-broker editor of the Minneapolis Journal was seeking to defend when he attacked the motives of Mr. Manahan. It is also a significant fact that in the election of 1916 the (Continued on page 22) Another Charge of Disloyalty Explodes Federal Grand Jury Finds Accusations of Grafters Against Leo S. Horst Were 'False—The Same Old Plot to Prevent League Meetings NCE more the hollowness of charges of disloyalty against members and speakers of the Nonpartisan league has been disproved. Those who depend on the metropolitan press. for information will recall that Leo S. Horst, a League speaker, was charged by some one with making unpatriotic statements at Towner, N. D. Few newspapers have printed the hews that the federal grand jury which investigated the accusa- tions gave Mr. Horst a clean bill of health. THE EDITORS "WISH THE PEOPLE TO . prevent- this League speaker from holding meetings, And Mr. Horst had four times tried to enlist in the United States-army! It must be understood that the North Dakota Council of De- fense is not under the control of the Farmers and la- borers have representation as well as merchants and bankers on this val- uable war orgamzahon. ; Being unable to twist 'the council to their own ends, the. politicians and grafters formed a secret, back-room club which they called the Fargo “war organization.” = This bunch was se- riously annoyed by the popularity of Mr. Horst as a League speaker.: Aided by the puny gang press of the state; it raised a great howl that when Mr. Horst denounced the profiteers: he was . guilty - of ~ sedition. Governor: Frazier and the state council of de- And what was it the speaker had j i somethmg from his. ed: lik treaso : “Last fall while I was on my way to the Twin Cities, I noticed along the Great Northern rail- . way, piles .of odd looking goods along the track. For a stretch of six miles we saw these ‘goods, piles - -of them, some so high that we could not see over the top from the car where we were seated. Finally we asked one of the train crew what that meant, and what those piles of .things were. Well, he re- plied that those goods were dumped off -along the tracks by food gamblers as they were being held for higher prices, and the railroads demanded the cars. The early frosts caught them and they froze and then rotted. Here is a picture taken shortly before 4 o’clock at the St. Paul stockyatds. ’ Men, women and boys who toil in the packing houses now get a chance at the - continue holding meetings of farmers. / sunlight. They are shown here leaving for their homes. Now they have time for gardening or. pleasure, and are no longer beasts of burden who go homer after 12 hours of work to tumble into bed. ‘Think of what joy shorter hours to - must give to those immignmt mothers whn ‘have to work in the ‘!packmg honse +and th / A “Now, ladies and gentlemen, any one with com- mon sense knows that it would take little more energy to haul those cars right into the Twin Cities than it did to take them close to the entrance of _ the cities and leave them there to be unloaded. This is true at a time when our country and our presi- dent were crying for cars and food, at a time when ships were being held up in the harbors because they could not receive coal and cargoes because of car congestion, and when the government was decid- ihg what it should do about regulating railways.” At the request of the midnight gang represented in the Fargo “war organization,” the North ‘Dakota Council of Defense called BELIEVE. AN INNOCENT MAN 5 : I\;Ilr ?orst before it to ascertain . GUILTY. | lN ER =, | ] R the facts. It was brought out The Iobject". of the charges was to l . ]? THE EIGHT HO DAY I that on numerous occasions he had tried to enlist- for his coun- try’s defense, only to be rejected for defective eyesight. It also was found that he was born in-Maryland, of colonial ancestry. The state coun- cil of defense went into the case thor- oughly and found that he had never made any statements against the gov- ernment but, on the contrary, every speech ‘he made was intensely pa- triotic. The opinion of all honest men was exactly expressed -by Thomas Allen Box, secretary of the council, who said: “If any one is being charged know about it.” *And we ought to stop that, too, ‘said Peter Morgan of Grand Forks, labor member of the council. : « - A few days later the federal grand jury came to the same.conclusion con- cerning the loyalty of Mr. Horst.~ Re- - fusing to be influenced by the dishon- est press and secret Fargo gang, it - found no-true bill against him. | VICIOUS ASSAULTS ON THE LEAGUE BEING EXPOSED. AT R T, falsely with disldyalty we ought to ; e s 3 R s R A A B A THUS; ONE BY ONE, ARE TfiE -