The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 24, 1918, Page 8

, | i é P | UNQUALIFIEDLY, President Wilson has said that the man who goes into a mob is not fit to live in a democracy. You never hear of mobs of farm- ers, do you? They don’t gef out at midnight and blister their political enemies with hot tar. Such attempts at Prussian fright- fulness are left to Big Biz and his political hangers-on. : Who made up the gang at Mineola, Texas, that maltreated four League workers? Bankers, middlemen, an editor and hoodlums. - Who were the sneaking cowards that smeared tar over two Nonpartisans in Lewis county, Wash.? . Money lenders, middlemen, politiciars, a hotelkeeper and the usual assortment of town loafers. Look at this picture and see the sort of high class leading * citizens who ran the farmers out of town at Gregory, S. D. Will the ballot box register the righteous indignation of the workers? These men with ropes and tar and feathers also live in Pine county, Minn. In the night, tremblingly and in black masks, they mobbed a young Norwegian farmer. ; In Montana these Huns at home kidnaped: a Nonpartisan speaker and took him before an inquisition in the rooms of the AR 7 PAGE e A AT RS WA A 3 5 e A N A T T RN i WHERE THEY DIFFER WITH THE PRESIDENT \‘\\\\\\\V\ 7z \ ’,%{%)4 NR a A ANz —Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. C. Morris Miles City Commercial club. Then they deported him, with threats. Colorado is menaced by the same thuggery. There an aged Nonpartisan was ordered out of town in the height of a blizzard. Heart disease almost ended his life out there in.the mountains, but he survives to carry on his noble work. Nebraska editors are boasting of what was done recently to an organizer. In their drunken frenzy the mob almost hanged him. . In Kansas the strong hand of the governor has held back these minions of autocracy. Oklahoma, too, has been peaceful, as have Iowa, Idaho and Oregon. It is only where state officials are weak or side with the forces -of evil that these outrages have been permitted. : In North Dakota, where the National Nonpartisan league has had a governor in office for two years, there has been no such re- bellion against law and order. Farmers can go into any town and be certain of a welcome. i : That’s the way it will be in all the agricultural states as soon as the farmers get a chance to vote for their own candidates.: £ EIGHT g