The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 8, 1918, Page 21

s . my ‘death warrant. /cartoon ] Use Miails to Threaten League Farmers (Continued from.page 16) _.we don't allow them to run at large’ in Montana? A few tried it but no more will be damn fools enough to ” Mr. Lee had a hearty laugh over this. His comment was that this man evidently doesn’t like the League. IMPERSONATING A SOLDIER The next threat was sent from Deming, N. M., and signed simply “An American.” The author claimed he was a soldier, but that is a lie on the face of it, as it iF inconceivable that an American soldier would be ashamed to sign his name and would write a threatening letter displaying such ig- norance as this letter does. Another clue is that it was all written on a typewriter, a thing that few soldiers carry with them, and the stationery used was not that of the Y. M. C. A,,- such as all/parents of soldiers know camp letters are usually written on. It was sent to George E. Carlson of Burley, Idaho. This is the way it ran: “After reading your letter in the Nonpartisan Leader I am convinced that you are an American of the low- est type imaginable, afid the proper place for you to live is in Germany with the rest of the Huns. Perhaps you would like to know that I am a soldier, and let me tell you this, if I have the chance to visit Burley, there will be one less Carlson to contend ] with for a while at least.” Mr. Carlson sends this to the editor with a snicker, saying: “Inclosed find He claims to be a soldier and an American. If so, there is something wrong with his upper story and his memory failed him in the finish by forgetting to sign ‘his name. T have a letter from the war department and the aviation corps. They don’t call. me a traitor. I would like to stand side by side with this man in the trenches to show him which one of us is a kaiserite. Any American who has any respect for the flag or himself would not write a letter such as this man did.” . THREATS TO THE -« LEADER EDITOR The editor of the Leader has re- ceived a remarkable letter from L. D. Miller, county judge of Wheeler county, at Wheeler, Texas. = This let- ter threatens the editor of the Leader and representatives of the Nonpar- tisan league with lynching or other violence. . The Leader was surprised to receive a letter of this kind from a man holding the position of judge, charged with enforcing the law and supposedly a person who would be interested in preventing mob violence and lynching, rather than in openly threatening it. R The letter of Judge Miller was such - a_remarkable incident of hate and ignorance that the Leader has sub- mitted it to both the United States attorney general and to the postoffice authorities. We felt that here was an instance where threats of lawless- ness and murder could be traced di- rectly - to the person guilty. We thought, therefore, that there should be some protection for citizens against threats of this kind, and that it was up to the authorities to take action. Somebody ‘evidently sent ' Judge ‘Miller a copy of the Nonpartisan Leader reporting the mob Toutrage against League members at Mineola, Texas. 'We give below the entire text of Judge Miller’s letter: “L. D. MILLER * “County Judge Wheeler-County, “Wheeler, Texas. ' - “Editor Nonpartisan Leader: “You sent me some stuff, looks like . German propaganda reading and tell- . ing“of the Mineola horror.: I think ‘“the people done you right. I see your speak of them as profiteers, and war congressman, etc. We have no one in' congress but 100 per cent Amer- icans, and stand against plutocracy— except that' German_ proganda—So- cialist. Now anything that is tainted with disloyalty among people in America is despised by the South and no set of men who are trying to prej- udice the people against our presi- dent and government is but pluto- craticc. We skin old Socialist and I. W. W. down here and going to tar and feather rest, and then resort to the use of a limb. You find no sym- pathy in me—TI'll help next trip you make. ) “L. D. MILLER, “Co. Judge, Wheeler Co. “P. S—Don’t send me your muck reading. I think the black snake is good and when used becomes effective. B “L. D. M.” SHOWING THEIR CLAWS Sacramento, Cal. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I congratulate you and the Non- partisan league on the work you are doing. I congratulate you on your having separated the goats from the sheep. I congratulate you on your having compelled the business men’s associations, whether under the xll,z;mes of the cham- p{Fo r of commerce, u(\.p, the M. T. M. or 2 ! whatever their title, to show their horgs. I congratulate you on your having made the issue between the exploif.ed and the -exploiters. \ Business men’s associations every- where work in the interest of the crafty and the cunning and against those who produce the wealth of the world. It is by their teamwork that they have kept the farmers at work 14 hours a day and compelled them to hand over at least two-thirds of the product of this toil to those who have had sense enough to organize to look after their class interest. Five per cent of the business men are actually.vicious and look upon the farmers’'as their natural prey. When they can no longer cajole the farmers and steer them into the shambles, the 5 per cent begin to show their teeth and claws. They quote “law and or- der.” But they are the ones who re- sort to mob “law” when they see their prey slipping away from them. I am impatiently awaiting the day that the League shall begin its work in California. Here the struggle be- tween the exploiters and the exploited, between the shirkers and the workers, between the business men and those- who clothe and feed and serve the world, is becoming acute. A. E. BRIGGS. PUBLIC SPIRIT IN SPOKANE ‘Resolutions protesting against sum- mary punishment given Nonpartisan league workers of Washington have been adopted by.the Spokane Good \Government league. The protest is directed to Governor Lister and is as follows: “We regret the lawless action in. certain sections of our state, the re- sort to mob violence, intimidation and slander of the Nonpartisan league by supposedly good citizens. “That such lawlessness is done UN- DER THE GUISE OF PATRIOTISM, does not make it less lawless, and pa- triotism so expressed; is subject -to severe suspicion. : B “We urge. you to protect in their lawful rights, every citizen, however humble, believing . that real loyalty may thus be best inspired and real / patriotism best inculcated.” The resolution was introduced by Mrs. Carrie Barr of Yakima, president of the state W. C. T. U. s Eah oy N PAGE 5 ADVERTISEMENTS WHAT MAKE AUTO IS THIS? It Is one of the most popular and economical cars, made by the oldest atnd most reliable of auto':ngblle manufacturing concerns. The price 18 $825 F.0.B, FACTORY IN DETROIT. 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