The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 12, 1918, Page 8

B s - Keep Down Your Mobs,” Says Wilson Governors of States Are Called on to Co-Operate, “Not Passively Merely, but Actively and Watchfully, to Make an End to This Disgraceful Evil” > JRESIDENT WILSON has spok- of the proclamation. This is what Mr. Baer wired: en. This war is being fought “THE PRESIDENT WROTE HIS SPLENDID and won for the people and MESSAGE ON MOBS WITH ALL THE-FACTS their right to democratic gov- OF THE NORTHWEST BEFORE HIM.” "ernment and the orderly pro- So it is certain that as he wrote, President Wil- cesses of civil law. The mob- son had in mind the attempted expulsion of League makers are fighting for the particularly, it is alleged, deportations have been resorted to and the option has been given to per- sons connected with various organizations of quit- ting the communities in which they live or resign- ing from these organizations.” ‘ A significant telegram to the Leader from Con- gressman John M. Baer, North Dakota’s Nonpar- farmers from Rock county, Minn., which was only kaiser. tisan representative, backs up this interpretation prevented by the United States department of By his justice. o XY proclamation July. 26 against The tarrings and feather- mob rule, the president struck . ings and attempts at lynching ighty blow at the heart of S 9 p of organizers for the farmers’ apecial privilege in_ America, The Text of the President’s Proclamation | fovenon ™ “South Dakota, | = and through special privilege ¢ Nebraska, Texas, Minnesota," at the heart of kaiserism in My Fellow Countrymen: . Montana "and the state of Ge’ma,':i"' oy . TAKE the liberty of addressing you upon a subject which so vitally g;“"fii“s"aysw:fi : t?;‘i’l‘u d:g tioI;re:; i’fizv‘g;‘;fii‘c’g‘m;e%‘;‘g affects the honor of the nation and the very character and integrity of 40 the ol shivitswiich, hak b condemning in the severest our institutions that I trust you will think me justified in speaking - terms mob action and the mob spirit, fell like a whip of scorpions upon the enemies of democracy throughout the - country. His words were not mincing. ‘He spoke like a judgment. He set down upon the books of the public mind for all time his conviction that the true pro-German, the real traitor to America, the actual sedi- tionist and disloyalist, is- the man who today resorts to mob violence or countenances mob action. In the most solemn manner refrain from violence against - persons whose apparent or suspected attitude toward the war has brought them into disfavor in the communities in which they live. HHE #In the northwestern states very plainly about it. I allude to the mob spirit which has recently here and there very fre- quently shown-its head amongst us, not in any single region but in many and widely separated parts of the country. There have been many lynch- ings and every one has been a blow at the heart of order, law and human justice. No man who loves America, no man who really cares for her fame and honor and character, or who is truly loyal to her institutions, can justify mob action while the courts of justice are open and the govern- ments of the states and nation are ready to do their duty. We are at this very moment fighting lawless passion. Germany has outlawed herself among the nations because she has disregarded the sacred obligations of law and has made lynchers of her armies. Lynchers emulate her disgrace- ful example. I, for my part, am anxious to see every community in Amer- ica rise above that level, with pride and a fixed resolution which no man or set of men can afford to despise. The preclamation of ?resident Wilson rebuking -mobs who have harried the organized farmers of so many western states has brought blessed relief to thousands of country homes such as this one in the picture. Only in one agricultural state has there been no. baiting of the producers by men masking their political designs behind the flag. That is North Dakota, controlled ‘by a Nonpartisan administration. - The picture shows a North " 'Dakota farmhouse, that of Mr, and Mrs. P.T. Anderson, near Brantford. =~ ‘ ~ -~ PAGE EIGHT . . - ! R o A D et sl N e SAeh e N e recently here and there very frequently shown its head amongst us, not in any single region, but in many and widely separated parts of the coun- try.” \ Had the president the Walla Walla affair in mind? Prob- ably that episode, which did not reach the proportions of a lynching, was very fresh in his memory. The protest of the Washington state Grange at the expulsion of its conven- tion from the Walla Walla high school auditorium has within the last few weeks been brought to him by men “There is just one thing for Fargo interests to do in the - -~ present situation. “That is to see that from - now on the farmers of this ‘part . of the country get a = © square deal” - x ot T the war president declared E PROUDLY claim to be the champions of democracy. If we real- | I Vhose seasoned judgment o & this principle to the people of 1 i deed 9 ANl CYat %o it that d t di he has confidence. It is the e Ao onl the hoanle of sl y are, in deed, and in truth, let us see to it that we do not dis- last sensational case of the X tha warld. The canse o Kners X credit our own. I say plainly that every American who takes part employment of mob spirit to ioa the cause. of the allies, the in the action of a mob or gives it any sort of countenance is no true violate civil rights that has cause of humanity, in this vast son of this great democracy, but its betrayer, and does more to dis- had the attention of the public historical strugg’e, is the main- credit her by that single disloyalty to her standards of law and of right at large. iva tenance of human freedom by than the words of her statesmen or the sacrifices of her heroic boys in “We proudly claim to be the and through civil law, made the trenches can do to make suffering peoples believe her to be their | ¢champions of democracy,” the e and administered by a democ- savior. How shall we commend democracy to the acceptance of other peo- wars preqdent ‘fffmmds "1}1“’ : g 4, The i et b%aya] ples, if we disgrace our own by proving that it is, after all, no protection ;’;‘;b i‘;‘lg:f:etg“;n 1.4 ?reutll.fale{ 9 gf lal; %?S:h{: m:b"‘;‘;pe;{’f_ to the weak? Every mob_ contributes to German lies about the United S Saa LR oo 45 not 1 the tyranmy of brute force States what her most gifted liars can not improve upon l3y way of calumny. discredit our own. I say plain- over:Teason. They can at least say that such things can not happen in Germany except ly that every American who S Read his proclamation in the in times of revolution when law is swept away! takes part in the action of a ' center of this page. I therefore very earnestly and solemnly beg that the governors of all mob or gives it any sort of o Newspapers in the western the states, the law officers of every community and, above all, the men and countenance is no true son of states which have been gloat- women of every community in the United States, all who revere America '{’h‘s great democracy, but its AR ing over each new ecrime and wish to keep her name without stain and reproach, will co-operate— die:::g:fi;' }f‘;‘rd bd°e:ha’;‘°:§n '{: ;ga‘““t the °’ga§‘zed fam‘e‘;s not passively merely, but actively and watchfully—to make an end to this act of disloyaltyyto e ataat - e ::epmaifiot;hgd tfiisgfici gisgrace_féll evil. It can not live where the community does not coun- ards of low-'and of Fight than e lamation away in inconspic- enance 1t. e the words of her statesmen or e uous corners of their paper. HAVE called upon the nation to put its great energy into this war {‘)he s?‘m‘;"es of hher hsrols - They didw't like it, What these I and it has responded—responded with a spirit and a genius for action | LovS in the trenches can do ' “J“Ee.imfi“defl elt)iltors 85- . that has thrilled the world. I now call upon it, upon its men and Tieve her to b thgei,p sal:rior.” €09 D oty to the authorities | Women everywhere, to see to it that its laws are kept inviolate, its fame un- e et ] in. Washington, A week be- :fimiShed'h .(Il_.et us show thfi' utter cor;tfil_fl? fmi) thehthipgs t}?at }tlfive mafie FARGO IS WRONG fore the president spoke the 1S war hideous among € wars..o 1story Dby sSnowing now 0sSe wino o ’ Lot Washington correspondent, of love liberty and right and justice and are willing to lay down their lives ( Jn the CoOperators Horald, o= the New York Times wired or them upon foreign fields stand ready also to illustrate to all mankin of Ransom county, N. D., asks 3 this to his paper: their loyalty to the things at home which they wish to see established as “What’s the nfat’cer with ‘ “WASHINGTON, July 22.— a blessing and a protection to the peoples who have never known the privi- Fargo?” He shows that the e ! d _ What 5 champion of liberty either for ourselves or for the world who does no BS e ‘ 5 ; ?l:;bf-gse e '{ffi“.',‘.' ob‘g;};‘.’t, i reverence and obey the ,la?ws of our own beloved land, whose laws we our- | &% h\:iv:hn?x Z;:?:id °;‘oth:;“s: T_L the United States, and expects selves have made. He has adopted the standards of the enemies of this My Stiong 4skd “W(}:lldgrthey - =t to ta’.ll"; m:,mb esanEiato ead country, whom he affects to despise. o refer: outalde. eRpitals: with 1 ‘it. e ‘mob spirit, officials headquarters in Minneapolis ¥ say, is finding expression or Chicago to build- packi mainly in the Northwest and plants or gimilar ifldust!l')ies allllg 'flf A _ in Texas, Oklahoma and some keep only hired men here?” ! other states of that genera To this the Herald echoes: % geographical section. . “Take the farm support from g “It is understood that with- the business elements of the % in-the next few days President city and mnote how soon “for 5 Wilson will issue a public ap- rent” signs will appear upon - peal to patriotic Americans to its business streets. e ®