The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 26, 1918, Page 11

" the German money charge. ‘President Townley of the League. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: 1 _'p“artisan. in connection with the League, and while Quigley, to lead them on, had told all sorts of alleged facts ' damaging to the League, he did not like to make .any false statements about so serious a matter. They were insistent, however, and continued to demand that Quigley come through with “facts” that would enable them to fasten on the League Seeing that unless he “came through” he would lose their confidence and get no further with them in learning their plans, Quigley at last invented a startling yarn. According to- the original account of this at the . time of Quigley’s confession, the following are the facts: Quigley told Carpenter that at Lincoln he met a man named Ryan, who was the personal agent of Mr. Townley. No such man exists. He said Ryan got drunk and informed him that he was to meet a German spy named Bernstein at New York on January 10, and that Bernstein would pay Ryan $20,000 in return for an unsecured note signed by Quigley added Waldheim, Mont. With a great deal of interest I have read your various papers on the Nonpartisan league. The country is in this dreadful war, crying out freedom for all people, and the League stands for the same —and to be a help to the farmers, and down the middleman. How does this League stand on the American Indian question? Will it help our people in the new toil of life, when the white man' has robbed us of all freedom and cheated us of our lands, and broken our.treaties? In all this fight- ing, with all claiming freedom, every man is look- ing after his own interest. J. P. Morgan & Co., with others, have taken over by lease the Crow land to raise food for our allies. Yet the Indian is not getting the real benefit from it. How many white men have cheated the Indian by dirty ‘whisky ? How many white men have mar- ried Indian women and left them? ‘Has the white race any pride for itself? If you call these many crimes civilization, then I had rather be a savage, live in my humble tepee, fish and hunt, and see God, the Great Spirit, in nature. The American flag has given citizenship to every Tom, Dick and Harry, and here this is our mother country, and we can not be pro-this and pro-that as we have no other country to go to. No greater .patriot stands on American soil than the American Indian. My people have volunteered and fought for the Stars and Stripes in every war since Columbus landed. As a nation the aborigines have stood up and fought against all odds for in- herited- rights. It is going on 600 years and we have not stopped to fight for the same cause. Is it American to have a race of people wards of this, -their mother country, which has 7,000 government employes looking after 800,000 Indians? True, we are called savages, because my people did fight for their country and home, ‘yet we hope to be better understood as this war goes on to victory for justice. If we were savages, what are the Huns? - I’d rather talk of the deeds of that - great warrior, Slttmg Bull, than of the Kkaiser. - [ i HIS is the third article under the general title of “Spies, Traitors f| and Kept Press,” a series retelling the story of the startling plots and conspiracies to disrupt or discredit the Nonpartisan league. The series was inspired by the recent betrayal of the League by the renegade Maxwell, who was paid $10,000, ac- cording to the best information obtainable, to “expose the League from the inside.” Maxwell’s articles were exploited by the big busi- ness press in an attempt to discredit the League management and obtain new officers who would consent to the alteration of the farmers’ demands, so they would be acceptable to big business. The present article deals with the . it. I expected to be kicked out of his office. League Changes Its Mail Address HE Nonpartisan league national headquarters at St. Paul and Minnesota state headquarters at St. Paul formerly used postoffice Box 294. The League no longer uses this-postoffice box. - Other persons now use it, so that mail directed to the League in - fore :it reaches its proper destination. . - | League headquarters or Minnesota League headquarters should be addressed, Non- ; League, Fifth Floor Endicott Building, St. Paul. Do not address any mail tended for the League to Box 294. The mail address of the Nonpar- tisan Leader remains, Postoffice Box 575, St. Paul. = thrilling. is complete in itself. the farmers. that Ryan had been arrested and thrown in jail on a minor charge. Quigley said Ryan had sent for him and given him a letter addressed to Bernstein at New York, and told Quigley to mail it. Quigley told them that he steamed the letter open and that it was a message to Bernstein telling him that Ryan could . not' meet him because he was in jail, and told Bern- stein to postpone the appointment till Ryan got out of jail. Quigley told them that Bernstein had never met Ryan. He pretended he (Quigléy) had destroyed the letter written by Ryan to Bernstein and that somebody could go to New York, impersonate Ryan, get the money and catch Bernstein, the “Ger- man spy.” : : “I could hardly keep my face straight when I told this dime-novel yarn,” Quigley says. “I never thought for a minute that Carpenter would believe But to my amazement he swallowed the story whole. “‘My God,’ he cried, grabbing his head and pac- An Indian Orator Pleads for His People It is the love in the hearts of the Indian that urges - him to pull the bow against the invading foe. Better understand- ing of the palefaces has made us quit primitive ways, and still we are facing those who believe we ought not yet be freed. - So we are still knocking at the door of congress for freedom. The palefaces are not satisfied with the vast strips of lands they got in the United States. They want . the little strips of land that we still have on the reser- vations. All- the Euro- peans came to this coun- - try from countries like Germany or England, and when they set up their form of government the Indian had no voice in his mother country. Tell me, is this justice? Is this true Americanism? There are today serving the colors 6,000 young redskins who volunteered their blood for the cause of America. And in the Civil war the Indians fought to free the blacks., Our people have taken out over $25,000,000 of Liberty bonds, as well as thor of this letter. Washington, D. C,, _donated thousands of dollars to the Red Cross. Such grand and noble demonstration ought to cause every patriot to reciprocate such acts by urg- ing a bill in congress to have the Indians freed and bestow upon them full citizenship, like every person. If our 6,000 boys -are offering their lives, why should not their people become free, as .is every other nationality on American soil? He who lays’ down his life for the cause of freedom, does he not re.of Box 294 is delayed be- 1 communications: to national Vv % famous Quigley exploit. It was intended to use Quigley, a League organizer, in exactly the way Maxwell was used, but Quigley exposed the plot in a sensational series of affidavits, and strangely enough the newspapers said nothing about it. Quigley was paid large sums of money and “flirted” with those who sought to buy him long enough to get the details of their plans, in order to expose them for the benefit of League members. Real names and dates are given throughout. started to read this interesting series begin with this chapter. Each chapter The meral of them all is the same—you can’t beat Here is the picture of the au- Indians are natural orators. The letter which came to the editor of the Leader from Red Fox, out in the Bull mountains of Montana, would prove that, if it needed proof. The question of Indian citizen- ship, which he brings up, is one which few whites have thought of. “I am sending you a picture of me on my steed, that I rode from Montana to 6,000 miles,” Red Fox writes. “On this trip I interviewed 25 state governors, and had two in- terviews with President Wilson. On this same pony I addressed 35,000 people on July 4, 1917, in - the “presence of Secretary of War Baker at the New York City College stadium. My cos- tume is embellished with 10,000,000 beads.” His story is If you have not ing up and down the office. ‘This is a big thing! Think what it will mean if we can catch this man! It will mean the finish of the League! This is toc big for me to handle alone! I will go and consult with the others.’” Quigley suggested a government secret service man. ¢ “No,” said Carpenter, those cheap three-dollar- a-day fellows are no good. I will go to New York, hire a real detective and capture this spy myself.” Quigley was instructed to go to New York and told to go by a different route than taken by Car- penter, who declared he was going to New York immediately. Needless to say, Quigley did not go to New York. Instead he made public the whole plans of the opposition and the ridiculous details of the “German spy” story. Presumably Mr. Car- penter went to New York to find the mysterious Mr. Bernstein, who had no existence outside Quig- ley’s imagination. : Thus ended one of the most remarkable plans “to expose the League from the inside.” ‘Montana,’ and back, deserve to be free? The Indians have proved they should be free, and still America, “the home of the free,” has withheld citizenship. When you see a brave young Indian marching beside your son in the army, is that not enough to convince you that he and his people, the first Americans, deserve free- dom from-'the throttling of the Indian bureau? Freedom is planted in every Indian heart. These many years we have not murmured, because we believed that some day our freedom would be granted us. In the midst of freedom, must. we be slaves? Oh, God, the Great Spirit, help America see her faults, to see the things right at home as well as abroad. : I’d rather remain a blanket Indian than adopt many of the white ideals of civilization. ~Your modern women with war paint. I'd rather live a free life, an honest and truthful and spiritual life, than the white man’s who curses his God. RED FOX SKIUHUSHU. IDAHO’S TEN-FOOT ALFALFA _Wilson, Idaho, Inclosed is a sample of third crop of éifalfa, Will make . The Snake River valley of southwest Idahom - the prize hay and stock country. Al usual farm “Editor Nonpartisan Leader: pulled August 9, and 80 inches high. . fourth crop and pasture too. : crops seem to succeed here. The Nonpartisan league - grows here fine, too.. L. VCALD'WEI;,B'.