The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 26, 1918, Page 13

7 Australian Veterans Join Labor Party President Wilson’s Belief That Soldiers Will Agitate Radical Reforms Is Borne Out - BY GEORGE MACDONNELL RECENT issue of the Australian Worker, the principal weekly organ of the Australian Labor party, states that at the state conference of the Labor party of New South Wales, held in June, 1918, a motion was made to al- low the affiliation with the Labor party of the Returned Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Political league. The motion was carried by an overwhelming ma- jority and two delegates of the Re- turned Soldiers’ league were seated at the conference. The Returned Soldiers’ league has 15,000 members in Ney South Wales alone. The popu- lation of Australia is 5,000,000 and the number of troops sent to Europe is about 350,000. The 15,000 returned soldiers who have affiliated with the Labor party in New South Wales therefore constitute a large propor- tion of the total number of returned soldiers. This is of special interest in view of the fact that at the state elections held in Queensland on March 16, 1918, the Labor party was returned with a two to one majority, the Queensland soldiers in France voting overwhelm- _ingly for the Labor party. At this same election, the party opposed to the Labor party (in Australia the two old parties have combined against the .| Labor party) put up 20 returned sol- diers as candidates for the Queens- land parliament, hoping thereby to catch the sentimental and the soldier vote. Of these 20 candidates only two were elected and this in spite of the fact that the loyalty issue was raised against the Labor party. The people of Australia and, more important, the soldiers, have seen through this loyalty camouflage and the result is that the returned soldiers are flocking to the standard of the Labor party by thousands. The Labor party stands for the elimination in peace as well as in war of that most undesirable element of modern civi- lization—the profiteer. The above facts about the returned soldiers in Australia are in line with the prophecy of President Wilson in his letter to the New Jersey Demo- crats written last March in which he says, “The men in the trenches, who have been freed from the economic serfdom to which some of them have been accustomed, will, it is likely, re- turn to their homes with a new view and a new impatience of all mere political phrases, and will demand real thinking and sincere action.” - Puts the Lid on Teagarden AAttempt of a Political Hireling to Ride to Success on the - . Votes of Montana Farmers Arouses M. O. Malmin of Saco Saco, Mont. To the Leader and Fellow Members of the League: I have not much time to write, but after reading the statement of one Sam Teagarden of Ferest Grove, I feel that a little comment would not ‘be out of place. In this statement this officeseeker is trying to pose as a friend of the farmeér and the Non- partisan league, and at the same time making a vile attack upon the presi- dent and founder of the organization, A. C. Townley, and thereby trying to create distrust in. the leaders of the movement and making the organiza- tion ineffective. 2 3 What other qualifications this man may have, or lack, it is easy to see that he does not lack nerve, by com- ing out and DEMANDING the sup- port of the organized farmers of Mon- tana to elect him to the senate after branding himself an agent of the cop- per trust. How do we farmers know that Teagarden is working in the in- terest of the copper company? What papers are granting him front page space ‘with big scare line headings? Is it the papers supported by the farmers? We have failed to find it. Is it the papers owned and supperted by the workers of the state? I don’t think. It is the big dailies, owned and operated in the interest of Big Biz and their hangers on, who know that if the farmers and workers of the state become properly ‘organized for their own protection, their little game of farming the farmer will be a thing of the past. But after all, we must expect just such moves on the part of the graft- ing element in this as well as every other state, and the method of attack is nearly always the same. - It would indeed be a hopeless task for the enemies of the farmers to direct. their attacks against the rank and file of the organization. They must attack the men at the head, men. who -have shown themselves capable _.of_building up an organization and .~ making it effective, for they have: . Dothing to fear from us as individuals, B A 0 T A A A 5 B MY i s i but when once organized we at once become a menace to their business. _ Three years ago when I still lived in North Dakota the Equity was drag- ged into court with our departed hero, George Loftus, as the target for per- secution and abuse. In spite of it all the Equity today is stronger than ever, and while the shock of the dirty attack took some of the weak sisters off their feet for the time being, they are back in the movement again fully convinced that they had been made the goat for the big interests. Mr. Loftus had built up a great or- ganization in an effort to protect the farmers, which constituted.a sufficient reason in the minds of the grain gamblers of Minnesota and their tools in North Dakota for’ starting their campaign of slander and persecution. The Equity, with Loftus as its Jleader, was largely a commercial or- ganization. The Nonpartisan league, a political organization, is_far more dangerous to their game of graft, and therefore must be broken up at all costs, and Mr. Townley, its founder and leader, must be the victim of the attack. . Now as to A. C. Townley, I am not going to try to defend Mr. Townley, for before the old gang of Montana get through with him they will learn that they have for once found a man, though he be a farmer, that is well able to defend himself, as well as the cause he is representing. But it may be interesting to members of the League to knowy that I have known Mr. Townley personally for the last 12 years and farmed in the same vicinity with him at Beach, N. D. As to Teagarden’s charge that Mon- tana money was being used in the Minnesota campaign: Would it be fair to ask Mr. Teagarden whose money was used to buy the cars and finance the organizers that did the work in Montana to begin with when Montana had neither .an organization nor money to build one with? It was the hard-earned money collected from the farmers. of North Dakota that put not only the League: in Montana but in | s "/ PAGE THIRTEEN o ADVERTISEMENTS ; “Fo hielp make strong, keen, Fed-blooded Amerieamy thers Is poihing fn Wy experience which I have found so valuable as organic iron-=Nuxated ¥ron,” says Dr., James Francis Sullivan, formerly physician of Bellevad Hospital (Outdoor Dept.), New York, and the Westchester County Hospitaly Nuxated Iron often increases the strength and endurance of weak, nervousy Fun-down people fn two weeks’ time. It is now being used by over three including such men as Hon, Leslie M, Shaw, formes and ex-Governor of Iowa; former United States Benator Richard Rolland Kenney of Delaware, at present Major of the U. S, ° Army; General John L. Clem (Retired), the drummer boy of Shiloh, wha illion people annually, Becretary of the Treasury, was usgeant in the U, 8. 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