The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 30, 1918, Page 6

3 C LARENCE L. REAMES, assistarit United States attorney / ) P /Y gaty, e Y, 7 %, 7 7 7 7 7 2 Y TNonpartigan ader Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League—Every Week Entered as second-class matter September 8, 1915, at the postoffice at St. Paul, Minnesota, under the Ac¢t of March 8, 1879, OLIVER 8, MORRIS, Editor A. B. GILBERT, Associate Editor : B. 0. FOSS, Art Editor 3 Advertising rates on application. ~Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; six months, $1.60. Please do not make checks, drafts nor money orders payable to indi- viduals. Address all letters and make all remittances to The Nonpartisan Lea Box 576, St. Paul, Minn. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS THE S. C. BECKWITH SPECIAL AGENCY, Advertising Representatives, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City. der, Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly advertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our advertising columns. AN UNFIT PROSECUTOR general, in charge of sedition prosecutions at Seattle, Wash., the man responsible for the arrest and indictment of Wil- - liam Bouck, master of the Washington state Grange, made a speech : back to the dark ages. No man is required to .constitutions: 17 he is found guilty by a jury of-his peers. : . prosecutor says that he calls men before him to _gree of proof,” and if his decision under this re- —and he admits that such: action ruins them, recently at Seattle. In this speech he made two statements that together, we think, disqualify him as a law-enforcing officer and .}'ixstifydthe demand of Seattle organized labor that he be removed. e said: : We have power almost of life and death over aliens. - We could ruin all in this room. (He was speaking to Seattle business men:) Through the press we could point the finger of suspicion at yd& and the mischief would be done. We are not going to abuse this power. The power to ruin men by suspicion can not safely be placed in any-man’s hands. If the sedition laws justify any such state- ment by a prosecutor they should be amended. It is bad. taste; to say the least, for a government prosecutor to boast of any such power. He said further: Whether of foreign birth or not, if their patriotism can be proved by the examinations that we give them we want them with us. If they are not able to prove by the high degree of proof we require, action is taken against them. This is a reversal of law and order. It harks ; PROVE HIMSELF, INNOCENT under present |-\ The law assumes him innocent till This make them prove their patriotism by a “high de- versal of law and order is-against the “culprit,” he charges them formally—indicts them publicly BEFORE THEY ARE TRIED. :The “finger of suspicion” is pointed, to use his own words, and “the mischief 1s done.f’ Is what this man claims of our sedition laws true? ; HAVE YOU READ “IOWA’S REIGN OF TERROR”?. THE article in our issue of ‘September 16 on the reign of ter- ror in Iowa, which was a summary of a much longer article that appeared originally in the Iowa Homestead, attracted . widespread attention. We have had-several suggestions from read- ers that the article ought to be issued in pamphlet form. We are glad to announce that the Homestead itself is now issuing it in ‘ : / - that form. The Homestead is re- . printing its original article en- tire. This goes into much more . interesting detail than the Lead- mary of the original. Doubtless many of our readers would like to read Mr. Pierce’s complete ar- ticle, illustrated: with photo- graphs and drawings, and if so they can obtain it by writing "% b the Towa Homestead, Des Moines, Iowa, inclosing a 3-cent - complete should be read. by SAND - THE ' OTHER HAND ‘ 7 : “reign of terror ha BE GOING GOOD - Sooi. ' b - cated in many states oy, w iy, ey wy, (1 %’% E 75 % % %,,{%é% " er article, which was only a sum- stamp for postage. The article. ers everywhere. The lowa - been dupli- i ‘ This. - Things ently. letting slip the following sentence: iy like those exposed by Mr. Pierce have occurred in every state wheve the League is organized, except in North Dakota, where the farm- ers control and enforce the law and constitution.. : A. C. TOWNLEY O BE hated, maligned, ridiculed, hounded, pur_sued l_)y lies I and misrepresentations, charged with all ecrimes in the - calendar—that is always the lot of the leaders of the com- mon people who will not sell out, ! T and will not compromise with the enemies of democracy and jus- tice. It is possible for reform organizations and people’s move- ments to choose leaders who will not draw this fire, but whenever such leaders are chosen it is the beginning of the end of such movements. Why? Because leaders satisfactory to the ene- my betray their followers to the enemy. : President Wilson and General Pershing. are not approved by Kaiser Wilhelm as leaders of the American people. The kaiser would undoubtedly be better ipim satisfied with other leaders for > a this great republic. It would be possible for us as a people to choose a president and a general satisfactory to the kaiser. But the kaiser would be satisfied only with American leaders who would" betray America. If he could name our president and the commander of our armies, do you doubt that Germany would win the war? The same logic applies to political or economic organizations of the people. Such organizations stir up almost -unbelievable op- position among the classes whose privileges are menaced. - These classes control the wealth, the avenues of publicity and the poli- ticians. With these weapons they seek to discredit and destroy the people’s organization. Their chief mode of attack is not against : the organization as such, but against its leaders.: No matter what leaders the organization has, they will be attacked, UNLESS THEY ARE LEAD- COMPROMISE WITH ENEMIES OF THE OR-: GANIZATION. The fight on the leaders is al- ways with the object of getting the organization to repudiate efficient and effective captains, in the tion. If enemies of the people could choose lead- ers for the people, people’s: organizations would: - must expose themselves to the slings and arrows of the enemies of the people. All the venom that hate can generate, all the falsehoods that liars ‘ : can invent, all the prejudice that menaced vested interests can encourage, are directed against the leaders. big men—men willing to sacrifice everything to principle, willing to forego much that ordinary men hold dear—to stand up under this. storm without weakening: S S ! Those who know A. C. Townley have never seen him flinch or falter under the storm of abuse, lies, misrepresentation; slander and vilification directed against him. duty. He even objects to. personal defenses of himself being made for him by his lieutenants or in official League publications.. He has asked that his picture, his name and personal references to him* be omitted, so far as possible, in the Nonpartisan Leader. o We imagine that President Wilson considers the attacks on’ him in the newspapers of Germany as more of a compliment than anything else. We know that Mr. Townley considers the attacks on him in American corporation-controlled newspapers as e,videifce b that he is making good. SRR ANOTHER OUTBREAK FROM THE COLONEL . ¢ Y OLONEL ROOSEVELT has made another attack e Nonpartisan league. ' He indulges in the usual misrepresen- | tations of the organization, comparing it with the I. W. W. .of the League, whom he calls the Am and bolsheviki. His main attack, however, is on President Townley all this he fools nobody. In reality he cares not a snap who the farmers have chosen for their leaders. He merely tack on “leaders’ as a camouflage. - This he 'g'irves%am“ ERS-THAT CAN BE CONTROLLED OR WILL | hope that new leaders will betray the organiza- last about as long as America would if the kaiser : could choose the president of the United States. = and the commanding general of American armies.- = It is the leaders of the common people that It takes He faces it as a part of his erican Lenine or Trotzky. ‘In =~ .-