The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 11, 1918, Page 7

GIVING THE BABIES A GOOD START E HAVE read with interest recent accounts of babies be- ing named “Woodrow Wilson” and “Liberty Bond.” / Woodrow Wilson Smith and Liberty Bond Jones, and the other little Woodrow Wilsons and Liberty Bonds, who have come to happy parents since the war, have been started out in life with .‘at least one advantage;—-good names. 2 bl > We are pleased to'give publicity to a little fellow born recently at Aberdeen, S. D., and who is the pride of Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Johnson. Mr. Johnson is a labor unionist, and his new son has been christened “Townley Bates J. ohnson”—Townley after the presi- * dent of the National Nonpartisan league, and Bates after the farmer candidate for governor of South Dakota. : friend at Aberdeen who sends us this information says he- .. thinks we will agree that “the kid is starting out right.” We do agree, and would be glad to hear of any more “Townley Bates” who may be gladdening South Dakota homes. : C cent issue of the Oregon Grange Bulletin, has an article on “What Constitutes a Yellow Dog.” Mr. Spence discusses an editorial in the Portland Oregonian attacking the leaders of the Nonpartisan league, Master William Bouck of the Washington state Grange and others 'who have had the courage to point out war profi- teering and the intelligence to suggest a remedy. According.to the Oregonian, those who argue for higher taxes and fewer bonds to pay the cost of the war are “yellow dogs.” g Says Mr. Spence: _ The true patriots in this country are those who dare to openly point out the greed of the profiteer, like President Wilson, Secretary McAdoo, Townley and Bouck, while the patrioteers are the hypocrit- ical lip-servers who are in sympathy with the profiteers and seditious- " ly aid them and the kaiser by classing as ; disloyal and seditious and yellow dogs all~ who have the moral courage to poin!:.cntf- 3 * the injustice and suggest=a remedy. ‘. S i ) A desperate effort is being made in . Oregon to make the Grange subservient to the .politicians representing special privi- lege. As usual they are telling the farmers to “keep out of politics,” and are trying to - intimidate them by such editorials as the Oregonian’s, which seek to smear with dis- - loyalty patriotic, thinking citizens who dare to point out political and economic abuses * and recommend measures to correct them. The National Nonpartisan league is not yet organizing in Oregon, but we believe that the sacred fire of democracy will be kept burning there as long as the Oregon Grange Bulletin continues to exist, and that, when the time comes, the producers of Ore- gon will rise up, like they did in North Da- kota and are doing in a number of other states, and will give the junkers and reac- tionaries a run for their money. 3 WE ASK YOUR INDULGENCE THIS issue of the Leader is dated so . ' THE OREGON GRANGE E. SPENCE, master of the Oregon state Grange, in a re- long after the election that you will : probably wonder why it carries no election reports from the states where the Nonpartisan league is taking part in the cam-’ paigns. ' The fact is that it takes a full week to print and mail the Leader. The Leader presses are constantly running. W\hen they get through Saturday with one issue, they begin Monday grind- ing out the next. It is a big job to send out over 200,000 papers each week. To do it we have to begin printing each issue a week before the date which appears on the paper. The presses started to run on this issue on Monday, November 4 (it had to be written and set up in type during the week prior), and hence' we can not give you the election reports until next week. There will'be a sum- ‘mary of the results in the November 18 issue (next week) and a complete story in the November 25 issue.. So we ask your in- dulgence till then. B out before the election and received by you after the elec- : tion, you who are reading this may know the‘results in the League contests, at least in your own state, but we who are writ- ing it will not know the results until several days after this is in print. ' . The organized farmers took part this year in election cam- paigns in seven states, as follows: North and South Dakota and Idaho, full legislative, congressional and state tickets; Minnesota, full legislative ticket and candidates for governor, attorney gen- eral and railroad and warehouse commissioner; Montana, full leg- - "islative ticket and United States senatorship; Colorado and Ne- WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE? ECAUSE this is an “in-between” issue of the Leader, gotten bt T ",'Nobédy_e)'cpectéd: thé,Leagutho win ALL its éontests‘ in this, . the second general election in which it took part, least of all the o raska, legislative tickets in counties where the League is organ-- members*of the League themselves, ago the League won North Dakota. If it wins one additional state this year it will be a big victory. But everything indicates at this writing that the organized farmers will do better than that. Their ‘ticket from top to bottom won the Idaho and North Dakota pri- maries this year, and their legislative tickets won primary contests in Colorado, Montana and Minnesota. ~ The press will be anxious to misrepresent the League’s gains in the present election—to exaggerate defeats, if there are any, and to belittle the victories of the organized farmers. The country vote is always the last counted, and hence early returns are apt to look bad for League candidates, giving opportunity to the press to declare the farmers defeated, BEFORE the vote is all counted. And then they will neglect to mention afterwards that later returns show the League men winners. - Of course they.will not be able to fool you very easily on who is elected in your own county and state, but do not make up your mind how the League has fared in other states until you see the reports in the Leader next week. Even though the League may lose in your county and state, it may carry all the rest of the states in which it-is taking part in the election. Watch the Leader for accurate election reports. : A SOLDIER ASSAULTED V. MOREY lives at Grand Junction, Iowa. He fought at Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Nashville, was wounded at Kenesaw Mountain and marched with Sher- man to the sea. He was mustered out of the army in 1865, having served three years and fought and bled to preserve the Union, one -and inseparable. No man living today is more entitled to the love and respect of his fellow countrymen than this veteran of 76 win- ters. As one of the few remaining in the rapidly thinning ranks of those entitled to wear the bronze button of the Grand Army of the Republic, Mr. Morey is entitled to the homage of ‘all true patriots. : On September 21, 1918, Mr. Morey was standing on the sidewalk at Grand Junction talking to his wife’s sister. Up the street an open-air meeting was being held with Woodworth Clum, $10,000 a year manager of the Greater Iowa association, as the speaker. At the conclusion of the speak- ing, Clum asked the audience to take off their hats while the “Star Spangled Ban- ner” was played. Mr. Morey is hard of hear- ing. He was standing quite a distance from ‘the outskirts of the audience that was lis- tening to Clum. He was engaged in con- versation and did not hear Clum’s request for the removal of hats. Clum jumped from the stage on which he was speaking, elbowed his way through the crowd, attempted to knock Mr. Morey’s hat off, and then drew back and slugged him in the face with his clenched fist. The assaulted man was taken by surprise, not knowing what it was all about. His G. A. R. button was in plain view when Clum slugged him. Clum gave him no opportunity to ex- g plain about his bad hearing. : - Clum is a young, strong man. His victim was an old man. One might wax indignant at men of Clum’s stamp. How- ever, a plain statement of the facts seems to cover the ground ' sufficiently. TREASON TO HUMANITY E CARE nothing whatever about the partisan fight aé such, ’f between the “ins” and the “outs,” between the Repub- | But we do care about the war - licans and the Democrats. aims we have proclaimed to the world—the war aims that have maintained the morale, not only of America but of the peoples of the countries allied with us. The sedition laws have prevented di- rect. and open attacks on our war aims by the imperialists until recently, when, on account -of the latitude allowed in the political campaign, the opposition to a peace of justice—a peace that will disarm the nations, unite them in a league and forever end war— | broke out in violent fury. To repudiate the conditions of peace that we led the world to 1 believe we were fighting for would, in our opinion, be worse than treason.. Treason is an act against one nation. To give up or. modify the 14 points on which our government has declared it will. make peace, would be TREASON TO THE WORLD—to the peoples of all nations, even to the German people, whom we have led to resist their militaristic and autocratic government on thé ground that we would make peace on the 14 points. - The imperialists, like Roosevelt, Lodge and Poindexter, whg:)j are opposing a peace of justice by seeking ' terms—seeking to use them as a basis of political attack—are per- haps not amenable to the sedition laws, but the opinion of mankind will accord them a place in history lower than that set aside fo men like Benedict Arnold: The treason of Arnold was ‘against the to set aside these peace _ people of ONE NATION; that of these men is against HUMANITY, e 2 e T AT e 3 < AT SATARISAE - & ‘At the last election two years + A e A b 0 ek A T TR - e AP 7 T R