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

Tlonpartigén Teader Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League—Every Week d & Entered as second-class matter September 8, 1915, at the postoffice at St. Paul, ¢ Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879. OLIVER 8. MORRIS, Editor ! : A. B. GILBERT, Associate Editor B. 0. FOSS, Art Editor Advertising rates on application. Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; si..x months, $1.50. Please do not make checks, drafts nor money orders payable to indi- viduals. Address all letters and make all remittances to The Nonpartisan Leader, Box 5756, 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. . S 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. MR. MEREDITH AGAIN : E ARE indebted to a new volume known as “Rus,” a rura “Who’s Who,” for’some more very interesting informa- tion about E. T. Meredith, publisher of Successful Farm- ing, a 25-cent a year farm paper which, originally a booster for the Nonpartisan league, has lately turned its popgun on the organized farmers. We have told you how Mr. Meredith was one of the trusty farm paper publishers summoned by Armour & Co. to a “confer- ence,” and-how Mr. Meredith promised certain things in the way of helping the big packers in their propaganda among farmers. We now turn to page 192 of the rural “Who’s Who.” We learn there that Mr. Meredith’s full name is Edwin Thomas Meredith. We ascertain the fact that he is a Democratic politician, having at i B |34 !, P cESSPUL FARPING i | one time been a delegate to a national Democratic convention. We | are also duly informed that he is a director of the Chicago Federal | Reserve bank, and is a member of the “excess profits board” of i the United States treasury department, whatever that is. (Won- der if it has anything to do with packers’ profits?) We then pro- I} ceed to read between the lines. In that way we gather that Mr. X Meredith, being a faithful Democratic politician, got the reserve . bank and treasury department appointments because of services |' to his party, which now happens to be in power. - i -~ . All this is very interesting and in no way discrediting to Mr. l . Meredith. We then proceed further and find this notation: “Di- { rector United States Chamber of Commerce.” Here we pause. We | now have our thumb on something. The United States Chamber i, of Commerce is an organization maintained at Washington, D. C,, | by the big interests of the country. A recent investigation by a f congressional committee revealed the fact that this organization exists to lobby for big interest and special privilege measures be- £ {7’ - fore congress; that it had a so-called “pie fund” to promote pub- i - licity for the big interests, and that the “Big Five” packers were i ~ heavy contributors to the “pie fund.” The whole thing seems to il connect up. It will be remembered that the United States Cham- {{ ber of Commerce issued an attack on the federal trade commission 4 | D e S ————— Bl of Commerce! He also runs a farm paper. Well, well! - : 1 | PLENTY OF PRECEDENT MERICAN newspaper editors who are against a peace of justice founded on the “14 points” and.who are doing their best to stir up jealousies, prejudices, hatreds and animosi- ‘are advocating a League of Nations to enforce peace and promote fI' self-government, self-determination and democracy in all countries 4l 'do not have any precedent. Disarmament, freedom of the seas, § never been tried oyt by a world league. On the other hand, our {| bitter-end editors and junkers are backed in their present fight on " the “14 points” by the decisions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 i and the acts of the Holy Alliance of European powers formed in the same year. : : 4 SR - Europe in 1815 émerged frdmfla:world ‘war '-pfecipitatedgby 5 apoleon’s ambition for werld empire, much as the world now. '@ »é : .lutions in all countries. | when the latter exposed the monopoly and profiteering .of the pack- i1 ers. And Mr. Meredith is a director of the United States Chamber. 1 fes among the nations, have plenty of precedent:’ But those who' self-determination of all peoples—all these are ideas which have “tarism, we lied to deceive.the enqbil(ll people, 'with n vy emerges from a world war precipitated by a similar ambition on the part of -the kaiser. Then as now revolutionary ideas had been let loose on the world. The American and French revolutions had boldly asserted that all men were born free and equal and that governments exist for the benefit of the people, not the people for the benefit of sovereigns. : \ The nations met at the Congress of Vienna to settle the prob- lems growing out of the Napoleonic wars, but they did not meet in a spirit of mutual co-operation or with the idea of creating world - coriditions that would destroy the causes of war. They met,”‘each with the desire to grab all territory possible, regardless of the right or wrong of it, and regardless of the desires of the weaker peoples whose lands were parceled out among the sovereigns. No less than 15 or 20 bitter and bloody wars followed, and almost as many revolutions and revolts of the people against their rulers. The hundred years following the Congress of Vienna was probably the bloodiest in the history of Europe, and all the slaughter was attributable directly or indirectly to the arrangements or failures of the Congress of Vienna. : But the most perfect flower of the reconstruction after the Napoleonic wars, from the point of view of present jingoes and junkers, was the Holy Alliance. This alliance at various times _included every European state except Great Britain and Turkey. It existed to prevent or put down internal reforms, revolts or revo- Its function was to defend tyrants and despots against their people. Thus, the Holy Alliance sent an army into Spain, where the people had revolted and demanded a consti- tution limiting the autocratic power of the sovereign. The leaders of this revolt were hung with the help of French. troops, and thou- sands of others thrown in jail. ‘ o ; The Holy Alliance commissioned an Austrian army to enter Italy and put down a revolt of the people against the foreign princes ruling the Italian states which® were refused self-govern- ment by.the Congress of Vienna. The policy of this infamous al- liance reached across the Atlantic and stirred the United States into action. When the alliance proposed to recover for the Spanish sovereign his colonies in South and Central America, which had revolted and set up republics, our President Monroe issued the famous “Monroe Doctrine,” which was notice for the European powers to keep “hands off” in the new world. -That bold challenge of our forefathers held good, chiefly because at that time England was governed by liberal statesmen and was not a member of the Holy Alliance. England backed up the United States in its position. We submit that our present bitter-end editors and junkers have plenty of precedent in history for opposing a peace of justice ¥ {0 53 3 NG at this time. The Congress of Vienna and the Holy Alliance and - their work, we take it, furnish unanswerable argument for the kind of a peace that_ is advocated in certain quarters today. : ~ GUBERNATORIAL JINGOISM ' : a . T THIS time when the efforts of sober-minded citizens and statesmen the world over are turned toward a peace of justice that will prevent future war and .make the world safe for democracy, a recent statement-of Governor Harding of Iowa may be taken as typical of what the jingoes and junkers are - doing. Governor Harding’s contribution to world peace is brief / and we give it in full: : Don’t let ‘mollycoddles and: sissy- boobs run this countty.\These-b S are only other:names for pacifists. - We want to be prepared to lick “hell out of any enemy and universal training will fix us up. S . ' Sure, we want to take our seats at the peace table with:thé “idea that it doesSn’t matter what is done, as we can “lick hell out of ’em” anyway, any:time we want to. To this end we should in‘tensxfy"v sy national hatreds and prejudices,: rather than mollify them.: W should admit that when we said we were ;fighting,;aga%ins ‘mihli en earrying out ‘our promisé'to. orld. By: all means; as Governor Harding sa