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. glary, was acquitted by the : “mark,” 80 he got on. a train and went down to the Twin Cities, where his potatoes were shipped. - He then made ‘the rounds of the retail stores in the two cities and found his spuds being sold to consumers for $1 a bushel. He then figured up the freight and legiti- - mate expenses and profits to whole- sale and retail middlemen, and fig- ured that he had been skinned out of at least 50 cents a bushel on his 1,100 bushels. Experiences such as that are what have made Mr. Wallace a Leaguer, Mr. Wallace organized the town of | Perham, and at various times in -his nearly 40 years in the township has been school clerk, town clerk and jus- tice of the peace. .He holds the latter office’ today. . ; You can see from all this that Mr. Wallace ‘is one of those shiftless, good-for-nothing farmers, who can not make a success himself, is jealous of the success of other people and con- sequently - wants to tear .down the government. - Therefore, he is a Leaguer! At least, this is the way the kept press would reason it out. Of course they consider Mr. Wallace an I. W. W. and a Bolshevik, thor- oughly disloyal and unpatriotic. How- ever, -Mr. Wallace is: bringing up 17 children. to be good citizens of the Grand Old Republic, and is making 230 acres of good old American soil bloom and produce for the hungry mouths of the world. In our humble opinion, he is ‘entitled to wear the badge_of good citizenship and is en- titled to the respect of every honest citizen. Of such is the backbone - of the nation. Atrocities of Military Justice Congress Takes Up Investigation of System Which Allows Barbarous Punishment for Army Rule Violations e |ONGRESS is looking se- riously into. the matter of the recent adminis- tration of military jus- tice and many revela- tions that will surprise the country will probably be. made. Surprising as it may seem, our mili- tary laws and our system of adminis- tering them are still those adopted from English law in 1774 and long since abandoned by England. Those who know of cases where men have been railroaded to the peni- tentiary by army authorities for trifling offenses under this old system should forward the facts to Senator Chamberlain or to their own senators without delay. The more pressure there is brought on congress the more certain. we ‘are to_ get thorough re- form in the matter. Even the conservative president of the very conservative American Bar association, George T. Page, recently expressed strong condemnation -of military-justice. At a meeting of the executive ‘council of the association in New York City on January 3, Mr. Page said: “This war has demonstrated that our military laws and our system of administering military justice are un- worthy of the name of law or justice. We are still following rules and forms copied from England in 1774, which were long ago abandoned by Great Britain and which were better suited to the armies of feudal times than to the citizen armies of a modern re- public. : 3 “My.. interest in‘this matter was aroused some. time ago by stories of outrageous punishments meted out by: our courts-martial for comparatively slight breaches of military discipline. Punishments are not only grossly harsh, as compared with the penal- ties imposed for like offenses by our - criminal courts, but they also differ so widely that we find the same of- fense punished in one court-martial by 25 years in the penitentiary and in another by six months’ punishment in_ disciplinary barracks. “A boy overstaying his leave or ylelding to a natural impulse to go .home for Christmas is charged, not with ‘absence without leave,” but with desertion. Disobedience of orders is seen by a zealous officer as mutiny. In neither case is there present the intent to desert or to mutiny against- the authority of the army, but boys have been convicted of the graver crime and sentenced to as much as 25 years’ imprisonment. “The accused soldier has mno real legal protection. He may, it is true, obtain a pardon from' the president, but this leaves his record blotted by a . serious crime of which he ought never ‘to have been accused. “A young soldier, charged with bur- _court- Lk martial which tried him. The com- manding officer who appointed the court disapproved the finding of ‘not guilty’ and ordered the court to re- consider the case. They did so and promptly found a verdict of ‘guilty’ and sentenced the boy to 15 years’ im- prisonment. What would be thought of power vested in the governor of a state to set aside a verdict of ‘not guilty’ and order a retrial in 3 crim- inal case? * It is fundamental to our principles of right and justice that no one should have the: power to inter- fere with a verdict of ‘not guilty.’ “A boy of 16, who had just been discharged from the hospital after an attack of influenza, instead of being allowed the usugl five days for re- cuperation, was set to scrubbing kitchen floors and to guard duty. He protested he was not strong enough to do this work, nevertheless he was continued on guard duty for a longer period than usual.” In this condition he was taken with a chill, went to his tent to-get his overcoat, and while there sat down on the edge of his cot. He was caught with his head in his hands and was accused of being asleep while on duty. Though he de- nied that he was asleep and asserted that he only yielded to overpowering fatigue, he was convicted by court- martial and sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary.” : PLAN TO SHIFT WAR TAXES The people must sleep “with both eyes: open” if they would defeat the plan to shift war taxes from the few to the many, declared Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in a speech before the National Popular Government league. “Already there is a well-concerted policy of securing federal taxation which would reduce the part which wealth must pay,” said the secretary. “The pleas which will be made for this transference will be many. They will be put up in smooth-looking cap- sules. The junkers, who are resolved that taxation shall be light on those who made big money out of the war, are past masters in camouflage.” that carries ' b actully : ive you -_“ehm'?_p ve every ry down!' gingle assertion. 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