The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 1, 1919, Page 13

1A - L 4 PN I B v w - ~ - Jo - BN 4.8 0 [ N 5 Manufacturing Unrest BY GEORGE CREEL (Former Chairman Committee on Public Information, in Leslie’s Weekly.) FEW weeks ago a Min- nesota jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of the state against Townley and Gilbert, two leaders of the Non- partisan league, charged with conspir- acy to teach doctrines of disloyalty. The League, it may be explained, is a farmers’ organization sufficiently pow- erful politically to carry North Dakota at successive elections and to threaten the dominance of the two old parties in Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska and Idaho. The indictments against Townley and Gilbert were returned under cir- cumstances that in themselves aroused a great deal of bitter feeling and un- rest. In the first place, the men were not arrested under the federal espion- age law, specifically and drastically framed to reach just such offenses, nor was any federal official in the state found willing to proceed against Gil- bert and Townley on the evidence col- lected and presented. The arrests were made under an inadequate state law that had to be stretched to cover the alleged crime, and the trial was delayed until a year had passed. Members of the Nonpartisan league charged openly that the whole pro- ceeding was part of the campaign of persecution organized and carried on by the Republican “machine,” aided at every point by certain leaders of the Democratic “machine.” This feeling was widespread and well known, and it rose and grew at a time .of indus- trial unrest both in Minnesota and the nation. How,. then, did the authorities in charge of the case go about the business of disproving these sinister suspicions ? HOW CONVICTION OF TOWNLEY WAS OBTAINED 1. By holding the trial in a remote county in a small town virtually inac- cessible by any modern means of travel. 2. By trying the case before a judge who had recently admitted prejudice. When it happened to be Townley and Gilbert before the bar, however, the eminent jurist decided that his preju- dices had abated, and successfully re- sisted the efforts of the defense to oust him. 8. Although charged with making speeches calculated to undermine loy- alty, neither Gilbert or Townley was -permitted to introduce speeches call- ing upon people to support the war, nor were they allowed to show their various patriotic activities or to call witnesses - willing to testify to their loyalty to the government and to the war purposes of America. 4. At the last, when Townley claim- ed his constitutional right to present his own case to the jury, the judge re- fused permission and the prisoner was made. to- keep silent. And then there are those who smug- ly wonder why it is that there is dis- content, anger, suspicion and unrest; why it is that our courts are attacked and the processes of our law subjected to the charge of discrimination and in- equality! The guilt or innocence of Townley and Gilbert has ceased to be of prime importance in this matter. It is the machinery of American justice that is again on trial before the work- ers of the United States even as in the case of Mooney. Lamont, Okla. Edltor Nonpartisan Leader: So it has come down to this: The farmers are all right in their adher- ence to the principles of the Nonpar- tisan league; but their leadership is wrong. Big business says it and big - business knows. Townley must go. If he remains at the head, the movement will fail. B. B. is anxious to see it succeed.’ B. B. spent nearly a million with its right hand to make it fail. Evidently the left hand knew nothing of what the right paw was doing. A funny fellow is B. plus. And what comic logic he employs! When we fought the kaiser, that crowned nut overlooked this peach of an argument. Old Ki well might have said: “Americans, you are brave ‘soldiers all right, but you can never win under present leadership. Change about, gentlemen, and keep right on changing, until you get a set of of- ficers with which I will be satisfied. Yeh; why not? What you need is German leaders.” SAM FLINT. BROME AND OTHER GRASSES Brome grass is the most valuahle pasture and hay grass for North Da- kota. - There are some other grasses specially adapted for some conditions. Brome and these other grasses are de- scribed and best methods of culture are given in Circular No. 24, issued by - the extension division, North Dakota Agricultural college. ADVERTISEMENTS ‘Raincoats When the armistice was signed the U. S. government contractors had on hand an enormous supply of U. S. Army Raincoats finished too late to go to France. 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