The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 13, 1919, Page 10

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Free Rlow Wflummg-w £ -of - Washington, Big Timber, Mont. DITOR Nonpartisan Leader: Inclosed is a copy of a letter I ‘am sending to Judge Dean and which I trust re- quires no In passing sentence on Mr. Townley, Judge Dean complained that the friends of Mr. Townley who had writ- ten him had failed to sign their names. So I thought the good judge might possibly be somewhat placated by the receipt of a letter with the name attached. I am a former member of the state senate of Montana, enlisted and serv- ed as a private during the Spanish- American war, am a- graduate of the University of Indiana, Stanford uni- versity and was one time a fellow of Columbia university, make my living by cultivating 640 acres of Montana land, and get my recreation by boost- ing for the Nonpartisan league. The letter: “Hon. E. C. Dean, “Jackson, Minn. “Dear Sir:" To any person at all in- clined to cortemplate the present in the light of the past, there are many points of similarity between the men and events of today and those of a century past. “A trifle more than a hundred years ago Europe was in the throes of those frightful wars still falsely called ‘Na- poleonic.’ A message of freedom had just crossed the Atlantic from the new world; France had cast off the galling yoke of Bourbon monarchy, and a vast army of frightened kings, with their abject retainers, were coalesced in a devilish alliance to throttle the rising spirit of democracy and to reinstate the Bourbon democracy upon the de- molished throne of Europe. “Enthused almost beyond measure with the possibilities of their new-born freedom, the French national assem- bly voted a resolution of sympathy and encouragement to the oppressed of all nations in their aspiration to the goal of universal democracy. DRAGGED TO JAIL FOR ESPOUSING LIBERTY “America and France already had abolished their kings, and many thou- sands- in England ' were hopefully awaiting the dawn of a better day. Among the latter was one Eugene Despard, a white-haired colonel of the British army who had faithfully serv- ed King George for upwards of 30 long years. But in the heart of Despard there was planted the inspira- tion of-human freedom. - Finding it no longer possible to curb his righteous enthusiasm, Despard gathered around him a score or more of kindred spirits and they bound themselves with a solemn oath to labor together in the common aspiration toward ‘those eivil, political and rehglous liberties which the A]mlghty, in h1s infinite bounty, has given to all men.’ “For this heinous offense, Despard and his friends were dragged before the court of Lord Ellensborough, in the district of Southwark, where they commit treason against the benign government of George III.—the crime Adams, - Jefferson, Franklin, Hancock, *Patrick. Henry, | Molly Pitcher and Thomas Paine. “At the termination of a trial last- ing less than a day—a trial in which the great Lord Nelson himself had will- ingly taken the stand and testified to the good name ‘and heroic services:of Colonel Despard—the jury, at the be- hest: of Lord ‘Ellensborough, recorded explanation. . office to preside. “like poaching and petty larceny; that | mneeds ~jsh judiciary not a British judge was " Tubes \(/ “Fifty years following the shame of . 5;1}:@ ’gifi Ellensborough and the martyrdom of 850 240 R Despard, when England finally regain- e ed her lost sanity, there appeared on. ST the stage of British-life one Thomas 90 1200 Henry Buckle, perhaps the greatest xg'% :‘g historian who ever lived. In the sev- s enth chapter of his incomparable ‘His- Ru‘m‘:‘;. FREE v.’.m'l .,.x.,_ = & tory of Civilization, Buckle frankly | R R KT S relates the shameful story of his own people during that long and dismal RCONOMY TIRE & RUB;BEcRfilc?gé were charged with a conspiracy to . * history, and you may learn more about a verdict, of ‘guilty’ and Despard and his: fnends\ were. required to stand - _ 5 imghty economc mterests ave Factory Guarantee Otherwise You 'Are Unprotected Bata\naTlres‘ are guaranteed by the factory for 4,000 MILES C. 0.-D. ON APPROVAL Size Plain Non-Skid Tube 10.40° $2. “‘ entreat.you by the hopes of mercy which are closed in this world, that you regain that sense of mind which may prepare your souls for that salvation, which, by the infinite mercy of God, I beseech of God that you may obtain. * * * The only thing now remaining for me is the painful task of pronouncing against you the awful sentence * * * that you, and each of you, be taken to the place of execu- tion, where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead; but while you are still alive, your’ bodies are to be taken down and your bowels torn out and burned before your faces; your heads are then to be cut off, and your bodies drawn, quar- tered and placed at the disposal of the king; and may God Almighty have mercy on your souls.’ OLD CHARGE KEY TO MODERN PERSECUTIONS “I retrace these gruesome details, because it is only in contemplation of frightful tragedies like' this that I become capable of comprehendjng the roaring farce recently enacted in the district court over which Jt is your Inner tubes fully guaranteed. Special prices on odd sizes. o Tire Supply Company 1209 Hennepin, Minneapolis BATAVIA SPELLS SECURITY PRICES TALK “Today as I read in a local paper l s : a glowing account of your words in less l passing -sentence upon Mr. Townley,: th an 3 r‘ce my little children inquired in wonder- .. ment how it was possible for Judge Dean to corhpound the wrongs by couching that sentence in a tirade of unkind, abusive . and untruthful’|- Publle D Dwflcmrh-mmn- 9 words. I could only answer their | A»..., W -nnl{lou questioning by relating to them the 2 o story of Socrates and his accusers; the story of Pilate and the Nazarene; the story” of Ellensborough and Despard. “When I told them that in England, only a century ago, there were some 200 different offenses made punish- able by death; that in those.savage years thousands upon thousands of men and even women were sentenced to the scaffold for such trivial acts ’lfunlnbg \m:hn- % %!m lpu'rk.bl prices. hl w!thordlt WI'Itaat once. Supply mr now while you can l Remember we in all the gruesome annals of the Brit- PUBLIC 'I‘IBE co " Dept. A-101, E. 35th St.,, Chicago, IIL ever known to resign his position rather than carry such beastly laws into execution—when I related to them “all these facts, and added that even Despard was not denied the privilege of speaking in his own behalf, they appeared to comprehend the real char- acter .of at least one of the star per- formers in the little drama recently staged at the bar of the Jackson dis- trict court. Dept.121 1206-10 W. 15th St, period when brutal judges did the bid- ding of their masters by committing men and women to- the scaffold be- cause they dared set their faces against enthroned injustice and lift their voices on behalf of human free- dom. Read this one chapter of British yourself than T might tell in a thou- sand letters. “The real crime of Arthur Townley lies in this, that in common with all’| thoughtful and honest people, he learn- ed long ago that in many respects our boasted democracy is but a shallow delusion. For 150 years we have done all our voting about those things which concern us least; In our blindness, we have voted about dog catchers, con- { - stables and congressmen; while the | at Feagesa 'g..*w”:mA you. Freshly made tives, every-one