The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 3, 1919, Page 7

who wasted no precious - ers’ movement whose members numbered-250,000 and adherents . € cor. W the English and French many millions, te point out that the late Theodore Roosevelt had back of the fighting lines were severe in their treatment of the “been grossly misinformed about the organized farmers, and was minority opposed to the war, it remained for America, furtherest — doing damage to, these farmers and the cause of truth and. justice from the Scene of action, in comparative safety as Mr. Shaw says, by his repeated, bitter attacks on them. £ to go stark mad. Probably the craziest person during the whole Not to overlook following his father’s leads in all things, young business was the noncombatant newspaper editor in the United Roosevelt, in a speech at Mitchell, S. D., made a stupid attack on States. Not only did our courts violate all the-legal decencies in ~ the Nonpartisan league. According to a news report, he said: treatment of war heretics, but we were the only people at war who . Of all the “isms” that are going the rounds these days there is cheapened our own cause by mob violence. It would have been bad none more dangerous than the Nonpartisan league, which has cap- enough. if we had confined our unreasoning hate and rancor to tured the state of North Dakota. * * * persons who actually spoke and worked against the war. But we But 1 tell you that change is coming, The farmers of the North- did nok.' The o o vere used, and mobs were egged on, to HEE & G et iy s inidng nind; they # Pt oo o o1 e secute even mild ecritic i ! > 801) 196:1e infamy ggrsons W}close %n(iy tsir(: ggr‘x’:isnge!:lenitn zlzi(%xeg?n;tat?plilzrtal Plogam towa]rd one which is radical in the extreme; they have been i political and social ideas while at the same time supporting the o olwing their leaders it worlds 'of “lsms® and it may 5 | war. To criticize. the war profiteer, or suggest more taxes and i 2 BULLY ~ fewer bonds to finance the war, was equivalent to being a German : : . DEFALIGHTED P ?' spy in the eyes of the press and of the ‘public, which the press had _ . 2 ! driven to a frenzy. i e could excuse ourselves for this by saying that the average American, realizing his ‘helplessness and littleness in the face of such a staggering thing as war, anxious to do SOMETHING -to- -show his patriotism, simply lost his head. We could make that, excuse before the world, if we had done something since the war - [ov — B - » YOS TEDDY take solemn talking to change their minds. But, my friends, that is to give justice to those we so insanely persecuted during -our what the Republican party will have to do. i frenzy. But we have done little or nothing. A large part of our It will not be so difficult a matter to show these people that they i press is still mentally deranged Even President Wilson called have been deceived by‘ thelr‘ leaders, or to show the_m basically that t some of his critics pro-German the other-day. Our insane patriots . the League program is radical. merely changed their slogans Young Roosevelt has thus challenged the farmers of the West. and the objects of their maniacal raving. Reformers are now “Bol- He wants to fight them and has made an unpravoked attack. Let sheviki” instead of “pro-Germans.” The press still stirs up pas- him remember that he started it; we didn’t. What he sneeringly sions, hatreds and mob violence 'instead of depending on calm dis. calls “isms” and “radicalism” (as though the mere fact that some- - cussion and reason, 5 : ~ thing is radical is enough to damn it) is the program for political Pt i LTSN e (A R R \ - and economic freedom mapped out by the largest and most de- FARMERS IN STATE OFFICES : termined group of producers in America today, and backed by an F ARMERS for state officials! What a j olée this anti-League ever-increasing number of workmen’s organizations. The infer- L R T RS : _ ence that the farmers are poor, ignorant dupes, paying their hard- fig%:sfir?;dfir%fagg :dp;gf Osgllitvi‘;}:lmpgg Ofigx'nelzn%f ilI\II_o:;?t eDgf earned money and spending their energy at the behest of crooked, the sterling record of honesty’ and efficiency fhad e by the farmer iDsincere leaders, is an insult to every one of the 250,000 members officials, one still hears, on the observation car of the transconti- of ’(cihetLeta}gue.f %om}l_‘g Roosevelt -lf- folloiilvmghthe czudsst,toflth]g nental train, in the big hotel lobby or buffet, an occasional remark Crude tactics o ¢ cague opposition when he pretends to loo upon the farmer as a man of “sound-thinking mind,” yet so easily deceived and misled. It will be the duty of the glorious Repub- : lican party to lead these erring, ignorant rubes out of the darkness 510,000 A ’:\’ into the promised land, he says, and doubtless he, like his father, MISSING y = : 5 chief paid agitator of the Employers’ Association of the i from some dudish traveling man or clerk, who seems to have the Inland Empire in the state of Washington, is always- writ- idea that a farmer being elected state officer is a cause for mirth. ing fool letters to somebody which get into print and make it uncom- The Scandinavian-American bank case furnishes additional fortable for him and for backers of the anti-labor, anti-reform evidence -that the farmer administration not only has furnished slush fund he spends. This time it is the Forum of Spokane, Wash.. more honesty than is to be expected from the usual run of politi- Wwhich publishes one of Mr. Reynolds’ delicious epistles, addressed cians, but _also more businesslike methods. to “My Dear Mr. -Brinkerhoff,” a country editor of Washingtqn.. Politicians of the Hall-Langer clique were in control of the Mr. Reynolds, on behalf of the interests he serves, offers a nice closed bank for exactly six days. During that time no steps were little bribe to the editor, as follows: taken to collect debts due the bank. The pretending receiver made On July 1 we resumed our “News Bureau” no check of the collateral or other bank property, allowed outside THE RECORD OF SIX DRYS - .fl Y/ yel A S an CONTAOL. e e P TR 2 A S s s e e — T Gy e 5160000 : would like to be their Moses. : COLLECTED S : B ———— B e R. REYNOLDS WORRIED [ - M O UR old friend J. C. H. (Alphabet) Reynolds, secretary and. - | \ service such as we had during the campaign last fall which, as you know, is for the attorneys to roam through the vaults at will and take out property purpose of furnishing the good Americans among the country week- of which he knew nothing, without even giving a receipt. - And if %:: zfi":fi“fig}?e?f:gf:;:W‘fhim» ,Dolshevism, Nonpartisan league- latest reports from Fargo are to be believed, he even neglected to With the triple alliance STARING US IN THE FACE A e record a bond of $100,000 which he was supposed to have taken out. -ingly gathering force, the sound, sensible American citizenship has Bank Examiner O. E. Lofthus, a member of the farmer ad- 2 big job ahead of. it between now and November, 1920, We have ministration, was placed in charge of the bank as soon as he re- started to organize already and later on I will be glad to advise you turned to the state and could get action from the supreme court. with what has been accomplished. Later on when we are fully or- Up until the time of his report to the court, he also was in charge . ganized and have plans matured, I hope to offer you some RE- - of the bank for exactly six days. During those six days the bank’s , . EVERY TIvE. 7 liabilities were reduced $169,000, through collections and reduc- : PRITE A LETIER tions of loans. Examiner Lofthus checked through the collatéral / Mgf;@ o carefully, uncovering a $10,000 losg that had occurred while the : Hall-Langer wrecking crew was in charge, and took steps to see - that no losses occurred under his 1(')twn mal}llagemint b{ ’calg}iln%'l no : . action without giving opposing parties a ¢ ance to act wi im. NN FiNK, That is the record of the two factions in six days. The Hall- S 3 _" = : R Langer crew lost $10,000 for the bank—at least that is the chari- - MUNERATIVE work in helping us combat the enemy. In the ~table way of putting it. The Lofthus control collected $169,000 meantime, I would be delighted to hear from you and if we can be and prevented the possibility of further: lo.ss.. And, we suppose, of any use to you do not hesitate to ask us. , - a few people will still be found who will insist that farmers in . For the information of those who do not live in Washington - state offices are a joke. : we may stat€ that the triple alliance is a combination of labor P e T T * . unions, railroad brotherhoods and farmer organizations for politi- 2 THEODORE ROOSEVELT JR. ; cal action in Mr. Reynolds’ state. Mr. Reynolds is quite right in Fer WHEN Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came to St. Paul for a speech estimating the strength of this labor-farmer movement. He and / recently the newspapers quoted him as being ‘“dee-lighted” the big interests who pay him to k agitate against people’s move- with his reception, and headlines referred to his frequent ments indeed have “a big job ahead” to prevent capture of the use of the word “bully” and other expressions of his-late father. state next year by the workers, producers and common people. There have been rare instances of sons of famous men becoming But that admission by Mr. Reynolds is not tHe most important themselves famous, but we can not recollect an instance where such part of his naive letter. The bribe to Editor Brinkerhoff in the : sons have achieved lasting fame by aping their parent’s peculiar- . Shape of a promise of remuneration if he attacks the triple alliance ~.-ities of expression. : e ] . in his paper is a perfect example of the way the big interests || - The Nonpartisan Leader was compelled, in defense of a farm- attempt to debauch the press, and, alas! too often succeed. 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