The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-08-09
SOCIALIST SPEAKERS PROSE
CUTED ON FLIMSY
CHARGE.
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dismissing the case on the motion of
RAY L. Miller, states attorney.
Within ten minutes after this dismis-
sal a civil arrest was made, and q bond
of $3.50 demanded, which was given by
Ries. This civil arrest was by reason
of a civil action commenced by Arness
for damages claimed to have been done
at the time and place named in all the
criminal complaints.
Just as this bond was signed and
completed, Ries was again arrested upon
the complaint of Arness, charging the Of
tense of assault and battery with a dan
gerous weapon, committed at the same
time and place as all 9TH. COMPLAINTS
for assault and battery lone. This
asked for a bond of $500, which was
promptly furnished, and this case was
heard at Plaza July %.
It is alleged that during the time when
he and Ries were in custody of the mar
shall at Plaza on the night of July L,
Arness made the remark to Ries that:
ct will be a long time before you leave
North Dakota, and your lectures may
not take place"
What was meant by that threat we
leave to the public to figure out for
themselves, but in the light of the fact
that Ries has been arrested THREE
times by the same man, and on the
same charge assault and battery, and
twice on charges differing but little from
the original one, it seems that it was
intended to harass Ries, and through him
the socialist movement in that section
of the country, in the vain hope that
socialist activities would cease.
On July % Ries was again arrested,
tried and bound over to the district court
charged with assault, with intent to
kill" This carries with it heavy fine
and a penitentiary sentence of from one
to fourteen years.
Ye Gods, what an outraged
The splendid work accomplished by
Ries in North Dakota last winter, while
on the Lyceum course, prompted the So
cialists to engage Ries for a two months
campaign with the object of electing
LeSeur to congress from the Third dis
trict.
Ries' work was so successful that
David Goldstein, the notorious anti-so-
cialist ranter, was Immediately routed
to lecture in the same territory, and
things politically waxed to the fever
heat.
The plutocrats were so alarmed at the
big meetings that long before Ries' ar
rest he was often refused hotel accom-
modations, and at the Moose River Chau-
tauqua the other lecturers were asked to
prolong their speeches in orGer to crowd
Ries off the program altogether.
Poor putty, plute puppets, your hopes
are in vain. You are butting your soft,
mushy heads against the stone wall of
public opinion; you can't move the wall,
but you can and you will give your
selves an awful jar You may own the
courts, and history proves that you do,
but men have made the laws hat have
given you the petty power you now
have, and men will CNMAliE those
same laws and enact laws that will be
for justice for ALL and not for the sole
purpose of letting a ioblot of scorbutical
politicians vent their spleen on some one
who dares differ with then,
That the thug tactics of the Mountrial
county gang will result in an over
whelming majority for the socialist can
didatSs this fall, is a lead pipe cineh.
Men in public office who will allow
themselves to be led around by the nose
fer the sake of satisfying a personal
spite, are unfit for the people to trust.
and the voters of 1lontroil county will
see to it in November, that men are
placed in office in THAT county who
believe in the square deal for all, and
rot the square deal OF the Roosevelt
lind-the big stick for those who differ
with them
The voters of Montrail county win be
up in arms when they learn that sew
eral hundred dollars have already been
saddled onto the taxpayers for the sole
purpose of satisfying the spleen of a
drunken bully As for stopping the Ries
lectures, they never made greater mis-
take, for wherever Ries has spoken since
the beginning of this campaign of perse-
oution he has addressed larger and more