The sun., 1917-08-27
PACIFTSTS OUTLINE
! ! THEIR U. S. PARLEY
Gathering at Minneapolis
Faces War Between Gov
crnor and Mayor.
MILITIA TO BE ON HAND
City's Executive Threatens
Counter Attack With
Police Reserves.

The mills Of the pacifists, unlike the
mills OF the gods, ground rapidly yester-
day so that the public. which pauses be-
tween laugh and frown as 1t contem.
plates the forthcoming Minneapolis con-
ference OF the Peoples Council Of
America" may get some notion of what
the pother Is al, about.
Tho mills. clicking mills turned out
under the Teutonically efficient direction
Of Louis P. Lochner of Ford peace ship
memory thousands of words. words,
words--al bent to the purpose OF prov
Ing that the paclfst convention Is as re-
spectacle as a gold headed cane In New
England and that the American people
are wildly desirous Of stopping the war
before the Vaterland Is thoroughly
whipped.
Herr Lochner confesses mimeographi-
cally that the Constituent Assembly Of
the Peoples Council of America" (such
Is the resounding title the La Toilette
David Starr Jordan pacifists have taken
TO themselves) must abide for the period
Of their deliberations at Minnea polls
within the Tapping walls OF a circus tent
which will be pitched within earshot Of
the soothing an5 peaceful cadences Of
the Falls Of Mnnehaha-or is it Merry
haha?
Money DEVILS Tricks.
It appears. according to the bulletins
issuing from the pacifist headquarters
At West Thirteenth street. that the
Money Devil. new gorged with the meats
Of war. has been at his sinister strata
gems In Minneapolis. Where only a
fond population were preparing to well
come the gathering herren within the
solid walls OF the auditorium, there is
now coldness and even hostility dis
played
Checks for good gold (there is plenty
Of the needful In the Golfers of the "Peo-
pies Council" as much as hundert
tausend marks. it has been estimated)
were sent back with the word that no
halls were available. The Money Devil
had bought them all up. Therefore the
herren were reduced to the necessity Of
hiring big top and stalking out for its
erection a grassy plain not far from the
waterfall that Mr.. Longfellow wrote
about.
Tho viciousness Of the munition maxi
ers has gone so far. indeed. that Herr
Lochner advises delegates and visitors
10 the conference, OF whom he conf
bring their own little tents and cooking
utensils, for the milltarists have grabbed
all Of the hotel accommodations and
furnished rooms that ought to have been
available for the Knights Of the White
Feather.
4 Rival Conference.
And besides these minor annoyances
1t further appears that the bloodth!rsty
and gold hungry have deliberately or
ganized a rival conference. assuming to
themselves the ridiculous title OF the
American Alliance for Labor and De-
mocracy. for the purpose Of trying to
make the American people believe that
the La Follette-Jordan-Loch Hillquit
conference does not represent the senti-
ments Of organized labor.
Within few miles of the spot where
Senator La Toilette, DIR. David Starr
Jordan. Morris Hillquit. Max Eastman
and Louis p. Lochner will argue for a
peace which will not be too hard on
Germany, that other organization. under
the leadership OF men no better known
in organized labor than Samuel Comp
ers. James Duncan, Charles Edward
Russell and John Hail. will whoop it up
for the Stars and Stripes and demand
Nat the war go on until the world IL
trSly made safe for democracy. The
t(ht show with performing doves and
Sabbits at the slack wire will be held
from September l to September G. and
the conference backed by the American
Federation OF Labor will meet on Sep
tember 5. Nobody will be surprised IL
there are ructions.
In the first place (and this news is
not found in the press stun sent out by
the Peoples CouncirD, there Is word
from the Flour City that the folks out
there are none too we'll pleased al. the
advertising they have received as a pac-
ihst centre wild for peace on any
terms, Moreover. there is a fine row
already between the Socialist Mayor of
Minneapolis. Thomas Van Lear. and
Gov. Burnquist Of Minnesota.
War OF OmcIRl..
Van Lear intends to open the pacifst
meeting, and has displayed a very
friendly interest in the Forthcoming
gathering. Gov. Burnquist will open the
Gompers labor conference and has said
without mincings or mouthings that
such un-American meetings as the La
Fo!lette-Jordan conference ought to be
stopped by the State power II the city Of
Minneapolis refuses to do its duty.
Here is what the Governor said about il (:
III anti-American meetings cannot be
stopped by local officials every resource
at our command will be used to punish
the offenders and prevent such meet
ings from being held. II by means Of
this action on our part bloodshed and
the loss OF life result, responsibility will
rest on those who are back Of and sup
port by their presence these un-Ameri-
can demonstrations"
The warm language on the part OF
Burnquist was called "inciting to riot"
by the members Of the peoples Coun-
cl' who ground out quite lot of
words on this topic yesterday 1t
prompted Mayor Van Lear to write a
letter to the President saying that he
does not intend that the hard won
testaments Of liberty shall. In Minneap-
Oils be treated as mere scraps OF
paper" and that he guesses he can look
after the preservation or order in his
own town
despatch from Minneapolis last
night said that the situation Is getting
to he fairly explosive and that there Is
likely to be a big noise II the pacifst
speakers start to sneer about American
war preparations and conscription op-
erations. Gov. Burnauist will detail
militia to the city and Van Lear will
call out extra policemen.
Flight OF the Doves.
When the doves take wing for Min.
neapolis from this section Of the coun.
Try, which VIM he at $50 P.'M. on
August 80. 1t will be no silent flight
There is to Be much cooling In the in
@rests Of peace at Any price not too