New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-27
. THOUSANDS LISTEN
TO LEAGUE STORY
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Texan Speaks in German.

Texan Speaks in German.
The next speaker was Ernest Meitzen
OF Texas, who addressed the audience
Nj German. Mr.. Meitzen, who said that
his mother was once resident of New
Ulm, Texas, is an officer of the Texas
Land league, but which organization
has become interested in the Non
Partisan league and has sent him here
to study it's workings, and it is the in
tention to organize the leaguein the Lone
Star State, He told his audience the
farmers of the south are looking forward
TO joining the Non-Partisan league.
Give Leagues History.
"A. e. Bowen of Fargo, N. D., followed
Mr.. Neither, with history of the league,
from its inception during the session
of the North Dakota legislature in 1915,
when that body refused to listen to a
petition of the farmers of that state.
North Dakota is different from Min
H1esota or most other states,' he said,
from the fact that IS per cent of its
population are farmers. We were not
getting anything like fair shake from
the legislature, which up to that time
was controlled. by the Minneapolis
chamber of Commerce. The farmers,
with this great majority of voters and
population were completely at the mercy
of this combination. When it was
tn Farroarc'
Partisan league, work was started at
once, and Mr.. Townley began soliciting
anembers with a borrowed Ford, securing
"a small number. The work was done
squietly and we were pretty we'll organized
before the press or politicians knew any
thing about its
War Profiter is Bad Egg.
The most telling speech of the after
moon was delivered by President A. C.
'Townley, who was introduced by Chair
man Samuelson as "the father of the
aeague.'
''The American war proiter is worse
shan The despicable ghoul who prowls
battlefileds to rob the dead and dying"
declared Mr.. Towlley, during the course
of his speech. ''The thief who robs the
dead and wounded on the battlefelds,
and there are some, is so far below our
recognition that the devil himself would
not have him in his company.
But the man who would rob the dead
is saint compared to the man who robs
the living starving men, women and
little babies.
eff the ghouls are criminals, We have
here in the United States those who rob
ssrarving mothers and children, and they
are so far lower than the battlefield ghouls-
that we must sink them to the bottom
uof the sea or relnquish our Americansim.
To rob little children of food and cloth
=ng-can you imagine anything worse
t,han that?
~s.Figures vouched for by the U. S.
Senate finance committee, show that the
war profits by private corporations
totaled more than 81 900, 600, 900 in 1916.
1.-THE United States Steel corporation
beads the list with war profits of $685.
1884. 1862. These war profits are in ex-
cess in 1916 over those of 1914. These
are profits they could net and dared not
zwring from you before the war began.
Ground by War Profits.
You are paying more for everything
YOU buy, from lump OF sugar to
threshing machine, binder or moving
machine. And you are told that you
oav more because of the war. Its be-
cause of the war profits that you pay
more
Mr.. Townley said morning Twin
City paper laid stress on the fact that
most of the farmers at former meeting
failed to wear Liberty Bond buttons.
"That paper is wrong he declared
".Last year we paid $4,000,000,000 TO
liberty bonds in war profits to the wa
profters. This year we may pay double
shat amount. But we paid the $4,000,
100000 to the war profters instead of tt
she government.
CHOW let the government step in am
take this $4,000, 100000 from the exces
profit takers There you have twic
what the government asked for in it
Liberty Bond appeal, and no half hungr
workngmen and tired women will hav
10 further deny themselves to pay for tn
war.
Have Bought Liberty Bonds.
"You farmers have bought Libert
Bonds on every farm implement 70
bought, on your seed fertilizer, f1ou
sugar, clothing, and in fact everything
But they never gave you buttons. III
steel trust ought to give each OF yc
Two or three and the Information
Harvester company ought to send