The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-10-11
MINNESOTA BECOMING DESPERATE.

an effort sRs $1 to h Ssa' sf The O. gse%t5 ; Of the e SeePsTti:.a G q IN IN
that state. The Public Safety Commission" is being used as a
club to prevent the holding of meetings. i
Fergus ~s' Fails, the secretary Of the otter Tail Public Safety Com
mission, Lewis Keane, addressed q letter to Joseph Gilbert, gen
would be permitted, emphasizing this with the following para
graph: i. 4u:nu
talk here we have made arrangements with our mayor who
has given orders to the police force not to interfere if small
boys land others) use ancient eggs and other mlssels where
with to punctuate your discourse -
personifcation of true democracy.
In justice to Governor Bulnqist it should be stated that ne
and n promised to give the League protection in all its legal rights.
that country's rulers did not believe we would enter the war:
When stronger protestations were made to the ministry of that
lions were severed, the central. allies did not still believe America
was in earnest; And even when n. war was ss;5 declared ?cs;rfdd the ne G 81 Nj a
a ~grandstand play which would never result in actual conflict.
gea%an my an mas at .earas to o. fo Of the hs: United States s" into : a J. belief that
the end of the war is near. The object of this is to halt the pre-
paps{1Tns i %in i 'Sns all n@ those seoe Efforts ;nf snip Of the ee1 United States to ali
her allies across the seas. America and Americans should nave
should credence be placed in anything that emanates from the
camp Of the kaiser: y And the man in America who Ha,, voices the De-
ously near to treason. He Is doing exactly what Germany would
have him do-New Rockford Transcript. ====.-
League, during the recent conference Of tn producers and consum-
srs g give Ss the hsq lie to tn the e claims o. Of the o ! gang : politicians 3 Iic IN a: and h
subsidized newspapers that he is not a thoroughly patriotic Amer,
their m%outhpieces to have the temple of their hopes and desires
pulled down about their ears-the way this man Townley per-
sists in acknowledgements Palladium.
Henry Ford is the kind of a patriot that does not spell patriot
ism with a pay" The Ford Motor Company owns a large as
~sembling plant in Boston that the war department deemed ideal
for certain needs of the government. Ford was asked to name
a rental price for the plant. The "jitney king" Immediately wired
back these four words: mo rental. Take itH There is a vast
difference between this attitude and that Of many who wrap
themselves UP in the flag while rang the pockets Of the govern
ment,
When Colonel Roosevelt publicly condemns our war policy and
our army as weak and ineffective, as he did at st. Paul, isn't he
giving comfort to our enemy?- Seems like the German militarists
would grasp at such statements as the Colonels and make: effect
i've use of them among the German arrny.-Kenmare Journal.
"shall, we hold our dollars more sacred than the lives Of our
soldiers y is the pertinent question that stares the nation in the.
face frontier million Liberty Loan window cards throughout,
the land. And a few short weeks ago they wanted to hang Town
ley for similar utterances. Oh yes, times do change!