The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-09
ATTACKS mr. WILSON |.
| PRAISES THE KAISER
ONE LIVINGSTON HAS ISSUED
HIS LITTLE BOOKLET
Author Admits, He Has Stepped Close to
Edge Of Sedition, But What's That to
This Fellow; Speaks in Most Glowing
Terms Of Emperor; Refers to Him As
"Feryeut- SouIed';; Winds Up. With
Declaration, Saying He, Is, Neutral
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
i st. Paul, March. s. Department OF
justice officials are reported to be
Investigating a booklet recently pub
lished by Louis j. Livingston at
lacking President Wilson, warning
the national executive that he is TO-
menting civil war and revolution, "
and calling on Americans of Teuton
blood to ego forth and defend. the
cause of our kinsmen.''
/ Livingston formerly was connected
with a German paper in ST. Paul and
has published previous pamphlets,
one of which caused him to come
under the notice of department of
justice agents. His address is given
lin the directory as sos Canada
street.
E The owner of a boarding house at
that address said Livingston former
ly roomed there, but that she had to
order him to leave because he, be-
came Involved. in noisy and near-vi-
client arguments with. two English
men who, also lived there.
y Put Down As Harmless.
The local office of the department.
of Justice is, inclined to regard the
man as harmless despite the char
acter of his writings. His latest
booklet was issued February IT,
Livingston in his book, An Open
Letter of Protest to Woodrow Will.
son." cites long list of Germans
and Americans of German, descent to
which this country owesNa deep debt
of gratitude. He includes Abraham
Lincoln, whose family name origi-
tnally was the German name Of
.Lfnkhorn, he says, in this list.
Throughout his pamphlet Living
ston emphasizes the statement that
tT am a native American" He admits
that he is stepping on the edge Of
sedition, remarking:
Assumes the Burden.
Whatever the consequences,
voluntarily assume the burden of
thousands of our countrymen who
can not, and dare not voice their in
ner thoughts whose souls you
president Wilson, have tortured
all through. the war by your unneu-
trail, unjust and cowardly. attitude
toward their beloved fatherland and
now bleed in agony because not on
.ly debarred from aiding their i'm
periled kinsmen, but expected. to
participate in their slaughter.
81 warn you as have twice be-
fore, to bear in mind that you. are
dragging us. into not only the most
horrible of all wars, but into revolu-
ton and civil war.
Thinks He Is Courageous. a.
81 am probably the only native
American who has, the courage to
tell you the, plain unyarnished truth, =
he says in another statement. 1.-THE
German blood in our, veins precludes
all inclination, to cowardly assassina-
ton On the contrary, I should pre-
fer that you live on and on so that
the anguish of remorser shall be
yours until your last breath, because
of the unnecessary anguish, yeu have
caused your German American coun-
trymep."
Livingston Shares his attack on the
president with page after page laud-
ing the kaiser, to whom he thus al
ludes: 1.-THE great, far-seeing, broad
minded and fervept -souled German
kaiser and his splendid, brainy staff
of diplomats and military and naval
strategists." -,
9He closes with a. declaration of his
own neutrality, signing himself, "a
native American who has never owed.
allegiance to any other government,
and, has never trod any other than
American Soil" - 80
I If this fellow Livingston thinks
so much of, the kaiser why don't he
go immediately to. Germany and
fight for him. He can be we'll SPAR
ed from this land. The United
States does not need him.
MR.. AND MRS. STEVEN Ht
DURAN CELEBRATED WEDDING