New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-04
PEOPLES COUNCIL
MEETS WITH FAVOR.
MOVEMENT FOR TRUE DEMOC-
RACY HAS SPONTANEOUS
GROWTH
MONSTER MASS MEETING TO
BE HELD IN MIDDLE WEST
NEXT MONTH

Leading citizens throuout the United
States will join in monster meeting to
be held August 4, to complete the organ
i:sation of the Peoples Council of Ameri-
ca. The city in which the meeting is
10 be held is yet to be named, but is
expected to be somewhere in the middle
west. The Council is projected upon
lines similar in many respects to those
# the Council of Workmen and Soldiers
II Russia and the Workmen's Council
II Leeds, England.
spontaneously Welcomed
The movement in America has met
with spontaneous welcome from the
radical, progressive, labor unionist,
socialist, agrarian and reform move
llents, in this country. 1t is under the
direction of the an organizing committee
18th headquarters at 2 West Thirteenth
street, New York City. In the council
ace represented various branches of the
labor movement, farmers organizations,
Socialist bodies, branches of the Socialist
..alror Party, Single Takers, pacifists,
( dei-1nilitarists, advocates of the repeal
Il transcription laws, professional mems
organizations, every radical and for
ward looking force in the nation.
Peace Advocates Affiliate
Arrangements have been made to
affiliate various branches of the farmers
movement in the Middle West. Anti
111ilitarists and peace advocates of all
shades are becoming affiliated either di-
rectly as constituent members, or
through the medium of their own Or
CARNATIONS. Mothers Anti-High Price
Leagues have joined in bodies. ...-.
Among the members of the organizing
committee are Miss Flora La Toilette,
daughter of Senator Robert M. La
Toilette of Wisconsin, and Arthur LIE
seuer, counsel of the Farmers Non
Partisan Political League, St. Paul.
Call Is Issued
ut is now three years since the world
war began, and still the Governments
Eave not brought peace says the call.
Now America has joined the conflict.
The President says, we are to help
make the world safe for democracy
''Yet every day our democracy at
home is more and more imperilled.
''For the first time in history, it is
proposed to send millions of our young
men to fight and die on foreign soil.
Livery day our constitutional liberties
are being assailed.
'Out of the disaster in Europe have
risen the PEOPLE of Russia, to blaze
the way toward real democracy and
sound the trumpet call to, peace. This
is the message of the Council of Work
mems and Soldiers delegates to the
Citizens of the Allied Nations:
''You must not allow the voice of the
Russian provisional government to re-
main isolated from the union of the al
lied powers. You must force your
governments to proclaim resolutely the
Platform of peace without annexations
CT indemnities and the right of the
people to settle their destinies.
what shall be our response in Ameri-
ca? What shall we do the hundreds
Of thousands of us who cherish our de-
laocratic liberties, who long for peace?
For True Democracy
LET us join together in a Peoples
Council of America for Democracy and
l'eace. The Council is called in obe-
dience to resolutions unanimously adopt
"a by the First American Conference on
democracy and Terms of Peace in
Lay, and endorsed by fifteen thousand
PEOPLE assembled in Madison Square
Garden.
You are asked to send delegates to
the first meeting which will be held on
AUGUST 4th, at place yet to be an
ounced.
The purposes Of the Peoples Council,
SO far as they can be determined in adj
vance of it's own deliberations are:
l. To secure an early, democratic