The Dickinson press., 1917-12-22

%applauded sentiments uttered by Sena
to La Toilette very similar to those
which contributed to the conviction o.
Mrs. O'Hare.
There is a deadly parallel betwee.
the doctrine preached by Mrs. O,Hare
in Bowman last June and that which
A.. c. Townley expressed on Registra.
ton Day at Devils Lake On that oc
casion, Mr.. Townley said:
"The nation demands that you give
yourself and your sons and you1
brothers and your husbands and your
sweethearts to be taken across the
seas and spill their life's blood on
the field of Europe and then comes to
you and asks you to subscribe for the
Liberty Bonds to pay the expenses of
the war. This is the injustice of the
war and the manner in which officials
of the administration are carrying ii
into effect"
There has been no indictment ty
any grand jury returned against
Townley although the statement was
heard by many.
In June, just one month previous to
Mrs. O'Hare's address at Bowman,
Mr.. Townley was reported in the state
papers as saying at Williston the fol-
lowing:
"The flower of the young manhood
of this nation is going across the
water to bleed, as we are told for the
honor of the country, but it needs
some effort for me to believe that
these young men r going to fight fol-
the freedom of democracy. I believe
and fear they are going to bleed for
the profits of the damned pirates who
profit from u food products"
, Practically the same words which
Mrs. O'Hare used in praising the
league in her speech before Judge
| Wade.
But this is not all.
MI. Townley was quoted from re.
liable sources as saying at Beach on
June IL:
"Why should we buy Liberty Bonds
when the government asks US to pay
enormous profits for the equipment to
run our farms? Well never get any
thing from the government for any
thing that we do in this struggle.
Why should we help the government
if they won't help us?"
The head of the league, whose
prominent member, Judge Totten Of
Bowman, stood sponsor for Mrs.
O'Hare said later at Minot, N. D.,
according to the best of authority:
"This is wrong, all wrong. I say
to you that measure liberty Loan)
is anything but patriotic because it
takes the heart out of those boys go
ing across the waters to fight our bat
ties, knowing that when they get back
they must pay for it. When they get
back! Some cost for the boys who go
across"
Mrs. O'Hare and A. C. Townley evil
IDENTIFY were in complete accord last
June. g -.
At Glencoe, MIMI, on June %, Mr..
Townley preached the O'Hare brand
Of socialism and class hatred when he
said: q r +. -. -:
"But if the nation should como to
the big corporations and ask for their
surplus wealth, I am afraid it would
dampen their ardor for war a bit.
I'm afraid there might not be much of
a war. s-t.. S' .@
"Well the rich man will stay at
home. He's making the rules Of the
game These boys will give the big
gest sacrifices men can make. They
will give up their lives. They VIII
lose legs and arms. Whole companies
will be blown to atoms. Hundreds Of
thousands, yes, millions, of the best
you haye will be sacrificed"
All this preliminary to Mrs
O'Hare's address at Bowman, invited
there by Judge Totten, a family hon
ored by appointed to the board of
regents by Governor Frazier.
At the trial were league leaders
ready to defend Mrs. O,Hare.
Ray McHaig, organizer for Townley
in Idaho, rushed up to Mrs. O'Hare as
the jury filed out and said:
MASSEY send his love"
Massey is a prominent figure in the
Idaho Nonpartisan movement.
The Tribune merely cites these in
stances to prove that Townley and.
Mrs. O'Hare talked the same kind Of
socialism. Soon after the O,Hare ar.
rest, Townley began to temper his re.
marks. After the seditious demon
stration in the st. Paul auditorium, he.
became suddenly, overnight, ostenta-,
tiously patriotic.
Judge Wade's remarks should BE.
weighed carefully by Governor Frazier
and Townley. It is significant that
Governor Frazier defended Mrs. Tot
ten, who together with Judge Totten
and Rev. George Totten, amember Of
the board Of regents, took the stand
defend this seditionist and bias
phemer