Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-20
'Unmasking OF 7ownleWsm
And Expose Of Danger OF
Strife Breeding Socialism


Mr.. BACON,S REPLY
TO THE TEACHER
Mr.. Leonard L. Brown. Max. N. p.
ton Of recent date, addressed to the
company, and note It's contents. AS
president Of the institution I desire
to say that I should Judge the same
had been written in the heat Of pas
sion. II will give you Q few things
to look over, after which you may be
better able to Judge whether your in
and I assure you. II you will calm
down. and specify any particular OBJ
lection to what We have said. we win
Try and explain the matter in such a
way as to justify our action, ever to a
prejudiced mind. The trouble IL. most
Nonpartisans read only the Nonparti-
san Leader. the Courier-News and
Pearson's Magazine.
No Opposition to League.
Our fight has never been with the
N~onpartisan league members, 1t has
been with the leader and his cohorts
Of the soap-box orator type, who have
distributing poison to their listeners.
while they r living upon the
fat Of the land in dining cars and
sleeping cars. at greater expense and
greater salaries than they ever knew
before. Townley employed them and
paid them put Of the $16 q throw
he mas been getting from the farm
ers. He tell a socialist at long
range. and has a good Job for every
one with a good waggle to his tongue.
These organizers have travelled from
one end Of the state to the other to
attend his meetings in order that he
may have ar organized band to start
the applause and give him the glad
hand and help put on the big show.
Who Are Loyal and Patriotic?
You may Judge for yourself wheth-
al citizens. who do such things as
promise. before election. to take no
radical action o n amendments to the
constitution. but will see that they are
brought about in the regular way.
pass two Legislatures and be voted on
by the people, but after election. and
almost before the words are cold. try
stitution blouse Bill ~, drawn by
Arthur Leseur. the socialist attorney
for the I. w. w. and the Townley and
Frazier representative at I. w. W.
meetings and .conferences). Is this
truthfulness according to your defini-
ton of the word?
The statement is being freely made
by the organizers. the car and his
cohorts, that the farmers are robbed
$4,000, 10000 per annum (their fig
ures do not always agree), when the
state has not raised for sale SIS, O0O,-
100000 worth Of wheat annually for
the past 18 years. Townley makes
some Of the farmers believe
that they are beaten out of this money
on Feed d wheat alone, when as a
wheat, and in fact we have never had
but a little wheat grading lower than
No. 2 northern. until this last year,
and while the figures are not yet avail
able, I venture the statement that
there has not been TO- 900 bushels
Of Feed d sold. These ~fire-eating aK-
itators base everything on the abnor-
NAL prices and the unsettled condi-
lions Of the market Of the past year,
untrue. and only intended to inflame
the mind Of an unsuspecting listener.
Is that tr1thfulness and loyalty. ac-
cording tos your definition OF the
word?
ITO He'll With the Government"
Did not Townley introduce Bohn,
the original 1. w. w. organizer and
big socialist, who said, ito hell with
tho government" and tell the audi
ence in Grand Forks that ne, Bohn,
was a representative Of the New York
Times. and did the New York Times
not say 1t was untrue? Is that accord
ing to your definition of t%ruthfulness.
loyalty and patroitism?
Did they not say that they would
not interfere with national politics.
but at the first opportunity name
for congress, and was he not
selected by Towniey several days be-
fore the N~onpartisan league confer
ence? Does that agree with your
patriotism? Have they not called the
farmers queer animals, and slaves, ana
said that they must have some one to
manage them? Did they not take the
words loyalty and patriotism out of
our state constitution and refuse. by
their votes. to put them In House
Bill ~? IL that loyalty and patriot
ism according to your definition?
To Escape Military Duty.
Did they not. in House Bill a, re-
move every safeguard of our school
fund? Is this loyalty to our children:
In the bill did not these men try to
exempt men from military service on
account Of conscientious scruples (for
the express benefit Of Townley, Fra
zier, Coates. Bowen, and all socialists,
!. w. WIS and anarchists)? ID this
loyalty and patriotism according to
your definition?
Didn't one Of their king bee or
ganizers refuse to stand when they
sang the Star Spangled Banner at the
Auditorium? Is this loyalty and pa
triotism? Have they not said, "our
soldiers are going to France to spill
their blood for the damned pirates Of
rotten rich, and not for peace and
democracy?" thereby adding to the
already almost unbearable grief, anx.
iety and fear Of the mothers, sisters
wives and sweethearts of the boys q
the front. in training and those liaoss
to be called? 10 this patriotism anc
loyalty? Did not Townley Nnsinuate
would sell my son for profit by say.
ing: MANY men would sell their SOM
for profit" and was he not forced Il
recall tho statement, insofar as 1t re.
fsrred to me and by leaving It stand
~ to others, does 1t not include soms
Of the N~onpartisan league members,
Opposed liberty Loan.
Have they not said they could no
recommend the farmers to buy q Lib.
erty Loan bond In order that the ex
penses Of the war may be pait
promptly And have they not SAID