Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-19

Men placed in power, no matter
how well qualified they may be OF how
sincere In purpose to serve, are not
able to serve the will of the majority
unless they seek out that will OF the
majority
In this crisis you are criminaily
negligent IL you fail to keep In touch
with those who serve you. This con-
ference. so far being called to protest
the program Of the government, is also
called to support h a program so far
Is 1t fulflls the will of the majority"
Federal Agents Welcome
He repeated his arguments about
only person who buy at retail and sell
at wholesale, which he said, no man
could continue to do without a huge
reserve fund somewhere. For, the
farmer this reserve was the fertility
of the soil and for the worker 1t was
the health and life Of his wife and
children
Mr.. Townley referred to the state
ment of an afternoon paper to the
effect that officials Of the federal de-
partment of justice were watching the
proceedings of the conference to see
that there was no preaching OF dis
loyalty or sedition. They are well
come to come here. for we r not
ashamed Of our particular brand of
pdLI 1OlISltl SdIlu " VI AiAipai
tial inspection, but we do object to
being inspected by he fellows who
represent the interests he said.
And when the representatives of
the department of Justice get through
inspecting us we demand h a they
turn their attention to the Interests.
I'VE are charged with being pro-
German and unpatriotic because our
enemies a we IN coming here to
protest the price of wheat, but today
the grain gamblers, the Minneapolis
chamber of commerce, n those of
Duluth and of Chicago are gathered in
Chicago to protest the removal of the
commission of two cent a bushel for
the grain they handle for the govern
ment. We invited Hoover to come to
our conference hero, but he could not
do so. He is today in Chicago with
Barnes and the rest Of them"
Picturesque Language Used.
Townley repeated his demands for
the government seizure Of the coal and
iron mines and the railroads and grey
even more bitter when he denounced
the p%rofteers with their pockets bulg-
ing with gold stolen from us, with the
billions wrung by arms red to the ell
bows with blood.
across the water, in the trenches,
| over where you sons are sacrificing
the greatest they have-their lives
after the battle, crawling among the
dead are the ghouls of the night that
rob the dead bodies of your boys, steal
their clothing and jewlery and money,
the gifts you have sent to them to re-
mind them of home"
No language I ear command can do
justice to the crime Of the men who
my clothing and my money thai is not
so bad after 1 am dead, for I don't
need it, but while the mothers and
fathers of those boys cold on the bat
tie field are struggling here to keep
those boys in clothing and food
while you and I sacrifice, a set of
criminals worse than the world aver
saw before are here robbing us, at a
time when the nation needs every
thing we can produce. Those vul-
lures are sucking our life blood and
have so far succeeded in misleading
the American people that we call them
patriots, while the son Of a farmer
who protests that he should not be
locked because a bushel of wheat has
five per cen Of barley is called a pro-
German.
Suggests Unique Treats.
II say that If the grain gamblers
must have their two cents a bushel
commission let us make q treaty and
have them wait until after the war
because we need the money in the
war. It is u duty to support the
government in the war, but it is ever
more your duty to see that the billions
that are wrung out of the sweat and
blood and toll of you and your boys
to see that too many billions do moi
stick to he hands of the profteers
If o will see that the worker in the
mill and the mine and the factory i.
paid enough, then the wheat will MOI
have to be commandment"
Leo p. fischer, booked as the sec.