The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-29
In St. Paul Speech, Classes
La Toilette With Enc
mics Within u
LUSlTANIA REFERENCE
BRANDED FALSEHOOD
Colonel Bitingly Pays His
Respects to Gronna, Lun-
deem and Bacr.

st. Paul, Sept. oS.-On the platform
of the Auditorium where Senator La
Toilette last week dccried Americas
entry into the war on what he termed
onel Roosevelt. CHASING the Wisconsin
senator among the Huns within our
gates" this afternoon declared he
would like to send la Toilette and his
SHADOW huns to Germany ''as free
gifts to the kaiser" Among the
Shadow hung the colonel included
Senator Gronna of North Dakota and
Representative Lundeen of Minnesota.
Colonel Roosevelt declared at the
outset that the public man who did
not consider first Of all the real and
permanent welfare of the working
man was no friend of democracy.
Sinister Enemy.
"rhe most sinister enemy of demo-
cracy in the United States is Sem
ator La Toilette.
50 The colonel had been given a trans
cript Of Senator La Follette's speech
before the Producers and Consum-
ers' conference held here last week
under the auspices of the Nom Partis-
an league.
II have not had time to read II ALL
he said, but have already found two
or three gems"
Calls Il q Faisehood.
Senator La Follette's assertion that
Americas participation In the war was
due to American citizens being pas
sengers on '.ship loaded with muni-
tions for Great Britain was declared
by the colonel to be a falsehood. and
"he knows it was a falschOOd," he
added.
"He said nothing about the sinking
of the hospital ship Sussex and the
technical right of the doctors and
Red Cross nurses who sank with hel
to be on board.
'Semmes, commander of the Ala
bama, never, even in the bitterest time
of the civil war, sank ship without
providing for the saving of the lives
of it's passengers. Once, having cap.
tured prize, he was about to lane
the passengers in Jamaica, but learn
Ing that there was an epidemic o
yellow fever there, turned the prize
loose rather than to expose worhei
and children to that disease. Neither
England. France, Spain, nor thu
United States through the orders o
| their governments in the last 25'
| years have done the infamous act o
| sinking ship without providing fo1
| the safety of the people aboard It,"
| Blame on Germany.
| Turning again to the shipment o
| munitions, a point dwelt on by Sen
ator La Toilette, Colonel Roosevelt
said 1t was the senator's business 4
know what were the treaty rights 0
Americans. He declared that it wa
through Germany's insistence that Th
Hague agreement sanctioned the ship
ment Of munitions and that at tina
time Germany was shipping arms t
the Beers and later shipped them t
Turkey and some Of the Baikal
States.
The colonel also paid his respect
to Congressman Baer of North Da
kota.
II see it reported in the papers," h
said, that the candidate of tina
league, successful candidate for con
gress on June q, made this state
ment: 1t Is no time to make Ameri
canism an ISSUE
| IF Americanism Is not now an Is
sue, then it never can be and neve
| will be an issue and the public servar
who does not admit that it is an issu
and doesn't take the right view of tn
issue hasn't any business to live hei
in the United States"
Surprised At League.
Referring to the Nom Partisa
league, the colonel said:
"And. now. friends. l wish to sta
the real grief 1t was to me to
forced to realize. most reluctantly. II
kind Of doctrine for which that s.
called Nom Partisan league was wi
ling to stand as it showed by the wa
some of It's members cheered the Sci
timents and Atterances of Senator l
! Toilette. The inception of the leag.
felt great sympathy for most Of |
purposes and some of its methods, al
| 1t was a matter of genuine disal
pointment to me, and it excited II
grave concern, when it acted as i. d
the other day"
The colonel congratulated the b
crowd on the enthusiastic loyalty
i sInued