Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-01

AIl0JkC0uI1 Y0AGY N0VCkSIys ~ w III 4boS 1
llsos claAa With these un-Amsrican
factors, the socialists.g the syndical-
the ]. WV. and the La toilette
ties. Sursly their activities are very
comforting to the kaiser, ~ they help
to impede the punctua1ity and Ell
nciSncy Of the United States.
s'1Th People's$Council OF America"
staged quite 70 drama. Our
state has oncially given this organi-
recognition through our chief
executive. It 10 my hope that our
people will not allow
themselves a. 4 class to be duped into
now know that this 10 the project Of
Individuals. The name Peoples
Council" was usurped before there
was an organisation. and the program
OF this council IL cut and dried long
organization II effected. The
''secretary,"L. P.GLochner-surelys not
Observation-Disclosures the plat
FORM Of this council to BIO az follows:
..(i)&To demand an early peace In
harmony with the program OF New
Russia-no annexation, no punitive
indemnitiss; 90 to induce the United
States to state its termA upon which "
will end the war; (3)S to urge inter-
national organization for the preven-
ton Of future wars; ~ to work Tor
the repeal, Of the conscriptton law;
t(6) to safeguard labor standards; and
5(63s to preserve and extend liberty and
democracy in America" st
what FfaEier Wanted, Too.
These. are the peace plans" which
our governor desired to transplant
into North Dakota. 1t is q wicked
connection Of the good and the badA
Just Of the kind that was proposed to
our hrst parents In the Garden Of
Eden. /.
Lot US look at 1t a; little closer. az
Can any demand on the part OF. the
peace? Will Prusaia's autocracy per-
manently give up its program of world
conquest in response to an appeal to
an irresponsible propaganda p And
has not the United States stated clearly
as It entered into war that It did not
uusheathe the sword for annexation
or indemnity? Read the presidents
proclamation and you will readily see
that Lochner had no need to establish
a propaganda for this purpose. As to
Q and 8: Has not our government
true Americans? Even to the salts
faction Of Mr.. Lochner-the organiza-
ton autocrat-the neo-Prussian rep
r~esentative In America? He has taken
these acceptable things along, as did
the serpent, to make the other part
less Objectionable to the unwary.
Acme OF Copperhead Defiance.
~ states the real purpose Of the
organization which he hoped to form.
This recalls instinctively the copper
headism Of the Civil war period; 1t
is the anti-draft spirit which has
wroked so much evilsfor England, and
which in the '60s, cost, no less than
1000 lives in the city Of New York.
No wonder that the governors Of Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Illinois ex-
cluded. this propaganda from territory
within their Jurisdiction.
(5) can v up a multitude Of
both good and bad things; 1t Is q
cover wide enough for the. benevolent
Socialist and for the I. w. W. {,
co. Is a well-sounding phrase which
Is meaningless in this connection, and
Is inserted here as q palliative.
This and similar propaganda brings
no aid to-our nation in this sad hous
OF conflict. It's advocates who teach
us to look upon the battlefield as an
tgnorninous slaughterhouse, and ou1
soldiers as so much cannon fodder
SOW the seeds of discord and spread
a gloom over the whole situation.
What comfort "a this view brins
to the mother who must send her sor
to the waf? ~
1t makes the sacrifice doubly hard
What inspiration in the though,