Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-07-13
NoN-PARTIsAN LEAGUE LEADERS D1sLOYAL

it because as they said Socialist party America
is fighting the brought wildly the
county citizens last week by the
tional uterances Towney Socialist
leader Bowen. 1t the same kind of talk in the big
Socialist convention recently held at St. Louis which
caused the patriotic liberty loving wing of the
party protest. the protests being unheeded prompt
the hall and repudate the organization.
Nothing stronger in the St. Louis convention said
than this
why should we go to Europe to fight autocracy
when autocracy right here at homer"
this
This is war of the rotten rich to cement their
hold upon the producers of the country"
or this
you being asked to go to to enable
rotten rich to rob the people of Germany"
Yet Socialist leader Townley said those things to
Todd county audiences and to the everlasting shame of
the communities got away with it.
John Spargo, one of the most prominent Socialist
writer's in America, after sitting in the Louis
month and listening to the preaching of that
kind of doctrine got up and walked out. He fol-
lowed by more of others who couldn't stand
for it. He later gave out interview in which he said
that whole Socialist party attitude
America pro-German and that with remarkable sim
ilarty the efforts of the Socialists in the United States
corresponded with the of the So
ciasts who left the convention so temperate
Spargo and did not hesitate to intimate that German
gold being used to good to build backfre
of sentiment in this country Wilhelm could
have been present either Fairy Lake Eagle Bend
would have appauded Townley Bowen louder
than he would have done.
There are few villages in the state that Guido the
little village of Mnneota in Lyon county for patriotism
Its population only 49, yet this village vicin
ity when the call for volunteers responded with
nearly hundred When the Liberty Bonds
were offered Minneota took $35 500 worth and when
the Red Cross appeal the village itself subscribed
$2,5O0 All this is wonderful showing, but the Min
neoa Mascot accords the palm to the village of Madela
population 1878, where S7,6O54O subscribed for
n nix
gave $3.50, and there contributors of
500 each, and many fifties and twenty-fves The
patriotism and liberay of Minneota and Madea can
not be too highly commended.
F. E. Hadley of the Wnnebago City Enterprise has
said it and it must be true Read when the Lord had
finished making the of the country, resolved
make section beautiful glorious than the
and did This section is what call
nesota. The Maker took pine trees, and planted them
thcky in the northern part the interspersing
however, good farming placed lake jewels all
the region, to add beauty and glory the scene
He sowed valuable minerals in the north that might
mine Them and from those mines develop riches that
shame the wealth Of the Indies He it that the
country well-watered by streams and rivers that
man might harness their and turn it to good in
dustrial account. He made the soil fabuIously
fertile that it might bring forth abundant crops
that His children would never know the real
meaning of the word famine. And when these
things DONE He it that it blessed with
nvigoratng climate that health, and peo-
pied the county with hardy, vigorous citzenry which
is awake to its opportunities. This, then Minnesota!
America will send great air-pane fleet into the
war; and incidentally the hope has been expressed
American airmen will not in any upon
protected German cities This brings up question
of reprisals, and the question simple as it ap
to be. American and British public opinion is
strongly opposed to air reprisals,
England has suffered raids upon pop
uatiOn without reprsal. France has the other
position and for every raid upon city, makes
return in kind In the early part of the we heard
much Of the bOmbardment of Paris upon Paris
long ago ceased Recently the Germans bombed a hos
pital Nancy killing three woundng four and
the French retaiated by sending "a planes to
lombard German cities Under treatment the
mans leave the French towns practically unmoested
On the other hand the British in kind
and air raids London cities have be-
increasingly Obstructive 81 being killed and Al
injured in raid later than Saturday. Official opinion
in England has been against reprisa but popular
mand for reprsals has become nsistent and the
policy may be abandoned The German military auth
critics themselves invite reprsas by continuing raids
against the nOnrealiatng British stopping them
against the French who retaliate emphaticaly in
kind