Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11

less the. federal government inter-
venes and supersedes the Minnesota
public safety commission and Gov.
ernor Burnquist, the convention"
will reopen in few days and many
ofthe city's industries will come to a
dead stop.
wrecked and mobs of rioters have
created reign of terror. Hundreds
of special policemen, deputy sheriffs
and home guards are patrolling the
streets and the sheriff of the county
has been deposed by the governor for
failing to cope with the rioting at its
inception.
A mass meeting of strike sympa.
thizers, held Sunday afternoon in a
downtown park, preceded the destruc.
tive rioting. And it was addressed,
not by labor leaders, but by James
Manahan, a former congressman and
now counsel for the Nonpartisan
league: Joseph Gilbert, the leagues
secretary and manager: Oscar e. KEEL
Ter, the city's commissioner Of pub
lie utilities and politician who al
ways has depended for his strength
at the polls on his socialistic speeches
and his German parentage, and by
Thomas j. McGrath, former member
of the state legislature from st. Paul
district and author Of several social
istic bills which found their way to
the legislative waste basket.
These speakers = and particularly
the first three, for Mr. McGrath's abil-
ity as spell binder is not of high order
famed the riot spirit to white heat
by means of socialistic Trades and at-
tacks on the states public safety com
mission, the governor, the street car
company and even on such men as
Otto Kahn, the New York banker who
received attention because he had but
recently addressed loyalty rally in
st. Paul.
The support of the Nonpartisan
league was pledged to the striking
car men by Mr.. Manahan, in accord
ance with the drive which the league
and its organizer, A. c. Townleys are
making in an effort to combine the
socialistic political party.
Socialism. with its doctrine Of de-
struction, ruin and outlawry. is re-
sponsible directly for the disgraceful
rioting and for the unrest which is
attracting the nations attention to St.
Paul. The socialistic Nonpartisan
leag que brought Senator Lafollette to
that city for his notorious speech; it
sowed the seeds of lawlessness which
have sprouted so fruitfully in riot and
bloodshed: it is aiding to bring about
suspension of labor in industries vital
to the nations conduct of the war: it
is linking itself with cheap politics
and seeking to build up class hatred
at time when every loyal citizen and
every loyal agency in America is
working for nationwide cooperation
to the end that the government
work.
And this same Nonpartisan league.
which is nothing but socialism made
more dangerous and destructive than
ever. is seeking today to enlist as
members the farmers and the work
ing men of Iowa. It's promises are
an enlargement of the same old falla-
cies socialism always has held out. 1t
promises the farmer. who produces
necessities, higher prices for his
crops. 1t promises the working man.
who is consumer Of those crops,
lower prices for what he must buy.
Nothing could more eloquently
prove it's falseness that these two
promises. But one has worked its
charm among the farmers Of North
Dakota and the other Is showing its
effect on the working men in Mime
sofas capital The Nonpartisan
leagues leaders, flushed with success
thus far. are attempting double
drive in Iowa, but loyal, sensible Iowa
does not indicate desire to fall for
it."