Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-07-05
COUNTY COUNCIL DEPLoRES
COMING OF A. C. TOWNLEY.
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County Council of Defense appointed
a committee to draft resolutions COW
ering the sentiment of the council re-
garding the stand to be taken by it as
permitting A. c. Townley. the Nonpar-
tisan league president of North Dako-
ia, to speak in Boise on the Fourth of
July. The resolution as drawn and
adopted read as follows:
Whereas: A. c. Townley of North
Dakota has been invited to deliver a
public address in Boise on July 4th,
1918; and,
Whereas: The executive commit
tee of the Idaho State Council of De-
fense has investigated charges of Sc
ditious and disloyal utterances prefer
red against Mr.. Townley before that
body and reported as follows:
State Council Speaks.
I'VE beg leave to report that the ev-
idence we have at hand of the utter
ances made by Mr.. Townley justify us
in stating that such statements would
not rebound to the credit of the state
or to the patriotism of the citizenship
of Idaho; and.
Whereas: 1t is the belief of this
council that at this particular time in
with a call to deliver an address be-
fore a gathering of citizens If there
is any question whatever as to his 10y
atty. or If his speeches are calculated
to foment factional strife and class
feeling among the people; and,
Tends to Stir Up Strife
Whereas: The invitation extended
to Mr.. Townley has already had the eff
feet of stirring up much resentment
and contention among our citizens;
and.
Whereas: The utterances com
planned of which we have before us are
as follows: Statements accredited %
Mr. Townley in his address at Devils
Lake N D., on June 5, 1917, are as fol-
lows:
What Nation Demands.
" The nation demands that you
give yourselves and your sons and
your brothers and your husbands
and your sweethearts, to be taken
across the seas and spill their life's
blood on the fields of Europe and
e. then comes to you and asks you to
subscribe for the Liberty Bonds to
nav for the expenses of the war;
This is the injustice of the war
and the manner in which officials
of the administration are carrying
it into effect
I'm the same address he said, you /
are slaves and you will continue to be |
slaves as long as the poor have to bear
the eynense of the war
FIGHT for Damned Pirates"
"On the 9Th day of June, in Willis
ton, N. D.. these disloyal statements
are accredited to him: The flower of
the Young manhood of this nation is
going across the water to bleed, as we
are told, for the honor of the country,
but it needs some effort for me to he
lieve these young men are going to
fight for the freedom of democracy.
L believe and fear that they
are going to bleed for the profit of
the damned pirates who profit
from our food and our products
the government stands most of the
time CRYING for the young to come
to war. I demand that the United
states shall instantly take charge
of the TRANSPORTATION of the food
and products of the farm before
tho flower of the manhood OF this
nation is sent across the water
"a .Tens of thousands will be sacrific-
cd 70 defend the freedom of democracy.
b,,t there is another thing. We do not
want our young men to come pacK
With arms and legs and eyes gone to
have them faring q war debt that VIII
Keen ms and them slaves for the next
25 or so years
a .TsiIlions of wealth are piled in the
-1aIr
there by your industry here at nome
wealth they need not but whirs is a
detrirnent to them and we say to our
country: Come. take of their wealth
rs much as you want and as much as
You need.
{" we are told it is our duty to raise
large crons. but say it is more our
dirty to find out what is going to be
done vita our crops than it is our duty
to grow them.
" Unless you. yourself. have the Z
mower to nut inside the penitentiaries
the gamblers who profit in our crops
we are not under obligations 70 raise
the crops.
Would Refuse to Raise Crops
7 refuse to urge YOU farmers 70
raise n larger crop until You or they
wine out this monstrous wrong ana !
viii say that unless they are big :
enough to control the transportation OF
food and coal for the northwest, can .
not see possibility of the United
States being successful in this war !
.On June Z. at Minot. speaking of
Liberty Loans. he is accredited with I
the following:
This is wrong-all wrong. / say
10 vou that measure is anything but ]
because it takes the heart !
out of those boys going across the wa !
ter to fight battles knowing that when
GALLEY TWO
thev get back they must pay for IL ,
When they get back! Some cost Tor
the boys that go across to fight
Autooracy Worse Than Germany's-
AT Grand Forks. on June s, refer {
ring to a man who had son In the ,
service of his country, he said:
Yes, know many men will sell