Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-12-12
po1sHEv1K AND Mp. LEAGUE

RoIsHEVIK AND MP. LEAGUE
Idaho county farmers and other in
crested persons who may have doubted
.bo complete socialistic tendencies of the
Non.partisan league, Will be able to dis
mol their doubts if they read the pro
aram of the National Non-partisan
league. adopted at the annual conven-
.ion of the league, held last week in St.
paul. MINI. The program is printed
.lsewbere in this issue Of the Free Press,
INST as it was given to the press from
the convention.
Since newspaper reporters and cores
nondents were barred from the conven-
zion. only such information as the league
desired for publ: consumption, was
,Gven out. Whether the convention was
stormy one, or whether it was placid,
the public was not permitted to know.
Proceedings of political convention
ordinarily are not shrouded with such
secrecy. Surely when the public is
barred from attendance, reason for
This extraordinary action must exist
But without specializing on what
might have taken place behind the
closaI doors of the Norpartisan league
convention, or the reason for holding
secret sessions, the statement given out
BY the league for publication sufficies
to show that the league, posing as the
only true friend and benefactor of the
American farmer, is, at least, in sympa
thy, if not in reality, allied with the
bolshevist movement in Russia, Germany
and elsewhere where the socialists tenn
porarily are in control, and where an
archy runs amuck.
The first section of the league S pro
gram demands a Eunited states of the
world A world democracy would be
created. The /. w. W., it will be re
membered, regard themselves not as the
citizens of one nation, nor of another, |
hut of the world Owe are citizens of 1
the world" the notorious l. w. w. eX !
claim For a world citizenry, also, did /
the Non-partisan league 90 on record |
No United States of America, no Great /
Britain, no France, nor Belgium, nor /
Italy, nor Japan, no nation on the face I
Of the earth, but every nationality,
every race, every color, in one great
'citizenry of the world.' But what of
a government for these peoples? All,
it is government of consent, not of
conquest that they advocate. Govern
ment of consent of the peoples, along
racial lines, our president tells Us, should
be guaranteed. Peoples should be per
nltted to create their own governments, /,
i they so choose. The radical question
II Austria-Hungary has offered a pro-
olem of this sort which the president
hopes to see solved at the forthcoming
leaee conference But neither the
resident, nor any, sane man, favors
government in the form of a united
tates Of the world. Such government
would be founded, not on racial charac-
eristics, but on the principle of ultra
Ocialism.
Among other things, the league advo-
ates the employment of unemployed
lbOr in cooperation with organized
loor, through government works, and
restoration of the rights of labor, sur
endered for patriotic reasons, and the
'pealmg the laws regulating the civil
ghts of people as war measures. "
The league would demand employ {
lent by the government, at public ex-
'nse, and no doubt at exorbitant wages, .
every man who happened to be out c
job. 1t probably would tax the
lohc to pay enormous wages to !. w. y
g and other socialists. 1t would elimi- q
lite government authority, and would f
'"'y|e business. 1t would make the \
ord fiery hell of pillage, bloodshed ,
ID disaster. d
me National Non partisan league v
'PealS to radicals Of every sort. 1t
'efs to the !. W.. W. and the socialists, @
W attempts, for the purpose of procur- 4
votes to align, on its side by means h
Misrepresentation, the farmers and r
ion labor. :,
me Non-partisan league would, if a
'''oie, crush the government of the II
llted States of America as well as the .
''rlmcnt of every other civilized il
'oh and substitute an era of bolshe- p,
'"' fhe inevitable result of which =
'uid be q return to harbarism