Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-10
Northwestern NelUS
association the latter part of this

association the latter part Of this
month.
1t was rumored, this morning
that the federal authorities .arc
investigating the remarks made
by Steele yesterday morning.
when he took issue with Joseph
Minot, N. D, April IU.-Minot was
! stirred over an accident yesterday
at the Normal school, which for the
first time in the history Of the institu-
ton tended to bring upon 1t unfavor-
able publicity. Joseph T. eastman.
field secretary of the National Secur-
ity league. who delivered a, powerful
address before an audience Monday
F! night, appeared before the norma
students and faculty yesterday and
in which he declared that electors.
who supported such men as Berger,
Hilquit and their kind, disloyal be-
cause h aims of such men are
hampering war work. eastman
urged adopting German efficiency
when dealing with such men rs
| Berger.
Generally nelleved to be a New
York man, President a. G. Steele. who
has been head of the local Normal
since last fall, is now believed to he
! from West Virginia. President Steele
followed eastman to h platform
and gave voice to alleged un-Amer-
lean utteranccs tending to create the
flea that the government IA unfair
in its distribution of wal burdens.
Professor Clarke. who was presiding
over the meeting, replied to Steele,
stating that the normal school stood
squarely behind the government. This
aroused Stecle's ire and a warm eX-
change of remarks followed. Finally
Steele took charge of the meeting and
ordered eastman to stop talking.
eastman was followed out by the
faculty and a majority of the students.
Steele ordered the students to remain
and listen to him.
News of, the incident spread quickly
and the citizens becama decidedly in
dignant. \ meeting of representative
business men and directors Of the AS
ISOLATION of Commerce was held in
the afternoon before which Steele was
asked to be appear. Steele was present
sui the result Of the meeting has not
been announced. q
The board of regents announced
after a meeting in Minot recently that
Steele had been asked to resign at the
end of the present term>as a result of
his untinely attitude on war. ques-
tons. 1t is understood that pressure
will be brought to bear on the regents
to have Steele V his relations with
the Normal immediately.
Steele's positions on the war ques-
tons practically isolated him with the
other members Of the faculty and the
students at the normal. , The first
break in the harmony. which has al
ways prevailed between the members
of the faculty and the students. came
when Steele postponed getting a flag
for the normal school building until
he was requested to by h business
men. Since war was declared Steele
has never come out sQuarely in sup
port of the government.
A short tine ago Francis LybarEer,
speaking in connection with the Ly-
ceum curse vas urged by Steele to
speak on War Finances" Lybarser
completely surprised his audience by
declaring that the government was
| wrong in issuing Liberty Bonds. PAY
for h war as you co." he said. you
are conscripting sons Of the poor and
do not agree to return them. There:
fore conscript also wealth of the rich
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1.-THE hitter, part Of his remarks LIZ
barger modified his statement by say
ing that he meant the incomes and
not the property. He wanted all in
comes yer $4,000 conscripted.
Another argument he advanced was
that an indirect tax causes war and
we will have war as long as we have
tariff walls. therefore abolish the
tariffs and indirect and we will
have nc more wars. A little later he
voiced a decidedly un-American senti-
ment by intimatjpg that Germany
wanted war, TO enable the Imperial
to all parts of the world" She was
handicapped by tariffs and if the tariff
walls were broken down she could
have secured her desire without the
war and the present conflict would
, have been avoided. Lybarger's con-
tention was this-'a rich mans war"
Steele vigorously %applauded Ly-
harger. r. A. Nestos, who was in the
audience. responded to a request for
questions by a short speech in which
he scored Lybarger and the criticism
of the Liberty Bonds. Eestos de-
nounced conscripting of wealth and
running the industries and endorsed
the plan to have the rich pay for the
war and extend the payment over a
lumber of years.
Steele quite opposed Nestos' view
and at the dedication Of the service
flag last week deviated from the sub
ject of accepting the flag for the
school and launched into a discussion
OF war finances. reiterating and con-
frming the arguments OF Lybarger.
During the recent Red Cross drive
the students state that Steele left the
impression with the listeners that it
was unwise to pledge to the
Red Cross.
] Several students. when interviewed.
T, confirm h report that Steele's atti-
tude is wrong. He hasn't delivered
a real patriotic speech since he came
here one said. He devotes all his
time to criticising government plans,
finance and warfare"
1t is believed the board of regents
may take immediate action and not
permit Steele eve to remain to the
close of the term when they are in
formed of the incident today.
- Kslp Light the forch--
In consequence of the defeat,of the
Rowser government of Victoria, H. 8.
W. Lawson. electromagnetic in the
Peacock administration. has UNDER
taken the task of forming q new cab.