The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-20
"Why Is Your Country at
War" Reveals Views of
Noparty Candidate
t'DRAGGED IN BY
THE PR0FITEERS"
Denounces Newspapers for
Giving Support to Red
Cross Campaigns
"CoNsCRIPTION OF
WEALTH" AGAIN
Wanted Only Rich to Pay
"Wanton Travelling"
on High Seas
fRy Il. b. PAuLsoN.l

Sc. Paul, MINI, March 20.-There
Is a book written by Charles A.
Jdndbergh. former congressman
from Minnesota who Was yesterday
nominated by the National Nom
partisan league as its candidate for
the governorship of Minnesota, that
will play a tremendous part in the
election or the defeat of Mr.. Lind
bergh when he faces ]. A. A. Burn
quist for the Republican nomination
IN the forthcoming primaries in the
Gopher state.
why is your country at war and
what happens to you after the war,
and related subjects" Is Its title, and
the book was written by Mr.. Lind
bergh in 1917, after the United
States had declared war on Ger
many, and copies Of it were
purchased by the writer at THE
New Times" In Minneapolis,
Socialist Printing Company" ac-
cording to the nameplate on the
stores front door on Second avenue
south. between Fifth and Sixth
streets Just few doors down the
street IS the Minnesota headquar-
ters OF the Socialist party.
In this book that now becomes an
issue IN the Minnesota fight for and
against the Nonpartisans, Mr.. Lind
bergh has discussed the war, and he
gives his theory of the reasons why
America Is today battling the Hun.
Reading Mr.. LAndbergh's book,
one can find no difference from the
doctrine he breaches from that so
long preached by the Nonpartisan
league leaders in North Dakota and
Minnesota
In the third paragraph OF his in
troductory statement there is this
very familiar phrase; ... ..
"s The press controlled
by big business at the time Of
the publication Of that book, at
tackled me savagely for predict
ing dire results from the big
business system"
Let somebody deliver that from
the platform, and one could close
his eyes and imagine himself in the
midst OF an old time Nonpartisan
rally out In North Dakota. The book
Mr.. Idndbergh refers to Ii "The
Money Trust" written and publish
ed by him in 1913.
Unanswered Into War.
Further on in his Introductory
statement, Mr. Lindbergh discloses
his own idea of why the United
States Is at war today. He charges
that the American nation was
adroitly maneuvered into the posi-
ton where some OF our rights would
be trespassed, and the country
forced into war.
The Nonpartisan candidate for
governor in Minnesota puts 1t this
way:
'Why Is our country at war
and how does it happen that al
ready some OF the best citizens
have gone and that great num-
bers are about to be sent to the
battlehelds OF Europe to kill and
be killed?
"Trespass upon our rights on
the high seas makes our cause
tust, still ! do not claim that it II
was wise to enter the war.
1 believe that the problem could
have been settled without war
or sacrifice OF national honor
the same as we expect to adjust
our trespass upon our rights to
the high seas by other nations
(Meaning England.) Our pur-
pose fs humane, nevertheless I
believe that have proved that
q certain timer circle without
official authority and for selfish
purposes, adroitly naneuvsrsd
things to bring about conditions
that would make il practically
certain that some Of the bel
iuerents would violate our in
ternational rights and bring US
TO the war with them.
The writer of the foregoing para
graphs stands face to face in the
primary election in June with a
candidate who has declared himself
an out and out loyalist-who stands
firmly by General Pershing's fam
Gus message to the people Of Amer
ica--"smash the damnable Hun
at home"
CONSUMPTION Of Wealth.
Cyonscription of wealth, too, has
become a familiar phrase in the
propaganda. Here is
what Mr.. Lindbergh says Of 1t in his
book:
"The taking OF property or
money to pay the costs Of the
war should begin with the larg-
est Of the fortunes, and as these
are scaled down to equal the
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