The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-05-17
Nonparty Candidate For Gov
Makes Fretful Plea
SAME OLD PESSIM|SM
Claims That Extracts From His
Book About the War Are
CARRIED
From thursdays Daily.
UNITED Press Dispatch


citizen of the United States is con-
WINGED that our war aims are abso-
lutely just and that the presidents
peace program must prevail, and
every decent citizen is behind the war
and willing to make every sacrifice to
carry it through to victory" Charles
A. LindberSh, candidate for the
republican nomination for governor,
said today in a speech here. Lind
bergh's candidacy has been en-
dorsed by the National Nonpartisan
league.
Modern warfare, however, is not
alone a question of military might.
Every productive resource of every
belligerent nation is being strained
to the utmost The nation which
falters beneath this strain will be
defeated.
after bitter experience, England,
France and Italy found that private
ownership with inevitable profiteer-
ing had failed and they were forced
to take government control of the
essential industries. Russia failed
to take such a step. Her economic
structure collapsed. The lesson
ought to be plain for the people of
the United States.
Control Basic Industries.
sour government will finally be
forced to control the basic industries
and any delay in the matter will
simply prolong the war. We do not
need to go abroad for object lessons.
Private profits have delayed and
handicapped our own war program.
The Hog Island sc~~' . still
fresh in the nostrils Cf /" people.
More recent revelations STOW that
our aeroplane construc.:nr r"ogram
has been seriously ir' Tod with
by the unconscionablc Srcel of GER
tain selfish interests.
''The railroads broke down under
wasteful and inefficient private
management, and the president was
forced to take them over to prevent
disastrous congestion. Profiteering
in the coal mines tied up shipping
through lack of fuel. The production
OF copper was curtailed deliberately
for higher prices. Millers and
packers are exploiting the people at
home by excessive prices.
Conscript the Industry
There is but one remedy-to
have the government conscript in
dustry just as it has conscripted
men. This is question of winning
the war and all true patriotics
should unite, forgetting politics, and
demand speedy action toward this
end. The National Nonpartisan
league is unequivocially pledged to
carrying out this program. 1t is the
first political organization in Amer
lea to demand war control of indus
tries and il is the only organization
in America today that is backing up
President Wilson in his fight with
the politicians and profiteers to
carry out this program.
This explains why the league has
been attacked by the supporters
and newspapers of these profiteers.
That also explains why grabbed ex-
tracts of my books are used in an
effort to prove that l too, am dis
loyal.
"These interests fear to meet u
discussion of the facts. They know
? that they can neither deny nor de-
fend their unpatriotic exploitation
at time when every true citizen
is sacrificing for his country's good.
Therefore. these politicians dodge
the real issues and bring fake
charges of disloyalty against others.
They do this to divert attention
from their own nefarious practices
which will not stand the light of
day.
Trying to Hide Flag
"They are trying to hide the flag
but it is my deliberate judgment
that these same profiteers are the
real disloyalists in this crisis and
that if there should be firing squad
here in America they first seek out
these traitors who gouge the gov
eminent and exploit the people at
every turn.
"Once more 1 say that the Ameri-
can people are united to win this
war. The man who says otherwise
is lying for political effect and
these lies themselves tend to
divide the people and carry
aid and comfort to the enemy.
The only Huns within our gates that
/ know of are the men who stand at
the crossroads of commerce in this
crisis and extort robber toll when
our nation needs every pound of
food and every dollar.
"They would even suspend the
right of free speech and peaceful
assemblage, because they know that
at meetings like these, their dis
loyalty will be exposed, even II
their subsidized newspapers remain
silent.
GAS candidate of the National Nom
partisan league for governor, 1 serve
notice here and now that this un-
American plot will be defeated. We
intend to expose the profiteers and
to carry the truth to the people We
are going to unite the people that
this war may be a democratic
management"
Extract From Lindbergh's Books.
Lindbergh claims that garbled ex-
tracts from his book, why Your
Country Is at war; Are being
published. That is mere camouflage
on the part of the willy gentleman
who seeks the nomination for gov
ernor. In order that the people may
sp