Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-10-10
ROOSEVELT FLAYS
NON-PART|SAN
PARTY
.vs AMERICANS CANNOT AT
ropn TO ACCEPT LEAD OF
ANYTHING NOT AMERICAN
SOCIALISN SPELLS FAILURE
vormer President Disbelieves In Or
ganization of Glass Against
Glass.

nAmeriea can not afford to accept
Il. lood of any party nor of an organi-
o+ou calling itself Non-partisan, but
,eallv acting as a party, which is not
49, and foremost American and moth
H. Int American, declared Colonel
FheOdore Roosevelt at Billings, Mont.
saturday in an address in which he out
lined various phases of the war and its
many sidelights.
nTbere are real and grave causes
8or complaint among the farmers here
tbe northwest, the former presi-
5ent continued, as he read from paper
Efigures which purported to show discre-
paneies in connection with the prices
bald for wheat and in freight rates,
Inf. he asserted, many of the rene
E5ies proposed are not only false, but
Enschievous, and very grave harm may
b. caused by the character of the agi-
Nation conducted by some of the men
EFho profess to be seeking these rene
Ees.
4 Damage From State Socialism.
! "To introduce state socialism as a
krelief from these conditions would re-
eut in nothing but widespread dam
age. Some Of the conditions com
6lained Of can be met by state action.
There should be federal control of ele-
katOr and flour mills, with established
Aerminal elevators at convenient points
But 1 emphatically disbelieve in
any party, and especially if that party
calls itself q Non-partisan party, which
Organizes single class against other
glasses. l object just as strongly,
whether such political organization
claims to be in the interest of town
people or country people, of merchants,
iawyers, farmers or wage earners.
"When the Non-partisan league first
appeared I was inclined to welcome it
&nd it was with real reluctance that |
waS obliged to believe that the leader
ship that controlled it was of such
character a to threaten this country
'Fith evils analogous to those which
game from bOlshevism abroad and from
\ W. W.ism at home.
Spill Beams at Minneapolis.
Finally, the meeting the the league
pt Minneapolis about year ago was
burned into g ghost dance of the Huns
Flthin-Our-g gates, and it became evident
Y me that, in SO far as they dared, the
most prominent leaders of the league
we're playing he game of sedition and
uisloyalty ana that they were seeking
. acquire power by pandering TO and
influencing inc bise spirit of greed and
'A'y and ignorance and class hatred.
lhey were trying to do what Lcnine and
irOtzky have done in Russia.
The l. w. W. leaders have been
of disloyalty and yet it was
: the head of this organization, w D.
haywood, that the secretary Of the Non ),
artisan league wrote, on April 5, 1917, E
letter in which he spoke of this $
aimed war business
There isn't a German abroad,
OF a pro-German at home, who does
wv wish success to the Non-partisan
league as at present controlled and
70 the I. w. W.
colonel Roosevelt asserted that the
w great issues at this time were to
:. through the war successfully and
,''' On thorOugh-going Americanism.
- connection with Germany's pro
''Si 10 enter league of nations, Mr..
' ~" vehemently declared that,
"" 0ermany has been "beaten to her
:, ana just so long as Germany is
'1'i ner present government, to allow
:, " JON such league would be like
-ns outlaws, train robber and gun
y 70 JOIN sheriff's posse as guar
aus OF the peace.