Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-10-17
Denounces Leaders as "Anti-
American and Bolshevistic"
Before Large Crowd.
Declares There Is Not a Pro-
German in the Nation That
Does Not Wish Success for
the TOwnley Movement.

/ Democratic Institutions of the United
States He drew attention to the
crimes for which the |. w. w. leaders
were recently convicted and then read
from a letter of the secretary of the
Non-partisan league to William ID.
Haywood, in which the phrase this
damned war" was used and fight on
conscription and anti-spy bills was ad-
vocated. The coloneIs words were
unanimously applauded time after
, time.
After speaking about the farmers
just complaints and declaring that they
must be remedied by either state or
federal action, the Colonel declared
that "to introduce state socialism as
a relief for these conditions would re-
suit in nothing but widespread dam
age" He continued:
He Was Deceived.
AZ have so keen Il feeling about the
injustice TO which the farmers were ex-
posed here in the northwest that when
the Non partisan league first appeared
was inclined to welcome it and to
believe in it and l wished to cooper
ate with it, 1t was with real reluct-
ance that / was obliged to believe that
the leadership that controlled it was
of such character as to threaten this
country with evils analogous to those
which came from Bolshevikism abroad
and from l. w. W.-ism at home.
1.-THE l. w. W. leaders have
been convicted of disloyalty to
America by a Chicago jury. They
have preached and practiced sedi-
ton A federal grand jury in
Kansas has just indicted the or
ganZation itself for plot to
overthrow the United States gov
eminent, establish a reign of ter
ror and seize all property. Here
in Montana it has become Il men
ace to the mining lumber and
farming interests, using lawless
violence and mob conspiracy as its
weapons and the federal authori-
ties have been gravely remiss in
falling to handle the situation
fearlessly and vigorously; yet it
was to the leader of this organiza-
ton, W.. D. Haywood, that the
i secretary and one of the moving
spirits of the Non-partisan league,
wrote on April 5, 1917, just as we
were going to war; and in his let
ter, a copy of which | hold in my
! hand, he spoke of this damned
| war business and that Il think the
fight should now be centered
against spy bills and conscrip-
tion.' In other words, these two
| responsible officials of the l. w.
| w. and Non-partisan league were
/ proposing to fight measures to deal
| with traitors and make our par
ticipation in the war effective.
Pro-Germans For Them.
mo patriotic American can afford
to support either organization and
any politician who is Joined up with
| either is discredited. There is not
| German abroad or a pro-German at
| home, who does not wish success to
! the Non-partsan league as at present
! controlled, and to the !. w. Wand
| they wish them success because they
| recoqnize them Is anti-American and
as containing within them the threat
of reducing this country to somewhat
the same condition to which the Boil
shevikism has reduced Russia. II
these men had had their way year
ago or if they had their way now, they
would make our beloved country an
Director scorn to all free nations and
q byword by derision for the foreign
despotisms, for these men, whether
actuated merely by an evil fanaticism
or by more sordid motives are, natural
ly and inevitably the enemies OF
America, just as Lenine and TrotZky
were of Russia. Whether consciously
or unconsciously, they play the game
of the autocratic governments that are
hostile to the United States and they
should be repudiated by every far-see-
ing and patriotic American.
To Those Misled.
81 know well that there are null
titudes of honest and upright men
among the rank and file of the
Non-partisan league, Just as there
are thousands of good but mis-
informed men in the ranks of the
l. w. W. Insofar as these men
have, and | believe they have,
tust grievances of which they COM
plain, it is our business actively
and affirmatively to strive for the
remedy of these grievances, and
when / say strive ] mean not
merely hot air. but action. 1t is
our business to act affirmatlvely
so as to redress every just griev-
ance of the farmer and to show
that we recognize that he is lit
orally the bedrock foundation Of
our whole American social system,
to remedy these things that are
wrong in the labor world Which
force here and there, bodies Of
workmen into the l. w. W., be-
cause they don't know where else
to go; but the leadership of both
the Non-partsan league and the