The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
GAME OF SEDITION
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in the northwest" the former presi-
dent continued as he read from a pa
per figures which purported to show
discrepancies in connection with the.
prices paid for wheat and in freight
rates. but he asserted that many of
the remedies proposed are not only
false, but mischievous, and very grave
harm may be caused by the character
Of the agitation conducted by some Of
the men who profess to be seeking
these remedies.
ITO introduce state socialism as q
relief for these conditions would re-.
suit in nothing but widespread dam.
age. some of the conditions com
planned of can be met by state action.
There should be federal control of
elevators and flour mills with estab-
lished terminal elevators at convenient
points.
But I emphatically disbe1ieve in
calls itself Nonpartisan party. which
organizes a single, class against other
classes. object just as strongly
whether such a political Organization
claims to be in the interest of towns
people. or country people, or mer-
chants, lawyers, farmers or wage
earners.
I. w. W:-Ism at Home.
when the Nom Partisan League
first APPEARED, I was inclined to well
come it and it was with real reluc-
lance that was obliged to believe that
the leadership that controlled it was
of such a character as to threaten
this country with evils analogous to
those which, came from Bolshevism
abroad and from I. w. W. ism at
home.
Finally the meeting of the league
at Minneapolis about a year ago was
turned into a ghost dance of the Huns
Within our Gates. and it became evil
dent to me, that insofar as they dared,
the most prominent leaders of the
league were playing the game of sedi-
ton and disloyalty and that they were
ing to and influencing the base spirit
of greed and envy and ignorance and
class hatred. They were trying to do
what Lenine and Trotzky have done to
Russia.
1.-The l. w. w, leaders have been
convicted Of disloyalty and yet it was
to the head of this organization, w.
D. Haywoods that the secretasy of the
Nom Partisan League wrote on April
5, 1917, a letter in which he spoke Of
this damned war business"
There isn't a German abroad. or
pro-German at home who does not
wish success to the Non-Partisan
League as at present controlled. and
to the /. w. W."
Colonel Roosevelt asserted that the
TWO great ISSUES at IOlS tlfnS were TO
put thru the war successfully and in
sist on thoro going Americanism.
In connection with Germany's pro-
posal to enter a league of nations, MIR.
Roosevelt vehemently declared that
until Germany has been "beaten to her
knees and just SO long an Germany is
under her present government, to al
low her to Join such a league would
be like asking outlaws, train robbers
and gunner to join q sheriffs posse
as guardians of the peace" -
We have a league of free nations
continued the colonel. land inasrhuch
as we are members of that league. we
have been culpably derelict in our
duty in not long ago declaring war on
the armed enemies of the league, Tur-
key and Bulgaria. We have wrong
fully left our allies to win without our
aid, decisive victories over these two
vassal states OF Germany" 49,
The speaker advocated the recogni-
ton of the JugoSlavs. Armenians.
Poles. and other oppressed nationali-
ties, as we'll AZ the Czecho-Slovaks, and
continued:
But we must not expect from such
league more than it can do. nor ouf-
selves promise moret han We can per-
form; and we must never forget that
such a. league to enforce peace, or
an addition to, and under no circum-
pairing of our own defense. Uncle
Sam must, in the last analysis, rely on
himself for his safety and not on
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