The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-06-13
AN OPEN letter
TO KNUTS0N
(By Billy Noonan of the Baudette
Region.)

Dear Harold-We have given the
letter you wrote to W. J. Peregrine
the once-over, and we are more than
ever convinced that you are politi-
clan who started out to be states
man and turned back-and went a
famed long way back at that. You sure
stubbed your toe when you wrote that
letter, and you'll need no adding
machine to figure up the votes you
will get at the coming election.
When that letter is absorbed along the
various rural free delivery routes, it
will be all day with you, and the
voters will make you about as comfor-
table as a dry fish.
To begin with Harold, old top, that
fellow Peregrine was an I. w. W.,
war director, a kicker against the
draft, an off OK and about everything
that a good American ought not to
be. And he wrote you asking you
to use your support to kill the con-
scription law.
i And did you in good old U. S. lang
uage tell him to go jump in the lake?
Nope, Harold, you did nothing of
the kind.
Instead you wrote him a polite
letter, telling him that his request
was impossible, but that you had made
speech against war with Germany
at the time it was declared, and you
inclosed him a copy of it. My. my,
Harold, you must be proud of that
spiel of yours, to be distributing it
months after it was delivered. Yes,
Harold, nine months after the war
began, and at time when our boys
We're spilling their blood in France.
you sent, a speech to a disloyal
American, in which you gave reasons
why we should not enter this war
against the Kaiser and his killers.
That was mighty bad skull tumble
on your part, Harold. And still you
have the nerve to expect that your
constituents will stand for it and allow
you to rattle around Washington for
another two years as their personal
representative. Nay, nay, Harold,
you have just added one more reason
why you should be left at home, and
believe us that makes complete set.
| And near the close of your letter to
this thirt -three-and-a-t per cent
American you relieved yourself of the
following: Il am going to do what I
can to make the rich pay for this war
SO THAT NEXT TIME THEY WILL
mot BE so KEEN FOR TROUBLE"
Fine stuff for congressman to be
writing at this time, isn't it, Harold
That old bunk about this being
rich mans war has become very UNI
popular among loyal United Staters
who have formed the habit of think
ing, but of course the fellow you were
writing to was not of that class. He
was disloyal /. w. w. and was just
waiting to be fed on that kind of stuff.
/ When you voted against this war
for the freedom of the world, Harold,
We tried to forgive you on the ground
that you didn't know what you were
doing, but you can take it from us this
last "break" of yours is too much
and you'll find mighty few voters toss
ing their hats in the air or destroying
the silence in your behalf.
When you cease distributing that
damned against the-war speech of
yours, and when you refrain from in
sitting into the minds of such ignor-
ant men as Peregrine that the rich
brought on this war it will be time
enough to think of you as suitable
representative of the people. AS
things are, you are hopelessly out of
tune, and we intend to do everything
in our power to prevent you going
back to Washington as the represent
alive of the citizens of this district.