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The producers news., 1918-07-12
AN APPRECIATION
OF MISS RANKIN
Outlook, Mont,

Outlook, Mont,
June Is, 1918
Hon. Miss jeanette Rankin,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Miss Rankin
l take this opportunity to thank you
you for the year book you sent me
also for the speeches on various
measures before congress.
| take great pride in living in 2
state that's got woman represent
ing them in congress, and wish there
were more of your type that really
represents the people and we would
soon have a democracy that would
be worth copying by the rest of the
world.
It is to be regretted that journals
of special privilege do not display
your name very prominent except
when they think they can hurt your
name, which is proof you have be-
come an enemy fo the sinister class
and champion of the common
people.
I can assure you that the people in
this community feel that they are
pretty we'll acquainted with Miss
Rankin and know you to be their
representative.
thir...s the people will soon real
lze that they must organize and
stand back of their representative if
their voice is going to be heard in
the halls of congress. Alone in con-
gress, yes Or a dozen, will not have
much effect unless it is backed up
Dy an organization along effective
lines, matters not whether it is COM
posed of "hog Shoppers or mechan-
ics."
Wishing you success in your good
work, I remain,
Yours truly,
Charles Lundeen.
Copy to Producers News.
The producers news., 1918-07-12
Slow Footed Justice

Tardily the state supreme court
of Minnesota has come to the rescue
of justice in that state, and has ord
cred the lower court of Martin county
to dismiss the indictments for "dis-
couraging enlistments" preferred in
that county under a state law against
A. c. Townley, as president, and JOS
eph Gilbert, as organization manager,
of the National Nonpartisan league.
The indictments against Townley
and Gilbert were based, it has been
told in the dispatches, on pamphlet
issued and circulated some months
ago by the Nonpartisan League.
Never yet has it been told generally
in the press that the contents of the
pamphlet were resolutions framed
and passed at conference of League
members and union labor held in
September of last year, and that they
were heard and adopted by several
thousand persons.
1t was on the utterance of these
several thousand persons that these
League officers were indicted as a
political trick on the part of no.
toriety seeking small town prosecutor
in southern Minnesota. The supreme
court of the state of Minnesota has
now examined in detail the state
ments made in the resolutions and
circulated in the pamphlet and it now
officially certified in an opinion writ
ten by a justice who comes from the
same county in which the indictment
originated that there is not one syl-
liable in the resolution Or the PAM
phlet even open to question on the
ground of disloyalty or intention to
discourage enlistr1ents.
No sane person could read the PAM
phlet and come 20 any other conclu
sion. The thought in the mind of
those who caused the indictment to
be brought was, of course, that few
people would get an opportunity to
read the pamphlet on which the in
dictment was based, but that many
would be Influenced by the news that
the head of the Nonpartisan League
chad been indicted for sedition."
The conspiracy has been worked to
it's fullest extent in every state in
The producers news., 1918-07-12

cd q meeting at the operahouse in
that town on May IT to organize a
Cooperative grain elevator company.
when they got to town they found
that the local grain dealers had got
control Of the opera house and re-
fused to let them meet there. They
managed to get an empty building
ond held their meeting anyway. 1t
doesn't seem to matter what the
farmers attempt to do in the way of
getting together, they always seem to
And somebody opposing them. The
fellows that shut them out at Martin
did not have the gall TO pose at 10y
alists.-Kenmare IN. d. Journal.
The producers news., 1918-07-12

Assuming that accuracy of state
ments appearing in the daily press
from time to time, relating to the
barring of Nonpartisan speakers from
both public and private halls, the de-
portation of organizers, and in some
instances the application of tar and
feathers to supporters of the Nonpar-
tisan League, by cowardly mobs, it
must be apparent to any right think
thinking person that the time has
arrived for real Americans to assert
themselves and put a stop, once and
for all, to the exercise of Prussian
prerogatives by an element in this
country which serves not the cause
of America or democracy, at this or
any other time.
Americans, and we speak here both
of the native-born and the naturaliz-
ed, are patient, long suffering, slow
to wrath, that is history, and recent
history at that. But once aroused,
once convinced that the use of force
is necessary to the maintenance of the
rights guaranteed to them by the
constitution, they act, and act de-
cisively.
In characterizing the people who
have been engendering the mob spirit
in the northwestern states in recent
months, for reasons not in the least
related to those for which America
is expending lavishly of it's best
blood in France, we say without hesi-
tation, that nowhere in the confines
of Germany, in Austria or Turkey,
nor behind the walls of any penal
institution in the world, can there be
found humans more bereft of all man.
hood, more lacking in all that AM
orleans hold dear, than those who,
parading under the guise of loyalty,
The producers news., 1918-07-12
Ub To The Auditor

ditor for payment by the Pioneer
Press for work done under the scan
dalous contract.
This contract the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners has not had the
"Guts" to ratify as yet, yet we sup
pose the county work is being done
as though it had been ratified.
The people of Sheridan County are
now watching the Auditor to see
The producers news., 1918-07-12
what he will do about it.
These warrants will be illegal.
If the Auditor consults the Coun-
A Grand Jury viii be petitioned

A Grand Jury viii be petitioned
for.
At several points in the county
citizens have met and arranged to
take the steps necessary to call this
body together.
It is universally agreed that the
conditions are such In this county to
justify the taking of this action.
The calling of this Grand Jury is
not political play, hut move that
is made absolutely necessary by the
disregard for constituted law and
authority that has grown up in this
The producers news., 1918-07-12

;mposed a fine of two hundred dol
lars.
County Attorney Onstad ana yep
uty Greer represented the state o.
Montana, while Davia e. McLaugn'
lin defended Mr.. Lutness.
Many persons believed that Mr.
Lutness should have been acquitted
but in view of the fact that so small
a fine was imposed and the cnarge
found was merely misdemeanor nc
appeal will be taken and Mr.. Lut'
ness paid the fine.
The maximum penalty which car
be imposed under the Sedition ia"
is twenty years at hard labor in the
state prison and fine OF $2O,oOo.
The producers news., 1918-07-12
GUILTY OF MlSDEMEANOR
Peter Lutness Fined Two Hundred
Dollars, Which He Paid.

The famous case of the State of
Montana versus Peter Lutness on the
charge of Sedition occupied one day
of the time of the District Court
this week. This young man was
supposed to be dangerous Pro-
German agitator, according to the
rumors that We're circulated, but
after the trial the cnly verdict the
jury could find was that he was
merely guilty of rnisdemeanor and
The producers news., 1918-07-12

The County Attorney says that
the County Commissioners pulled off
the Sheridan County printing con-
tract "deal" without consulting the
County Attorneys Office: an Office
maintained by the people for the
purpose of advising the board on
matters of law.
Probably in few days warrant
will be presented to the County Au-
The producers news., 1918-07-12
Petition VIII Be Filed

county. little by little, until the gu
.,,.a hodv nolitic is sick and deceased
In drastic cases, drastic ana uh
usual remedies are necessary
Tbie is one of those cases.
There is no use putting the opei'
alton off any longer.
Nothing can be gained by delay.
When there has been tnorous1
investigation ano needed prosecu
tions there will be healthier con
dition in the body polite IN oneri
dan county.
This desirable condition Will mors
than Offset all the costs.
The producers news., 1918-07-12
HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

The outcome Of the primary cleo
ton in Minnesota last Monday, al
though not agreeable to many in
more than one sense of the word,
was like the handwriting on the wall
and that one of the dailies in St.
Paul after the results were known
pronounces the Nonpartisan League
dead, only emphasizes the fact how
shallow and superficial is the judg-
ment of these sheets. Whoever stu
dies the figures of the election returns
The producers news., 1918-07-12
HOW MINNESOTA HELPED

League leaders who are closely in
touch with every section of North
Dakota through their speakers and
from letters received daily at Lea
que headquarters, say that the Min
nesota election has had the effect of
putting North Dakota in a frame of
mind to nominate every Nonpartisan
League candidate by a bigger ma
Jority than two years ago.-Fargo
Courier-News.
The producers news., 1918-07-12
WHAT THE EDITORS
......SAY......
PROFESSOR DESCRIBES
PATRIOTEERS

Madison.-"If in Wisconsin or any
other state loyalty is less universal
than it should be, it is because sober
and responsible patriots have had to
give way to the ;nsistence of violent
and unwise patrioteers," writes Pro-
fessor Joseph Jastrow, University of
Wisconsin, to The New Republic.
"The press is notably responsible;
councils of defense are responsible;
wild public speaking is responsible;
managers of political campaigns are
responsible, for these are the actual
powers that prevail
Fortunately this too confident as
sertion of the superiority of their
own brand of loyalty, like the AFRO
CANT Prussian hlgh-handedness upon
which it is modelled, has often over
reached itself and brought down upon
its none too innocent and often ma
llcious head the wol thy rebuke of
worthy men. It is always a difficult
task for free and easy democracy
to place the proper men in RESPONSE
bic positions; it is a peculiarly i'm
portant matter in times of war that
there should me few mistakes.
"The greatest obstacles to a wor-
thier, more tolerant and response
BILE patriotism is the disturbing moi
5iness and at times the authoritative
voice of patriotism sincere in its
limitations, but lacking depth and
2oise."
Ed. Note.-We are with you pro-
ressor.-The Organized Farmer.
A great many of the farmers are
wondering what connection there is
between loyalty and yellow paint;
also between loyalty and the destruc-
ton OF property in destroying auto
banners, strewing tacks in the road
and kindred roughneck law-breaking !?
Loyalty is a far greater virtue than
to bring forth evidence of lawless-
ness. The inspiring motive bac.s of
all such dastardly deeds is hate, and
fear that control of politics is go
ing to pass out of the hands of those
who cause such terrible things to be
done.-Norman County (Minn.) Post.
The producers news., 1918-07-12

must m st. admit the astopn1. \
Of ras the young organi.ateila q
That Llindbergh diIl1as'a did u.
aomlnatioes e was due a not ~
ferent factors than ~ . '&
League. VI The Men,
The only way tn. ).
hergds liar cbsra,tn'y or any orsaniaati,ss' s''' !,
bsnd,n,';.l psad Is if the old partis' ''e'
handwriting tba;r na{ir. on the 1si,' Tsn y
sns't tn, t,p politics in a way srt H., I'd
al al the pu, peope a squsr. ~s' -
~ dul Booster.
,,.1Li..ts The St. Paul Disp.t., :,
liekspittle of Minnsas,as' rs'sa' .
Paul Big Business sss p','
nypocr'te, fyl5%3 is a tazdodgsr' ss' !
partisan Leader alleges '.'' -, .
tlates: That's only what t''
expected. Lie a mad sa', "
about barking and trviDs ~ !.
oe oSner peoples loyalty and ! I
taxes tha t should be !,
contribution to the coppt,'
need; Every time you ~
OF these hypocrltical Ior.s ~
ers you find them at bo,t.'1 ''.'
or mud-sprayers.-Psr,b,,Ip4' ,I4
The producers news., 1918-07-12
ANTI-LEAGUE PATRIOTS


1t is reported that the ganp o4
noodlums at Foley that thied to mob
some members of the farmers Non.
partisan League at Foley took sew
erai United States flags and copies
of President Woodrow Wilson'S hook
The New Freedom" from their
automobiles and burned them in the
street. That is the kind of patriots
that are fighting the farmers, or
ganization.-Milaca, (Minn.) Times.
FARM MOVEMENTS ALWAYS
OPPOSED
The farmers at Martin, N. D., CALL
The producers news., 1918-07-12

:. Attorney,s office he will probably
:. ~ adv;sed not to honor the same
We await his actions WIN
The producers news., 1918-07-12

The farmers at Martin, N. D., call.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15

began to dig in. marking the ad-
vanced positions of the American
lines when hostilities ceased.
Along the American front the
eleventh hour was like awaiting
the arrival of new year.
The gunners continued to fire,
counting the shells as the time ap
preached, The infantry were ad
vancing glancing at their watches
The men holding at other places
organized their positions to make
themselves more secure.
Then the individual groups un-
furled the Stars and Stripes. shook
hands and cheered. Soon after
wards they were preparing for
luncheon, All the boys were hun
cry, as they breakfasted early in
anticipation of what they considered
the greatest day in American his
tory.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15
Gardner Makes Appointments.

Governor Gardner last Monday
Senator R. S. McClintic,
of this city, chairman of the Statute
Revision Committee which will pre-
pare bills and gather information
on statute revision to come before
the next session of the Missouri
general assembly. The other mem
bers of the committee are A. E. L.
Gardner, of Clayton; Won Mayes,
Hayti; Frank c. Wilkerson, Kansas
City; D. F. Warren, Trenton; Frank
Farris, Rolla. Gardner and Warren
are the republican members.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15

The Terms Of ArmStice is Read to Congress by
P1gSident Wilson Lwn1edlateIv


granted
The fighting
1 m
November H. Scarcely hundred the
President
escorted down the delegation Another
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15
ELeUentH Hour

Thousands of American heavy
guns fired the parting shot to the
Germans at exactly II o'clock sharp
On the entire American front,
from the MOselle to the region OF
Sedan, there was artillery activity
in the morning, all the batteries
preparing for the final salvos.
At ma ny batteries the artillerists
joined hands, forming long line as
the lanyard of the final shot. There
was a few seconds of silence as the
shell shot through the heavy mist.
Then the gunners cheered,
American flags were raised by
the soldiers over the dugOuts and
guns and at the various head
quarters.
ortheast of Verdun the Ameri-
can infantry began to advance at 8
o'clock after artillery preparation,
in the direction of Ornes.
The German artillery responded
feebly, but the machine.eun resis.
tance was stubborn. Nevertheless
the Americans made progress. The
Americans had received orders to
hold the positions reached by II
o'clock and at those points they
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15
Presidents Proclamation.
my fellOW-cOuntrymen:

my felloW-countrymen:
The armstice was signed this
morning. Everything for which
America fought has been accom-
plished. 1t will now be our for
tunate duty to assist by example
and sober, friendly council and
by material aid in the estab-
lishment of just democracy thru
out the world.
WOODROW ILSON"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15

Evacuation by the enemy of the
Rhinelands Cleft and right banks)
shall be so ordered as to be COM
pleted within 81 days in all after
the signing of the armistice. instead
of 10 days.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15

Miss Senta Clark has resigned her
position as teacher of the seventh
grade in the Public School Of this
city to accept a position in the fifth
grade at Lewistown, Mont.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15

Amendments of the armistice
terms made by Marshal Foch after
his first meeting with the German
plenipoteDtiaries, as announced to-
night by the State Department. in
cluded the delivery to the United
States and the Allies of all of Ger
Inan;i3 E--asht~-.sr.l.-s, iGSsead OF the.
100 specified iD the original draft of
the armistice.
Reduction is made in the amount
of certain military equipment to be
delivered by the Germans to the as
sociated Governments, including Is,
600 instead of 10000 machine guns
and 1,700 air planes instead of 2,
900.
The number of railway cars to be
delivered, however is increased
three fold against the delivery of
this amount of rolling stock that
DR.. Solf, the German Foreign Secre-
tary. has protested to President
Wilson. asserting that the distribu-
ton of food in Germany to the
civilian population will be greatly
hampered.
Another amendment provides
that the Allies and the United
States should give consideration to
the provisioning of Germany dur
ing the armistice to the extent re-
cognized as necessary"
To assure the execution of the
armistice convention under the
best conditions" the principle of a
permenent international armistice
commission is admitted" This
commission will act military and
naval commander in under the
authority of the Allied chief"
An amendment to the naval
clause provides that all vessels de-
sig ned to be interned shall be ready
to leave German ports within seven
days of the signing of the armis-
tice. Directions for the voyage (to
either neutral ports or those of the
Allied countries to be designated)
will be given by wireless.
Remuneration" instead of "aban-
don ment" of the treaties of Buchar-
est and Brest-Litovsk, and of sup
pie mentary treaties.
Evacuation by all German forces
operating in East Africa within a
period to be fixed by the Allies, in.
stead of within one month.
German troops are required to
withdraw Immediately from Aus.
tria-Hungary, as well as from Rou.
! mania and Turkey.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15
Peace Problems

departments already is turned from
the problems of war to the equally
important problems of reconstruc-
ton and peace The production of
war materials not deemed neces-
sary will be halted at once and Or
ders already have been issued to
abandon all Sunday and overtime
work in Government construction
and Government-owned plants.
Secretary Baker, Secretary Daniels
and the officials of the War Indus
tries Board will confer OH industrial
peace problems There is no desire
to cancel contracts in such a hurri-
ed and confusing fashion that a
panic in the labor market will re-
suit. The plan is to bring about a
careful and well-organized readjust-
ment so that the change from war
production to the productions of the
peace period may be.gradual.
The shipping program is to be
continued without interruption and
many concerns engaged in the pro-
ductiOn of war materials will be
permitted 70 continue but with a
re1uced schedule
Although members of the Naval
Reserve will be permitted to resign
within in a few days, Secretary
Daniels is of the opinion that more
than one.third Of the total number
enlisted will elect to remain in the
service. A great number of the
men were enlisted from college life
and from business, and there is
s)ne anxiety upon their part to
return.
Daniels also is concerned with
building up the personnel OF the
new United States merchant ma
rine. For the present, at least, and
probably for some time to come,
the schools at Newport News, Nor
folk and Chicago will be continued.
The navy program called for the
enlistment of 100000 men, but
with the reduced demand of the
peace period. Daniels expects that
not more than 100000 men will be
necessary.
Daniels announced that two Of
the war contracts Of the navy had
been abandoned with the signing of
the armistice. One was for a So
100000 nitrate plant at Indian
Head and the other was for an
explosive plant being erected in
Wisconsin.
This plant was being built by the
Dupont Powder Works. but was to
revert to the Government at the
end of the war. Experiments were
to be made in a new explosive
known as T. N. X, which was to
take the place of T. N. T. The can
collation. of these two contracts
amounted to a saving to the Gov
ernment of about $15000000
The shipment of troops, except
for replacement, will be stopped al
though troops, largely medical per-
sonnel and troops of that sort, are
being loaded for duty abroad,
Baker said.
While no contracts for the War
Department have been Cancelled as
yet. Baker said that in a short time
the department would order work
stopped on things required for ac-
tive service, but would continue
the making of materials and sup
plies needed for the army of Oc-
cupation. AS there will be a large
force in Europe for some time to
come, it is apparent that the con-
tracts for the army, outside of
ordnance and munitions, will be
continued for at least six months
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-15
ArmStlCe Terms

the German troops from the left
bank of the Rhine and the surrender
of all supplies OF war
The terms also provide for the
abandonment bv Germany of the
treaties of Bucharest and Brest-
Litovsk.
The naval terms provide for the
su rrender of 160 submarines, fifty
destroyers, six battle cruisers. ten
ba ttleships, eight cruisers and other
m iscellaneous ships.
All allied vessels in German hands
are to be surrendered and Germany
is to notify neutrals that they are
free to trade at once on the seas
with the allied countries.
Among the financial terms includ,
ed are restitution for damage done
by the German armies, restitution
of the cash taken from the National
Bank of Belgium and return of gold
taken from Russia and Roumania.
The military terms include the
surrender of 5000 guns half field
and half light artillery; 10000
machine guns, 5000 flame throwers
and 1000 airplanes.
The surrender of 5000 locomo.
tives, $4,000 wagons. 10000 motor
lorries, the railways of Alsace-Lor
raine for use by the allies and
stores of coal and iron also are in
cluded.
In connection with the evacua
tion of the left bank of the Rhine it
is provided that the allies shall
hold the crossings of the river al
Colblenz, Cologne and Mayen, to-
gether with bridgeheads and thirty
kilometer radius.
The right bank of the Rhine land,
that occupied by the allies, is to be-
come a neutral zone and the bank
held by the Germans is to be evacu,
ated in nineteen days. The armis.
tice is for thirtv days but the presi.
dent spoke of the war as coming
to an end"
The immediate repatriation of all
allied and American prisoners
without reciprocal action by allies
also is included.
German troops are to retire at
once from any territory held by
Russia, Roumania and Turkey be-
fore the war.
The allied forces are to have
excess to the evacuated territory
either through Dantzig or by the
river Vistula.
The unconditional capitulation of
all German forces in east Africa
within one month is provided.
German troops which have not
left the invaded territories which
specifically includes Alsace, Lorraine
within fourteen days become
prisoners of war.
The repatriation within ID days
of the thousands of unfortunate
civilians deported from France and
Belgium also is required.
Freedom of access to the Baltic
sea with power to occupy German
forts in the Cattegat and other pro-
winces
The Germans also must reveal
location of mines, poison wells and
like agencies of destruction and the
allied blockade is to remain un-
changed during the period OF armis-
tice.
All ports on the Black Sea oc-
cupied by Germans are to be sur.
rendered and the Russian war ves-
sells recently taken by the German
naval forces also are to be surrend-
cred to the allies.
Besides the surrender of 100 sub.
marines it is required all others
shall have their crews paid of, put
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