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sarily involve the fixing Of rates enAevery
production Of farm, and factory.
Some job, eh? 4
PARilA..GRAPHlcs.

U. s. Secret Service men have dis
covered that the New York Daily Mail
was..bought by the German government
for the purpose Of spreading German
propaganda in this country. It is also
shown up by the same proceedings that
the cartoonist Of the Nonpartisan Leader
was for some time and until about four
months ago also drawing cartoons for
the Mail. OF course we know what sort
Of caricatures the Mail would want
Morris to furnish about the war. Most
OF the pictures he has furnished the
Nonpartisan press would do very we'll
for the Mail, though doubtless Mr.. Nor
ris has his pencil pointed at both ends
one end marks red, white and blue for.
loyalty pictures, while the other end has
only the "blue" color. > 1t is a great
and profitable thing for an artist to be
so versatile.
The supreme court of Minnesota says
that the language used by Townley in
his Nonpartisan pamphlets was not
necessarily disloyal and quashed the in
dictment of the Martin county grand
jury. The supreme court decided on
the technical language of the para
graphs, the grand jury indicted on what
that language meant to them. Mr..
Townley was not writing his pamphlets
to influence supreme court judges, but
for people Just like the jurymen. Here
is the way it goes and almost every page
of the Nonpartisan newspapers in some
form contain this logical platform: All
governments and particularly the u. s
government, are autocratic creations of
"Big Biz" and it's rich and powerful
allies. There will be no honest govern
mept until the farmers organize, pay
sixteen dollars each, and seize and
occupy the legislative, executive and
judicial departments of the state and
the federation. But we arenevertheless
loyal to the government.
When the minister of Methodlss
congregation in a little. city like Penn
bina breaches to his congregation in a
kahki U. s. uniform. as did Rev. H. FL.
Moore last Sunday evening, then we
begin to realize that war is coming
pretty close even to this, the halfway
point between the two great oceans We
are getting to see that uniform pretty
often now, for people who have been
so peaceful these many years and so
peaceful that pretty nearly everybody
wanted to abolish the uniform from
sight altogether, for fear it might incite
warlike feelings among our boys. But
there are no pacifists now-and it might
be very. difficult to find any body now
who ever was q pacitist.
AS we write on Tuesday the news
comes that the Germans have begun the
expected grand drive, and at the be-
ginning have SO far not made any special
advance. What interests us most over
here is the fact that very large body
Of Americans, some from this and near
by counties. are in the thick Of the fight
and have already achieved an initial
success in a counter assault, taking
about a thousand prisoners. OF course
we have never doubted our boys as brave
men and as fighters (there is a distinc-
ton there) but war is not all glory and
We know that fighting means longer
casualty lists. Men must fight but wo-
men must weep. There are so many
hearts that are beating so anxiously
these war days. Some Of our boys will
win a Cross de Guerre'' and some will
only receive a wooden cross at the head
of their grave. Let US not forget to give
each the real honor that is due, the
gratitude Of the nation. and 90 tau as
possible bind up the hearts 81 the
mothers. the widows and the orphans.
The wonderful riches Of this nation nave
been shown by the exigencies of the var,
let this rich nation never forget Is care
for the bereaved.