Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-08-15
SOCIALISM HELD TO
MEAN LAND SEIZURE
INDIANA SENATOR WARNS N ID.
FARMERS AGAINST TOWN
LEYlSM AND IT'S
PROGRAM.

James Watson of Indiana addressing
the annual convention OF the North
Dakota Bar association here last
week. told how the railways. the tele-
graph companies. the telephone COM
panies. the mines and the mills and
the factories gradually would be alb
sorbed by ths octopus of public own
crship.
"Then. entrenched." ne said. "bc-
hind the thousands upon thousands of
votes upon their payrolls they will
reach out and take your land. you men
in North Dakota. They'll do it. and
not even Townley can repeal these
laws once they are on the statute
books"
The Indianan reviewed the develop
ment of the war down to that summer
day in 1914 when the Prussian eagle
straen. lie developed the Germanic
idea of force without stint. of bru-
IdHty "ltHout IHlil. VI DioCGsHcu
rapine. famine and disaster.
eve will fight that idea to death
if all the seas of the world run with
blood" shouted the pant Hoosier and
his audience rose to him as man.
Many Germans Right.
"Not all the Germans in this coun-
try are disloyal." said the senator.
turning to our problems here at home.
II believe the great mass of our Ger
man people here in America are loyal.
The Germans did not make the /. w.
W. 1t was here before this war
came The Germans did not make
the socialist, the red mouthed, rant
ing anarchists with whom some Of
your people in this state are allyinr
themselves. There are Americans in
this coun1r;'. Amrican born and bred.
whom we have more reason to fear
than the German in our midst
| StVHe wan FW bVT ..
~ an a man Of peace. but war is
hell. and we are at war. belier. il,
giving the enemy hell. am la"-
yer; ] do not believe in mob law. bu.
when spy. be he German or Chinese
or American; be he republican, demo-
crat, socialist. nonpartisan or /. w.
W.. +, stands before me convicted, / do
not believe in sending him off to a
summer resort to be fed on delicacies.
II would take that man out early
some morning, and would blindfold
him, and l would stand up against
wall. and / would say, with malice
,, toward none and charity toward all,
'firen
Forget Politics; Win War.
81 voted for this war, and it was
. the proudest vote of all my career in
, congress. voted for the conscrip-
tion act, because it was the only plan
we could devise of raising an army
on time. have voted for every ap-
, preparation bill. We have been trying
to do in one year what we should
have been about for the last 10 years.
! am willing to forget politics, but
I want the other fellow to forget it..
too am for winning this war, now.
3 T'l frd a way to lick the other party
after this war is over
St--d by President.
II was asked in Minnesota and since
, arriving in North Dakota whether
! the constitution permitted the sending
of troops to foreign shores. Most
assuredly. We sent an army into
t Canada in 1872; to Mexico later and
in 1898 TO the Philippines.
1T was deemed essential then and
it is doubly essential now. This has
led to another question. At what
:. point should just criticism begin and
unjust criticism end?
"The president is entitled to the
; unanimous support of the American
people in the conduct of this war.
There can be no just criticism of send
ing our Khaki clad boys to France.
: Politics cease at the waterfront. Our
y faces are all turned the same way,
: our objective is one. There is but
: one fight. one patton and one immor-
. tai destiny.
r "The supreme object is to win the
war. In comparison all other duties
are subordinate; all other obligations