The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-06-27

and champion of the Big Bust
ness clique in this country when
he wrote the following in ap-
prevail of universal military
training in one Of his recent edi-
torials: "Let the women who
do not wish to see their men 60
up against the cannon see that
hereafter all our sons are well
TRAINED in advance"
Secretary of War Baker, in a
report dated November last and
widely circulated in December,
opposed universal military train
ing. President Wilson stood by
him. In January there was a
flood of congressional i~nvestiga-
lions, all of which were designed
to wreck the administration, all
of which were backed by men
who have been the spokesman
in and out Of congress, for Big
Business. Whatever may be the
conditions of which the hackers
lof these Investigations COM
Iplained, they existed long before
the Baker report. But the in
vestigations did not come until
it became plain that the Presi-
dent and the Secretary of War
were determined to oppose this
barefaced attempt at Prussian-
ism. Not until then did the
chorus of criticism from news
papers, magazines and "Ter-
rible Turk" Roosevelt-all the
means of publicity controlled or
influenced by Big Business,
break about the ears Of the
President.
Big Business is determined to
have universal military training
after the war. John M. Parker
of New Orleons, one of the cot
ton kings of the south, is cred
tied with the assertion that the
iunkers want $500 West Points
and 500 Annapolises in the
limited States after the war;"
Edward Harding Of New York
speaking for the Universal Mil
itary Training League stated:
military training in this coun-
try would be the greatest pos
sible aid we could have toward
applying military organizations
in our industry. It would show
the country how men could be
handled in large bodies on a
military basis. It would teach
men how to receive a system of
military organization that the
factory owners will undoubted-
ly put into effect in the next ten
years in order to compete sue
~cessfully with the greater ef-
fciency in Europe"
Interested and identified with
the Military Training League OF
Chicago are Victor F. Lawson,
owner and publisher of the Chi
cago Daily News; julius Rosen-
wald, president Sears, Roebuck
& Co. Frank G. Logan, stock
broker; H. M. Byllesby, electric
and steam railway magnate; p.
P. Ripley, president Santa Fe
railroad and the notorious stand
patter, x-Governor w. D: Hoard
of Wisconsin.
Star performers in the Ma
tional Service Congress. held at
Chicago in February this year
were Governor Frank O. Low
den of Illinois, a director OF the
Pullman Co.; Governor j: A.
Burnquist, tool of Big Business
in Minnesota; William Howard
Taft, reactionary ex-president OF
the United States; John M.
Parker, ex-president of the Cot
ton Exchange and the Board OF
Trade, New Orleans.
Among the officers and direct
ors of the National Security
League (similar to the Univer.,
sal Training League) are Robert
Bacon, ex-ambassador and mem
Der Of J. P. Morgan & Co; Geo
Wharton Pepper, corporation
lawyer Of Philadelphia; Charles
E. Lydecker, corporation lawyer
of New York; w. C. Church
former publisher New York Sun
founder of Army and Navy
Journal; August H. Vogel. leath.
er manufacturer and John +
Stevens, railway president.
Among the trustees OF the
American Defense Society icon
nected in spirit and action witt
the Universal Training League
are William Gurgenheim, min