The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-08-24
THE. NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE, THE ENTERI
WEDGE OF SOCIALISM,


WEDGE OF SOCIALISM,
In we'll considered pamphlet dealing with the
"NonPartsan" League Mr.. Ferdinand Teigen gives an
Illuminating recital of the origin development secret
purposes of the Townley organization. Mr. Teigen
himself in the employ of the League at the time
broke out and had thoroughly famiarized with
the dope" of the American Bolsheviksts, so he
speaks with first hand knowledge observation the
plans and methods of the North Dakota political
and economic philosophy The blaze of the great world
confagraton enabled him to distinctly clearly the
pitfalls and faacies OF the with which he had
affiliated himself and aroused in him realizing
the dangers that lie in the of the Towey machna
uons. my relations with the League terminated"
he and Il looked about for ways and means of
undoing so far as possible, the harm had DONE"
The gist of Mr. Tigens exposition of plans poll
cies of the League be summed the
1t is but the entering wedge of the sociastc program
He points out that Townley registered himself as So
ciaist in Golden Valley County, North Dakota, 1914
that he candidate Legislature Socialist
ticket in the election of that year, and
organizer of the same party His associates also
ciaiss and the organization itself permeaed through
and through with the Socalstic tenets. The editors
writer's and public speakers engaged in the dissemination
of its propaganda ALL and have times So
ciaiss but knowing that they could not succeed in their
detectives if they openly protested adherence party
they proceeded to inculcate the Socialism
under the name of Non-Partisanism
Their espousal of the of the is simply
to their Interior complete overthrow
and industry Their preachmens the studiously
reraned from advocacy of ownership property
because they knew that this would be reading upon
ground In seeking among rural COM
munities their big trained upon business and
industry especially the big Business" who
stanty squeezing and cheating the by
their control of the markets. credits purchasing
distributing agencies Big Business shuffng
and dealing the to themselves while producers
were only getting twospots But nothing said them
about the collective ownership was left for
the higher grades after they had passed through the p
education in Socialism This procedure however,
not satisfy of the rocbbed members of the
cult who to have their swallowed whole
rather than in homeopathic Doses Townley was de-
feated for reelection state organizer
But in his manifold activities Townley has always kept
in view the Sociasc dogma the collective ownership
and control of all of production distribution
though he has succeeded in camouaging that purpose
through his intermediate detectives obtained
cratic power in the party thus dominates
its politics. its system of stores banks newspapers
the millions of dollars that annually into its
treasury
Nineve per cent of three hundred forty
of North Dakota said to be under his control
and saunchly aiding in his propaganda and the Non
Partisan Leader, weekly is said to have crcula
tion of 250O00 Three daily publicity
agents of the League and automatically sneeze when
Townley takes snuff though Towney is vocerous in his
clamor for free speech and freedom of the press.
Mr. Teigen emphasized the strong trend of IroGerman
ism which pervades the League organization The Ger
farmers focked to if life depended it,
They constituted the principal factors in its
astounding growth and In this connection 1t is
Interesting call attention to the fact developed since the
dissolution American Alliance that the huge
money that raised in this country for the
Widows orphans and hospitals in Germany prior to
entry into the war; found their way the
Atlantic and used for the phianthropc pur
poses for which they gathered Bank records now
given publicity show that these simply turned
over to willy Bernsdorf the German AMBASSADOR and
were used by him the furtherance of German
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