The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-10-18
Stabbing Boys in Back.

Now | mentioned Haywood. the lead
ing spirit of the l. w. W., who has
! just been convicted at Chicago of trea-
son. When l wrote this speech | had
in my hand and now have in my bag,
facsimile published copy of a letter
produced at the trial of Haywood by
the secretary of one of the moving
spirits of the Nonpartisan league.
written on April 5, 1917. just as we
were going to war. Written the day
we went, and received doubtless the
day after we went to war, and in this
letter from the secretary of the Non
partisan league. written on |. w. w.
paper by the way. to the J. W. w.
leader He says at the end, what
they are going to do he is afraid will
be interfered with by this damned
war. | think the fight should now
be centered against spy bills and
against CONSUMPTION. He thought that
the fight. this high leader, one of the
moving spirits of the Nonpartisan
league, thought that they should CEN
ter the fight against any legislation to
enable the government to deal with
the men who dynamite our factories
at home, who are stabbng our sol
ders in the back. and VINO are against
us. (Applause.) What these two re-
Sponsible officials of the l. W. w. and
the Nonpartisan league were proposing
to fight were all measures which would
enable us to deal effectively with trail
tors and with German spies, and
all measures which would make our
participation in the war effective.
Russia Warning.
"While such is the case, no patriotic
American can afford to support either
organization, and any politician join
ing up with either ought to be treated
as discredited. (Vigorous applause.)
There is not a German abroad or
pro-German at home who does not
wish success to the Nonpartisan
league under it's present control and
to the l. w. w., and they wish them
success because they recognize them
as anti-American. and as containing
within them the surety of reducing
this country to a condition akin to
the condition into which Russia has
been reduced by the Bolsheyists. If
these men had had their way year
ago, or if they had their way now.
hey would make our beloved nation
IN object of scorn TO, all free nations,
md byword of kissing an0 derisiOn
'or the despotisms of the earth. For.
whether actuated by evil fanaticism
n by some more sordid hut more
dangerous emotion. they are inevi-
ably and naturally the enemies of
America, just as Lenine and Trotzky
we're of Russia. Whether consciously
n uncoDSciously. they play the game
If the autOcratic governme ITS that
ire hostile TO the United States, and
hey should he repudiated ty every
tralght out American Vigorous APP
llause)
"This is not the time end, in my
Judgment there never will come a
ime when the American people can
ford to follow such leadership as
hat of which / have spoken. Gan
lause.) We need in this country DIFF
erent parties which honestly differ
nd fearlessly state their convictions.
ut they must all first and foremost
e American, and nothing but Ameri-
an. (Applause.) They must not be
ubservient to foreign powers. They
lust not be subseryient to the agen-
les of capitalistic and political bour-
onism. and they must not be sub
ervient to the energies of anarchy
nd hatred and envy and disorder
ere at home. We cannot afford TO
ccept the leadership of anybody who
nd always. American and nothing but
merican. (Applause.) And ! come
ere, men and women of Montana;
len and women of this state which |
ave seen grow from infancy to its
ounding youthful vigor and strength,
nd this state. founded by the men
no had the pioneer virtue. and by the
omen who showed an even greater
mirage and resolution and self-sacri-
ce than the men. | have come here TO
reach today the two doctrines of
raight out, unqualified Americanism
hich will submit neither to foreign
xgression nor domestic treason and.
to preach this doctrine:
lat before we are entitled to reform
lrselves from within we must def
fely show that nobody from outside
to have the right to determine what
at reform Is to be. And we can
low that only by purchasing this war
rough victorious conclusion and
.ating Germany down to her knees"
Continued applause,
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