The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-01
SHELLEY MAN WRITES OF NON,PARTISANS
J. A. Langton, Superintendent of the City Schools,
Suburban Farmer and Stalwart Democrat, has
the dope" on League Leaders
SOME FORCEFUL REMINDERS

vi was III CNCly SpcCSI
that he made in Idaho. Before the
passage of the sedition law, Town
ley denounced the war in unmeas-
ured terms. In speech at Wilson,
N. d. he said: THE flower of the
young manhood of this nation is go
ing across the water to bleed, we are
told, for the honor of the country.
But it needs some effort for me to
| believe that those young men are 60
ing to fight for the freedom of demo-
crazy l believe and fear they are
going to bleed for the profits of the
! damned privates who profit from our
food and our products"
! Do you suppose that Townley has
undergone a change of heart since
the passage of the sedition law? Not
a whit.
If space would permit l can give
the reader hundreds of utterances
from the lips of this man showing
beyond all doubt that he is viciously
disloyal to the government and an
aharchisitic Socialist of the worst
type
We do not mean to say that the
farmers who have enrolled under this
banner are the same type of men as
Townley. No one knows better than
myself that the farmers of Idaho
are patriotic, intelligent, loyal, men.
The Townleyites are following false
leaders and it behooves the farmers
of our state to be eternally vigilant
in order that they may not fall a
prey to disloyal and vicious organ
ization. BY Identifying themselves
with such an organization they can
only bring suspicion and odium upon
themselves.
This so called Non-partisan league,
as it it now owned and operated, has
nothing but evil to offer to the farm
ers of Idaho. From A C. Townley's
sworn testimony, it appears that up
to May |, 1918, there had been paid
! by farmers to league solicitors the
vast sum of $4,850,000.
Farmers of Idaho are you going
toe pay your $1,000 per capita for
membership in this league? Are you
going to help this autocrat Townley
to swell this vast corruption fund,
to spend it to suit himself, and to
give no account of his stewardship?
We have too much confidence in your
| honesty and intelligence to believe
| that you are going to do anything of
the kind.
We cannot refrain from giving
you another choice morsel from the
utterances of this man Townley. This
is taken from the leagues official
publication of Townley's speech in
pamphlet. 1t is as follows: Ninety
five per cent of the people of this
country want to win the war for lib
erty and democracy, ninety-five per
| cent of all the people of all the allied
countries want to win for liberty and
| democracy, ninety-five per cent of
the German people want to win for
liberty and democracy"
Men and women of Idaho, don't
you see where this thought places
your son, or brother or husband, who
is fighting and bleeding or dying on
the crimsoned soil of France and
Flanders? Absolutely on the level
with the German who is fighting to
enslave the world and curse human
ity. Here is another choice bit from
the official pamphlet, Non-partisan
League: The great thing we farm
ers need to do to win is to stick by
our own organization, to cooperate
with the wage-workers organizations
in the cities land together win con-
troll, of the powers of the state gov
eminent, and then the national gov
eminent. We can do it. We will do
it. Well stick"
Parents of Idaho if you are mem
bers of this organization this official
party organ will come into your
| homes.
Isn't the above a noble doctrine
to teach your children? Isn't the
above patriotic and finely American
in it's fundamentals, in it's real es-
sence?
If you teach this doctrine to your
children or even admit it into your
own hearts you are opening the door
to brutal selfishness which in the
end would bring the blush of shame
| to the cheek of imperial Germany.
1t would be the sum of all villanies
| for the American electorate to organ
ize politically on the lines of class or
occupation.
| America, you are the hope of the
world, says a writer of today. Only
! by holding high the torch of liberty
and democracy can we work our mis-
sion and lift the world into higher
and finer things.
In another article ! shall tell you
something of the solicitors of the
league and it's candidates for office.
JAMS A. LANGTON.