Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-01
OPENS FIGHT T0 KEEP PACIFIS7S OUT OF CONGRESS League Starts Nation wide Camapaign Against Vari- ous Anti War Forces. WISCONSIN SCENE
 OF FIRST BATTLE Election Oi Successor to Husting Will Be Issue Between Loyal and
 Pacifist FOrces-Attack
 LaFOllette.

New York, Dec. 31.-Further an nouncement on it's plan of campaign
 to combat the various disturbing ele- ments which threaten the preserva'
 tion of loyal war-congress at the
 biennial congressional elections next
 fall was made today by the National
 Security league. Starting in Wis consin, where anti-war sentiment is admittedly rife, and where the issue
 with the un-American part of the
 population is definitely drawn at the
 present time on the question of the successor to the late Senator Husting, the security league declares that it is preparing to carry the fight into every state in the Union where action is necessary.
 Evidence of Need.
 The leagues statement calls par ticular attention to four things which loom on the horizon as direct evidence ! of the necessity of the work which it has undertaken and the grave menace of the situation which must be met before next fall. The league points
 with emphasis to the activities of the National Non-Partisan league; the formal announcement by the National Socialist party that it is about to undertake the raising of $1,000,0 900 fund to finance the campaigns of 1 Socialist congressional candidates; the recent unofficial announcement of the government through The Associated Press that evidence exists of a wide i spread anarchist plot throughout the country; and the announcement of the congressional candidacy of Morris l Hillquit. who polled an enormous vote l in the recent mayoralty election in | New York city on a frankly anti-War l platform.
 "The well intentioned but poorly in 1 formed, farmers and laboring men of | the country who are giving ear to the l communistic program laid down by l the organizers of the nOn-partisan l league must not forget that it was this 1 organiza ton which helG the meeting 1 in St. Paul at which Senator La Toilette made his notorious speech, ] says the security league.
 1 :'.GtAD.OD0 Members.
 "The non-partisan league claims a l membership in the Northwest and Middle West of 1,0O0,000 voters. Their
 dues of $16 year would place in their 1 hands $16,000,000. The non-partisan 1 leagues organizers are spreading l throughout the country and declare
 that they are striving to enroll B. | GOO ,00O members before next summer
 While the non-partisan league has announced no actual congressional 1 program as yet. it's objects is clear | It was responsible for the election of Governor Frazier of North Dakota
 who welcomed the outlawed delegates
 of the peoples council when they were
 being debarred by the authorities of
 state after state last summer It
 seems to us that the menace here in-
 volved is self-eviGent," declares the
 security league.
 In Wisconsin, where the league
 will start it's campaign. the loyal citi-
 bens of the state are deeply exercised
 over the situation. They have organ ized the Wisconsin Loyalty league
 with 65,000 members and are fighting
 the anti-war element as effectively as
 possible. The Milwaukee branch oi
 the National Security league. of which
 August II. Vogel, a loyal and influ-
 cntial GermanAmerican. is chairman
 and Willet M Spooner, son of eX-Sena-
 tor Spconer, secretary, is cooperating
 with the loyalty league. Their prin- cipal activity has been the covering
 of the state with speakers who eX- plain the real meanings of the wa,
 and the necessity for it's efficient and aggressive prosecution. It has not been unusual for these speakers to he
 boocd down by the audiences they have faced.
 Wisconsin Schools.
 Only 19 of the 72 county superin- tendents of schools in Wisconsin re | piled favorably in the security leagues recent appeal to the educational au-
 thorities of the country to make in
 struction on the meanings of the wa, part of the actual tuition in tho
 schools This effort by the league has met with most enthusiastic re
 sponse throughout the country, noth- ing approaching it's failure in Wis
 consin having been experienced 1T
 any other state in the Union.
 The National Security leagues plal of campaign was drawn at a meeting hcl dycstcrday at the Manhattan club this city, at which were present-S Stanwood Menken president of the league; Herbert Barry, secretary Henry l.. West, executive secretary Dr Eohort M McEIrOv head of tho