Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
What an Iowa Newspaper has to say
About Organization now Seek.
ing Membership in, This
County.
SOLICITORS GET BIG PAY.
Now Operating in the Vicinity Of
kamrar.-LOyalty is Under Deep
Suspicion.


of the course of the so-called Non
Partisan League since the outbreal
of the war because of non-patriotit
proceedings that it's genuine Ameri
canism has been questioned. The
officers and solicitors, of course, de.
fend the patriotism of the organiza'
tion and insist that it is being mis-.
represented by enemies.
Solicitors are now working in
Hamilton county and opened theil
campaign in the vicinity of Kamrar
Under these circumstances it might
be worth while for farmers who are
contemplating joining the movement
to seriously consider the following
statements of the Ottumwa Courier
before handing over SIG to become a
member:
The most convincing proof that
Iowa farmers are not immune to the
wiles of the Nonpartisan leagues
smooth-tongued organizers is found
in the fact that many of those farm
ers are paying their SIG annual dues,
signing membership blanks and lend
ing their names to the organization
which already has been denounced as
disloyal and dangerous by the de-
fense councils of Minnesota, Wis
consin and Nebraska. 1t has been
denounced, too, by many members of
the Iowa council of defense, but that
body is withheld from formal state-
ment by Governor Harding's attitude.
The organizers for the Nonpartisan
league receive handsome commits
sions. OF each SIG payment of mem
bership fees, the organizer retains
IS. If he obtains one member day
he realizes good income. If he
signs up three or four a day his share
Of the proceeds is sufficient to put
him in the excess profits class With
in a few months.
So the Nonpartisan league leaders
have been able to command the SER
vices OF SONG of the abiest spread.
ers of socialistic propaganda to be
found in the country.
The only dependable method for
determining the attitude and pur-
pose OF The Nonpartisah league is by
persuing it's own literature and con-
sidering what it has done in Mime
sofa and NORTH Dakota where it is
organized and intrenched.
Last summer when Louis Lochner
and his sociqlist-pacifsts were dodg-
ng about in the middle west in
search of a haven where they could
lold their meeting of protest. agains.
he government war policies, it was
Governor Lynn Frazier, the Nonpar-
isan leagues spokesman in North
Dakota, who invited them to come to
lis state and promised them protec-
ion.
Nonpartisan league orators and
heir newspaper opposed the Liberty
3ond legislation and have declared
that this war is not be-
ng fought for democracy, but to take
money away from the producers and
tut it into the pockets Of the rotten
ich."
The Nonpartisan league organized
nd conducted the convention in st.
PAUL at which, under the leagues
uspices, Senator LaFollette made
is notorious speech attacking the
overnment of which he is an official.
Manager Gilbert of the Minnesota
'onpartisam league is on trial now
t Kenyon, Minn., on charge of at
to influence men against /!
in the United States army.
numerous organizers and representa-
ives of the Nonpartisan league have
cen arrested for their disloyal |
peeches and remarks.
A. c. Townley, father of the Nom
artisan league, voted in North Da-
ota as socialist, and on April II,
914, signed an affidavit at the pri-
larry election in that state Identify
lg himself with the socialist party.
lie has employed socialists and
lembers of the |. w. w. as organiz-
RS and welcomes them in his league.
The Nonpartisan league, regardless
anything its organizers may say
Or they have no voice in the manabe-
lent of its affairs--is bending every
fort to build wall of prejudice