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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-07-31

to stoop u agony. No use to rub or
apply plaster to the back If the kid
neys are weak. You cannot reach
the cause. Follow the example Of this
Belding tizen.
Mrs. Glen Wasnick, 81 South Pearl
St., says: Il have kept Doan's Kidney
Pills in the house for years and in re-
turn for the benefit received from
their use | am only too glad to adj
wise other kidney sufferers to try
them. Whenever my back has been
weak and lame or l have been dizzy
and my k dneys have acted irregular
ly, | have taken Doan's Kidney Pills.
This medicine has never failed to
give me quick relief"
Price Coo at all dealers. Don't
IMPLY ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Wasnick had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.-Adv.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-07-31

learning TO talk French a little bit
but tits quite hard to learn if you are
not around Frenchman quite lot.
! hope that you write very soon, mo-
Their, to me, and if | never come back
to you you will know that it was for
your protection that ! gave my life
for
Well, it is bed time so l will close
this time, hoping to hear from you
very soon, | am, your loving son,
Floyd F.. Brown,
Hdqs. Co., 10th Inf, A. f. F.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-07-31

close ana write again soon. am as
ever. your loving nephew,
Pvte. Harmon w. Palmateer,
Battery D.. End T. M. b., A. r. f.,
via New York.
~ France, June z. 1918.
will write you letter tonight to
let you know that l am still aQye and
we'll and am not wounded in any way
yet. / hope all of you are well and
strong and happy. / don't want you
to worry about me at all as / know
that America will win. | will be
very glad to get back to my own state
of Michigan once more if it be pos
sible. France is a very fertile coun-
try and everything looks green and
picturesque. The buildings are most
all made out of stone and the fences
are banks of earth thrown up many
years ago. / am seeing some of the
world all right; don't you think so,
mother? How is Mabel getting
along nowadays? Tell her that !
think of her quite often.
The French are a good class of
people and treat US soldiers real good
and ook up to us as their strong COM
rades in arms. l don't think the
war will last very much longer; do
you think so? How is everything in
Belding now? Is there much work
there and are the silk mills still run
ming at all? / suppose some things
will be changed when get back home.
/ suppose Mabel will soon have rest
from school. What grace will she
be in if she passes this time? / am
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-07-31
FAIR EXCHANGE

A New Back For An Old One-How
A Bedding Resident Made A Bad /.
Back Stong
The back aches at times with dull
ewary and restless; piercing pains
shoot across the region of the kidneys
and again the IONS are so lame that
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-07-31

BUY W. S. s.
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-18

anarchy in Minnesota. Failing to stamp out the
League by the suppression of it's meetings in
few counties where the anti-farmer gang felt es-
pecially strong, the opposition decided to try
trumped-up criminal cases against the farmers and
their representatives. This was done, not so much
to obtain convictions, which the opposition must
have known would be impossible in the higher
courts on appeal, but to cause unfavorable pub
icty for the farmers and labor unions in connec-
ton with the arrests and indictments. Perhaps,
too it was hoped to get convictions in justice
courts in small towns, in many of which officials
and courts have been intimidated by gangs of
In these places, the gang evidently thought it
would be easy enough to convict farmer or per-
son connected with the League on any old kind of
charge-which might not even be necessary, as
they could be lynched, threats of which have been
frequently made, though reprimanded by
county state authorities or the press.
The plan to discredit the League by getting un-
favorable publicity against it in Minnesota and
throughout the United Stats by arrests in small
towns of League representatives, has eliminated
in the arrest of A. c. Townley, president Of the
Nonpartsan league Mr.. Townley is charged with
misdemeanor, not felony, under special act
of the last Minnesota legislature-namely chin
dering enlistments" in the United States army The
charge is made by the prosecuting authorities in
Martin county. Neither the state or the United
ton. If there had been any "hindering of enlist
ments," of course, the whole Nonpartisan league
would have been suppressed months ago by federal
authorities, and it would not have been necessary
to wait nine months to have local county authori-
ties act.
The plan to give unfavorable publicity to the
League on account of the case against Towney in
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-18

These are almost exactly President Wilson's
words few months later-f anything, the pres-
dent stated the same thing more forcefully.
Next the resolutions request that our country
and its allies state their aims at once, so that
the peoples Of this and other countries may know
that not in the war for unworthy motives.
The president Of the United States and the gov
ernments of the countries of our allies have COM
piled with this request since these resolutions were
passed. Have we come to any sedition in the reso-
lutions so far?
against secret treaties diplomatic agreements
of nations, not made public to the world. Every
one is familiar with President Wilson's demand
for the same thing, made in just as strong and
clear language as these resolutions make it. The
presidents statement against secret diplomacy
made months after these resolutions were pub
ished.
The next section of the resolution denounces
food gamblers, asking that gambling in food be
made felony. It also requests that the govern
ment control the food supply during the war,
which since has been done.
CALL FOR TAXATION ..
OF EXCESS PROFITS
The next section of the resolutions denounces the
war profiteers mentioning some of the big war
profits being made by the steel and powder trusts
and demanding that profiteering stop.
Have we come to anything seditous yet? Yes!
The food gamblers and war profiteers have been
denounced. That is clearly "seditious"-to them,
and the newspapers supporting them.
= Next the resolutions state that excess war prof
its, swollen incomes and unearned wealth should
not go practically untaxed while the common peo-
pie alone contribute the money to fight the war
through government bonds. The profits and
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-18

earned wealth of the rich should be taken also,
making them sacrifice the same as the common
people, say the resolutions
Next is declaration of the right of free
Speech which condemns the denial of peaceful as
semby and free speech through lawlessness. This
was published before the unwarranted interference
with farmers meetings in Minnesota, but it fits
that case Is it seditious?
Next the resolutions assert, with justice, that
among the causes Of the European war, meaning
of course before the United States entered it, were
the MEETINGS of an unjust economic SYSTEM the de-
sres of rulers for wider markets for their COM
merce. This referred, of course, to Germany and
in lesser degree to the imperalists in Great
Britain who have since been forced into minority
position in England
The last clause of the resolutions declares for
"sound international standards" after the war, and
a reform of economic systems throughout the
world and for the rule of democracy. President
Wilson has not put the matter better, even in his
fine statements of American war aims and the
conditions that must be brought about after the
war.
This is all the resolutions. The exact words used
are quoted in full in the preceding article in this
issue of the Leader.
Are these resolutions seditious? small-town
prosecutor says What do you think?
WILSON APPROVES
BAER STATEMENT
Finally this very, very "seditious" pamphlet
gives a statement of Congressman Baer, almost
entirely the same in substance as the resolutions
above analysed. Baer says that paid lobbyists
should NO more be allowed to work against con-
scrption of wealth to pay the cost of the war than
mothers should be allowed to oppose and stop their
sons from going into the army-yet it is not a
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-18
WILSON APPROVES
BAER STATEMENT

crime to be a paid lobbyist and try to
keep the dollars of the rich from 60
ing to the war, though it is crime
for mother to oppose her son going.
Does that sound like sedition?
Baer also urges that our war aims
be stated, which of course has since
been done by the president to the en-
tire satisfaction of Baer and the
League farmers-and all the people
of the United States, for that matter.
Even the war profiteers and imperial
lists have had to swallow the presi-
dents just and democratic statement
of war aims, which they, tried in
vain to prevent. :.r-
Baer denounces British imperialism
and says that America must not for
ward the aims Of British imperialists,
in which President Wilson agrees. In
fact, President Wilson's statements
have been the chief influence in
discrediting British imperialists
and giving the more democratic
leaders of Great Britain the upper
hand. Baer's statements in regard to
imperialists were proved correct later
by the publication of the indefensible
treaties made before the United
States entered the war, which treaties
would have divided nations and peo-
Piles up among the powers without
the consent Of the peoples affected
a thing President Wilson has declared
against strongly, since Baer made
this statement, and thing which the
European nations fighting Germany
have already repudiated, largely be-
cause of the fine stand the United
States made. And the United States
was able to take this stand because
fearless men like Baer and Nonparti-
san league members crystahzed pub
lie opinion in favor of it and made it
possible for President Wilson to-
speak out plainly.
One Of the big things that the
League resolutions on the war did
CONTINUED on page 23)
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-18

the court OF justice OF the peace, at
the start was successful. Practically all
the Minnesota papers refused to carry
Mr.. Townley's statement about the
matter, which was printed in last
weeks Leader. Many papers through
out the country also refused to print
his statement or otherwise explain
the remarkable fact that the charge
is merely misdemeanor, if proved;
that the case was brought merely be-
fore justice Of the peace and that
neither the state officials or the gov
ernment is concerned it in; that, fur
thermore, it involves pamphlet now
nine months old, which has had the
freedom of the mails and has been
freely circulated with knowledge Of
the United States government in Is
states. Most Of the papers confined
themselves to the mere statement
that Mr.. Townley had been arrested
for thindering enlistments" on ac-
count Of "seditious statements" con-
tanned in pamphlet. To this extent
the gang succeeded in getting pub
licity unfavorable to the cause of the
organized farmers. / But this, of
course, can not give them perma-
nent advantage.
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-18


in Russia
Ric
point
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-18
WHAT THE RESOLUTIONS
OF LAST JUNE SAY

The resolutions of the League in
the alleged seditious pamphlet pledge
the support of League farmers to the
government and their country, Fright
or wrong" "We stand unreservedly
pledged to safeguard, defend and pre-
serve our country" say the resolu-
hons in opening.
Next the resolutions declare force
fully against waging war for annexa-
ton or indemnities. President Will
son has since made the same state
ment. The only justification Of war
is to establish and maintain human.
rights. and interests the world over"
said the farmers in these resolutions.
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30
WILSON AND M ADOO
 CONFER ON REYENUF
DISCUSS. EXPE0lENcY OF TAX LAW AT PRESENT SESSION.
 SECRETARY FAVORS IT.

Washington. Whether revenue legislation shall be undertaken at this session of ConEr, depends n President Wilson drclsion after q conference with congressional leaders who are strongly in ta9or of postpon ing the legislation unfil December.
 The president Went oyer the arga, ments presented by Secretary Me. Adoo for enactment of q new tax law before adjournment and he will see Mr McAdoo again before finally de. termining whether he admins,ra. ton shall declare the legislation nee. essary To preservation uI the nations finances in healthy condition for the war.
 All the advice which Secretary Me Adoo got from his advisors having dr rect charge of administering the reye nuc la@ and Of planning to meet fu ture financial needs at tae govern lHent was to the effect that new measure must be ouaetad by next fall lie was told that h.. December or Jan. uary the government Will need more revenue from taxation, or definite as surance that 1t will b. forthcoming and that it will bc next To impossible fo collect taxes under iaw which might not be coHf.e#aa before Feb Ilal or N1rcb.
 Regardless oi Goyfumeut needs Secretary McAdoo ts represented as believing that business interests Of The nation should kaw long before February or March tae nature nd amount ot taxes To be assessed on them for this yeaHs t1# ness.
 N mbors oi tbe Seaa.a and House however. sdll are ao o.le 10 the pro posa Jo keep Coasress in session thfoaghout the u#Hef and to the ea actment of tax legislation oh the eve of elections. LraaUr were unanimous in stating tbat f Secretary McAuo0 and the president a#ea that les's@ ton is absolutely ncceaaary' tae' will get To work iuHediaiel! ol bill and seek to pres i tbfougA. IFS assurance removed, the chances development ot a break between 'as ls president and Congress which m.sI lead the administration To go Oelo'0 the country with precise staeehel" of the necessity, M
 Those who will ,part e'pate in -s conference are Majority Leader n. a@ tin of the Senate, Chairman Sinnlol' of the Senate finance committee. Chairman Kitchin of J6e House ways and means committee On"iI .l,r, l,, Sherley of the House aPpFoplla'.S.. ..... committee and Representative ''.n,, D. of the House ways and means '0~ mittee,
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30
LITTLE ROCK GETS
 SlO,OOO,OOO PLANT
GOVERNMENT fNsTITUTloNWiLL MAKE PIGRIC ACID-PAY ROLL
 WILL AMOUNT TO $8,OoO, ,oo0
Little Rock.

Little Rock
 There was great rejoicing in Little Rock when news Was received from Washington that the War Department had selected Little Rock for the loc1- ton Of the $10000,000 picric acJd plant. The plant i'll employ 4.0o9 skilled men. Several larger cities were competing for the big plan, which Little Rock landed after con stant negotiations between the board Of commerce and the authorities n Washington since April 27 It will b. one ot the largest manufaCurms plants in the south. The payroll VIII amount 10 SS.O00.Q0o per year. There is now onE one ptcric acid plant ln Che United States it being at \ w. ar6. N. J Tine buildings are lo be Of brick, steel and concrete con9rue. tion and il tGc plant ls no longer needed for munfHoa purposes aftcf the War il can be turned to the man ufacture of dyesruHs
 George Flmau gave our tae foIIoe- ing statement relative to the#loea tion of Che pianl.
 As uaual. Iatrle Rocks success in landing this gigantic enterprise is an. other example of unsJngtd and un- selaaH work oH tAe pa8 oj citizens 5u5 members ot the board of com= merce rlo5od by Id Cornish. N H Sulth. Moo.aead Wright backed oy q solid body determined ta maae i.i.= tie Rock iae metropolis o1 the south Rest.
 "Tae bteahng across of tae Mls= sissIpF Rs.r lnto .He southwest ~H;a the location of this great manufacture ing plunt winch W#.I ultimately b. eomc#tae Iugest=of l. kud ia Gl. world. marks a new epoch in The k. dustral delet.pm. ot the soaI.g Wc#t II has bean inc polll al Hla government to locate az great ma4l- saet4Hus plants e.ase te Atlantic poras, 70 taat fhe produces couid .~ quickly moved to tae sea Tor Ioas- poat "a Europe A a rezalf tHe tatl= ern Ialroaa and the AJaute sed= polls are eapsested alfa traffic To such an extent that ouaa important shipments stand on stdclraeAs OF rt- maiH piled up on the decks for weeas bel0r, they can be loaded on ship board
 Tho plant Will occupy a l6QQ=acre site at tae# Faeroria addition To fhe cic of I4tt, Rock. Tac War Depal meut recently authorized E M Davis, NcW York contractor 10 select a desirable site for the factory He ap- proved the Little Rock site after in spcctug. in addition to the Little Rock site. proposed sites al Memphis and Louisville His selection Was ap- proved sy the War Department
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30
ID SEND THOUSANDS MEN ID CAMP PIAE
CANTONMENr PROMISES TO BE A BUSY PLACE DURING IRE
 SUMMER MONTHS.
WILL BUILD l50 BUILDINGS
Not Later Than the Middle of June W6I Witness the Rusb9og of ManI Thousands of Troops To the
 Replacement Camp.
laltfe R#

Iate Ra
 Camp IELe promises lo Ho aaa auaicas place #a=AlAaH aaa#a= ##.- summag aun#a= I b4e a.a.ea aaaa- by etaeef =fE5 work ea H.e H5a=u=s buila V40a sag eas.d us placement #uaaRe. ="#gI p##5#aI5 g1fa. aaats 4ts a #me. Naf 9ter lHu the mddtc ot Juao #vgl N#ae= 96e IusmHs 0f many thousands ot ta9p+ to tbe replacement Gmp
 Second E..8, H#HS . g.eaH n ranGy raseEyr. 6as b.en Hp.avH1 from aury at camp Dick TaAas. @aaa tdr ag.ation s#cdoa aud has beaI ordersa 10 report to Camp plbe fnc duty m tac ufaarg replacement camp Capt Thomas Z Halh medie35 reserve, has been assisned to da5 and ordef.a 10 report 70 th. ba=e Hae prtal
 Camp Pike Hlll reeelEr H@ matg ef men for eay replacement #camf- chieHy from fH- western statea Tho. men wAa vtn be seuf to camps JaeG- sgn aUa Hancock, tHe 0Ak tao other replacement e7mps iu tde Ua.et States. MI come From t4stefn#..ad southern states.
 Already otsofs are beng detailed so Che Pix eauronmerf. HH for 'ao next two weeks the greatest number will 70 To fa# zoataara aR.a5. aeH' camps. after which tac rczh 10 Camp Pike will hcgn
 Any soldier ~ccr ouI"tLas my roomIne or toardHs house that has been rardrd ny he poHee. elEll and military. in =fhe pzt NH b" ptaapas arrested and soa- Faed te eae Iaaal hor tceerdme fo instructions #s sut,
 Strngen% ordef.#fo taface tba aufa were received =by fleHt Belt n e6e.# =n1afsry police. rfon q. vision u,aduuart.ra, aad the ordte bccam, cff,Crz4e III oncl.
 Lieut. eo1 HlHpHres of rhe f1e#h fnmaH Aa- pfe a#,a fo =ar@eas Ca. Chapman eomwaudaH ol 'Ea fuatHL =Eu. teH1 Camp R4. Ere aa4a#aH made #Hrr conference da=lal oacer-aHd the eHe1-oa tlt
 Colonel fFap recently Transferred to Foa md T.
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30
U-Bcats Bottled Up.

London ~ "The recent fine weath CT, says an official statement issued by tae GGHizA tdm3raItt has eu. ablcd constant air reconnais7ances oy,f Euses and tbe Zeebr4g Brugls canal 10 be made and phoao- graphs to be taken. The results show no cAans. h. taken place since April =. and that greater past of lus enemfsz ea6m3fzne and torP do craft based on t Flanders coast has bean imwuGI.ed 1t Ea es since tHe /ae- b0g4o UIogEHe operation.
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30
SPOILED MEAT SOLD ID AMERICAN ARMY
MORRIS & co. AND WILSON 6 co. CHARGED WITH SUPPLYING
 MEAT UNFIT TO EAT.
NO PENALTY IS PROVIDED
Officials of Administration Say They Probably WHl End Some Penalty Even If Only On the Ground
 of Food Wastage.

Washinglan = The sale of thous- and, of p1md. of spoatd meat anj other feoas to Gamp Travis, Tex3 .s charged s2aas Morris tl Co. and Wilson x O. in a# complaint issuoa by the Federal Trade Commission.
 The complaint sass tar .o1d vas @m91 fer human consumption Mot ot it Has detected lad condemned, but il Is sad some ai II maH have been passed and coneuaed. Details Were WI5hdoId. Tae uuJlugcment and coz sp0uGoueo# gwen out Aith it. how ever saoW Jae alleged offences ~ cured 1ast December and arc tHe same upon winch indictments wet- obtained in Texas by the Department of Justice atfcr an investigation by fAe Food Administration The ndict- ments were dropped because they were returned under the section of the food bill which carries no per alty.
 sincc=ts.u tAe Food 8dminstra tton and the=c.-.. Is-ion have contin- ued ther inyc~1satiou 1T tae com plant should be sustained the con.s mission could do no lrore than order Che packers to cease and desist from the practices Gpon repetition offenders may be haled into d tederJ. court
 A further report 10 the Food Ad- ministration from F. A Peden, fed eral administrator for Texas. is eXz pected soon Officials of the admins traitor say they probably will dnl some penalty even If only on the ground of food wastage.
 Correspondence between Mr Pedan and MT Beyden. chief of the Enforce ment Division ot tho Food Admin!s- tratton, shows that MT. Peden report. cd his belief that the trouble was the attempt of tse packers 10 do business without proper facilities. II is charg ed that the unfit chickens were pro pared in uncIean surroundings by barefoot Mexcaus in an unacreeucd room and only partially cleared
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30

Awhite man charged with forgery and now d prisoner iu the Little RiVCr county jail at AshdoWn, objected 'o the pre-Germansm of Henry Baffo II, a prisoner in the same jail. and cHarr. od with fhc murder ol government 3gpur near Grannis After the two mon had had several verbal cnaoun- ters they got together and staged q battle royal which continued until both were practically exhausted Da1- tom. who ls German. WAS consider aoly Worsted in the encounter.
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30

With tae American Army n Franee.-Seldom= has theatrical ca tertainment been staged in more ua- usual setting than one given in a lo- eaton which enabled several hundred h0t and dirty American troopers jus out of the trenches to get back for an hou or SO 10 the atmosphere or Broadway An openatr prize ring Waa the stage Airplanes purred over lead and the booming Of the guns on the front Was plainly heard
 The ring is located at a eross-roa-s oH hi4' from which German border laud opposite the Tuu sector can ca Ily be seen On il of an evening somn of the energetic youpgetcrs of The American army wont 10 while away the heHls of rest between trench taar5 by putting on the gloves.
 The performer who teday trod the baUds of tHs unique stage Was Mss Elsie Janis She told stories. sang new songs and danced, and for the most part appeared unconcerned oyer tae unusual conditions Once, how. eyer. when a German arptaue scared in inc sky not SO very far away, and the American antHaircrarJ auns be gan bursting shrapnel around =it, the .er.aaauee stopped for a momenf Aalc Ms Jauis looked up and ask cd if fHere was any chance of aor being killed, because she didn't want 'o be. as she had work 10 do tomor- TcW.
 The assembled douehboys, thick on the ground around the stage and pafeaad on He aau#etaps everywhere Rfhn he1rnp ond seeing distance, fe'Fea eNo Keep on,
 Cheers and applause We're very ire uoHt daHag the show.
 N Lhe conclusion Miss Janis offer cd 10 show the men The new dance steps and several accepted, incIud- ing one mule skinner, who caused much amusement by his eccentrici- ties.
 Music for the performance was fur nished by a Y. NJ. c. A. secretary n the rcmoant of an old piano. Miss Janis will remain in the vicinity of Foul front for two days
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30
Won-ar WLL pecLde-

Rome America. and pdrtIeu sIv the women ef America. wall derla tho alar a94#aaf Germany. Hegst ly GeeEarHl l4r stuart Gah7lsa. uGd r secrc#rv 10 Premier OrIaneo Il daa as a mee5ue of the Namta's National ltalfW League "@Hhaut tha patriotic work of women n he ally countries We could not hols 10 VII" h. continued
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-05-30
No Money For Sl laokers.

N a#H1HaH. AaaaH Representa- #te# NHria#.H.a tt MHM=an asl eaata#a that aoHe fHa 2oaa u T ,sa. H.ss.t5 5e 5ae !fHUFrmagf al 1s#i- ca#ua had bHga gwen dgIel-od q s-
 Ter uItty serE e.. .se lol-. lA aa4eHa#anl fa tae il a#a#.eH H.as. a# Ha#.ei H.a# faH of
 Ha-=H.H s aaaraHf 4fr= 4fd hr Hrf1.rH t1-tl,tr salaries