The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-09-05
PIERCE IsOUsTED
FROM COUNCIL
ACTION OF LIBERTY MEETING
ENDORSED BY GOVERNOR
ASK FEDERAL INVESTIGATION
Editor of Iowa Homestead and Cham
pion Of New Partisan League
Is Bitterly Denounced by
Patriotic Workers.

FdITlONiC
Des Moines, Sept Am response
to resolutions passed by 500 men and
women attending the Liberty loan
meeting at the Chamberlain hotel yes
terday condemning James NJ. Pierce
for alleged "seditious utterances' in
his publication, the Iowa Homestead,
and urging the governor to take i'm
mediate action concurring in the &C
ton of the state council of defense in
ousting Pierce from membership in
the body, Governor Harding last even
ing offered assurance to the members
of the Liberty loan committee. includ-
ing John Is. Wallace of Council Bluffs
]. II. Grimm of Cedar Rapids and H.
c. Taylor of Bloomfield, that he would
Immediately write such a letter TO the
council of defense.
Resolutions of Committee.
Resolutions for the condemnation
of Pierce were drawn up by a commit
tee composed of Robert Wallace of
Council Bluffs, Mrs. James Dewitt of
Oskaloosa, E. p. Adler of Davenport,
]. NJ. Grimm of Cedar Rapids, A. II.
Avery of Spencer, p. C. Holdoegel of
/ Rockwell City and Henry c. Taylor
of Bloomfield. The resolution read as
| follows:
Whereas, the members of this body
are assembled at the call of the fed
eral government for the purpose of
promoting the interests OF our coun-
try in this war and especially for the
purpose of organizing for the sale of
the fourth Liberty loan, and
Expresses risapproval
Whereas, there has recently APP
peared in the Iowa Homestead, which
is largely circulated in the state of
| Iowa, through the regular edition and
through special reprint copies, ar
ticles which in our Judgment are very
detrimental to the interests of our ma
tons cause in war, and to the sale
of the fourth Liberty loan in particu-
lar, and
! Whereas, it is our desire to call
to the attention TO the people of Iowa
| the fact that this body expresses its
strongest disapproval of this and kin
dred movements.
Now therefore be ii resolved, that
| in this time when every American
citizen should use his utmost re-
sources to promote unity to action in
! the support of every effort to win the
war, that this meeting desires to eX-
press its condemnation of the efforts
! put forth by the Iowa Homestead and
u its owner James NJ. Pierce to encour-
! age and organize all of the elements
of discord and disloyalty into an &C.
tive force which would discourage the
sale of Liberty bonds and tend to
break up the united front heretofore
presented by the state Of Iowa in ey-
cry war activity. and,
! Wants Federal Action.
BE it further resolved, that mas
mucn as all county war organizations
in Iowa have taken strong stand
! against unfair methods and mob law
or yiolance of any kind in the hand
I ling of slackers throughout tn ; state
and have endeavored to establish a
! fair and equitable basis upon which
every citizen should contribute of his
! financial support to the nation, and
inasmuch as the heads of said organi-
| cations in their various counties have
| without exception strictly cOnfOrmed
TO the spirit of the nation as voiced
by President Wilson; that we appeal
to the Federal authorities to make an
, investigation of what we believe TO
be seditiOus propaganda circulated in
this state by the owner of the Iowa
Homestead and we ask if found guilty
he ne dealt with in the manner as 9th
er yiolators of the espionage law.
"And be it further resolved. that
we unhesitatingly call upon the gov
ernor of Iowa to Immediately concur
in the action of the state council of de
Tense and remove the said James
NJ Pierce from membership in that
body"