The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-22
NOTABLE TALK MADE BY PRESIDENT
A.C. T0WNLEY OF THE N. P. LEAGUE
Denounces Beasts of Prey of the Jungle Pill
loried by President Wilson-Denies With Wig
or the Charge of Disloyalty- Describes Growth
of the Movement in Dakota-Elicites Frequent
Applause Patriotic Resolution is Passed.

pig reasoning over that of some peo-
pie.
Il want to talk to you little bit
about what / understand to be the
duty of the Americans citizen and
about our country" said Mr.. Town
ley This United States is a po-
litical democracy. BY a political de-
mocracy, as we understand democ-
racy we mean a country where
no one man or no one family rule the
land In the United States the laws
are not made by a King or a Kaiser
or a Gar. In the United States the
laws are made by the people them
selves. That is what we understand
it to be. Under this government,
which is a political democracy, un-
less you, the people of this country
are in a position intelligently to de-
eide upon the value of the laws, the
conduct of the men in office or the
fitness of candidates for office, you
are going to have bad government
And the only way you can have good
government and be in a position to
make a good decision and "A good Sc
lection of candidates for office is by
getting together as you are gathered
here this afternoon to discuss affairs
of government and the conduct of men
in office 1t is necessary that you
give very careful and close at
tention to public affairs because you
are masters. You have good govern
ment and you have good conditions
in this country in exact measure as
you give attention to public affairs.
1t is your first duty as a citizen to
give careful attention to the affairs
of your country; you must have the
right of free assemblage and free
speech. l want to make that very
plain to you, l say that the right of
free assembly and free speech is most
important to a people that would pre-
serve liberty and democracy This is
no theory with me- l have had some
experiences within the last six
months Mr. Townley then charged
that certain politicians in Lake City,
Mimi, had determined to prevent a
elague meeting, had locked up the
hall, had gotten out the fire depart
ment and threatened to turn the water
on the farmers, thus preventing the
exercises of free speech. He said the
league was since organized there and
met when it pleased Continuing he
said:
1.-THE right of free assembly and
free speech is the very corner stone
of industrial democracy. Now
any man, any place, any time, wheth-
er they be in Russia or Lake City,
any men, any place, any time. wheth-
would deny the people the right of
/ free assembly and free speech are
not friends of liberty and democracy.
/ They are friends of autocracy and
they do not belong in this country no
matter how much they wave the flag.
! We have, I repeat, a political democ-
racy here in the United States, but we
have not an industrial democracy
here in the United States. We elect
/ the president and the congressman
and the senators and all the officers (;
they are elected by our votes, but we
have not as yet been able to elect
the head of the Standard Oil com
pany. We have not yet been able to
elect nor very much influence the
heads of the railroads of this country
and we have to have the railroads to
live. l do not believe you people in
the State of Idaho have elected the
head of the water power trust of the
state of Idaho yet, have you? And
| don't know when the election of a
man to take j. X. Mullens' place
comes off. l haven't heard anything
| about the date. We in this United
States while we live under a political
democracy today, are dominated by
an Industrial autocracy. Sixty per
cent of the wealth in this United
States belongs to two per cent of the
people of this country. This indus
trial autocracy under which we live
today has been built up under the
protection of legislation, law. And
so we are going to use our political
democracy to establish an industrial
democracy in the United States"
Reading an excerpt from a recent
work of President Wilson regarding
the determination of the people o.
the United States to raid the political
jungles and hunt out the beast tha'
preys he proceeded to tell of the worl
of the league in North Dakota to ge
rid of "the beast of prey in tha'
state" saying in part:
North Dakota is the first whea
/ raising state in the United States