Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-09-20
BURNQUlST AT FAIR

GIVES INTERESTING ADDRESS -
PATRIOTIC DAY-A. D. WILSON
ALSO GIVES ADDRESS
The speakers secured for the fair this
year were Governor Burnquist and State
Food Administrator, A. D. Wilson. Both
spoke Monday afternoon right after a
splendid drill by the Home Guards.
Governor Burnquist's address was
preceded by the playing Of the Star
Spangled Banner, by the local band,
after which NJ. NJ. Williams introduced
the speaker.
In commencing his address, the gov
ernor expressed his admiration in the
progress that Morrison county as well
mao ann
in the winning of the war. 1t is still
progressing and will continue to pro-
gress, he said, until the war is won.
ring up of strife between the farmer
and the city man and the laborers and
the employer. This country is not
country, of; by, OF for any certain class
all the people. AS SoVernor, he sald'
he had a right to say that he has done
evcrythn- within his power to aid the
FARMER ana ldDOlcl. CIlllC1SIll lIetl
some make is unfair, unjust, unpatrio-
tic
The people as a whole throughout tie
state are loyal, but Wnen people i'll t!1
neigh hborhood of 10000 vote at the pli-
nl;sries for a disloyal person for sena-
tOl. instead OF one whose loyalty has
never been questioned, further educa-
ton was necessary
Only twice during his administration,
the governor said, has there been any
reason for him to have any trouble with
labor. The strike on the range was
one, when laborers were stirred up by
their employers. The second time was
the time employees of the St. Paul rail-
way company struck. He forced set
tlement here in favor OF the laborers.
The strike was again taken up by the
Non-Partisan league and here the gov
ernor said he took the same stand as
President Wilson in saying that atter
a settlement had been made, especially
in a matter of this kind, that it was
disloyal to violate any part of it.
The governor said he was also IN
Washington which worked for the
farmer in the setting of standard
price for their grain and also in chang
ing the grading of it.
be divided and ruled by any certain
class and, especially as we are in war,
we should stand back of our great ex-
ponent Of democracy. President Wilson; son
"A
been deceived by the German propa-
ganda, which has been circulated in
this country by paid agents OF thaI
government. AS 1t is, a large amounS
the people are realizing the untruth-
fulness of the assertions circulated by
the German propagandists. Germany
wanted war. The murder of FranSls e; $
Ferdinand furnished the pretext. She
has provoked every war cont1agratlon
| that she has taken part in. She want. mt.
ed this war and took advantaSe OF 9h she =
first opportunity to provoke war. She
was ready with four million well tram.
ed troops, an abundance of supplies that
she had laid up for years and her
fa nS n was TSe Fest a Of the
tries were not ready for war and
did not want it. The governor said.
1--WE shall unite and give them war
many violated the rules of the 1nter5 Itta5
national law, thus giving the United
States plenty reason to declare war.
We are peace loving and 1ndustfla1ly y
of the allies, did not want war; me
German atrocities toward the Unlted
States became so great, however, thae ,s
no other course o,; was +hro,,eb iel1 T II the self
preservation of our democratlc rlght
and the rights of the allies that we
entered the war: ~,
The peoples of Europe, especially the
Germans, have come to this country to
escape the despotism of their ruler ana
to enjoy the opportunities afforded ny
this country in way of free VOTE Iree
schools and free religion. They have
come to a country with a written con
stitution where there is no despotlc
! ruler to set down the laws according
to the way he thinks pest; @ - tho
thought that this country is acting
unwisely in waging war against Ger
many should be deprived Of the rights
df ;he sePHxsSd P%atsd ea
back to the country they think better
II the people here .t home stand nd
back Of our pSys f1r an IN Of de-
mocracy for the people Of the Worlo:
including the German people and keep
the home Ares burning. they VIII come
bic for the kaiser or any. other to drag
nations into the war.
Governor Burnquist fayors the sstab,;
lishment of an international triD4ne!
tied by compulsory arbitration after the
Food Adainistxa*or's Talk =.
Directly following the governor . ad-
dress A. D. Wilson, state Food Admin
|istrator, spoke. He, as his position
denotes, talked upon the food question
and explained fully the necessity of the
further use Of substitutes in baking
He said:
The United States has wonderful
opportunities in every, line and above
all in the way of food. We want our
/ allies to have the same opportunities
therefore we have shipped large
amount of feodstuffs to them since the
beginning of the war, even though we
have had to curtail on certain commo-
dities to be able to do this 3ds we ,oa1S are
safe for democracy but also to make
democracy safe for the. world. we
have demonstrated this in our own
country and if we can't show that our
government does as we'll as the German
government we have not demonstrated
that democracy is safe for the world
We are now making ships faster than
Germany can sink them. Mr.. Wilson
! said. but we must keep on making
them. We have been sending men to
France at the rate of one million every
four months and. if this average
is kept up. the war will soon be won.
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