Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-10-17
ROARING, RANTING REDS

ROARING, RANTING REDS
No doubt every county in the state OF
Idaho has been visited by organizers
for the Non-partisan league who have
by their clever talks, convinced many
honest farmers that they have been
greatly abused and, through the pro
mise by these organizers to remedy al
legged unfair conditions, some of the
farmers have been induced to become
members of the league, by paying to the
organizer SIG, part of which money goes
to the organizer for having procured
the membership.
Idaho county has been no exception.
The county was visited during the last
year by several organizers. each of
whom probably departed from the
county, richer in cash, than when he ar
rived. The organizers, by former oc-
cupatiOn, have been all the way from
socialist telephone lineman to Congrega-
tiOnal minister, the latter evidently feel
ing it was more to his calling to rant
over the county preaching falsehoods
of discomfort, than to preach the gospel
from the pulpit. Immensely more pro-
fitable, possibly, when he could induce
certain farmers to part with SIG, than
would it be to follow his calling as a
pastor though his peculiar course may
have caused many to frown with dis
gust.
One of the prerequisites to becoming
an oganizer for the Non-partisan league
is said to be that a man must have
% good rotten past, " and is roaring,
ranting red - Whether every Organi-
ger who visited Idaho county came with
in the foegoing category, has not been
made clear, but at least one later quit
his organization work for the league,
and according to a fellow organizer, his
record, would not stand investiga
ton"
Trotting through the farming sections
of the state, preaching class hatred and
has been this class of men,
out for the dollar, every one Of them, or
Else donors of their services to promote
socialism, bolshevikism and pro-Ger-
nanism.
By far the most notorious of these
is one Horace Mann, recently
indicted for disloyalty, following his
arrest in Gooding county, where he had
9een operating.
Mann, at hearing before the Good
NC County Council of Defense testifi-
d in substance as follows:
That he was a resident of California;
hat he was socialist; that he came
% Idaho by the direction of the nation
Il secretary OF the Non-partlsan league;
md that he was the official representa-
i've in Gooding county of the state or
He admitted that he had told mum
,er of people there that Bill Haywood
vas no more of a criminal than ex-Gov-
rnor Cooling, and that GOoding had
Kidnapped Haywood and brought him ;
Mt of Colorado to Idaho to trial; that '
p had watched the case very closely
nd was in sympathy with Haywood.
He also admitted that he had told a
lumber of people that the draft law was '
unconstitutional, and that in his opin-
IN il was unconstitutional; that he was
oainst this war and every other war;
hat he had also told a number OF Peo- ?
lie that the Bolsheviki government was
ne highest type of democracy that the
-orld had yet produced, and that he
oped to see a similar democracy in this
Duntry. .
He admitted that he was the author il
{ a Socialist book published IN 1910, IN p
bich he made the statement that the z
1Iiticai machine at Washington be cut I
lt and that he was still OF the same 1