The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-04
JUDGE WADE'S ADDRESS


Third Liberty Loan, the reception given Judge
Wade last evening spelled success. The packed
house, the enthusiastic responses that emphatic
ally punctuated the address, we're evidence enough
of the Bismarck spirit that carries every war
activity over the top.
The distinguished jurist was right when he
said that Men, Money and Spirit were needed to
win this war for the preservation OF democracy
not democracy alone but civilization ITSELF Judge
Wade declared that of the three, the spirit OF the
people was most important for if that were right
then there was no difficulty in securing the men
and the money.
His emphasis of the necessity that the Aneri-
can people adjust their vision now was timely. The
United States has been in the war almost year:
A long suffering government has leniently treated
malcontents and dealt lightly with those who have
uttered sediton. A nation was in the process OF
readiustment. But after one year, any American
citizen who is not in possession OF the facts IN
volved in this war is not worthy of the name and
in the vernacuar of Judge Wade should be put
away" -,
The sewers Of class hatred, still going through
the rural districts of this state trying to break
down the morale of the people, must be brought to
book soon. Judge Wade intimated that congress
would place additional power in President Wilson,
hands to reach the sewers OF dlscord.
What Judge Wade said Of these malcontents is
absolutely true. If conditions did exist which de-
manded such radical action as these agltators pro-
pose now is not the time to urge such action. But
such conditions do not exist. Any sane man knows
that the whole damnable doctrine is false The
Tribune will not deny that here in our own good
state many good and loyal citizens have been i'm
pressed by this gospel, dinned into their ears tor
the past decade by every embryo retormer VINO.
being on the outside and desiring to get on the IN
before the people. These people are not dishonest
nor disloyal. They simply are making the mistake
of letting others do their thinking for them, and
these others, too often are entirely constituencies,
INSCRIPTIONS and unbalanced.
If conditions were one hundredth part as bad
in America as Mr.. Townley has represented them
to be, the North Dakota farmer never would have
been able to scrape together the more than 49,
500, 900 which he has poured into Townley's hands
in less than three years. Of course, Mr.. Towney
knows this But his sole hold on the people comes
from their discomfort, and he must keep that dis
content at fever heat. And when he continues in
this vicious PRACTICE at time when America needs
every energy for the prosecution OF this war and
when unity and harmony are above all else impor-
tant, MI Townlev is all that Judge Wade said of
him last night ard he deserves every epithet that
JUDGE Wade applied to him.
Judge Wade did not mention ToWnley, Le-
Sucrc, Coates. Lerake, Thomason Bowen, Kate
Richards O'Hare, and the other Bolshevik leaders.
He did not have to. No one Of the 1,2OO who
nearQ Judge W ace last nlSnL Nau al! QOuDt DIS u
the organization and the individuals to whom he
referred.
None in that audience had forgotten the fact
that these men and this organization never have
repudiated the sedition which they gave LaF gillette
an opportunity to spout from the platform of their
St. Paul Pro and Con convention. None could
forget that the organs which Mr.. Townley controls
have openly defended LaFollette from that day to
this.
North Dakota members Of the Nonpartisan
league would do wise act to repudiate LaF gillette
and his St. Paul utterances and shame their lead
ers who decline to apologize for that un-American
spectacle.