The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-05-23
). A. LINDBERGH-BY HIMSELF.

the Townley Nonpartisan League as
its choice for governor of Minnesota,
| has never been a favorite with the
Pioneer Journal. In the several cam
paigns for congress in this district
when Lindbergh was a candidate for
the Republican nomination and cleo
ton, this paper has never supported
him. We said then and we still be-
lieve that he is demagogue hypo-
critic, four-fusher and dangerous
man in public life. Since he has
! angled for and received the official
! Endorsement of A. G. Townley and his
Socialist cohorts, we are simply con-
firmed in our previous estimate of the
man.
But there are many who will say
that we misjudged the man; that we
are not capable of approaching his
''fine points," that he lives and moves
and has his being in "higher" at
mosphere than that breathed by 8
mere country newspaper man.
So, just to be fair with the man we
will this week use up quite little
space in "doing justice" to Mr.. Lind
bergh, by quoting extensively from a
book recently published by him, en-
titled "Why YOUR Country is at
WAR"
At the outset please notice that
Mr.. Lindbergh makes no claim that
this is his country. He distinctly
makes it plain that it is YOUR coun-
try. This is merely the beginning OF
a flow of language which goes to
show that the title is well chosen. We
can only give few quotations, but
we can assure our readers that there
is not one word in the entire book
which tends to show loyalty or patri-
otism on the part of the author. Fur
ther, do not forget that his book was
published AFTER the United States
entered the war. Some of the quota
tions are so unpatriotic that even A.
C. Townley, when quizzed by COM
mittee of the Unite States senate, re-
pudiated them as tending to discour-
age winning the war. With this in
! PRODUCTION we submit the following
quotations:
eve have been dragged into the
war by intrigue of spectators"
"I believe the problem could have
been settled without war or the sac-:-
flee of national honor"
wealth saw to it that the condi-
tions would be created that would
make it practically impossible for us
to keep out of the war"
Wealth was so greedy that it had
to build greater fortunes, even if it
took the sacrifice of millions of lives
and entailed suffering on more than
nine-tenths of the worlds popula-
ton"
The author was not talking of
wealth" of other nations but of
America, for in the next paragraph he
says:
ut was the demand of wealth that
WE should prepare a great navy and
a great army in order to enforce the
existing political and economic sys-
tenn not only upon ourselves, but up
on all the world present and future.
1t required that we should impress
into service of war every available
man and woman at nominal pay for
their time"
Gas things now are, the main thing
aimed at by the wealth-grabber is to
use us-to make us mere machines to
wear out in producing wealth for
them. OUR CHILDREN ARE TO BE
DRAGGED INTO OUR USELESS
PLACES AND BE DROPPED INTO
MOTHER EARTH - ASHES TO
ASHES, DUST TO DUST GOOD
BYE IF THAT is ALL WE ARE
FOR THEN GOD BLESS THE KAIS.
Err, THE LATE GAR, THE KINGS.
BIG BUSINESS AND ALL THE
BIG BOYS WHO CAUSED TIL
WAR"
4 mo one can reasonably justify
our entry into the war solely because
some of our citizens were unlawfully
murdered"
"The speculative interest, having
resorted to greed as their type of pa
triotic manifestations, invited the .vio-
lation of our unquestioned right to
the free and untrammeled use of the
high seas and caused those rights to
be violated, so that now we are at,
war;"
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"And without consulting the people
to secure a vote as to whether under
the circumstances we should declare
war against certain nations which
were violating our rights, Congress
and the President did declare war.
"The next step was to resort to
consription of men. In some states
even women are forced to register.
The CONSUMPTION is intended to raise
by force if necessary, armies to cross
the seas to fight in foreign lands.
: : Did not dare to submit conscrip-
ton to a vote of people, so Congress
on the pressure of the press and on
the advice of the President, voted to
conscript men for the purpose
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