Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-14
Speaker Effectively Com
pares Townley to Kaiser
Wilhelm.
O. B. AND
w. S. TALK
Vital Issues of Campaign
Discussed in City Hall
Last Evening.

Whenever the name of John Steen,
candidate for governor at the primary
election, was mentioned in the
speeches delivered last night at a
meeting held in the city hall under
the auspices Of the Steen for Gov
ernor Club, it resulted in a burst Of
spontaneous applause which plainly
enough indicated the presence of a
great deal of enthusiasm over he
candidate. Similar applause greeted
the important statements made by
Fred T. Cuthbert of Devils Lake, he
principal speaker of IL evening,
when he analized the principles OF
Townleyism and when he referred to
the head of that movement as being
like the Kaiser of Germany because
he possesses the same unhappy am
bition to become an autocrat in fact
which obsesses the Teuton emperor,
and which has plunged his people
into disaster.
Just before the meeting the city
band, led by Director E. A. Moses, had
given a concert in the streets and in
front of the city hall. and 1t ais
rendered several selections in the
large council room of the building
where the meeting, unusually we'll at
tended. was held.
Words Of the President.
Geo. Kaneen, chairman Of the
meeting, introduced Mr.. Cuthbert who
led up to his subject by pralslng the
loyalty of Grand Forks citizens in all
matters: "but," he added, Il suppose
it is here as elsewhere that there are
a few who have failed to grasp the
significance of American citizenship.
Let me say in this connection that we
can never get an ideal democracy, but
we can go on perfecting it in spite of
the fact that turmoil and storms are
sure to ome AT UGH times clear
heads and brave hearts are. needed.
"Of all the famous epitomized SEN
fences of President Wilson I like par
ticularly that in which he said that
we are in the war to make the world
safe for democracy; a few hours after
he had uttered this sentence, Samuel
Mccall Of Massachusetts supplement
ed it, as it were. by saying that the
war also is going to show whether or
not democracy will be safe for the
Russia in mind-that bleeding, tor
tured Russia where democracy was on
the verge of running mad"
.M Element Of Responsibility.
Using the recent history of Russia
as IN illustration, Mr.. Cuth-
bert emphasized the point tina,
realization of individual respon-
sibility teaches the necessity OF
making sacrifice in order to attain
liberty; references were also made tc
certain events in the history of the
United States to further strengthen
this argument, and Washington,
Patrick Henry, and Nathan Hale were
mentioned as the personitication OF
the spirit of sacrifice.
Reverting to the subject of Russia
the speaker described that country as
a hotbed of bureaucracy and autoc-
racy, and said that the hell of Siberia
could not be surpassed by that inferno
painted by immortal Dante. Mr.
Cuthbert said hat great social inc
national reforms cannot be brought
about by passionate display of anger
and hat appeals to prejudice and
passion were always sure to result
disastrously.
A Bouquet to the Kaiser.
Speaking in the %colloquial, Mr.
Cuthbert handed 1t" to. Emperor
William of Germany whom he de.
scribed as a direct descendant Of
highway robbers who had murdered
and looted. people in the Balkans a
few generations ago.
But" Mr.. Cuthbert said, "the
Kaiser was brought up by his parent:
in such a way that he early realized
his sovereign citizenship and under.