The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-03-15
Strong Speech Is Made By A.
R. Allen to Attorneys
RESOLUTION is ADOPTED
Patriotic Purpose Set Forth BY
State Association of County
Prosecutors
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Albert r. Allen, prosecuting at
toney of Martin county, urged in a
vigorous speech that all county at
torneys in Minnesota join in a fight
against the National Nom Partisan
league. A denunciation Of the
leagues methods was made before
the county attorneys session in Min
noapolis Saturday
Mr.. Allen has been leader in the
fight TO stamp out disIoyalty in his
section of the state. incidentally, he
has led in the prosecution of some
of the league organizers.
This resolution, proposed in the
conclusion of Mr.. Aliens speech, was
adopted unanimously by the attor-
neyS:
Resolve with me, here and
now, that this disloyal political
club. that brazenly seeks to mis-
lead thoughtless innocence, as
SoCiate ii with traitors and spies,
corrupt our officials, capture our
country and lead her blndfolded .
by the route of Russian boshe-
vikiSm to a condition of, Prus-
sianized slavery, shall not 90
slyly or successfully on to it's
nefariouS work"
Mr.. Aliens, address yesterday fol-
lowed one by Dean Vance. Dean
Vance talked on the freedom Of
speech and the freedom Of the press
and defined the limitations.
Mr.. Allen devoted much of his add
dress to the -partie"~ 20 or,-
Dean Vance gave the basis for all
actions brought to stamp out Seu4-
ton
Have Grave sponsibiilties.
You have resting upon you very
grave responsibilities and most i'm
portant duties" said Dean Vance
at is your duty without fear or rav-
or, to prevent any kind of seditiOus
utteranceo because the least we can
do, if those boys over there in the
trenches are going TO bear their
breasts to the foe and give their
lives il necessary, is to get rid of
the skunks left behind.
I'VE are net going to suffer the
fate of childish socialists on the
IZonso or the cracked Drained, de-
luded bolSheviki in Russia.
I'VE are going to fight this war
under the constitution. We are
fighting for the right to live under
constitution.
1--WE have got to submit to what is
reasonable and fair criticism of the
law and reasonable criticism of Off
Gals if back of such criticism there
is the aim to have such laws repeal
ed or such officials removed.
Let No One Escape.
But under no circumstances are
we going to allow those who skulk
within our gates to hide under the
camoufiaSe of metaphysical talk of
the rights of men or under the eu-
phemistic name of pacffists.'
Concerning the National Non
Partisan league, Mr. Allen said:
In criticism of courts and lawyers.
1T has been painfully asserted thai
the law is a net through which the
big fish break, the small ones ONLY
being caught. In disproof of this
SANDER, invite your general coon
Grafton, to the end that the supposed
ly rotten net of the law may be
promptly cast in all your counties. to
catch and restrain from further
criminal teachings that Whale of the
Troubled Pool of Sedition-the Non
Partisan league.
The activities of this peculiar DO
litlcal club are of no consequence
here, except in so far as they are Sc
ditious.
Some Have Hesitated.
Some of you, when called upon.
as you have been, or will be to con-
of l.
ton, have hesitated, or will hesitate
In doubt and confusion, between
rumors of its loyalty, it's persistent
self-serving declarations of LOYALTY.
and the seeming difficulty of either
proving or disproying the aspersions
so freely cast upon its moral char
acter.
Claims League Would Russianize
America
1T has been cautioned that The
Nom Partisan league should not be
martyrized by prosecutions. We
think it should not be permitted to
flourish by further neglect We need
have no weak fears of the wicked
German spies and traitorous dema-
gogues in our midst, mask their true
features from the loyal, and show
them only TO the criminal They
thereby seek to form, and are form
ing, under pretense of organizing
farmers for mutual protection, a con-
glomerate, discordant following. of
both the loyal and the disIoyal; and
thereby seek to Russianze America.
To win the war for Germany. they
recommend now bo,shevikism. that
we may later endure Prussianism.
Should Not HeSitate.
Shall we hesitate to publish their
dlsioyal shame, which is ALREADY
proven by their war resolutions, and
has been pronounced such by hon
cradle courts? Our national tradi-
tions and racial inheritance of ra-
tional liberty forbid
The Non Partisan league threatens
our national unity and endaneers
free government The influence of
our own state at this time in this
matter cannot be oyerstated. If pros
ecutors who have been set as sen
tlnels on the watch towers of liberty
fall to raise their united voices in
pronunciation of the. hidden treason
OF the Nom Partisan league, until ey