The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
MILLS INSISTS
TFARMERS
FIGHT CITIES
Socialist Lecturer EndeavOrs to
y
Fan Into Fresh Flame the
Fires of Class Hatred
WOULD KILL MILLIONAIRES
Urges Hearer to Buy Bonds and
Give Sons and Bury the'Rich
n Face Down with Kaiser

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Nj Face Down with Kaiser
N Walter Thomas Mills, ,grotesque
4 little figure of man, in an uncouth
I get-up evidently designed to carry out
some parlor socialists idea of how
/ the down-trodden farmer should look,
addressed an audience of 200 men,
" women and children at the Grand last
N eevning. Perhaps rs Of Mills hearers
were farmers; probably so were
a league members.
e@ Mills has rather novel form of de-
and he furnished fair enter
tainment, but we have seen better
4 vaudeville at the Grand. II we were
booking this act we would scale about
$3.50 of Of Mills reputed $1,000 per
! week and consider him we'll paid.
There was nothing new in Mills sub
\ ject matter, barring few points
which the war enabled him to in
y feet. Aside from the war phases. we
could take report which was made
Of a Gene Debs meeting in a southern
\ Illinois railroad town fifteen years
ago and substitute Mills name for
i fDebs', and no one who heard Mills
! last night would know the difference.
How Mills Voted.
There was one interesting bit OF
information in, Mills long, rambling
discourse last night. He stated that
he attended the infamous St. Louis
convention of the socialist party last
summer, when President Wilson's mo-
tives in declaring war we're impugned,
and socialists were called upon to
practice sabotage and terrorism and
to resist the draft to the last ditch
as a means of assisting the kaiser in
defeating democracy. But, said Mr..
Mills, he voted against every one of
these resolutions, in whose drafting
there had a prominent part one of
his best known pupils, Kate Richards
O'Hare, sentenced in this very city
last December to five years in federal
prison for calling the mothers Of our
soldier boys brood sows and stating
that the boys who fell-.o theer in
France were fit only for fertilizer.
Mills did not state that he had follow
ed the lead of a few great socialists
who placed loyalty to country first
and who withdrew from the socialist
organization after the st. Louis con-
ventiOn.
After Chamber Of Commerce.
"The Chamber of Commerce of the
United States of America Is trying to
kill the kaiser in Europe to set him
up again in New York." said Mr..
Mills. In various forms he repeated
this statement time and again. He
also inferred that the Chamber ct
Commerce of the United States o.
America, through its 100000 men,
bers, is seeking to seize control of the
government in this country, Already,
said Mr.. Mills, he was informed that
communications from the chamber on.
any subject addressed to federal de-
partments received the immediate at
tention of the head of that depart
ment. Then Mr.. Mills emphasized the
fact that the commercial clubs of
Devils Lake and Lisbon and Bismarck
were members of this national chaml
Der, and that the merchants Of these
towns were members Of their local
commercial clubs, and that ;eretore
lthey must be enemies of the farmer
Mr.. Mills said he was not against
war. He did oppose universal mill
tary training, because he believed this
war should be fought through to a
point where future wars would We
made as impossible as armament and
military training had made this war
inevitable. He urged his hearers to
buy Liberty bonds without stint and
to freely give their sons to the colors
in order that they might kill the
kaiser, Then, he said, they should
come back home and kill off all our
millionaires and "bury them face down
with the kaiser in order that they
might get to hell quicker"
"For every thousand new-made
graves over there, we have a new
made millionaire over here" said Mr..
Mills. He declared the government
had detected the meat trust IN the act
of selling million pounds OF rotten
beef for the army. "Poison gas on
one side-rotten beef on the other
the meat trust is the most damnable
and most treacherous ally the kaiser
has today" a
Our Landless Serfs.
Mr.. Mills condoled with the land
less serfs in his audience, none of
whom probably owned more than ,OOO
acres Of good North Dakota soil in
his own right, and some not more than
$40 acres, over the fact that I'VE have
been buying the world over and over
again for 5000 or 1000 generations.
and still we haven't strip of land OF
our own big enough to put our two
feet on"
He defended Townley's bankruptcy
on the ground that the Northern Pa
cifc railway also had been through
bankruptcy. He declared the league
the only loyal political organization,
because Townley had not accused Bill
Lemke of disloyalty, and Bill Lemke
never had accused Art Townley of
disloyalty. He mentioned LaFollettes
speech at the pro and con convention
in st. Paul, and placed the blame on
the shoulders of the old gang. The
league, he said, was the only political
party which had stood behind Wilson.
He also stated that Townley had not
vet sold out. 1.-THE Chamber of Com
merce of the United States would give
Townley million in q minute if he
would sell out the league, and on
mature deliberation it would make it
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