Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-16
IOWA PEOPLE WARNED TO KEEP
OUT OF NORTH DAKOTA OR.
oANIzArioN.
SAYS NoNPARrisANs ARE
REFuoE FOR ENEMIES
Farmsss Warned That League 10 Not
incorporated and That Individual
eteekheidsrs Are Liable for Dsbts-
Rspadiatsd BY all State Councils Of
Defense.

the Nom Partisan League Of North
Dakota as lair for infidels and mem
beers Of tho L W. W. II. E. Moss, Des
Moines, member Of the Greater Iowa
Association spoke at Hotel RUSSELL
Lamson before more than 100 business
men and farmers of Black Hawk
county. Mr.. Moss substituted for Sec
rotary Woodworth C1um, Davenport,
who with c. H. McNideri Of Mason
City, Is in Chicago in the interests Of
the next liberty loan campaign in
Iowa.
Mr.. Moss said that every energy
should be directed toward winning the
war and excluding men who are try
ing to confuse the people and set diff
ferent classes against each other. He
characterized the organizers Of the
Nom Partisan League as traitors to
Iowa and to the Stars and Stripes
1--WE must come together on fair
basis of democracy after the war, or
the effort being made in Europe now
to save democracy will be- lost at
home,' Mr.. Moss said. I'VE have heard
OF the privileges and blessings of our
country, but let me tell you that this
theory that, democracy amounts to
nothing but that theories and blessings
is what caused the downfall Of Russia
We have our responsibilities and we
must live up to them. It is up to us
to save democracy
League 10 Not incorporated.
One Of the indictments against the
Non-Partisan League which Mr.. Moss
brought out in his speech which. he
said, should be known by every far
mer. is that the Non-Partisan League
is individually responsible for the
debts OF the whole organization.
"The Greater Iowa Association is
not dabbling in politics. said Mr.. Moss,
"but it is working for the good of Iowa
as whole. We have very definite
reason for opposing the Introduction of
the Nom Partisan league into Iowa.
When progress goes just 50 far, then
1t is necessary to turn around and
prevent some one from throwing "a
monkey wrench into the machinery,
and that Is ut what we are trying to
do in this case.
"At first it was not believed that the
movement would extend from the Da-
kotas into Iowa. However, more than
40 organizers have attempted to oper-
ate in-this state during the past sew
eral months. There is absolutely no
need for the league in Iowa. 1t is de-
structive and should be wiped out OF
existence.
"The man who founded the league
was an unsuccessful business man. He
went into voluntary bankruptcy and
declared his assets as $475 and his LA
bilities as $4,000.
League Propaganda Is Radical.
The propaganda Of the league -
political socialism. radical, and pro-
viding for reforms through revolution.
It Is different from ideal socialism
which has its ideals, but seeks to es-
tablish only that which is practical.
'Everywhere the league MAS been
fiourishing 1t has been repudiated
by the state councils of defense.
Members Of the league are disloyal
ana many Of them have been arrest
ed for making unpatriotic statements.
AFTER the league through elections
had gained control of the state OF
North Dakota, It threw down the far
mers. Bound by pledges to aid the
farmers It showed no frlendliness for
them but played to the I. w. w. ele.
ment.
"When q bill was introduced into
the North Dakota, legislature to make
the operation Of the I. W. w. impos-
sfble in the state. the league could have
easily pushed It thru but instead OF
that 1t killed the bill.
There is no profession in Iowa that
IS better organized right now than th,'
farmers. They have their livestock or
ganizations, seed corn organisations,
county organisations. breeders organi-
cations, and in fact more societies than
any other profession in the state.
80, IL 1t is necessary for the faa :
mers to have another organization, let
It be an organization of the farmers
themselves and not one brought In
from the outside. Do not pay tribute
to socialist politicians from North Da-
kota.
Kssp psnAssraey oaSs @ Home.
.uowa has been responding nobay 20
the needs. oG the country during this
war, and We must not Be taken In by
this league which sse1D 70 create strife
and dissensiom, We must keep demo-
crazy cafe ct home here while our
sens and brothers are dyhting for It In
Europe"
" Tho time WIS Suspicious for cha birth
OF fsucn . movement in rvrtsin i'akOia.
the farmers having been badly treated
by Minneapolis grain interests and this
Il I time Of crop failure and the sum
Of SIC each In membership dues paid
to tho promoters Of the league Is said
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