The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-10-11


That the leaders Of the non-parti-
san league are generally recognised
to be Of the dislsoyal element ID be-
yond dispute. The great majority
Of the league members may b
thoroughly patriotic, but because
Of the disloyal and seditious char
acter Of the leaders. some OF whom
have been convicted, others who are
under indictment. and others Who
at one time or another iniicated
their sympathy for the /. w. W.
and disloyal socialism, the loyal and
patriotic members Of the league are
practically casting influence on the
side Of disloyalty. No man in at
the country has been more intinaate
ly identified with reform movement
than has Theodore Roosevelt. At
ter q thorough examination Of tho
leagues practical work, here u
what he says Of the non-partisan
league in = speech at Billings last
week:
There are real and grave causes
for complaint among tho farmers
here In the northwest" the former
president continued % he read from
. paper fgures which purported 10
show discrepancies ia connection
with prices paid for wheat and il
freight rates, put he asserted that
"many OF the remedies proposed ara
not only false, put mischievous, and
very grave harm may be caused by
the character OF the agitation con~
Quoted by some of the men who pro-
fess to b. seeking these remedies.
To introduce state socialism % 8
relief for these conditions would re-
suit In nothing but widespread dam
age. Some OF the conditions com-
planned of can bo met by state aCtion.
There should be Federal control Of
elevators and flour mills with es-
tablished terminal elevators ct COM
venient points.
But ! emphatically disbeliev ID any
party, and especially If that party
calls itself nonpartisan party,
which organizes q single class against
other classes. | object just 80 strong-
~ whether such political
organization CLANS to be in the
interest OF tOwnspeople, or country
people, OF merchants, lawers, farmers
or wage earners.
"When the nonparttsan league first
appeared I was inclined TO welcome
1t, and it was with real reluctance
that I was obliged to believe that the
leadership that controlled it was OF
such q character Is to threaten this
country with evils analogous 10 those
which came from bOlshevikism abroad
and from l. w. W.-ism ct home.
FINALLY, the meeting Of the league
In st. Paul about year ago was turn-
cd into ghost dance oi the Huns
within-Our-gates,an aud it became evid.
ent to me. that in SO far as they
dared, the most prominent leaders Of
the league were playing the game OF
sedltion and disloyalty and that they
were seeking to acquire power by
pandering to an influencing the base
spirit of greed and envy and ignor-
aace and clas hatred. Tney were try
ing to do what Lenine and Trotzky
have done to Russia.
THE |. w. w. leaders have been
convicted OF disloyalty and yet IL was
TO the head OF this organization
w. D. Haywood. that the secretary
OF the NonpartiSan lesgue wrote on
April s, 1917, Q letter in which he
spoke OF this damned war business
sThere isn't German abroad, or
PROC German ct home who does not
wiah success TO the Nonpartisan
league 20 present controlled and 10
the I. w. W.
Colonel RoOsevelt assertod that tho
two great issues at this time were put
the war successfully through and In
sist on thorough-going Americanisme