The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-03-12
LEADER PROUDLY
PRINTS GEORGE CREELS STORY

Yesterday The Tribune presented
Governor Burnquists version of the
story which George Creel of the Unit
ed States committee of public inform
alton has in this months Everybody's.
Following is the treatment accorded
Creels screed by the National Non.
partisan Leader of st. Paul: 49,.
George Creel. chairman OF the gov
ernment's great committee on public
information, which rendered splendid
service to the cause of the United
States during the late war. discusses
the persecution of the NonpaItisaH
league and it's members in Minnesota
and other states in an article in the
March issue of Everybody's magazine.
If the loyalty of the Nonpartisan
league needed any vindication, and if
the trumped-up dislOyalty charges
against. the League needed any fur
Their showing up, the United States
governments own publicity agent has
accomplished these things in the ar
ticle referred to. Mr.. Creel is not a
partisan Of the Nonpartisan league. In
fact. he is opposed to the Leagues
program, and not very long ago the
newspapers carried a letter written by
Nj. Creel in which he took the league
severely to task on the alleged charge
OF trying TO represent that he and his
committee were favorable to the Or
ganiZatiCn. $50.
Regarding the persecution Of the
Nonpartisan league. Mr.. Creel says:
THE leaders of the Nonpartisan
league came personally to Washing
ton to ask the government to com
mcncc a. campaign Of patriotic edu-
cation. and Minnesota was selected for
the initiation of the drive. Our speak
ers, however, upon arrival in Mime
sofa, were informed by the state pub
bic safety commission that they would
not be- allowed to address any meet
ing arranged by the NOnpartisan
league or under its auspices. There
was no quarrel with the men we sent,
for the commission asked permission
10 use them in its own speaking cam
paign. t
GAS we tried to explain to them
however. the main purpose in sending
speakers over the United States was
not to address those already entnusi
astic in the national service. but to
reach and convert people out of touch
and sympathy with American thought
| and aims. Even if the .Nonpartlsan
league were .disloyal then the more
reason why our speakers should smash
at it's membership with the truth. But
the state public safety commission
stood like iron, barred our speakers
absolutely, and inaugurated cam
paign of terrorism that had it's ugly
reflex among the. farmers and labor
unions in every state. IT..
! VIOLENCE ALLOWED
| AGAINST FARMERS.
'1n summer the proscrlued farmers
were compelled to hold Liberty loa'
rallies or Red Cross meetings out II
the fields under the blazing sun, AM
, in winter they huddled in cowshed
and car barns. Parades were stoppe'
by home guards or broken up D.
townsmen. Old men and*women wer
dragged from automobiles, and on on
wretched occasion baby Of 81
months was torn from it's mother
arms by the powerful stream from
fire hose Tar-and-feather parties
were common, and even deportation
took place. men being. driven iron
their homes and from the very 1at
because they had sons belonging 7
the league. .
"This policy of brutal intoleranc
spread to other commemorative, an