American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-05-09
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NAMPA CITIZENS DO NOT AP-
PROVE NoN-PARTlSAN DAILY
Circulate Resolutions condemnina the
Editorial Policy of the Paper and
Asking Dismissal of Present Editor
jal Force

At an indignation meeting held at
Nampa Friday evening, May 2, reso-
lutions were passed demanding the i'm
mediate removal of the editorial force
from the Idaho Free Press" and ex-
pressing strong resentment against
the papers editorial policy for some
time, especially a recent one entitled,
Bombs and Free Speech"
The resolutions were to be circulat-
ed and signed by the citizens of
Nampa and farmers before presenting
to the management of the non-parti-
san publishers. TLis is the paper that
has been referred to as being financed
on the watered stock plan. 1t was pro
NOTED by w. G. Scholtz
At the meeting were a number of
farmer stockholders in the publica-
tion, several of whom expressed the
strong conviction that no farmer
could subscribe to the policy nor toll
crate the utterances of the so-called
farmers paper. Following are the
resolutions:
we, the undersigned citizens of
Nampa and vicinity, after full dis GUS
sion in an open meeting held in Nam
pa on Nay 2, 1919, do hereby adopt the
following resolutions and direct that a
copy be presented to the editorial man
ager of the Cooperative Publishing
company
We demand the immediate removal
of the present editorial force from the
daily Idaho Free Press and an immedi-
ate change of the editorial policy of
the paper for the following reasons:
I'VE regard the editorial published
Friday morning under the caption of
Bombs and Free Speech as an in
suit to the courts of our country and to
other republican institutions, and we
regard previous editorials as more or
less un-American.
I'VE demand that the Cooperative
Publishing company publish American
ism as distinguished from anarchy
and we refuse to recognize or patron
iZe the Idaho Free Press under it's
present editorial policy.
I'VE protest and condemn the un-
warranted attacks upon Judge Landis
and Prosecuting attorney Fickert un-
der the guise of having been active n
suppressing free speech, and we assert
ludb IilOSS Ollltldlo nave uOuC lhtll
full duty to their country in the prose
cution of persons guilty of murder and
sedition and we regard the editorials
of the Idaho Free Press as an effort
to condone such offenses; all of which
is so intolerable that no apology will
suffice"
C. A. Gloughrie, George Duval, Maj
or Estabrook, G. w Lamson, G. T
Moore, A. G. Nettleton, and M. N
Baker and others were the prime NOV
ers in calling the meeting.
Saturday evening Nampa Lodge No
1881 of the United Brotherhood OF
Maintenance of Way Employees and
resolution declaring that the editorials
which appeared in te May 2 issue Of
the Idaho Free Press, entitled Bombs
and Free Speech" were uun-Americar
and an insult to every loyal American
citizen.
Oliver Anderson, William G.. Hanna
ford and Roy Duerock composed tbs
committee which drafted the resolu
tions, which are as follows:
Resolved that we go on record al
being against any editorials such al
appeared In tht columns of the Idaho
Fret Press of May 2, 1919, under tn
heading. Bombs and Frte Sptech,
which is regarded as being un-Amtri
can and an insul to every loyal Amtr
can. Especially do we condemn th
paragraph reading:
when excitable men are not allow
ed to talk with their tongues, it is al
old lesson of experience that they vii
begin to talk with dynamite. Such i
human nature.
"The natural offspring of tyranny i
bombs 1t seems odd that Unite
States officials shouldd have neede
an epidemic of Internal machines i
the mails to teach them this lesson"