The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-09-19
WILSON SOUNDS GRAVE
WARNING AGAINST RADICALISM AS
RESULT OF TRIP IN NORTH DAKOTA
After Coming in Close Touch
With Affairs of Nonpartisan
League in This State Chief
Executive Talks of Dangers 1t
Engenders.

CONSIDERABLE publicity has been given
in the papers Of the larger. cities OF
President Wilson's comments on rad
icalism following his trip through
North Dakota where he came in close
touch with the working out Of the pro
gram Of the Nonpartisan league. Prac
tically all of the write ups appearing
in the papers feature the presidents
remarks and all of the writer's unhesi
tatingly state that the remarks were
made by the president with the league
and its activities in view.
One Of the paragraphs in an eastern
daily written while the president was
travelling between Bismarck and Hele.
ma, Mont, is as follows:
In North Dakota, through which
he passed yesterday, the President
found the Non-Partisan League in
control, and making every endeav-
or to spread their radical doc
trines. The situation there has be-
come SO acute that members Of the
American Legion, composed of SOL
diers who have returned from.
France, are making open threats
that they will take the matter into
their own hands if the power Of
the radical element cannot other
wise be broken.
In Montana the situation is diff
ferent. The NonPartisan League
and the I. w. w. endeavored to get
grip in the, State, but so far have
failed to gain much headway. In
Billings this morning it was openly
declared that they would hang the
advocates of Bolshevism, rather
than permit them to rule.
Another comment appearing in the
New York Times in connection with
President Wilson's utterances in Mon
tana on radicalism is as follows:
The President found abundant
inspiration for his remarks on
radicalism in this region. 1t Is
said that his utterances today were
influenced not a little by the spirit
of revolt as represented by the
Farmers Non-Partisan League and
the l. w. w., which is strong in
North Dakota.
Deploring the spread Of radicalism
and the teaching Of class hatred that
many of the Nonpartisan league lead
crs constantly ferment, the president in
his Montana speech, with the league
in North Dakota fresh in
mind, said:
There can be no democracy with
the control of a few Of whatever
kind or class, there can be no
democracy of any sort. And we
have not yet finished with the
monopolies. The world is finding
that out, like what is responsible
for conditions in Russia.
I find wherever I go in America
Z an infinite pity for that great peo-
pie.
Everybody who has mixed with
the Russian people tells me they
are among the most lovable people
of the world people who easily
trust you and accept you to be as
trustworthy as they are. And yet
this people is delivered into the
hands of an intolerable tyranny.
1t came out Of one tyranny to get
into worse. A little group of
some thirty or forty men are the
masters of that people at present.
They chose themselves. They
maintain their power by the
sword.
Have you seen these symptoms
of chaos spread to other countries?
If you had been across the sea
with me you would know the dread
in the mind of every thoughtful
man in Europe is that that dis
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