Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-22
TOWNLEY RESORTS
TO OLD TERRORISM
TO HOLD FOLLOWERS

In commenting on A. c. Townley's
ichaifenge TO the four state officials
who have criticised part of the legis-
lation enacted by the sixteenth as
sembly, j. d. Bacon last night made
the following statement:
"a. c. Townley, continuing his cam
paign of terrorism and fear, in a
statement made by him in the Town
ley-kept press, the Cour1er-News of
March 21st. 1919. undertakes to drive
state officers into submission by in
sinuating that they are traitors. AS
he does not want to allow them the
right to think for themselves until he
has O. KID the thought.
Real men with red blood and true
Amcricanism in their makeup refuse
to be driven farther by this breeder
Of hate and Bolshevism. This anti
American. this believer in and SYM
pathizer with Haywood. Debs, Bentol.
Peterson: Gilbert. Walter Thomas
Mills, Mrs. Kate O'Hare (who said
ishe owed all her progress to Thomas
Mills and who a the mothers of
our soldier boys were no better than
the brood-sows on h prairie), and
many more Socialists who have also
been indicted or convicted of crimes
against our government war policies.
also Arthur LeSeuer. who subscribed
himself: You can rest assured, COM
. "uSB we ~ ~" II" Aoh GIL XII
yours for revolution Besides the
many things he has himself said, such
as this is a rich mans war;" the
big-bellied, red-necked p%lutocrats
started the war, and they can stop
it," and II know many men will sell
their sons for a price," II cannot
recommend farmers to increase their
acreage or grow two blades of grass
where one grew before He was
against CONSUMPTION. and for the red
flag of Socialism and Bolshevism. He
is a Socialist and stands on the st.
Louis platform promulgated by the
Socialist party, where they endorsed
the following:
THE war of the United States
against Germany cannot be justified,
wen on the plea hat it is a war in
defense of American rights and Amer
lean honor Ruthless as the unre-
stricted submarine war policy of the
German government was and is, 1T is
not an invasion of the rights of the
American people, as such but only an
interference with the opportunity of
to coin cold profits out Of the blood
and suffering of our fellow men in
the warning countries of Europe" = =
1T is not a war for democracy" =
I'VE brand the declaration of war
by Il government as a crime against
the people of the United States and
against the nations of the world.
"In all modern history there has
heen no war more uniustifiable than
the war in which we are about to en-
gage. No greater dishonor has ever
been forced upon a people than that
which the ca pitalist class is forcing
upon this nation at its will"
Can you blame soldiers who were
willing to sacrifice their lives for our
flag and country for protesting
against his sending men (who are
under indictment) to preach to the
public before a full settlement of hos
tilities is completed?
1 haven't often agreed with A. G.
Townley, but in his statement headed.
League harbors some bad men," he
fully agrees with h statements I
have been making for the last three
years in regard to the leaders.
I suggest hat every voter post
himself on the bills the Independent
Voters League is trying to referend, in
order. that they may vote intelligently
and keep the state from bankruptcy.