The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-11-27
SOCIALISM UNMASKED

partisan League will have new thing
to worry about, from a new angle.
The other day Stafford county post
adopted resolutions that not only de-
nounced the League, but pledged its
members not to work for any member
of the League Last Tuesday night
the big Thomas Hopkins Post at
Wichita adopted similar resolutions.
This post has total membership of
about 1900. All those who were pres
ent-about 225-voted for the reso-
luton with whoop. Part of it fol-
lows:
Whereas, During the recent war,
when 4,e0O,OO0 men were serving the
nation in uniform, in the effort to pre-
serve American ideals and the Amer
lean form of government, which has
proven to be the best on earth, as
large number of disloyal radicals were
busily engaged in trying to under
mine the American democracy by an
insidious campaign which included the
stirring up of class hatred, opposition
to patriotic war drives, and
"Whereas, Some of these forms
of activities are still being engaged in
by various agitators who are trying
to destroy or supplant legitimate and
patriotic labor and form organiza-
tons Of their own by the policy IF
"boring from Within"
Resolved, That W. D. Haywood,
Eugene Debs, Arthur La Sueur, A. c.
Townley, D. C. Coates, Victor Berger,
W. 2. Foster, Kate Richards O'Hare,
and other agitators of that type have
often and persistently written or
spoken seditious sentiments, defended
the red flag, opposed patriotic war
drives, conducted campaign of I'M
American class hatred, or have en-
gagged in other disloyal activities, and
we denounce their leadership unre-
servedly and brand as suspicious and
very dangerous any movement led
by them. Further be it
Resolved, That we shall withhold
our support and will refuse to work
for any member of any organization
that is organized Or led by such per-
sons"
A. C. Townley, Arthur LeSueur
and D. C. Coates are the organizers
and leaders of the Nonpartisan
League. D. C. Coates also helped
organize the I. W. W. and LeSueur
is an attorney for the I. w w. It is
expected that American Legion posts
all over Kansas viii take similar ac-
ton to those of Stafford county and
Wichita. There is a good reason for
this. The soldiers knew who their
friends are and they knew who it was
that was engaging in seditious activ-
tiles during the war. They are not
going to forget. They know that
Townley defended the red flag while
they were defending the red, white
and blue. The Nonpartisan Leader
has taken to s1urring the American
Legion lately. That is not making
the Legion boys any more friendly
to the League.
Judging by the vigorous resolutions
passed by several American Legion
posts of Kansas, the esteemed and
so-called Nonpartisan League is as
popular as smallpox with the returned
soldiers. Possibly the ex-service men
don't agree with Townley's lady
friend and associate, Kate Richards
O'Hare, that ''the mothers of soldiers
are brood sows."
The day of reckoning is at hand.
The murder of four American Legion
boys by the I. w. W. is the challenge
Of the red flag to the Stars and
Stripes. On that issue there is no
neutrality. Only a few days before
this tragedy, Big Bill Haywood, Chief
of the "Wobblies" called the Amer
lean Legion members "Cooties." A
the same time, the socalled Nonpar-
isan League was carrying on open
warfare against the American Legion
trying by every foul means to under
mine it or prevent its organization
Van Lear, formerly Socialist mayor
Of Minneapolis, and now one of Town
ley's heaviest satellites, is leading ths
assault Of the League forces againsi
the American Legion. Then there Is
Townley's lady friend and associate
who described the mothers of Amer
lean soldiers as "brood sows;" anC
the President Of the Nonpartisa1
League himself making a speech a
Saltwater, Mimi, in which he said:
81 understand that bill has beer
presented to the Minnesota Legisla
ture forbidding the use of the red flag
and red neckties in the State o.
Minnesota. have no doubt that be
fore long they VIII also forbid the as
Of the red bandana handkerchief.
know OF but one animal that show
anger when the red flag Is displayed
That animal is usually kept fence,
M in a pasture. and when he sees tn