New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-07-02
LEAGUE LEADERS ON
TRIAL AT JACKSON.
A. C. ToWNLEY CHARGED WITH
coNsPIRING TO VIOLATE.
ESPIONAGE LAW.
PHILIP LIEsCH AND OTHER
NEW ULM MEN APPEAR
ON WITNESS STAND.

A. G.. TOWnley, president --ol Glle INoH-
partisan League, and Joseph Gilbert,
league organizer, started last Wednesday,
June rs, at jackson, according to reports
from that city. The two men are charg-
ed with conspiring to violate the espi-
onage law of the state. All of the jurors
chosen are farmers. Mr.. Townley was
not present at the opening of the trial.
He appeared in the courtroom on Friday
when the examination of witnesses was
well under way.
New Uln Talks Read.
OF local interest is the testimony
taken on Thursday when long extracts
from addresses by A. c. ToWnley at
mass meetings at New Ulm in June,
1917, and February, 1918, were read
into the record. The report Of the
first address was read by Philip Liesch,
and the second address was read by
Alexander Seifert, court reporter
from Springfield.
Reports of the speeches were admitted
as evidence after the attorneys for the
defendants had argued that the colrt
permit only testimony regarding speeches
which Townley or Gilbert had made in
Jackson county.
The portion of Townley's second
speech at New Uln, which received the
most attention from the attorneys follows;
GU hear them say all over the
country that this is not time for
policies, this is not time for the peo-
pie to be agitated: this SIS not time
for YOU to think. This is time when
YOU ought to be perfectly quiet. Don't
wake up and look around, for it you
look around you are sure to see some
thing. That is what they mean.
Talks of Draft Resistance.
eff my boy or my neighbor's boy
or his brother, being of age to go to
war, refuses or neglects to register,
do they keep quiet?
eff your boy refuses or neglects or
refuses to register for war service do
these gentlemen keep quiet? Do they
say then that this is time when we
ought to have no trouble? Oh, no.
They will raise hell to see that your
boy goes to war. And so now, gentle
men. wen these men likewise refuse,
neglect or forget to turn over these
: $4,O00,000,000 year war profits we
have a right to raise hell until they
turn it over.
Blood and flesh alone cannot win
the war. 1t takes money to back the
boys. They have gone to win the war
and they have got our money. These
American people, these farmers have
heard the calls of the government to
make sacrifice to win this war against
autocracy. We have heard them call
and you have heard it. Your boys have
gone in response to the call. You are
making every sacrifice required to you.
Your boys are making every sacrifice
required of them. We heard the call
and we stand behind the government.
We do stand behind the President.
Demands President be Supported.
..Now we demand that you gentle
men also stand behind the government
stand behind the President with your
money. They say they do. If you will
watch them, if you will look around,
if you will study the gentlemen who are
making these profits, the beef trust,
the steel trust, the sugar trust, the food
spectators, you will find that they say
they do stand behind the President.
Iguess they do, but they are too damned
far behind. =
Philip Liesch On Stand.
Philip Liesch was on the witness stand
for about two hours Thursday afternoon.
George Hoke, attorney for the de
Tense, attempted to show that the New
Tim editor was hostile to the league.
Mr.. Liesch said he had been friendly
to it, but that after the war began
league members boycotted his paper,
which is known as one Of the NEST
patriotic. publications in Minnesota.
Did you have any other reason
than the boycott for your change Of
sentiment, asked ]. E. Markham,
assistant Encouragement, for the state.
This question was strenuously object
ed to BY Hoke, but Judge Dean ruled
that The witness might answer, mas
much as MI. Hoke had first asked him
regarding his attitude toward Che league
Leaders Chased = Socialists.
We came 70 the conclusion, " said