The Monte Vista journal., 1919-05-03
l'RO-0xRAANs START
kC1T FOR DAMAGgs


I'd In the suit brought by Individual.
OF Cedar county claiming damage. on
account Of rough treatment and b,.
Ing forced" to contribute 10 patriot.
ie war funds, Twsnty.nv, Of ,h, hes,
attorneys Ia Iowa aud ou. law urm
Of New York City have offered their
services free gratis to help defend
the loyal bunch Of defendants. A. J.
Parker Of Monte Vista. now in Hen.
nett. Iowa. has three ncph.ws who
are defendants In the case and ha.
sent as the following newspaper clip.
ping:
Will f,nd tho Defense Ready.
tFrom last weeks Upton Con,.ry.
ativcJ
julius Wicsc. u. u. Smith, VIM
ottscn and Chas. Bell were In linton
saturday consulting the attorney. G.
d. Boiling and J. c. France. In
regard TO the notices served on them
and = largo number OF their fellow
citizens In and around Bennett OF an
Intention on the part OF Henry Helm
eman and Fred c. Klipp to ins,i,u,,
proceedings to recover the modes,
sum Of 100000 for alleged damax.
- resulting from an EFFORT TO max.
the latter contribute to the support
Of the war. Surprising as IL may
seem. the above named defendants
did not appear TO be at all worried
over the situation. but expressed n
perfect willingness to appear In court
and try out the issues involved in the
case. which for the convenience Of
one OF the men made a party to
the suit. is TO be begun In Lynn coun-
ty where all the other parties reside
and are known to ordinarily be good.
law abiding citizens. But Marion Is
not 80 far away as to prevent the
attendance Of those Interested, and
the probability IL there will he quite
\ sprtnkling OF Cedar county people
up there when the cases come on for
trial. As this is the first attempt to
recover damages on such grounds, Il
is likely to attract considerable at.
tention all over the state and result
IN bringing out such a crowd that
our neiEhbors up In Linn will be sor-
ry they did not have their new court
house built In time to odate
Il. Below is list OF the defendants
which does not include anywhere
near nll OF those who took part In
the demonstration complained of:
William Ottsen. Gus Wiese. Ed,
Bell. Charles Bell. Ed Kruse. julius
,,W'ese. william Helmer. Andrew
Wharton. c. c. Ayres. Harry Parker,
Orval Smith. D.. b. Smith. J. W.
Dilley. Art Homrighausen. John Reg
ennitter. Jake Kelting. f. J. Cryder.
Max Ehrke. Guy Willcutt. Paul Sin
dt. Art Jepsen and j. A. Trotter.
Cedar Rapids.)
In evidence OF the interest being
taken by outsiders in the outcome
Of these cases. leading citizens OF a
neighboring city have pledged all
kinds OF assistance. including their
ablest lawyers. to nip this sort OF
thing In the bud and forever put a
stop to the spread Of pro-German-
ism in Iowa. Other communities have
expressed an intention of sending
large delegations to the hearing.
while the patriotic citizens OF Cedar
Rapids and vicinity are demanding
to know why their loyalty should
he reflected upon by sending such
litigation to their county seat. The
general impression here and else
where seems to be that the bringing
Of these suits will have a very bene-
ficial effect by drawing the line be-
tween loyalty and dislOyalty and
showing the men responsible for 1t
how few they really are in compari-
son with the patriotic, genuinely
American citizenship of Cedar coun-
ty.