Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-27
EXTRACTS FROM
T0WNLEY TALKS
READ IN COURT
President Of Nonpartisan
League Charged With Con.
spiracy to Commit Dis
loyalty to U. S.

Jackson, Mimi, June 26.-Long
extracts from addresses by A. c.
Townley at meetings at New Ulin,
Mimi, in 1917 and 1918, were read
into the record in district court
here at the trial of President Town.
ley of the National Nonpartisar'
league and his former lieutenant,
Joseph Gilbert, who are charged
with conspiracy to commit disloy-
atty.
The Townley addresses were
made at New Ulm, June p, 1917
and February 20, 1918. The report
of the first address, as printed il
the New Ulm Journal, was read
by Philip Leisch, publisher of the
Journal, and the second address
was read by Alexander Seifert, a
court reporter from Springfield,
Mimi, who testified that he COPIED
the speech in shorthand. The re-
ports of the speeches were admit
ted as evidence.
The defendants attorneys did not
question the accuracy of either of
them as read in court. In fact, they
read into the record long sections
of the speeches after the prescott
ing attorney introduced sections
which he claimed were part of the
evidence upon which the disloyalty
charges are based.
Assails War Profteers.
In both addresses, as read in
court, Townley discussed the war
and devoted most of his time to
consideration of economic issues
and to assailing "war prohteers I"
Townley charged in both speeches
that in 1915 "the profits of war cor
rorations were $4,OOO,0OO,O0O" and
he demanded that the wealth of the
nation should be conscripted as we'll
as the men.
The portion of Townley's second
speech at New Ulm, which received
the most attention from the attor-
neys, follows:
"You hear them say all over the
country that this is not a time for
policies; this is not a time for the
people to be agitated; this is not a
time for you to think. This is a
time when you ought to be perfect
ly quiet. Don't wake up and look
around, for if you look around, you
are sure to see something. That
is what they mean.
"Have Right to Raise He'll"
IF your boy refuses or neglects
to register for war service do these
gentlemen keep quiet; do they say
then that this is a 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,
gentlemen, when these men like
wise refuse, neglect or forget to
turn over these $4,O00,0OO,0O0 a year
war profits we have 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. Those American peo-
pie, 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
cali. You are making every sacri-
flee required of you. Your boys
are making every sacrifice required
of them. we heard the call and we
do stand behind the government.
We do stand behind the president.
"Now we demand that you gentle
men also stand behind the govern
ment, 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 spec
ulators, you will find that they say
they do stand behind the president.
l guess they do, but they are too
damned far behind"
Townley was not in court. His
associates said they expected he
would arrive tonight.