The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-23
Non-Partisan League

NOn-HartISan League
That selling memberships in the
so-called Nonpartisan League has
been placed upon a basis of scientific
commercial efficiency, is illustrated by
a booklet issued by the League for its
agitators.
This booklet, which bears the title,
General Rules for Organizers" emu
merates 10 reasons usually advanced
by prospective victims for not joining,
with arguments for overcoming these
objections, the most interesting of the
collection being the following:
No. 10. HAVE NEVER HEARD
OF SUCH AN ORGANIZATION BE-
FORE. 1 WANT TO WRITE BACK
TO NORTH DAKOTA TO SOME
PEOPLE I KNOW AND SEE IF
THERE IS SUCH AN ORGANIZA-
TON"
mote TO ORGANIZER: This
man is either blind, unable to read,
don't read, an ignoramus, bonehead,
or plain liar. This species was very
numerous few months ago, now ra-
pidly becoming extinct"
iTownley wasn't born yesterday!
He's not taking any chances on any
Kansas farmer who is intelligent
enough to investigate the League as
he would any other business PROPOSE
ton.
Don't kid the farmer for getting
roped in for sixteen plunks by a
smooth Nonpartisan League soap-box-
er! Isn't it fact that even you have
invested rather heavily in fake mining
stock, fake oil stock, fake race track
dope, and that you have dropped ood-
les on the board of trade? Let only
him that has never been stung throw
the first stone.
10000
A recent issue of the Christian
Science Monitor contained this inter
esting little item taken from the book
of instructions to the agitators of the
so-called Nonpartisan League:
''Never discuss details or methods:
talk issues, measures and principles;
stay on the main line; don't let any
body sidetrack you. Find out where
they live, so to speak, then get right
down alongside of them and show
them from there If he is a Demo
crat, Republican, Socialist, Catholic Or
Protestant, ALWAYS ACCEPT HIS
VIEWPOINT"
That Townley is not content with
merely getting his Shiny clutches on
the UNCONVENTIONAL schools of Kansas,
is clearly apparent by the fact that
certain of his highly-paid henchmen
are starting '1abor college" in To-
peka. For two years, the Topeka
workers have been fed a steady diet
of Nonpartisan League propaganda
through the columns of an alleged la
Dor organ which is controlled and
edited by Townley agents. That He
now proposes to impress his peculiar
brand of ''Kultur" on the minds of
the Topeka Iaborers is evident as indi-
Gated by the following excerpts from
the curriculum:
No. 3. ''SociaI Science-The rela-
ton of "man to man" and higher
brotherhood" (Nuf sed.)
No. 5. political Economy The
functions, principles and powers" of
making a living"
Of course, in this connection,
Townley will teach his victims how,
in four years time, they may make
the hurdle from an INDECENT socialist
soap-boxer to multi-millionaire- he
did.
Far be it from US to insinuate that
every man who joins the so-called
Nonpartisan League is Socialist,
Bolshevik or Hun-Sympathiser
Nevertheless, it is a fact that Town
iey's Red-card agitators find it I'M
necessary to advance any persuasive
arguments to persons of that general
description.
Wrecking a bank and causing its
farmer depositors to lose 81, 500, OOO.-
90 is only a part of the days work for
A. (after) C. (cash) Townley, the
new-found and self-appointed savior
of the "downtrodden."