Arizona republican., 1919-06-27
TOVVNLEY'S SPEECHES READ BEFORE JURY
 D|SLOYA[TY TRIAL
Assailed Profiteers = Called for Conscription Wealth As of Man Power-Is Not Yet in Court
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

JACKSON. Minn.. June 2S.-Long extracts from addresses by X. C. Town ley, at meetings at New Ulm,. Minne- sota. in 1917 and 1918 wore read into the record in district court here this afternoon. at the trial of President Townley of the national partisan league and his former lieutenant, Joseph Gilbert, charged with conspir- acy to commit disloyalty.
 The Townley addresses were made at New Ulm. July =, 1917 and Jan uary 7, 1915. The report of the first address, as printed in the New Ulm Journal, was read by Philip Leisch, publisher of the Journal, and the sec ond address was read by Alexander Seifert, a court reporter from Spring field. Minnesota, who testified he cop- fed the speech in shorthand.
 The reports. of 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 of the prosecuting attorney, who introduced sections which he claimed were part of the evidence upon which the disloyalty charges are based
 Read Townley's Speeches In both addresses, as read in court, Townley discussed the war and de- voted most of his time to consideration of economic issues and to assailing war profiteers." Townley charged in both speeches that in 1915. the prof. | it's of war corporations were four bil- i lion dollars" and he demanded that | the wealth of the nation be conscripted 1 as well as the men.
 The portion of Townley's second ! spech at New Ulm, which received the most attention from the attorneys. fol- lows:
 You hear them say all over the country that this is not time foI politics; this is not a time for the peo- pie to be agitated; this is not a time fol to think. This is a time when you ought to be perfectly quiet. Don't wake up and look around, for if you look around, you are sure to see something That is what they mean.
 If your boy refuses or neglects tt register for war service, do these gen tlemen keep quiet? do they say then that this is a time when we ought tt ] hell to see that your boy goes to war and so now, gentlemen, when thes' men likewise refuse, neglect or forge to turn over these four billion dollar year war profits, we have a right t raise hell until they turn it over.
 Tried For Saying This!
 Blood and flesh alone cannot vii the war. It takes money to back tn
 boys. They have gone to win the wa and they have got our money, thos
 American people, those farmers hay heard the calls of the government t
 make a sacrifice to win this wa against autocracy We have hear
 them call and you have heard it. You
 boys have gone in response to the cal
 You are making every sacrifice re quired of you Your boys are maxim every sacrifice required of them. w heard the call and we do stand behin the government. We do stand behin the president.
 Now we demand that these gentle
 men also stand behind the government stand behind the president with you l money. They say they do. If you wi 9 watch them, if you will look around if you will study the gentlemen wh are making these profits, the bee trust. the steel trust, the sugar trus s the food speculators. you will find ths they say they do stand behind the pres
 ident. I guess they do. but they al e too damned far behind
 r Townley was not in court. His a. | sociates said he would arrive tcnfgh