Morris tribune., 1920-02-06


be smeared he would There going
to be criminal arrests The only way this be
prevented is to clean up the whole and that
farmer who has put money in any of the League
papers his stock that represents
actual value"
And J. Bernard Smith, the editor of the Grant
County IN. d. Leader is thru. He the eighth
who has been employed by the newspaper and all have
left Disguised In his statement the people of
Grant County, he says:-
During the short time 1 have been resident of
Carson have enjoyed associations with very good
American citizens but of those has any
been connected with the Leader with the Non-par
tsan League AS those who have ordered me around
sent canned editorials to publish in that defunc
sheet known the Leader placed
the red flag of anarchy par with beloved and
Stars and Stripes and to those who have defended
such uterances and statementsto all those only
feebly the contempt bear that every Amer
can citizen should bear, for such individuals.
ITO you who desire to be socialists, bolshevsts
red flag followers of any name, you, bid adteu,
wash hands from connection with nefarious
plos some of you would be prime candidates for depor
tation.
above all things I place my Americanism. The
sugar-coated plum, which described to to ence
me here has vanished the seal has fallen from
Il now see you you should be seen, a every
good American should and does you pride
myself on being 100 per cent American hence 1 am
through with you.
Nonpartsan friend of the farmer while heart you
better than of those who have already engaged
forced the Soviet Ark the place where
of you ought to be.
ITO the farmers, who believe that the Townleysm
controlling the affairs of the Nonparsan league is all
to the good say, open your eyes and where the
doctrine is leading Get at the facts You have
been fed on fiction.
To the Carson Press and it's many 100 per
readers wish to register my appreciation of the many
Do not he led Strav hV
any of that bunk have had to publish in the Leader
The Cahi article regarding the flag forced on
me for publication and written by who, it
appears to is mighty ungratefu the Office given
him by the county administration Can it be that the
red flag the flag he endeavored protect while in
the service?"
A week ago yesterday the NJ p League held precinct
caucuses identical in secreveness with the methods
the KnowNothng party the middle of the last CEN
tury identical also with the methods of the Socialist
party of today, generally behind locked doors.
great parties that have will flourish in
America long it remains republic have will
welcome openness and publicity all their meetings.
The N P League doesn't because Townley tells
to- and why he tells them to do So he doesn't say any
more than he says why the heads organization
hook with the Socialists, the l. w. W., the radical
labor leaders, and the deportees.
And every once in a while some of the higher-ups
confess this connection. This week received from
Luhoeeh nseH copy or letter written to Congress
man Ellsworth who is said to be bidding the
support. Lundeen Ellsworth for his war record
in voting for the DART law espionage act the declar
alton of war; etc., and then says:
You bid for the support of the progressive farmer
labor movement known the Non-Partisan League Do
you know that the league membership is overwhelming
y against position foreign relations" and he
challenges him to before the League convention and
defend his record.
WE'LL think it over.