Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-10-28

OF SOCIALISM OF
LEAGUE LEADERS
Evidence Contained in Orig
T inal letters and Documents
and Faed in the Minnesota
Historical Library.
The evidence is overwhelming
that leaders and organizers of the
Nonpartisan League intend to steer
that farmers movement" straight
into national socialism, and evidence
is continually cropping out to show
that such is the main purpose of
Townley, Lemke and the leaders Of
the league.
: Not only is that the intention in
North DaAota, but such is the case
in Wisconsin, Minnesota and all the
other states where the farmers
r.ovemenu" is beng pushed by A..
C. Townley, ct al.
One object of Socialism is state
ownership of private property, and
the ultimate conflscatfon Of land by
taxation. Private ownership of the
land and home ceases and farms and
homes are to be redistributed every
seven, ten or twenty five years.
A getting together of the testi-
mony to prove that such is the pur-
pose OF Townley and the leaders of
the league, has been made by a
Minnesota investigator, Asher How
ard. This evidence is published in
a pamphlet, entitled LEADERS of the
Nonpartisan League. The original
letters and documents secured have
been filed in the Minnesota histori-
cal society. The Minneapolis Sun
day Tribune Oct. "a publishes an
entire page of the evidence showing
fac-simile signatures, quotations
from letters and documents and re-
production of the letter headings
and names of officials OF the social
ist organizations, and the Nonparti-
san League as we'll.
On the letter heading "Organiza-
tion Department, Socialist party of
Arthur LIE Sueur executive commit
tee member" A. C. Townley, state
organizer, A. E. Bowen Jr., Ray L.
Cooper, and other we'll known" dis
trict organizers" Of the socialist par
ty in North Dakota.
Thompson, Socialist ON Bank Payroll
In the; socialist Congressional
Campaign book, published in 1914
by the socisiist partyjS03. West
1s,,a maaa;es n; atI ga u o!4} t +
Thompson, that. ownership OF fao4oaY
les, mills, mines and SO rvrrn pelong
only to those who work in them.
and that land should not be held in
individual ownership.
The same Carl D. Thompson, re-
ferred to above, spoke at a Nonpar-
tisan League meeting last week in
Grand Forks and, according to the
Grand Forks American, League
paper, Thompson is doing special
work for the bank of North Dakota,
and is on the payroll of the bank.
According to the records compil-
ed by Asher Howard's publication,
Thompson is leader Of the Nonpar-
tisan League, as weeH as strong
socialist organizer.
He was associated with Walter
Thomas Mills in Socialist work as
carly as 1903.
He was on the national commit
tee Of the Socialist party with
George D. Brewer and Joseph Gill
bert in 1905.
In 1908 at the Socialist National
he was nominated for
president by Victor Berger.
In 1916 he managed the Nation
al Socialist campaign.
Next on Feb. 20, 1920 Thompson
is found writing a letter to "Friend"
on the stationery of the
Public Ownership League of Amer
[ca." His name appears on the let
ter head as secretary of that organ
ization, and Lynn j. Frazier and
Lemke are listed as vice
presidents.
What League Stands For
In this 4eetter he says in part:
!; "Among other things, the N.
p. Il. (Nonpartisan League),
and I presume, all progressive
movements will follow similar
lines, will exempt personal
property and gradually shift
taxation to land Values"
In another letter written on the
same letter head at about the same
lime we find Mr.. Thompson writing:
II, nevertheless, am very closely
with the Nonpartisan 4
eague of the northwest
The evidence of socialist connec-
ions Of the League leaders is shown
line after time by other letters and
The celebrated I. w.
W.. chief, William ID. Haywood,
wrote an introduction to book
:alled Evolution of American Agri.
in which he says the work
II education in agricultural indus |
,ry has just begun and remains to
,e carried out until the earth is re-
leemed from private ownership.
Funds for the defense of fellow
yorker Haywood and "Comrade"
Victor Berger, facing jail sentences.
we're asked, and the Evening Call
II New York gave the names of the
committee Of one hundred" ap-
pointed to carry out the work.
Among the names were Governor
frazier of North Dakota, Arthur
4eSueur, William Rempfer and A.
}. Towniey. Rempfer is referred
o by the secretary of the National
League AZ . strong
\ Names of prominent socialist
workers thruout the country, are
hown in connection with the Nom
PARTISAN League Of North Dakota.
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