Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-01-01
10HMEYISM
DENOUNCED By
ROME G.BROWN

Tells ! Of Way il Which So
cialistn Has Intrenched
J. SET il North Dakota.
n recent, address delivered in the
9 Rome g. Brown. of the Mime
sApolis Tribune discussed the princi-
Pies OF A~mericanism, and in q telling
;arraignment Of Townleyism, gave his
audience a graphic picture of the
;pread OF Socialistic ideas in the west.
lneEclostng his address, after a sum-
nary Of the conditions now. prevail
ing In the west, and especially Of the
amer in which Socialism has en-
..renched itself In North Dakota, Mr..
Brown said: /.
$50 the Townley battalions Of the
allied forces, threatening destruction
to the federal and state governments
of this country, r preparing first to
subdue. Minnesota and then continue
their conquest by a steady march
vast to the Atlantic coast, south to the
OF Mexico and west to the Pa
,ific coast. They are confident Of an
sasy victory in Minnesota. and not
Without reason. In the 1918 Mime
sota state election the Townley state
dcket received the support Of over
10000 votes out of a total Of about
$4,000. The Townley Nonpartisan
league in Minnesota then had 45,S71
memberships, each one Of whom was
represented by a vote for the Town
ley ticket, n the result showed that
TOR every Nonpartisan league voter
there were added two other votes for
Townley ticket from the straight
SOCIALIST, I. w. w, radical labor and
pro-German sympathizers. That was
the time. however, when war feeling
from supporting the avowed pro-Ger-
man ticket Of Townley. Today the
Minnesota Nonpartisan league mem
oerEhip has increased to over 60, 900
and, with the war issue eliminated
nj the anti-German labor vote vot-
ing one-half radical, the next Town
ley ticket in Minnesota may reason
ably expect over 100000 votes. tbp
enough to sweep the state. This is
lust what will happen unless the
present organization against Town
leyism shall succeed in their plans to
defend BUR great state from the in
vaston now threatened from the west.
The immense funds from Nom
partisan league memberships, which
are poured into the Townley cam
patgn treasury, are used to purchase
newspapers throughout the state and
10 hire organizers and campaign
speakers without limit. Its Minnesota
membership alone yields over ST.
100000 a year, and this fund will be
doubled and tripled if ~ecessary in
order to place Minnesota and its in
duStries and its people under. the yoke
Of TownleyiSm. The good people of
my state are not sleeping. Organiza-
tons have been formed with head
quarters at st. Paul and with branch
IS throughout the state to safeguard
The states government by law and to
preserve to its citizens the institutions
Of private property and personal
rights against their coniscation by a
Townley form Of state government.
Their only hope of victory lies in the
hope of showing to the citizens who,
by deceit and threats have been
brought under the Townley flag, that
their own interests and those of the
state are liable TO be betrayed by the
same traitor to whose cause the peo-
pie and the business Of North Dakota
have, een.sacrificed.
: Unionism u Safeguard.
"Townley, the BANKRUPTCY now on
his way to state prison under convic-
ton in Minnesota. of sedition, has,
through his associates, in his national
organization, under the camoufaged
name Of National Farmers Council
only last week attempted to pacify
the leaders of the American Fedora
ton OF Labor and TO make an alliance
with unionism for the naturalization
of industries and various other meas
ures advocated by Socialism. The
Townley organization had already
allied itself with the radical elements
of labor which the American Fedora
ton Of Labor has proposed to expel
from its organization. Those in con-
troll of the policy of the American
Federation Of Labor have announced
that the application. Of Townley's
league will be denied. The Townley
lance only with the radical labor ele-
ment represented by such men as
VIM. 2. Foster. who have failed
against the protests Of Mr.. Gonpers
to turn the American Federation OF
Labor over to the radicals. Organized
labor thus still. stands for American
ism. At the opening of the war the
American Federation Of Labor de-
cIared:
eve, the officers Of the Ma
tiOnal and International Trade
Unionsso America in national
conference assembled in the cap
: sital of u nation. hereby pledge
ourselves in peace or in war, in
stress or in storm, to stand un-
treserved1y by the standards of
liberty and the safety and pres
Aervation OF the institutions and
ideals of u republic
"At the American Federation's
convention at Atlantic City last June
it was declared:
Whatever tends to under
mine the institutions Of the
American democracy or to disin-
tegrate the machinery Of the
American trade union movement
must be contested at every, step
and defeated
And as against an attempt ia
commit the Federation in favor OF
Bolshevism in one form or another
the following resolution was passed:
Resolved, that this conven-
ton refuse its endorsement. Of
EYE COMFORT
MEANS EFFICIENCY