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Speeches ~ Defendants.
Defendants made numerous speech-
Ies in different parts Of The state dur
ing the Ter and fall OF 1917 and
were present at the same meeting.aa
Both participated In and spoke at n
held in St. Paul In September, 1917.
Some Of their speeches are contained
In the record. Among them - Gill
bert's Kenyon speech, referred to In
the opinion in State v. Gilbert, 141
MINI. 263, afirming his conviction
for q violation Of Chap. 4ss. In Gil
bert Y. Minnesota. Il Sup. Ct. Rep.
125, Mr.. Justice Mckenna, speaking
for the Supreme court Of the United
States, in sustaining the decision OF
this court, said: '-g
'.Gilbert's speech had the purpose
they (the sections Of the %statutes)3
denounce. The nation was at war
with Germany, armies were recruiting
and the speech was the discourage
uttered in denunciation of the war
was false, was deliberate misrepre-
sentation of the motives which inn
PEELED it and the objects for which
1t was prosecuted. He could have
had no purpose other than that OF
which he was charged"
On January Is, 1915, a letter was
addressed and sent to A. E. Bowen,
an officer Of the league. It was sign
ed by the county director of public
safety for jackson county and by the
sheriff. 1t requested Bowen to keep
league: speakers out of the county.
stating that any attempt to hold
further league meetings in the coun-
ty would be likely to result in disturb
disposal Of the writer's would be used
to prevent such meetings, 1t was
written in response to a letter from
Bowen announcing a league meeting
In Jackson county on January %.
Gilbert Shows Letter.
Taking the letter with him on that
the meeting vas to be held. He met
a number of county officials, includ-
ing the sheriff. Exhibiting the letter
to them, he said he was the man.
ager Of the league and deemed the
matter referred to in the letter so
important that he had come himself
rather than send q subordinate. He
was informed that a league organizer
named Freitag had been going about
the county holding meetings and in-
auencing people in such q way that
1t was hard to get them to buy Liberty
Bonds. {
He replied that he was moi respon-
able for what organizers did, that he
was going to hold a meeting; that the
fauthprtties would have to arrest him
II they intended to stop him; that he
that the cas would be carried to the
highest court in the land; and that
they had plenty Of money to do it.
He then proceeded to make his speech
but before he concluded he was
placed under arrest The speech was
Of the same general nature as his
Kenyon speech.
Boys Urged to Stay on Farms.
The sheriff testified that in sub
stance Gilbert said;
The boys Of the farm : should be
left on the farms, that they are better
of on the farms than they are in the
trenches 5000 miles away. Who is
going to feed them when they are
5000 miles away? You farmers have
worked harder than ever before. You
have had to subscribe to the Liberty
loan, 7. M. G. A., and to the Red
Cross, and on top Of all that. now they
take your boys away. When the gov
eminent conscripted your boys, they
didn't conscript wealth. II the had. we
would not have to have wheatless
days and meatless days and heatless
days. - Men had never been drafted
to be sent across the sea to fight. : :
The county officials yer a lot of : .
flag waivers and they wrapped them
selves up in the Stars ana Stripes and
spelled their patriotism with big let
ters PAY. = T.
The man Freitag referred to in the
Bowen letter, was a league organizer
working in jackson county. In solic-
itng members, he said in substance
that the war vas a moneyed mans
war. hat If it wasn't for money We
wouldn't be at war; that a meeting
had been called to send a petition to
the government to keep the boys from
being sent across to fight At a public
meeting at Sioux Valley. he said Eng
land and France were bankrupt, and
this country would oon be IL it kept
on spending such large sums OF
money, and advised farmers not to
invest in Liberty bonds but in eleva-
tors, -four mills and things essential
to their interests. This was just be-
fore the probate judge of the county
made a speech urging the purchase
of Liberty bonds.
Townley's speeches bear a marked
resemblance to Gilberts both in the
ideas expressed and the language
used, though he was not 10 outspok.
(! 1917, is referred to" by his counsel Al
typical of his speeches in general. In
the course Of that speech, referring
to the steel. packing and milling bus
mess, he said: ~
Take as much profit out Of theil
business as has been taken out of the
business of raising wheat in the north.
west. - Now, as soon as you do that
nobody will want to continue the wal
any longer unless to secure liberty
and democracy. Fix a price on
steel on the same basis and by the
same power as you have fixed the
price OF the farmers wheat : : and
this patriotic corporation wont want
to continue the war except for liberty
and democracy. : : II your govern.
price of steel and -four 90 that those
gentlemen would make no more : I
than the farmer Is making out o.
wheat, I am afraid that the Minnea.
polls Journal would be one OF the
worst slackers in the whole United
States"
In another portion Of the speech
he said:
I'VE got the government contro
too largely into the hands Of the pro.
f1teers. They = today inhuencnl
this government In too large q meas
ure. . . An influence q large thai
they can say : : we IRE going to have
forty billions of, dollars to spend herr
to prosecute this war. Now, how
much have we got to pay the farmers
for wheat to keep bread in the boys
stomachs. All that We don't have tt
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