The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-08

laws of our land are held up to mock
cry oftentimes by our courts and u
leading state and national officials.
Please don't think the writer is an
tagonistic and down on the law fra
ternity or the many hundreds of per-
fectly good American citizens who do
occupy positions on United States
benches and other positions of elective
trust in this country.
1 am going to tell you n thing
right here-that there are thousands
of ex-service men who feel as l do,
and if the good old Democratic and
Republican parties expect to keep in
existence very long they have got to
change their tune when it comes to
stuff like this.
The writer does not care how much
publicity you give this and in fact
would write Judge Bourquin and Judge
jackson were it not for the fact that
he might be cited for contempt of
court.
We write you this from this terri
tory as State Commander of the Amer
lean Legion, to give you u views
and tell you that we are most en-
ph~atically against this kind of thing
and that we would be pleased to hear
from you as to how our state officials
feel on this same matter.
F~raternally yours,
J. M. BAILEY,
Past Commander Valley Post No. al,
American Legion of Montana.
Approved:
D. A. PATTON, Vice Commander.
Since writing the above letter, var
ious state papers have carried ex-
cerpts from the speech made by the
man we elected to the United States
senate from Montana, on his first ap-
pearance at Washington, D. C.
In this talk, the first given with
the voting authority of the people Of
Montana behind him, he demanded the
immediate release of all political
prisoners" Political prisoners are
nothing more or less than men Of the
same type as Eugene Debs, Lloyd and
others who did everything possible
within their power to hinder the pro-
per carrying on the war. They are
men that were convicted by the United
States courts under a statute put on
u books by the majority Of our Jaw
makers. These are men, some of
them, who might have filled the places
of loved ones and friends now buried
in Flanders fields, had they lone their
duty to this grand old United States.
The fact is that at the critical time
the testing time, as it were-they
were missing, they were afraid Of
their hides, and did not care for the
country in which they had earned
their living, the country that had
cared for and protected them, and now
they get out and shout when they are
released from prison.
Our honorable United States senator,
when accused before election of being
disloyal to the United States during
the war, tried to vindicate himself by
a statement from Judge Bourquin as
to his actions while we were in the
service. However, no matter what
Judge Bourquin says about him, what
he says about himself, or what any
of his friends may say about him,
there is still a big question of doubt
in the minds of many Of those who
read this part Of his first speech in
which he demands the release of those
who tried to do everything to hinder
the United States and its forces from
winning a complete victory in this
past var
Let us not forget so soon; let us
remember, first and always, those
boys who gave more than we who are
back at our regular %vocations; those
who are now in hundreds of hospitals
and vocational schools over this coun-
try. Read we'll the proclamation of
our National Commander that follows
and ask yourself this question::
CAN WE FORGET so SOON?