The producers news. [volume], October 04, 1918, Page 5, Image 5

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LITTLE GROUP OF WILLFUL
MEN - OBDURATE TO PRESI
DENT'S APPEAL FOR AMEND
MENT AS- WAR MEASURE.
Washington, Oct. 3--The senate
has refused to giant the request of
the president that the woman suf
frage resolutoin be passed as a war
measure.
After five days of bitter debate,
corrider conferences and cloak room
negotiations, the Susan B. Anthony
federal amendment resolution enac4
cd by the house last January received
on the final roll call two votes less
than the necessary two-thirds ma
jority. Fifty-four senators were re
corded for it and thirty against it,
with twelve absent and paired.
Before the vote was announced,
Senator Jones of New Mexico, chair
man of the woman suffrage commit
tee to comply with parliamentary
requirements, changed his vote from 4
the affirmative to the negative and 1
moved that the senate reconsider.
This made the final official record 53 I
to 31 and left the resolution technic- i
ally pending on the senate calendar, c
in position for further consideration N
planned after the November elec- a
tions.
,president Appeals in Vain.
P esident Wilson's personal ad- n
dress to the senators supplemented r
by letters to several democrat sena- t
tors opposed to the resolution did v
not change a single vote, although in o
the final debate some senators as- "
serted that defeat of the resolution a
would mean repudiation of the exe- r
cutive. Including the absent and n
paired senators the roll call showed
that the senate lineup of 62 to 34 on le
the resolution, remained virtually un- n4
thanged from the beginning of the m
fight last Thursday. o0
Chairman Jones and other cham- tl
pions of the resolution declared after hN
the vote that the defeat is only tem- at
porary and that the contest will be th
renewed after the November elec
tions when changes in membership m
are certain. Administration leaders th
also admitted that the vote was the ti(
;first important reverse President Wi- lb
son has met in advocacy of what he t
has declared to be essential war it
measures.
Spainish Influenza
Gains Headway Here e
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LOCAL DOCTORS CARING FOR
OVER FIFTY EPIDEMIC VIC
TIMS-11 REPORTED DEAD AT
SCOBEY.
Spanish influenza has spread rap
idly over a wide area within the
past week, until now the epidemic
seems to have claimed hundreds of
victims. It seems impossible to se
cure the number of cases in the
county at present, but it is believed
there are a great many. It is re
ported that thirteen people have died
at Scobey within the past week, elev
en of whom were victims of the epi
demic which set into pneumonia..
Several other cases are pronounced
as critical.
The school and the Orpheum thea
ter were closed here in Plentywood
the for epart of this week as a pre
ventative measure, there being now
over fifty cases under the care of lo
cal doctors. Several victims are re
ported in a serious condition, but
there has been no deaths reported to
date.
Practically ninety-five per cent of
the people at Homestead spent the
greater part q the week in bed and
the schools were closed.
We never knew that government
by suspicion was an American insti
tution and we don't believe it yet, al
though politicians in the Northwest
are telling us so. We expect to see
the voters of Minnesota, Iowa, South
Dakota, Idaho and Montana clean out
the parties who have temporarily
suspended American democracy next
November. We will wait until that
tine, at least, to revise our faith.
I
The special interests for many i
years have passed as being very
clever because they were Republican .
in North Dakota and Democratic in 1
Idaho and because most of the time o
they had f'en . on both tickets. i
Jay Go ud need'to boast of being a b
*-n-e _. Democat in Ohio and as a
staunch a Republican in Pemnsyl- t.
mail. He also was very clever. But /
whea League frm rs 4 the same
clever trik ,mey .are dangerously br
-Amieria. 1'The difference is fa..p
my' and M. Is ti take that the Una- p
"+'' , Raking up to' the eq
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P" -. : y
ANOTHER FOUL ATTACK
ON LEAGUE BY TOOLS OF
MINNESOTA GOVERNOR
The Minnesota Public Safety com
mission is exceeding its former re
JL cord for bitter partisanship in send
;-. ing out to the press with one-sided
D- comment only a letter written by
Arthur Le ,Sueur, a prominent attor
ney connected with the Nonpartisan
te league headquarters, before our de
of claration of war and before Mr. Le
- Sueur joined the League staff.
Ma This letter from Mr. LeSueur to
William D. Haywood, head of the I.
A, W. W., for whom he was acting as
m attorney, contained nothing that
ky could not have been easily explained
with credit to the writer. But a po
4d litical, jobbing public safety commis
,s sion does not look for explanations 1
I- that will spoil the game of misrep- 1
resentation. At the time of the 4
t, great Minnesota League convention
in March, 1918, Governor Burnquist E
1, made a direct attack on Mr. LeSueur a
for acting as attorney for the de- t
fense of workmen on the iron range t
r :in 1915 as if it were not the most I
a cherished of American institutions f
I that all accused have a right to legal 1
defense in court. The sending out of a
3 the Le Sueur letter is only a follow
- up of the earlier un-American attack
, on a lawyer because, unlike those v
1 who cater to special privilege, his e:
services were open to all who needed f
legal defense. b
ror years it has been the practice o
of the special intedests to attempt to b
r,:in lawyers who have the hardihood Ir
to appear for the defense in any case nl
l vhere they want to put something E(
over. The fact that this interferes
with a fair trial is nothing to the Pl
au: ocrats. Mr. Le Sueur has had re- ei
riarkable success in defending labor di
men in the past and he won the re- th
i" nt case brought against Mr. Town- sU
ley and 1fr. Gilbert before the Min- l.
nesota Supreme Court. This record er
makes the interests especially anxi- ex
ous to discredit Mr. LeSueur, and to
through him the League. They must w]
have occasions to keep repeating the Mu
absurd claim of connection between fo
the League and the I. W. W. ar
In a footnote to its story the com- Eu
mission declares that this letter s -
the reason why it is going into poll
ties. The plain fact, however, is that
Ihe commission started fighting the
JLeague from its very jump-off, and
it undoubtedly knew nothing of the
LeSueur letter until the recent I. W.
W. trial. If this is its reason, it has
nothing to stand on but malice.
The following is Mr. LeSueur's
comment which would easily have ex
plained the letter to the public safe
ty commission had explanation been
wanted:
C Kerers to Professional Services
That letter was written to report
on the results of a case which I de
- fended for three I. W. W.s, who were
he charged with the crime of murder. A
ic policeman was killed in the railroad
Df yards in Des Moines and within 15
e- minutes the I. W. W. headquarters
ie were raided and some 50 men against
,d whom not a scrap of evidence was
. ever produced were arrested. I was
d able to secure their release. Appar
. ently in the eyes of the safety com
- mission it is an unpardonable of
fense to secure a fair hearing for
d men who are innocent but unpopular.
The Minnesota matter referred to
. in the letter is the case of three min
d ers from the Mesaba range, who are
now in the Minnesota penitentiary
, serving an indeterminate sentence of
20 years. At the time of their arrest
and sentence they had joined the I.
t W. W.s. They were not organizers
, nor agents of the organization but
joined when the I. W. W. came to the
f range in answer to appeals by the
miners for help in a spontaneous)
strike against conditions as brutish
as the infamous outrages of the Huns
in Belgium. Governor Burnquist saw
in these outrages only an opportunity
to put through a state constabulary
law, to compel labor to submit to the 1
brutish rule of the steel trust, Com- 1
mon humanity made me volunmteer to
aid these men, women and children.
I would do it again. These - three
men in the Minnesota penitentiary
cohld have been cleared on trial and
were not in fact guilty, but pleaded t
guilty to settle all prosecutions still
peinding as a result of the strike.
I was then and am now interested =
in the fate of these men. I was ad
vising Haywood in this letter to take j
no action until a year had expired.
The refejence to war was made before "
our deelaration. In common with mil- b
lions of Americs~ I opposed a dee
laration of war eo our part, hoping
against hope that notwitastandng
the ample cause for war against Ger-t
iarny beca'se of her faanous out
rages, that some other war at might
be 'oung that would stop the Euro
pean slaughter, From e te moment
-ap was declare I aN eted it Ia
every possible w* tathe fall t nat
of my uowerw D s ;.nat slaiar be
:Ua csinP bssmt selar4 but lo. 'i
:-*t" L
~~i4 z~ii~P~~af~ -~USP~g~~ ~~Ur
talked of spy bills and conscription
first took place I was opposed to spy
IR bills to be used to persecute orga
nized workers and organized farmers
a- and if I had the power I would in
e- .tantly repeal the law under which
I- the Minnesota Public Safety commis
Id sion has its being.
y With reference to conscription, I
r- understood that to mean the ortho
n dix conscription law under which the
t- poor devil was spirited away while
!- the :ich man paid his way out of it.
I was then and I am now utterly op
o posed to that sort of conscription.
E. Thanks to the democracy and states
s manship of President Wilson, we
t were spared a conscription act and
I have a selective draft act which is
- fine and square to all, rich and poor
- alike. I have supported this act and
' the principle on which it is based al
ways. Being well known as a radi
cal, I have been consulted by many
as to what attitude to take in refer
ence to compliance with the draft
ac't. I have always urged hearty sup
port and compliance. I was not in
the employ of the Nonpartisan
League at the date of the letter or
for some months thereafter. My con
ne:tion with the I. W. W.s was ex
actly the same as my seven years'
serv'ce with the Great Northern rail
:oad, that is a professional relation
which every lawyer bears to his cli
entQ. The only difference lay in the
fact that I was paid for my work
by the railway company while much
of my wolk for the I. W. W. mem
bers was done for sheer love of hu
m:anity and fair play for men who
not infrequently found it difficult to
tcJlie a hearing even when innocent.
I may add that the Minnesota
Pub'ic Safety commission should
either put me behind the bars as a
dangerous character or quit spending
the people's money in sending out
such matter for publication. Dirty
politics on behalf of the worst gov
ernor Minnesota ever had is the only
explanation. Their only purpose is
to publish the false insinuations
which their footnote to the letter
Suggests. This is important indeed
for a safety commission while an
archy runs riot in the state they are
:ujpnosed to protect.
H. T. GERKIN
A CO-OPERATIVE BOOSTER
W.
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rt
Just recently the Equity Co-oper
A
>t
,s
- H. T. Gerken, the first patron agen
r New Farmer Owned Live Stock Sell
ing Agency.
Just recently the Equity Co-oper
ative Exchange, which is one of the
largest farmer owned co-operative in
stitutions in the United States, opened
on the Chicago market a selling agen.
F cy- for live stock to be opdrated on
t the co-operative plan. This selling
agency will receive live stock from any
farmer who wants to ship, whether
he is a member or not, and will sell
the same to the highest bidder.
It will be operated independently of
the ring of speculators on this market
and will be conducted along the same
lines as the farmer owned selling
agency on the South St. Paul market,
which, in the past, has made such a
wonderful success.
H. T. Gerken, of Miranda, Faulk
County, South Dakota, was the first
farmer to patronize this new selling
agency. Mr. Gerken is a progressive,
wide-awake farmer, has the confidence
of his friends and neighbors at Miran
da, and the mere fact that he was
the first farmer in the United States
to patronize the only independent sell
ing agency on the Chicago market
that is owned and controlled by farm
era, is proof enough that he is pro
gressive and willing to stick by the
farmers in their efforts to handle their
products co-operatively. &,
The following letter received by the
Equity Co-oerative Exchange from
Mr. Gerken would indicate that he was
well pleased with this first sale made
by this new aflling agency and that
he is now counted among the boost
ers for this new farmer owned selling
agency for life stock:
Miranda, 8. D., Sept. 4, 1918.
EQuity o-operative Exchange,
aUnion Stockyards,
Chiago, Ill.
Gentlemen: Received retuns from
the two cars of cattle I shipped yeo
nad am we pleased wit the prices
nad the sen eas realdered n.
I wiu.remmesd the . F2sn.ar w
wlis·I * ,ga e* ej who Ms nde
do.,,.. nu , can .ep's ma
so;pi·d12coon our ontiwn so