The nonpartisan leader. [volume], September 23, 1918, Image 13

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(From the F«rgo Courier-News)
N HIS charge to the fed
end Jury at Bismarck
which
hats of a considerable number of peo
ple who are so boisterous in their own
patriotism that they seem to think
it a pajrt of their patriotic duty to
cast suspicion On others.
Judge Amidon referred to the man
ner in which the charge of "stirring
up class against class" had been in
jected into the case where it had no
proper place. The portion of his
charge is of general interest, because
it is such a stock argument. Because
of its application in so many instances
at this time, a portion of .Judge Ami
don's charge is reproduced as follows:
"I have been on this earth quite a
spell myself. I never have known of
any great reform being carried
throughv where the people whose
established condition would be dis
turbed by the carrying out of the
reform did not say that the people
who were trying to bring about the
reform were stirring up class against
class. -i
"That is an argument that I know
to be at least 8,500 years old from my
knowledge of history, and it is re
peated in every effort to change an
-existing condition. The people who
are benefited by an existing condition
always say that the victims who suf
fer from it and want to change it
are stirring up class against class.
That is the stock argument. If it
could prevail we never would get any
change in any existing condition. The
people who are enjoying the existing
condition would enjoy it eternally be
cause the only way you can produce
a change in any political or economic
condition is for the people who suffer
from that condition to say that the
people who are inflicting the suffering
are doing wrong and speak right out
plainly on that subject.
"All through the great agitation
for the abolition of slavery it was
claimed that the abolitionists .were
stirring up class against class. I have
not, even standing to one side as I
do, seen a single campaign carried
through that the argument has not
been used in the 30 years that I have
been upon earth with sufficient ma-
A Judge on the Class* Struggle
Bat
in thfe Brintori
case. Judge Amidon made
some statements that
should be pasted in- the
Choking Off* an Enemy Paper
Wheelock, N. D.~
Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
Inclosed find a letter I wrote to the
it or of he re to a a
League member and I wish to let
people know how I feel about the
WAYNE C. WORKMAN.
Editor Preston Times:
Will hereby notify yotf to stop your
paper at once and will ask you to
refund my unexpired subscription,
which I will donate to the Red Cross1.
As I am a member of the Nonpar
tisan league will not tolerate such
a slanderous sheet as yours to come
to my address, as it is too full of lies
about the League. As you are closely
related to Big Biz and the middlemen
grafters you dorit seem to realize
that you are dependent upon the farm
ers for your living. IF you would
take the farmers off your subscrip
ts list you would starve to death
Li
six months. Also I want you to
understand I am a true patriot and
defy you to put me down as a Hun
or a pro-Cterman, as you are trying
to do to the League members. I dare
you to print this in your next-issue,
with my name signed.' I dont mind
a man passing his opinion on the
League or any other topic, but enough
turity of mind to know what was
going on.
"Now the defendant is not charged
in this indictment with stirring up
class against class. That is not any
offense against the law. We have
not come to the timtf that discussion
of evils, thteugh it does stir up class
against class,. is forbidden in the
United States- and made criminal.
And when we do then we will simply
pass into the Crustacean stage. There
would-never be any change if such a
law were in force."
BIG BUSINESS LIARS
Clinton, Mont.
Editor. Nonpartisan Leader:
Just before the recent primary
election in Montana, big business bunk
circulated some report giving the im
pression that Townley had in some
manner got away, with a million dol
lars of the farmers' money. Now any
danged fool knows that this is a lie,
made out of whole cloth. Anybody
who has had any business experience
whatsoever, if /Nothing more than a
school trusteeship, knows that it' can
not be done—that Townley or any
other m«n couldnt get by with any
of the League money without being
called to account for it. You KNOW
that through the board of directors,
the secretary, the treasurer, the banks
and other channels through which the
money of to organization must pass,
YOU CANT STEA^ THE MONEY.
There is no way one could get by with
the League's money without going to
jail for it. It is evident that Townley
doesnt want it, if he did, he could
have sold out''to big business and
feathered his nest along time ago.
Those of us who know A. C. Town
ley believe him to be honest—a clean
cut, red-blooded American. Townley
is worth f1,000 a day to the Amer
ican farmers and I'm betting a new
hat he don't get $10 per day.
His organization has already saved
for the farmers of North Dakota mil
lions and millions and millions and
millions and millions and millions of
dollars—do you get me?
If your neighbor lies to you once
you never trust him again. Big busi
ness makes it .a business to lie to the
common people all the time, and yet
—and yet—and yet, many good, hon
est, fair-thinldng people rally to their
support—simply misguided.
EDWARD HOVERSON.
is enough. You have not printed any
home news lately as your sheet is too
full of slush about the League. I
can get qlong nicely without it, so
stop it at once and send me my un
expired subscription as I am afraid
you will send it to Big Biz or the
kept press. I remain a true Amer
ican, as my father was in '64 and '65.
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WAYNE C." WORKMAN.
THAT FOR THE JUNKERS
Genesee, Idaho.
Editor Nonpartisan Leedfer:
Inclosed^ find clippings from some
of our local press, just to let you know
how wise some of our city people feel
toward the farmer. *1 don't know who
pays for such «$uff~^the farmers 'sure
don't. I think it is paid for by those
American junkers that have kept and
will yet keep-the farmers down to a
kind of serfdom. If the farmer only
raises' big crops, that is the main
thing. Whether it is a paying propo
sition to him doesn't matter with
them—the less the. farmer earns the
easier he is handled. I am with the
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