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Show ITOWNLEY SPEECH ; DURING THE WAR JACKSON. Minn June 26 Long extracts from addresses by a C. Town-ley Town-ley at meetings at New Ulm, Minn , in 917, and 1918, v ere read into th record in district couri here this afternoon aft-ernoon at the trial of President Ton-ley Ton-ley of the National Non-Partisan league, and his former lieutenant, Jo seph Gilbert, who are charged wiih conspiracy to commit disloyalty The Townley addresses were made at New Ulm, June 22, 1917, and February Feb-ruary 20. 1918 The report of the first address as printed in Hie New Ulm I I Journal was read by Philip Leisch, publisher of the Journal, and the se ond address was read by Alexander Seifert, a court reporter, from Springfield, Spring-field, Minn., who testified that he copied cop-ied the speech in shorthand The reports re-ports of the speeches were admitted as evidence. The defendants' attorneys did not question the accuracy of either of them as read in court In tact, they read into the record long sections of the speeches after the prosecuting attorney at-torney introduced sections which h' claimed were part and upou which the disloyalty charged were based. In both addresses, as read in court. Townley discussed the war and deYOt-ed deYOt-ed most of his time to consideration of economic Issues and to assailing ' war profiteers " Townley charged 111 both speeches that in 1915 "the profits prof-its of war corporations were four oil-lion oil-lion dollars," and he demanded that the wealth of the nation should be conscripted con-scripted as well as the men. The portion of Townley s second speech at New Ulm which received The most attention from the attorneys follows : "You hear them say all over the country that this is not a time for polices, tnis is not a tiuu- lor the iople to be agitated: this is not a lVM.--.jor you, lo ihink. This is a time when you ought to be perioctl quiet Don't wake up and look around, for if you look around, you are sure to see Homething. That is what they mean "If your boy refuses or neglecl register tor war service do these gentlemen ke r quiet, do the) saj rh'-n that this is a time whr-n we ought to have no trouble-'' Oh. no They will raise hell to see that your L boyfl go to war And see, now, crentltmen, when these men likewise refuse, neglect or forget to turn these fourbillion dollars a year war profits we have a right to raise hell until they turn it over. Blood and flesh aloae cannot win the war, it takes money to back the boys. They have gone to win tho war and they 1 e got our money Those American people, these farmers have heard the calls of the government to make a sacrifice 10 win this -war against autocracy. W e have heard them call and you have heard it. Your boys have gone in response to the call. You are making every sacrifice required re-quired of you Your boys are making every sacrifice required of them We heard them call and we do 6tand behind be-hind the government. Wc do stand behind the president. "Now we demand that you gentlemen gentle-men also stand behind the government stand behind the president with your money. They say they do. If you will watch them, if J ou will look around. If you will study the gentlemen who are making these profits, tho beef trust, the steel trust, the 6ugar trust, the food speculators, you will find that they Bay they do stand behind the president. 1 guess they do, but they are too damned far behind " |