THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



arrangement, that when we give our lives, all that we 

 have, this nation will take first of your profits and then 

 of the property you have got if the profit is not enough; 

 and after the war is over we will give back, as you give 

 back of our lives, as much as is left and no more. 



No real patriot is likely to find anything 

 objectionable in this, but soon after it was de- 

 livered agents of the federal Department of 

 Justice were sent to investigate the League 

 and take note of the utterances of its speakers. 

 League champions assert that this was done 

 on representations from the imperiled Inter- 

 ests made at Washington. The charge has 

 never been denied, but what is of more endur- 

 ing importance is that the agents found noth- 

 ing upon which to base either action or pro- 

 test, and the League, so far as they were 

 concerned, was allowed to go its way. 



At one of its campaign rallies held at St. 

 Paul March 19, 1918, resolutions were adopted 

 declaring : 



We and each of us hereby renew our pledges of 

 loyalty and devotion to our common country, and re- 

 affirm our unalterable determination to work always 

 for its best and highest interests and for the permanent 

 welfare of its people, our fellow-citizens. 



Our nation is engaged in a great and terrible war, in 

 which we believe its purposes are the purposes of its 

 people, as given clear enunciation by the President 

 whom we have chosen to direct the administration of 

 our national affairs, to be right and just and worthy 

 the whole-hearted support of every good citizen. 



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