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Show HA VAL SECRETARY MAKES STATEMENT SHATTLH. "Wash., Jvly 19. Tha following fol-lowing message was received hxte today by the Associated Press from Becrntary of tho Navy Daniels: National Park inn, Mount Rainier, Wash.. July ID. Tho reforence I mado to the flag and my statement that the red flag meant danger was the pamo aa originally mado by me at a banquet of the Railroad Men'a Young Men s Christian association at Washington, Wash-ington, D. C., a few days ago. It had no reference whatever to local conditions In Seattle. I believe In free Bneech and a free gress aa tho bulwarks of our liberty. Ivory evil that exists or that threatens threat-ens our country can be righted by appeal to tho Judgment of the American Ameri-can peoplo. The weapon la the ballot. bal-lot. Tho man who resorts to violence to redress evil la bringing more evil Into existence than he can hope to cure by violence. Obedience to lawful authority and rcapect for the flag must precede any reforms. The man who takes tho law into his own hands Imperils American Institutions and Jeopardizes the hope of securing real relief from conditions condi-tions against whloh he complelnu. (signed) JOSEPHUS DANIELS, |