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Show SAYS AMERICA !S "" OW GRAVE DIB6ERI Socialist Tells Scant Audience Audi-ence Country Is Fighting for Plutocracy. "The Lnht'd .States Rrr-ri:m,n t is digging dig-ging it:-; own rave with incrndihle .vrift-11'-,'' :-a id Murray K. K i ng, ape a.k lug at .Mr-lnrosh li;ll last night. "The edict proilaiinins that cvrrj' man must keep his mouth shut or go to jtil is ranging indignation in-dignation and revolt to smolder in the hearts of countless thousands." Mr. Km urose folio wine a rather dry unrl dispinu-d monologue d-liver'd by La wi'i-in r M'"rineiT, Soi-lalist ca I'd idattt foi- alloirif' geii,ral In the hist elrtion, aiul -hwaj ed to put moru "p p" into th ineetirig. "Now the I.'nited States government ways th.it it will not refgnize Lr-nine and Trotzky, the Kussian patriots, i-laim-liic that they are pfO-OerrnaM," Die sj)eakii- shouted; "that is the blackest lie ever uttered. "Th United States government has t hrown off its mask. It is not f'fcht ing Ur liberty, mankind and. democracy, but for plutocracy." I This statement was accorded vigorous i applause b. the sixteen puilists who composed tho speaker's audience, a shrinkage of ten nince the meeting held at the same piace last Sunday night. The orator explained the small attendance atten-dance by saying that hundreds of persons per-sons were sitting around their firesides, hungry to attend tho meeting, but shrunk from doing so because they feared th gathering would be broken up by secret service agents and they might have to wprnd a little time In Jail. "Kvery time a man opens his mouth." he continued, "he is accused of hmiig pro-Oermaii, and I suppose we will have to face being caJIed this." C. T. Stoney aj-ose to make a few remarks re-marks regard i ng the. so-called "capitalistic" "capital-istic" press, saying that the newspapers of America were bought and paid for In March, 191.'), but failed to say who bought them and how much money was pa id and to whom. Mr. McGinen . intimated in his speech that there has been a division among the ranks of the pacifists when he advised them to compose their differences and work together. |