Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-12-18 | Page 6 | Jones of New York

t Jones of New-York !Any comic opera writer, who happen to live in America's metropolis, will not have to look far for a subject for a scream, provided he looks, in the ri.ht direction. Over on (he east side of New York lives a man named .lone providing the secret service department has not changed his address to some place of confinement or the fool killer has overlooked over-looked him who could supply all the material necessary for the most comical kind of a comic opera. Jones, whose initials are unknown, but which might be I. T. j (meaning ivory top), is the man who is responsible for the proclamation procla-mation for a reign of Bolshevism in the United States, and which v". as staged to begin at noon on Friday, the 13th day of December. Jones' proclamation provided for the cancellation of "all debts, public and private." repealed "all'statutes, ordinances and other enactments of capitalistic government." declared va.ant all public offices and directed that the military and nava! organizations organiza-tions "immediately dissolve " The event was to "mark the beginning of the rule of the workers in the United States of .America," and the red flag was proclaimed as the emblem of the new society as an indication of j brotherhood and unity with similar republics in Russia, Germany! ind Austria. I As far as can be learned. Jones is the only one among the' hundred million people of America who took Jones seriously, with 1 the possible exception of some of the most mentally deficient of' the I. W. v. Real workers in America will not thank Jones tor including them in his Bolshevik propaganda, which has no place in this! lightened country and in this enlightened age, except, perhaps, j on the comic opera" stage. - j . i