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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. F.'P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. . 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: Jn. United States, Canada and Mexico $2.00 per year, the Including postage $15 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $3.50 per year. 8ingle copies, 5 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake March 3, 1879. Act of City, Utah, under the Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 8alt Lake City, Utah.' 311-12-- 13 REDS WORK HARD FOR REVOLUTION the Salt Lake Rotary Club that Utah is one of the DISCOVERY.by of I. W. W.ism will be a painful surprise to those "who have not watched-thgrowth of communism and criminal syn- dicalism in this city and in the mining districts.' Attorney General Palmer has pointed out that it is no crime to preach the overthrow of our government and the I. W. W.s have been taking full advantage of this flaw in our federal statutes. While complaining with their customary hypocrisy about the suppression of free speech in this country the Bolshevik element has been meeting openly in this city to urge the destruction of the American republic. Their speakers have even outlined plans for the government of the country after revolution has caused the collapse of our present institutions. On one occasion a speaker declared that the accepted plan was the division of the country into twelve soviet districts, of which the workers of the land should take control. Among those who attend the meetings are many parlor Bolshevists, men and women, who have a fair share of the worlds goods and are willing to part with a little of it to promote the cause of the Red these men have no powers of correct reasoning and are merely dupes, but a fool is as dangerous as a fanatic or a criminal when law and order give way to violence. The I. W. W. were hoping for a somewhat longer time of preparation, but their fiery leaders precipitated events because they unAmerican sentiment. They derrated the power of thought that the time was ripe to begin the steel and coal strikes and thus produce a condition that would so interrupt communication between the various parts of the country that a successful revolution could be launched. Few people realize how easily revolution might make headway if the railways should be compelled to stop because of a fuel famine. A highly articulated system of communication is essential in a nation of such wonderful industrial production and it is only necessary to break that chain at certain strategic points to throw the entire country into chaos. And it is a long way back from chaos to cosmos. All who hope to see our republic prosper and to show the world a dazzling example of the success of popular rule must face the conchaos. dition as it is. It would be an exaggeration, no doubt, to say that The very nature of their doctrine makes it imperative that the the forces of revolution stand any chance of success at this time, but syndicalist should pass from mere talk to violence. Direct action, if we neglect to keep watch and ward, if we fail to prepare for unity warfare, bloodshed, rioting and seizure of private property are the of action, the present situation might easily bring ruin. If, for exmain tenets of the I. W. W., who arc an outgrowth of French synample, the railway service of the country should be paralyzed it dicalism which has just met an overwhelming defeat at the elections would be necessary to resort to volunteer efforts to get them started in France. again. We should be put to it to discover means of making our vast and in Salt Lake The only reason why there has been ho violence industrial system operate. been have Reds the mining camps is that the I. W. W. and other busy The action of the Rotary Club in beginning an investigation is artime had felt the that have not at the work of organizing. They The least wise and it would be well if all the clubs would ortheir desire to for and murder. rived strengthen They robbery we can do is to keep ourselves intelligently informed of what is going atis an when success which a to uprising promises point ganization on in our own city and state and to prepare in a common sense way to tempted. meet emergencies. The American people need all the common sense We have been seated above this steaming volcano for months and that God has given them to keep the country a prosperous going have taken no alarm. It remained for the Rotary Club, warned by concern. the massacre at Centralia, to begin an inquisition into the power, plans and methods of the revolutionaries. DEMOCRATS REFUSE COVENANT The Salt Lake local of the I. W. W. is said to have 1,000 memSAFEGUARDING U. S. bers. Apparently 1,000 men out of a population of 135,000 is not a America s rights, peril to make our hearts beat much faster, but is there any other force RATHER than accept reservations conserving and sovereignty the Democrats made the ratification of 1,000 united men to cope with lawbreakers in case of emergency? This is not written to kindle panic, but to promote thought and of the peace treaty impossible. The League of Nations will begin wise action. In many respects the coming of a crisis at this time is to function, but the United States will not be a member because the an evil omen for the Reds. Their work of organization is by no means Democratic partisan bloc would not permit Europe to decide whether complete. Their propaganda poison, it is true, was spreading rapidly the reservations were acceptable. Even though the Democrats believed that the reservations nulliand many untutored men were being won into their ranks. Most of e - old-fashion- ed co-opera- te. |
