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Show THE CITIZEN 7 THE CLIMAX distinguished Salt Lake who, in a lecture given the other day, told his audience that the . I. W. W. planned to overturn the present order of society by a peaceful general strike must have been communing with parlor Bolshevists. In the first place there is no such thing as a peaceful strike, and if there were, it would not suit the purposes of the I. W. W. and the other Red radicals. The name of the attorney is here omitted, for there is a chance that he was misquoted or that the context of his lecture may have revealed a different idea of the I. W. W. Nevertheless, such statements should not be permitted to go unchallenged in these days when an open struggle has begun between the Reds and the United States government which they are striving to overthrow by violence. That the I. W. W. preach the general strike as a means of achieving their object is not to be doubted, for it runs through all their literature, but just because actions speak louder than words, wre ought to know that from Moscow to Centralia, Washington, the real object of the radicals is revolution. The strikes now paralyzing industry in our own land are engineered by radicals and are part of a revolutionary program. The only reason that they have not assumed a violent character is the present impossibility of repeating the Russian debacle. Our I. W. W. are derived from the Frpnch Syndicalists who are the heirs of the Commune which drenched the streets of Paris with blood just after war. The Bolthe Franco-Prussia- n shevists and Communists of Russia are proud to trace their ideas back to firing squads that put to death some ' of the best and bravest spirits in France. THE attorso is strange that a Salt Lake ITney should allow himself to be deluded, for it was in this very city that the real purposes of the I. W. W. were disclosed at the time of the trial and execution. Hillstrom, it will be remembered, murdered a grocer and his sons in a holdup, was captured while in concealment trying to cure a serious wound, was tried ana duly convicted. It rhanced that he Q was high in the counsels of the I. W. W. and was known as their poet laureate because of some uncouth and fantastic balldds he had written to voice the ideas and aspirations of his kina. Immediately the I. W. W. tried to intimidate the authorities of Utah. Finally they centered all of their efforts on Governor Spry and even succeeded in interesting President Wilson in their behalf. While the I. W. W. were flooding the office of the governor with letters threatening to kill him the president wrote a note interceding for Hillstrom, as, at a later day, he interceded for Mooney with almost as little reason. Very properly Governor Spry and the Board of Pardons tried to set the president right in a sharp note which pointed ' out the duty of Utah to enforce its laws Hill-stro- m against murder. By F. P. Gallagher The result was the explosion of a bomb at Governor Sprys home in an attempt to murder him and his family. . . 1 ; r THE state of Utah should not what it owes to Governor Spry for thus standing firm in the face of all the menaces of a nationwide organization of criminals and murderers. His firmness and his wisdom in realizing that the enforcement of the law was essential to the preservation of order in Utah were in contrast with the presidents policy of truckling to radicalism, a policy the deadly harvest of which we are just beginning to reap. .Evidently the Salt Lake attorney has forgotten incidents of much more recent date the disclosures at the Chicago trial of I. W. W. outrages and atrocities and the sending of bombs through the mail to Mr. Nebeker, who . prosecuted the case, and to other Utah officials. Nor has he taken into account the bombs sent to many dignitaries throughout the United States at that time, the explosion at the Washington residence of Attorney General J. Mitchell Palmer, the maim-- , ing of a servant of a West Virginia senator and other crimes of equa? enormity. All of these incidents have to do with periods either before or after the war. I have not alluded to anything that occurred duilng the great struggle of the powers. Surely the memory of Americans is short if they can forget what the I. W. W. and other traitorous organizations did to wreck factories, destroy wheat fields and impede production while our country was at war. Everywhere the i. W. W. and kindred banditti employed secret or open violence. the crisis we face today it would folly to let the radicals assume any camouflage. Nor should we permit the parlor Bolshevists to assist them in framing disguises. During the war the parlor radicals were our most dangerous internal enemies, whether they were of economics like Scott Nearing, our high church dignitaries, like a former bishop of Utah. And, by the way, the eminent clergyman who has been offered that bishops place has just had an astonishing experience at the hands of those who hobnobbed with the radical prelate. The Rev. Mr. Moulton has been unsparing in his criticism of radicals and in urging the authorities to take action against them. As a result he discovered a bomb in his woodpile the other day. He tried to split a stick into kindling and drove the hatchet into a little chamber from which poured a quantity of explosive powder. Slippers for Christmas What could be more acceptable for a nice Christmas gift than a nice pair of cozy felt slippers? We have them for every member of the family in downy tufted 'cush-- . Pleasing colors and most exceptional varieties.. Priced the usual Hirschman Way, moderate and consistent with quality. ioned insoles. Ladies Mens Mens $1.45 to $1.95. felt $1.95 to $3.50. leather slippers $1.95 to 1 $3.85. & Delightful assortments of childrens slippers for Christmar . Hirscbmans 118 Main Branch 8t. rti Idaho Falls IN ex-profess- they call themselves Communists, Bolshe-vikLeft Wing Socialists, Russian Workers, Nihilists or Collectivists their object is the same the over- - WHETHER l, throw of the government by violence and the establishment of minority rule. Nor can the parlor radicals justify themselves by an appeal to Kan Marx. We must, at least give him credit for desiring majority rule. It was of the warp and woof of his system that the proletariat were to be in the majority when the time came to set up their dictatorship. Industrial society has not developed in accordance with his predictions. Instead of the rich always growing richer and the poor poorer there has been all over the civilized world and especially in this country a distribution of wealth which had raised the standard of living far above the level which Marx prophesied would cause the downfall of capitalistic society. Consequently when the opportunity came for the proletariat to act as in Russia they were in a minority. We have Lenines own word for this. In April 1918 he said: Just as a 150,000 lordly landowners under czarism dominated the 130-000,-0- Russian peasants, so 200,000 members of the Bolshevik party are imposing their proletarian will on the mar-s-, but this time in the interest of the latter. That will has constantly exposed It itself in violence and bloodshed. has no use for democracy. It directly repudiates the American form of government and preaches control by a minority, which, of course, is a negation of liberty. the Soviet constitution the of suffrage is strictly limited. No one who obtains profits from hired labor is allowed to vote. tradesmen, commercial brokers and-thclergy are denied the ballot. The keeper of the village store ( Continued s on Page IS.) UNDER 1iVr-chant- e s, |
