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Show THE CITIZEN Today it is a delight to every eye. It has blooms of every vari- shrine decked out in bower-bedde- d lie a to park enthusiasts and it has added hundreds of shade jiown the tall evergreens that tend to make it so sightly and many of The cemetery has, under the direction of Sexton in taken on many new spacious green plots. New avenues have Grades have been raded to make these extensions accessible. and unsightly blocks leveled off. The main avenues have and and all other avenues and streets are paved state of affairs. dion mid-wint- er. hard-surfac- ed 5 Menace Of Bolshevist Labor Intrigue Chester M. Wright.) (By If there Is one thing more certain than another it is that American labor cannot afford to fool itself about bol shevism. Every American trade unionist ought to pin in his hat this fact: The machine is a close corporation, bol-shevi- st takes loving care headquarters Moscow, operating several controlled through perfectly There is yet and ontains a population in excess of ninety thousand. manipulated channels, among a thousand and another are the following: ; for which perhaps ninety larger ble space his city of the dead over which Sexton Evans er. contained within the cemetery proper include the lot where the poor are laid to rest It is a pleasure to note y his plot is kept as green and as trim as all others, while it is derstood that the city does the work for a mere pittance, mother appealing feature of the City cemetery is its handsome has been constructed one of the finest and most gs. Here in the west. This sque sextons homes belonging to any city pme building was built under the supervision of Sexton Evans ommissioner Green, by day labor, at a saving to the taxpayers iroximately $8,000 from the contract bids. All other buildings inservatory, green house, outbuildings and garage are in keep-th- e sextons fine home; are substantially built of brick, t and fabricated iron where necessary. he main entrance to the cemetery is a work of art and the new t and iron fence, skirting the city avenues around the cemetery, modest, yet ample design for the purpose for which intended. )tal inclosure is an extensive stretch of magnificent park, made the painstaking work and care given it by the florists, care-- i and others under the direction of Sexton Evans. In the but to such the cemetery is practically ;ent has it been embellished the past two years that this source me has hardly kept pace with the costs of improvements. But at work accomplished speaks for itself. It has transformed one citys most sacred shrines from a dull, uninteresting patch of into a fresh, fragrant and amply shaded and flowered grounds Ije mat-reven- ue self-supporti- ng, , spot. building statistics for the banner month of March, factional strife has give away to mutual good will and under-nwhere obtains no attempt to impose the will of a clique noted in g; iJhe masses, I there prosperity reigns. wonder, sometimes, what the uplifts had to jjrout in terms of such scathing denunciation, before the moving )s were discovered to give them permanent employment. J is pertinent to iHmiiiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiipu the Sale Sparing latest patterns, guaranteed seasons SUIT your tional. Perfect fit guaranteed The soviet government. The red political international. The red labor union interna- The red famine relief. 1 5) The soviet wireless. These are the distinctly primary organizations through which the (4) so-cal- ed bol-shexi- st machine operates. In addition there are agencies created under soviet direction and supervision in our own country, as well as certain agencies probably operating independently,, but in with the whole soviet scheme. Among them count these: Trade (1) Foster and his Union Education League. so-call- ed Soviet Russia, a soviet magazine, having around it a considerable machine. (3) The Federated Press. (2) Socialist newspapers. Certain liberal publications. Editorial writers who are either deliberately treacherous or who like to appear advanced and who are sufficiently ignorant to have no conception of what is true advancement. (7) Certain forums and lectures. (8) Pseudo liberal groups of idle rich and their parasite intellectuals. Gullible people have swallowed more bunk about bolshevism than about any other modern subject. Persons of kindly disposition whose sympathies liberal are for anything labeled gained easily are fair game for the bolshevik propaganda. The terrible Russian famine has been worked to the limit, even in the trade union movement, to win support for bolshevism. The famine is mostly the result of bolshevik incompetency and of bolshevik policy. Peasants cut production to the narrowest limits 6f necessity as the direct result of bolshevik confiscation. In the face of drought, this minimum production shrunk to absolute inadequacy. American relief under American auspices is and has been going forward to the capacity of transportation. Despite this the Boviet machine, sardonic in its cruelty, builds its own alleged relief organization, using the famine, horrible creature of its (4) (5) (6) Destroy the American Federation of Labor. Second: Destroy the American gov: ernment This fits well with the customary libLibereral tactics in this country. als like Norman Hapgood, John Hayes Holmes, Walter Lippman, Oswald Garrison Villard, Norman Thomas, George P. West the whole liberal literary petting party outfit are strong for anything that will hit the American Federation of Labor. These worthies think, that American labor is all wrong for the simple reason tnat American labor will not let itself be run by the gentry who have given Greenwich Village its national repute. There you are. s the Anybody who ramifications of the soviet machine is foolish. Bolshevism has no great strength in America and can get none as long as it can be kept in the open. But it is continuallly striving for secrecy. The worst thing that ever happened to W. Z. Foster was to be dragged out onto the public platform in Chicago under the critical analysis and merciless lambasting of Samuel Gompers. Foster, with his thousand agents in a thousand towns was a figure of mystery as long as he could prevent debate and open discussion. Under fire in public he was lost. But there are in most communities those who continue the secret work of bolshevism. They aim at the foundation of the American labor movement. Great power is behind them. The advice of. a terrorist machine as old as the Russian czars is theirs. Look out for this red menace. And dont imagine it is absent because you cant see it Dont imagine it has been converted when Lenine utters smooth words. The devil always promises the world with gold and old rose trimmings to all whose hostility may be stilled with fair words. While the soviet power holds on in Moscow the soviet propaganda will be present as a menace in America. Sovietism means dictatorship, tyranny, despotism, secret police, the lash for the unwilling and the disobedient. Democracy is ours today, but it remains ours only while we watch! American organized labor is the watchman for our country In this fight and the duty is paramount. long-haire- d under-estimate- American Plan The misnamed "American plan of employment is rapidly disappearing from the industrial field. Little won- Qj) u any style der is expressed over this gratifying fact, since the efforts to force tills autocracy upon industry have always been followed by depression in business and industrial paralysis. No scheme devised by the powers of evil in the memory of the oldest living inhabitant has been so potent as this same miscalled American plan to depopulate otherwise thriving communities or to augment failures, bankruptcies, and Thousands wish it unemployment. departure. Godspeed All those cities free from the American plan agitation and its profes one-side- d one-ha- lf 215 It is:: First: all wool anrudl Extra Paints measure in to made (1) (2) (3) own incompetency, as a deliberately-create- d propaganda machine. Bolshevik foreign policy as applied to America is simple and unchanging. South Main, By the Kenyon Hotel Stores from Coast to Coast jllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllimmillllllllli" j E in-it- . s Disappearing sional agitators have been quick to respond to the quickened pulse of business and industrial revival. Those cities still afflicted with the presence of the vociferous "American plan-pai- d agitator are suffering from unemployment, bad business and continuing decrease in population, due to the departure of the footloose of all classes to more hospitable communities. After more than a year of effort to force this unamerican plan of employment on the printing industry of the s of the country, more than members of the Typographical Union are at peace with the employers and enjoying profitable employment. Over 520 local unions have signed nine-tenth- |