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Show SHOULD BE DISCIPLINED. William Potter belongs to the National Guard of the State of New York. He served as a volunteer vol-unteer in the Spanish war, his record is all O. K., but when recently his regiment was ordered to Glen's Falls to maintain order in a railway strike he, because of that service, was expelled from the Printers' union of Schenectady, of which he was a member. The president of the Trades Assembly at Schenectady says, "There will be other expulsions expul-sions until not a guardsman remains who is a member of the union." The matter, it is said, is being investigated by order of Gov. Odell. We suggest to that union that its safest plan would be to have that president resign. It would be a safe wager to bet that he is not American born; that he has not yet the slightest idea that the freedom of this country means anything except ex-cept the giving of unbridled license to such blatherskites blath-erskites as himself. He certainly does not quite understand the na-w ture of the offense when a citizen or combination of citizens seek by direct means to break down the power of a State to defend itself under the laws, or to execute its own laws. ' It would be safe to wager that the President of that union was until recently a subject of Great Britain. If that is true his offense is all the more despicable, for he knows that at home such an act would land him in prison, if it did not cause his neck to be stretched, for Great Britain has little charity for those who hatch treason under un-der her flag. |