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Show PLAYING WITH FIRE. Free speech is all very well, but you .can overdo it. The city has taken counsel of generosity, gen-erosity, and permitted my other old'frionds, the I. W. W.'s to hold street meetings. I don't know what their speakers aro going to say, but they do. Howovor, as Patrick Henry reminds mo, the only lamp by which my feet may safely be guided is tho lamp of experience. And experience exper-ience tolls mo that I. W. W. speakers make trouble. Here is a porfoctly orcdiblo statomont of the effect of thoir activities at Patorson, N. J.-. Tho final bill for the Patorson striko, promoted by tho I. W. W., is in, and tho complacont public can study it at lois-urot lois-urot In tho 149 days that 25,000 ORer-,.j atives wbro idlo nearly $5,500,000 in wages was lost to them. It is estimated that tho loss to manufacturers was as. much. Landlords wore heavy losers -fully 1,200 tenants failing to pa,y 'any rents for periods ranging from two pv five months. A score of small stora keepers, -butchers, grocers and "clothiers J -k.. were forped to close shop. During the greater hart ojf tho strike the depar.t- fjU, ment stores and other large business TJ jiouses were obliged to cut down their i working forces, and theatres closed for the season of 1912-13 nearly a month I earlier than heretofore because of the ,, , lack of trade. It will take the city a year , or. two to recover from the shock. t .About 2,500 workers left Paterson. According Ac-cording to tho strike leaders, 2,000 men and women are blacklisted and will never be taken back to work. Five persons K- lost their lives because of tho strike. A landlord who was losing $800 a. month in Tents and two strikers committed v suicide. One man, not connected with . the strike, was killed by a special detective de-tective who fired over the heads of tho crowd of strikers who were menacing i him. One of a party of strikers who tried to intimidate a so-called "scab," , . who would not quit work, was also killed. Every policeman on tho Paterson 't f .force was kept busy on an everage of sixteen hours, and the city spent about $10,000 for special policemen. And yet they didn't at all improve the condition con-dition either of tho workingmen, or of tho city. . iTheir doctrine is disturbing not to the undeserving unde-serving rich, but to every honest, industrious, thirfty and reasonable member of the community. commun-ity. The burden of tho curse which follows them falls, of course, on tho wago earners. I don't believe it is wise to let them speak in public nor oven in hired halls, if they utter troason their invariable stock in trai ). They - are very adroit, very seductive in statement, very perilous in effect to everybody. They should not bo accorded tho recognition which citizenship citizen-ship may claim. That, in a local way. Broadly, permitting Mrs. Pankhurst to land on United States soil is equally inviting trouble. The woman stands for anarchy, absolute; for crime and chaos. She has made her policy perfectly plain. There is no reason to hope that she will change her nature na-ture with tho change of address. Pankhurst, I. W. W., mad dogs and rattle snakes are without tho palo. A sane 'and patriotic prudence will proscribe them. |