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Show Banishing The Red Flag In New York Mayer Hylan ot New York has banished the red flag, the emblem ot Internationalism as opposed to the national flag, from the streets of New York. This action followed a, oar riot ln which soldier and sailors sail-ors clashed with socialists parading la honor of Mooney, the direct ae- ( tloa aoe!aUat eoavieted la Caa frav elaoo ot dyaamltlat a prefaretaesa arale aad kiniag a seore of alae women and cblMroa. That "New York City la literally koaeycosshod with thousands of self apaol&Md Murats, Rebeeplerros, Daatoat, Troteky'a aad Lealaes,'.' and "that they ara oa the peach, at tho bar, in tho pulpit, la city departments,' de-partments,' among aldermen, state legislators. In Congress and occupy chairs In centres of .learning," was stated In, this connection by Alexander Alexan-der I. Rorke, assistant district attorney, at-torney, who prosecuted Bouck White for burning the American flag at the so-called "Church of the Social Revolution" Re-volution" more than two years ago. "The timely action of the mayor .forblddUg the display ot the red flag and the unlicensed gathering of its devotes will receive the commendation commen-dation of thoughtful citizens through out America," said Mr. Rourke. "The recent parade of the bolshe-vlsts bolshe-vlsts in New York City and their meeting In Chicago, in which they, so soon after the war armistice, subordinated sub-ordinated the American flag to the red emblem, illustrates their daring ln this country and calls attention to the danger of the menace." Discussing the devotees of anarchy, anar-chy, he went on: "They are of all creeds and nationalities, na-tionalities, and some ot the worst are American born. They aremade up ot radical socialists, anarchisms, syndicalists, bolshevlsts and Its kindred kin-dred bred of I. W. W.'s. They openly op-enly declare war on oar form of government gov-ernment and its Institutions. Every day In the year they preselytlze among am-ong the poor, Ignorant, Illiterate, 'OB'Engllsh apeaklat foreigner. They 'aoataantly show tho soldiers, sailors and workmen the wealth, ladustrtes aid political power of the country, and are them to kill their rfieers. throw o'f restraint, steal the property, proper-ty, grasp political power and wield U.bver the rest of aaasklad by the exorcise rf tho red mob violence", more brutal toward maklad than tho aatocracy of kings and stars. ,'The present display ot the red flat Is a challenge to oar government. govern-ment. We must meet ' the Issue sauarely or have forced on us an other Rein of Terror and another naked foddes of mob reason. "Wo must ostracize tho red flag prosct Ibo unlicensed meetings. Thrown churches, bar associating schools and voluntary organizations we muit teach the red flag's dclud-.ed dclud-.ed followers Americanism, so that (they will know that our government Is their friend we must curb tho I unbridled license of speech common to the :id flag's "Intellectual" leaders lead-ers we must deport tho thoroughly thorough-ly objectionable red foreigner, j "That element of our capitalistic class that has hitherto neglected labor's la-bor's just complaint must correct Its faults. Labor must divest itself of Its Bolshevist tendencies. Capital and labor must deal equitably with each, other, or the social revolution may soon become a sorrowful reality." real-ity." v v ( |