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Show (J j oo WOULD KILL THE PRESIDENT. , Hi A dispatch from Leavenwon '-. Kan- I i as- contains this f-t-rtlintc informa- "That Pietro Pierre, an Italian on trial in federal court here charged with threatenirg the life I of a president of the United states, has declared to them he had been rhoscn by lot at a meeting of Italian I .W. W . with hoaQquar-! hoaQquar-! ters at Chicago, to assassinate President Wilson and William G. McAdoo, was stated on the witness stand today by John Lovullo and Samuel Sempravino, alro Italian.-.. "According to the testimony of Lovullo and Sempravino, tLe de-i de-i fendant revealed the alleged plaf to them while the three were ser 1 ing sentences in the penitentiarv here. Lovullo communicated the Information to the prison autl.o-i-ties, who, it was shown, al'owe Sempravino to become the coufi-if coufi-if dant of Pierre Tor the purpose of H Mill obtaining further information. Tin trial will be continued tomorrow." This Is nothing pther than the Wursl " form of anarchy, and it Is ru-prh-ng 1 that men whohave immigrated to our I , J chores have retained ihei foreign ha-; r j treds to the extent of seeking to de-J stroy constituted authority in -his, l ?ountry, where libct of action is not fl i, circumscribed by the divine rightri of ' kings and where tne common people I iu have the greatest jossible liberty inj keeping with the welfare of the whole. What would be thr final outcome, if we all resolved to kill and destroy? ' J Those who believe m that doc'r'nc of 11 destruction should be al. otter, an island is-land and there allowed ;o proceed to I II put In effect the terrorism which t.aey preach. Civilization has b 5en built on a foun dation of common trust and confi-denee, confi-denee, with the describing of brute power, but the I W. W. would break down all that has been built up by the lone years of law and order and make every man a law urto himsolt. In America there snould be the most vigorous -effort made to uproot this form of anarchy. |