The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-06-28
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red rag as their emblem before the
people of this country to the al
most seclusion of the glorious stars
and stripes in parade at Eveleth
few weeks ago by the Socialistic
Finnish residents of this and the
Mesaba range, they now come to
the front and in a communication
to an Eveleth paper claim that the
stars and stripes were honored
when the red flag was carried
alongside of them.
| The defense of the red rag was
made by one J. G. Maatala of Vir.
ginia who also claims that the red
flag does not stand for anarchy
and bloody deeds, but that "the
capitalistic flag has shed enough
of the blood of the proletarians and
is an emblem of peace and equal
lily" whatever that may mean.
The Eveleth Star few weeks
ago read the Finnish Socialists a
severe lesson as on the occasion of
their picnic in that city at which
a preliminary parade was made
through the streets, the red flag
waScarried at the head of the pro-
cession and as a mere compliance
of the law the stars and stripes on
a very small flag accompanied the
red rag. The Star also made the
assertion that Finnish people of
this community who heard the
harrangues at the lake declare
they were most inflamatory against
the government of this country,
| against the President of the United
States, and against the present
marriage obligation as recognized
and practiced here among all class
es of people. They declared that
on this latter question they were
ra-her polygamous and expounded
theories along lines tending to a
greater laxity of the marriage tie. "
The Star in commenting on the
doings made few remarks which
have not set well on the expound-
| ers of the doctrine as taught by
the red flag. Excerps from the
remarks follow and are just what
| the MINER said in effect about a
year ago when a handful of Ely
Finn Socialists attempted to revo-
lutionize the existing condition of
things here. The Star says:
do they not like the govern
ment of this country? Are they
not satisfied with tho American
flag? Can they improve their con-
dition in some other land? If so
there are boats leaving New York
every day, and if they have the
price of a ticket they can easily
return to Finland, or to some other
country where the red flag is toll
Grated. These very men and women
who paraded our streets on Sunday
and carried with them two flags of
the blazing red colors, without a
single sign or mark upon the flag
except red, not even the word SO
cialism" printed upon them, are
living under better circumstances
in this country than ever dreamed
of under Russian rule. They are
men and women who are getting
good wages, who can find plenty of
employment, who can own their
own home, contribute to Their own
society or church, who can send
their children to the public school
without any cost except that of or
binary taxation, and yet they are
found in practically open rebellion
offering real protest to the country
they have chosen as their future
home. Many of them no doubt
are misguided, but ignorance is no
excuse. There is no room for an
archy in America. There is no
place for the red flag except at a
bull fight, and here in the United
States even this brutal sport is not
tolerated, \ There certain
II ly will be great danger of q riot in