The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-14
THE GAG WON'T CURE REDS.

After such events the assassination OF President
Mckinley, the brutal killing of the priest at Denver
while administering the sacrament to his slayer and the
attack Chief Shppy in Chicago it is natural that the
anger of the American people should fame up and that
we should cnch our teeth and see red" we
"extrpate anarchy" We do not palter with mad dog
in the street We kill the rattlesnake wherever find
him. Shall we be less ruthless with this new phenomenon
of terrorism!
It takes nerve to draw the distinction between the
mad dog the rattlesnake and the terrorist at such
time this And yet the distinction needs to be drawn
Instead of dealing with the matter with clenched teeth
and boodshot eyes, should be careful to deal wisely
with situation far complex than the presence of
mad dog rattesnake.
For the terrorists No law can be enacted
toward them, police regulation be put into effect
toward them that in principle does not apply to other
men-to you and me.
1t may be said that they are madmen This is true
and yet not true. They not physically insane. They
only driven mad by their past lives by unwholesome
surroundings, by real or fancied oppression.
They from Russia or Italy or the Slavonc
tries from conditions that would make archist of al
most any of u.s. The who attacked Chief Shippy
fugitive from Kschiney. He had his friends and
fellows shot down. hunted, stripped scourged, had, per-
haps suffered the horrors himself by ignorant ruff
fans set upon helpless Jews by the officers of the govern
ment. He was not product of Chicago. He mad
turned loose the world by Russian tyranny. He
should have in through the custom marked 'Highy
dangerous. Compliments of Nicholas
The Italian who killed the Denver priest from
surroundings in which there is werecognized disease
called ''the hunger Madness
These men were infected when they reached America
They did not with the change of air They found
police and government and they had learned to identify
these things with tyranny They too late to learn
that if the America have not the sort of govern
ment they want, it is the masses own fault
In Louisiana two towns where just such people
VIII anarchists
way out into the country and into the wholesome life of
the farm. One colony is composed OF Poles from the
Pennsylvania mnes the other of Italians of the unsed
laborer class They industrious, law abiding thrifty
good citizens Some of them have weird notions of gov
ernmen but they worked off in free speech and dis
spated in daily labor out in the open air. far from the
sums. Terrorism dream of the dark night with them
The solution of the problem of terrorism in America
is the cure of the sums ghettoes and congested tene
ment districts
Terrorism is bacillus that the sunlight of good times
will kill.
The disease comes from the oppression of foreign
lands We cannot cure it by oppression England
has been successful in dealing with it, and in Eng
land the anarchists allowed to speak until they
black in the face. They make vicous attacks on the
social order" that is true But it Engands Milton
who said "let truth and grappe." The social
der take of itself There danger to it in
the enforced silence of any agator than in his speech
We cannot cure the madness of raving Europeans by
gagging ourselves The matter should be dealt with in
frmness not fury.
Fury never cured anything
1t is cold, hard fact that in those American cities
where repression is pracsed where the unemployed
dubbed and harried; where claw has been typifed by
club and CUNT has been in these cities where riots
have occurred and violence felt.
Let us be sane, and being So the problem presented
by these poor, cracked Drained fellows will seem more
simple Any city in America become a hotbed of
"anarchy" within IL months. 1t need only to forbid
speeches and meetings and parades and to lay open the
heads of few with pocemens clubs and to search and
seize.
In other words, Russian police methods in America
will surely and quickly produce terrorist crop here
in the land of the car.