Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-31
REPUBLICAN HARVEST

X ed what might have been lie
~ 1U of gilded ease to studying Ameri-
r. canism, present social conditions and
$. the lives of the poor. attended the New
e York mass meeting which broke up In
: disorder after the fanatic Siiverstein
three a bomb. Mr.. Hunter was as
r. saulted by the police. who. he says,
charged the crowd with incredible bru-
) tality. The police hurled Mr. Hunter
under a horses hoofs and he had a
: narrow escape from being trampled to
death.
He states, and, to use an energetic
: colloquialism, what he says GOES, .
that the demonstration which was in
1 terrupted by the police and their fell
low disturber5, the alleged anarchists,
was intended to be a peaceful demon
stration, and that it was attended
!, mostly by working men and women
who have been out of employment so
} long that they believe that something
must be done to produce change in
conditions. Lawlessness was far from
the thoughts of Mr.. Hunter and his
philanthropic associates. the pioneers
in a movement which. as the signs of
the time show, may save the United
| States from calamity. Lawlessness is
serious business. Tt cannot be toll
Grated in the United States. But star
vation is also a serious business, as
any one who has been starved or even
hunger pinched will tell you. 1t cannot
be tolerated in the United States.
1t is unfortunate that a few fanatics
should have mingled with the great
crowd of American workers who as
sembled to protest against idleness.
want and the deprivation of their chill
dren, who are being robbed of educa-
ton.
One thing is certain. and that is the
red flag and red hats will never be
tolerated in American crowds. no mat
ter how freely they are displayed in |
England or anywhere else. There is |
no place for the red flag in America. |
1t does harm to any cause with which |
it is associated. The red flag when |
displayed in America is constantly |
confused with the black flag of an
,archy especially by Republican papers
which wish to becloud the issue, befog |
the mind of the public. distract atten-
tion from the failure of the Republican
regime to keep its campaign promises
by filing the dinner pals of the work.
ers of the land sending their children
to school and providing conditions
which would bring the greatest good
to the greatest number of Americans,
and which seek to prevent people from
dwelling on the miserable shortcom-
ings of the Republican party. when
its deeds of today are measured by it's
words of yesterday.
1t is not fair to say that the trouble
that followed the breaking up of the
meeting by the police was caused by
If the writings of anar-
chists are to be believed, violence is not !
an anarchist principle. Most anarchist
teachers preach the doctrine of nom
resistance. And Socialists. who have a
philosophy which they believe can be
applied remedially to social conditions
must not be confounded either with
anarchists or with law breakers. Since
it can be proved that anarchists ex-
plicitly disavow belief in violence who
are the occasional disturbers, the occa-
sional assassins, the bomb throwers? ?
reckless individuals, like
the dynamiters who harmed the Irish
home rule cause so grievously that it
is only beginning to recover from the
xr-bfa | ,
madmen brought upon it. In spite of
the action of frenzied fanatical bomb
thrower the Union square meeting is
significant testimony of the evils which
have been inflicted upon the country
during long Republican reign. 1t is
a pity that the effective force of the
protesting movement of the American
masses should be marred by fools like
Averbuch and the bomb thrower, be-
cause many good people, in their hor-
ror of the acts of irresponsible or law
less individuals, will lose sight of the ,
justice of the plea of the unemployed
and will forget that the first cause of ,
the trouble is still in existence. Peo- ,
pie are still out of work and hungry. ;
Children are crying for bread, and if {
the American flag is not half masted ,
on the schools that have been robbed !
of two million pupils by the -ursed ne ,
cessities of cruel hard times it ought
to be. Republican oratory on the /
prosperity" chestnut will fall fiat after t
these appalling evidences of the unrest /
and dire necessities of millions of our 7
fellow countrymen which are being c
presented in mass meetings and pa c
rades of the unemployed and hungry. t
These people have not been and are not t
now getting a square deal, and they e
would be foolish beyond measure if they d
the Republicans again to $
power and looked for a square deal. {
rhe unrest of the unemployed is one of S
he presages of Democratic victory. h
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