Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-05-08
TEARING DOWN THE FLAG.

Colonel Roosevelt when in Massachusetts.
preached something very like anarchsm in the
discontinued mill towns to get results. He got
them Others also have since felt the effects of
his work. In the few days that have passed
since his wild denuncatons got into print several
things have happened
Last Wednesday some anarchists probably in
spired by his fgurative trampling on the con-
stitution, the courts and the flag which is the
emblem of union and literally tore down and
trampled the flag which stands for all that
they hate and that he says should be abolished
His words inspirations to action his chief
supporter in this city said. They seem to have
inspired some action at the Union Square meeting
which even so reckless a demagogue as Theodore
Roosevelt cannot view with equanimity.
Again, the anthracite mine strike prac
tically settled few days ago, but since then the
miners have been reading his wild half-promises
for he never binds himself to anything definite
and yesterday they refused the agreement made
by their representatives Roosevelt has been
talking much about what he did to settle a
former strike since others did settle it, that
the miners to have at last come round to
believe him. and their minds have been infamed
by reading his speeches to the Massachusetts mill
workers.
Roosevelt has done more harm to the business
and industries of this country than any other
who ever figured in public life. Ii he has
inspired coal miners strike he will have done
something that will be felt at once in every home
in the east
Has the thought entered his mind that he
might seize still greater power than the president
enjoys if he entered the White House with the
country in state of anarchy Does he dream
of military dictatorship, of the whit of grape
shot and even of crown? Would he not be
Theodore | if his castles in Spain took material
shape9 His lust for power and Office knows no
bounds
Though the row which broke up the socialist
demonstration in Union SqGare last Wednesday
did not assume serious proportions the insult to
the American flag proved the existence of an
anarchist faction which is disoyal to our consti-
tuition and opposed to organized government.
The men who broke up the meeting because the
Stras and Stripes were displayed on the platform
were members of the Independent Workers of the
World They have thrown down a challenge to
organized society which must be accepted No
longer can the fact be disguised that revolution
airy party exists in this country whose aim is to
overthrow the existing order 1t is true that it is
not of formidable strength, but it has grown and
manifested its power recently in some mill towns
in way that calls for serious thought It is not
movement of wage-earners to better their
condition. but an attempt to take by force and
without compensation that which belongs to the
Others
Civilization has overcome and survived many
such revolts against the established order of So
ciety and there need be no fear of the ultimate
outcome, but the extent of the disturbance and of
the losses inflicted on the community has general
ly been in proportion to the delay in graspng the
situation. In this country we have been given
many costly lessons, but the authorities have short
memories. 1t is not necessary to make noun
tain out of molehill by paying further atten-
tlon to the little rumpus last Wednesday between
two socialist factions, but it would be well to
bear in mind that we have incendiary elements in
our population whose activities should be sternly
repressed whenever they cross their bounds The
police have difficult task in such cases in draw
ing the line between maintaining order and MAX
ing martyrs of noisy propagandists