The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-07-21
SOCIALISTS NAME
DANIELS CAUSE
OF TROUBLE
Accuse Secretary Of Stirring
Up Riots
NEWSPAPER ALSO BLAMED
Socialists Deny Having Any Intent
to Dcsecrate United States
Flag.

Seattle, Wash, July 21.-Responsi-
bility for the riots Friday night, in
which, the headquarters of the So
! cialists and the industrial workers of
the world we're sacked and the furni-
ture burned in the streets by mobs
OF civilians led by the sailors from
the Pacific reserve fleet, was placed
on Secretary OF the Navy Daniels in
a memorial to President Wilson
adopted by the radical wing of the
socialist party in Seattle yesterday.
The headquarters of the Seattle
branch of the socialists was one of
the places wrecked by the mob.
The memorial denounces Secre-
tary Daniels for his speech at the
Rainier club Thurdsay night, in
which he made brief reference TO
patriotism and denounced the red
flag and its supporters. The memoir
ial sets forth that the socialist party
has never advocated violence and
has never advocated, done, attempt
ed or even remotely dreamed of any
act Of desecration to the flag o fthe
United States or any emblem or in
sigma thereof"
hul tONNAs AhuNAllutN Wv
memorial Eve submit that the chief
way in which the national emblem is
being deeecrated in this and other
cities of the Union today, is by the
cloaking of rascality and tyrannical
abuses of the aspiring poor within
its folds, in short, making a lie of
its symbolism. We call attention
Mr. President, TO the saying of DR.
Johnson Patriotism is the last re-
fuge of the scoundrel.' We have on
the contrary stead fastly and consis-
tenly insisted that the issue toward
which our activities and our propa
ganda were directed was not one of
flags, but Of bread"
The memorial then reviews local
conditions and alleges that local
newspaper has bent its energies
toward tho creation and infuriation
of a criminal, lawless and intemper-
ate mob to avenge itself upon us. to
destroy cur libraries, efface our book
stores. and to threaten our very
lives" Then taking up the visit of
Secretary Daniels and his speech al
the Rainier club Thursday night, the
memorial says Our propaganda
and our educational efforts have
prospered under the daily fire of
abuse and misrepresentation until
the coming to this city of Josephus
Daniels, secretary of the navy. who.
on Thursday evening. July II, deliver
ed his ill-considered address. which,
under local conditions. amounted to
a most incendiary utterance."
Tho raapnrfa1 fbau rogffae tbat
secondary cause was the attack
made on three soldiers by a crowd
about a street speaker Thursday
night. which was not connected with
the socialist party, land which, there
fore. cannot be presented as an eX-
tenuation of the lawless, riotous and
unwarranted interference with our
orderly and lawful processes by
naval and military fragments under
what appears to have been foreknow-
ledge upon the part of those in au-
thority."
Concluding the memorial says
we therefore, after due and serious
deliberation. place responsibility up.
on the secretary of the navy. JOS
ephus Daniels, who is already max
ing efforts TO eXplain-but We sub
nit. Mr.. President. that no amount
of explaining can restore to us our
estate in both moral and physical
particulars held by us prior to disas-
tiers resulting from his remarks"
With the exception of the armored
cruiser California, the warships
which were in the harbor during the
Potlatch celebration returned to the
Bremerton navy-yard. Normal Sun
day conditions prevailed. with the
one exception that there we're no
corner street speakers Mayor Cot
terilrs emergency order forbidding
street meetings was the only one not
overruled by Superior Judge Hump
hrey Saturday and II was rigidly en-
forced by the police