The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-21
DANIELS IS BLAMED
BY SOCIALISTS FOR
RIOTS IN SEATTLE
Also Denounce Secretary
for Remarks Concerning
Red Flag Supporters

Seattle July Responsibility for the
riots Friday night in which the head
quarters of the socialists and Industrial
Workers of the World were sacked and
the furniture burned in the streets by
mobs of civilians led by sailors from the
Pacific reserve fleet, was placed on Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels in a memorial
to President Wilson adopted by the radi.
cal wing of the socialist party today.
The headquarters of this branch of the
socialists was one of the places wrecked
by the mob
Daniels Speech Denounced
The memorial denounces Secretary
Daniels for his speech at the Rainier
club Thursday night, in which he made
a brief reference to patriotism and de-
nounced the red flag and its supporters.
The memorial sets forth that 1.-The
socialists party has never advocated
violence and has never advocated, done,
attempted or even remotely dreamed of
any act of Dissertation to the flag of the
United States, or any emblem or insig-
mia thereof"
Moreover" continues the memorial.
we submit that the chief way in which
the national emblem is being desecrated
III ILLS anu OtHtT clt1eS OF the union
today is by the cloaSing of rascality
and tyranical abuses of the aspiring
poor within it's folds, in short, making a
lie of its symbolism. We call attention,
Mr.. President, to the sayings of DR..
johnson: Patriotism is the last refuge
of the scoundrel' We have on the con-
trary, steadfastly and consistently in
sisted that the issue toward which our
activities and our propaganda were di-
reeted was not one of flags, but of
bread"
The memorial reviews local conditions
and alleges that local newspaper has
bent its energies toward the creation
and infuriation of criminal, lawless and
intemperate mob TO avenge itself upon
us, to destroy our libraries, efface our
bookstores and to threaten our very
lives
Speech at Rainier Club
Concerning the visit of Secretary Dan
iels and his speech at the Rainier club
Thursday night the memorial says:
Our propaganda and our educational
efforts have prospered under the daily
fire and abuse and Misrepresentation
until the coming to this city of Josephus
Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, who on
Thursday evening. July II, delivered his
lily considered address under any circum-
stances and what under local conditions
the presence in port of the Pacific fleet
of the navy under his rank and control,
with men and officers on shore left
under the artificialized psychology of
lily considered address under the circum-
to and had the early effect of most in
cendiary utterance, resulting almost i'm
hatred and bitterness toward us amounted
mediately or as soon thereafter as it was
possible to get the import of his words
to the men. of his command, In the sack
ing and destruction by fire of our several
organizations"
The memorial then recites that a sec
ondary cause was the attack made on the
soldiers by a crowd about a street speaker
in Washington street, Thursday night,
which was not connected with the So
cialist party, land which therefore. can
not be presented as an extenuation of
the lawless, riotous and unwarranted in
interference with our orderly and law
full process, by naval and military frag-
ments under what appears to have been
probably fore knowledge upon the part
of those in authority"