Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
|. v. v. LEADERS
ARE SCORED AS
ANARCHISTS
Public Has Only Cold Shoulder
for PiIIagars Spurning Work,
Declares Forbes.
Bv C. 3. FORCES.

Those of us who have experienced
poverty, who have known the heart
aches begotten by fruitless search
inc for a chance to work and nave
learned how inhOspitable large
city can be to the man tramping the
sidewalks, are quick to extend sym
pathy to fellow mortals in simila;
plight Enforced idleness breeds a
species of hopeiessness, of despair.
Of desperation that none but those
who have tasted il can comprehend.
Weu-fed. warmly clothed com
1ortably housed and congenially
employed individuals should be slow
10 anger over the conduct Of those
of their brethren who can find no
place in the world, no opportunity
to work with willing hands and no
pillow or plank on which 10 lay a
beating. throbbing head.
But after making large allowance
for their circumstances, the so-called
/. w. w. marauders can not hope to
enlist the sympathy or support or
any law-abidiHg citizens. Their con-
duet has been an exhibition of anar-
chy, a challenge to civilization.
These misguided beings want the
world to go back to the level of
brute life. They are no respeqters
Of property. in this respect being
lower in their ideas than some ami
mails. They claim the right to help
themselves 10 anything they fancy in
the way of food and to select any
building that suits their fancy for q
bed.
once sanction that system of pill
lage and you knock the props from
the whole structure Of civilization.
All law would 90 by the board Stark
anarchy would be unbridled. Blood
shed and butchery would sweep over
the land,
The whole thing is unthinkable,
The |. w. W. outbreak has demon
strated that only an intinitesimal per
centage of even the idle and the i'll
fed share the crazy nothing of reVo-
lutionary ringleaders There was no
widespread rallying to the l. w. w.
banner despite the picnic it held out
for recruts-free food and plenty OF
it. warm shelter indulgence in eXhi-
billions of defiance Of law and order,
and much newspaper notice formed
a combination which ii is surprising
so few loafers embraced.
It would be an insult to the nations
toilers to regard the |. w. w. fire
brands as in any way representing
them or espousing their cause. The
whole department of the mob was
repugnant TO every sense of decencN
They cursed hands that fed them
They iloutcd offers Of work that
would at least have won them wages
enough to procure food and Shelf r.
They prated much about their rights,
hat had nothing 20 say about respen-
sibilitics. The soft answer does not
turn away the wrath of such charac-
ters. What is demanded Is prompt
firm, fearless enforcement of the law,
The little incident has attracted
more attention than ii probably de-
served Yet it is perhaps just as
well that the public were kept fully
posted Of developments, and that the
authorities were left in no doubt as
TO the attitude Of all peaceable citi-
zens toward such scatter Drained
lawlessness.
A big banker remarked, discussing
worst enemy" ] would add that the
Tannenbaum type of "laborer" is ia
boris worst enemy.
II is not by such tactics as his that
victories are won.
However, his irresponsible ebulli-
ton must not be allowed to prejudice
the cause of self-respeCting labor ana
labor organizations There is room
for untold legitimate e.-ort for the
bettermcnt of the worst-p paid, gnor-
gained toilers-men. women and
children here and throughout ;he
whole country, Happily, steady prog
ress is being achieved,
Meanwhile let the Federal Gov
eminent, State governments and mu
nicipal authorities all realize the ur-
gent need for encouraging enterprise
and industry, and for refraining from
all words and acts calculated to re-
tard the recovery in business which
largely owing to political uncertainty
is overdue.