Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-12-08
INDUSTRIAL ANARCHISTS.

The recent attack of l. w. VS.. on
the citizens of Everett, Wash.,
does not in any way involve the right
of free speech. One has right to
swing ones arms, or to spit, but
has one right to swing their arms
when the fist connects with another
persons person. or to spit if the ex-
pectoration is deposited in another
persons face or on his person?
Not by any means. One has q right
to own a gun, and to discharge it,
but has one a right to discharge the
gun when the discharge takes the life
Of another being?
The people of this country have free
speech, and the right to publish
about anything. but this does not
mean that towns and cities cannot
prescribe rules governing the obstruc-
ton of streets. or the assembling of
crowds on public streets or in any
part of their limits where public
policy warrants. The l. w. W.
members may enjoy free speech on
equal terms with other citizen. They
are not privileged characters. and
when they attempt to invade city
and their presence becomes public
menace; when they become a mob,
bent on overriding governme mt, and
when the mob, as was the case at Ev-
erett, makes an armed onslaught on a
city, and resist the sheriff, numbering
him and attempting to murder others,
it is nonsense to talk of their rights
and to sympathize with the mprderous
ruffians.
The l. w. w. is not labor organ
ization. 1t is organized buns, hobos,
thugs, dynamitres, loafers, rioters
and anarchists. These buns do not
work. They refuse to work They
spend their time disorganizing So
ciety, and lend their strength to the
cause of disorder. They destroy
property, and glory in their disloyal-
ty to government. They hate this
government. They hate our flag.
They class our farmers as capitalists,
and have repeatedly tried to prevent
farmers from saving their crops.
While in Spokane some I'll me ago
the writer visited the l. w. w. head
quartres down on Main and spent half
an hour in the place. We purchased
several of their booklets, all bound
in red and noted that one of these
was discussion of the farmer who is
pictured as capitalistic tyrant,
the enemy of laboring men, and ad-
vised drastic measures involving the
ruination of the farmer ana the loss
of his harvest.
We have one of the Industrial song
books, and it is with horror that we
read its anarchistic utterances, its APP
peal to prejudice and contempt ate its
too evident purpose to educate such
as it may to hate law, order and in.
dustry.
Where these mobs of so-callee
working people have the power, they
rob and pillage towns, appropriate
property to their own use, intimidate
such citizens as interfere with theil
lawlessness, and inaugurate reigr
of brute force. They abhor honest
toll. They live by theft, or, il
they work at all, by doing as little
as they can for their employer.
At Everett they propose to run the
city. They wanted to show theil
contempt for the citizens Of that
place, and started on their way armed
and looking for trouble.
The citizens had word the moi
was coming, and officers of the Law
met the boat and told them they coult
not land. That was the signal fol
the mob to assert its alleged right t.
murder and riot in the name of free
speech.
The citizens met armed invasion
with armed resistance, and some O.
the mob was shot in riot Of thei
own making.
Efforts of sympathizers to max,
martyrs of 1. W. W. thugs are littl'
better than the thugs, and right. mind
ed citizens have little sympathy witt
their kind.