The Alaska citizen., 1917-07-16

stronger force gel, into the game, and, al though the speakers oi the occasion worked the mob into violence, the strong arm oi the l, law, jn the shape of several hundred blue sualyl policemen stepped ill. with the result Irha1 ,hc mob Ua, dispersed
 Scattered here and there in the crowd 1 oi people who heard the remark, oi the au- Iarcai>,~ were numbers, Of quiet men who tool, uo part in the action of the people, or, l ii they did, ii was merely to cover up the real reason for their presence there. For l they were secret service men ani had at tended the meeting only for the purpose of 1 listening to whatever intIammatory remarks Iagan~t inc government were made. And |Whyn the meeting was over and the police were di~per~ing the mob, they quietly stole IaWay 10 make report 10 their supcrior,
 The result was the arrest, a few days later, of the red eyes" Goldman and Bcrk- man, on the charge ol conspiracy to obstruct the operation ol the sclectlc draft law oI the government d law that had been made by the representatives of all the people; not alone ol that branch represented by the two anarchists later on the two anarchists were indicted by a federal grand jury on evidence furnished by the secret service men who heard their remarks, sufficiently substantiatcd by other testimony offered by reputable citizens Ioi New \ ork and still later they faced trial.
 And their speaking careers ended with their trial. at least for the next two years. For after having escaped conviction at nu Imcrous trials in many states for alleged traiorous uttcranccs and attempts to inctc mob violence these two oo-caIlcd leaders are being given d chance to cool their heels and ruminatc on their lancicd wrongs the one in q Womans penal institution in the State Of Missouri and the other i'll a federal prison lat Atlanta, Georgia
 In some quarters these mob and strike leaders who talk against government and against government institutions are called SO- ciaIiste. But they are not Socialists i'll any sense of the word. They are nothing more than agitators with slick tongues; people who live off the sweat of others by doing nothing 'morc nor less than preach >edition. The bcst reason that they are not Socialists that cal be brought forward is the fact that the ma toua convention of the Socialist party held lat Chicago several days ago endorsed every .moyc that the government has so far made in the matter oI declaring war and its prose cution to date The only change they would make is that they would conscript wealth as well as men, which is a point that yet re mains to be decided.
 These Socialists are men from all walks oi fife, most of them hard Workers They believe ill organized labor, but they do not believe in mob violence or sedition. Consc- quent.y they scorn the remarks of such a9i- tators as Goldman and Berkman, and glory just as much as do other partisans and citi- zens in their conviction.
 The conviction of the two terrorsts, then, should be a warning to all who con template following in their footsteps For, although Goldman and Berknan have man aged to escape long sentences in prison for many years for their agitating, they acted once too often, and at a time when the gov ernmcnt would brook no interference ill it. plans Consequently their mouths were sealed by their safe incarceration i'll places where they can work no harm by their agitating.
 In Fairbanks there have been few sc ditious utterances, but they have been quickly hushed by those who would utter them iu the face of the fact that certain prosecution Alaska would do no differently than did that which heard the evidence against the Red Eyes in New York;
 But seditious speaking is said to have been going on at Nenana, which condition oi affairs is now being investigated by the federal authorities An agitator has been busy there in labor circles, and is said to have extended his remarks i'll order to com pare the Stars and Stripes uniavorably with the red flag of anarchy. Perhaps it is nov too late but he, as we'll as other agitators, should be warned by the fate of Goldman anI RnrL.nan Me ln nnt know that he mad.