The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-11

dicrs themselves rvor suspected that
they would 10 called to that part OF tho
country aald tho News They had
boon told that tho soldiers would como
and take their men folks 10 tho war or
shoot thhm down. burn their homes ana
outrage the women II was evident to
all who listened to their story that they
had believed the nsitntorn who hnd been
among them They are II dcanoiv iEno-
rant ella. and have boen III advised.
The Drvmright Derrick, published in
the oil fields in which it !. currently
believed, there arc thousands OF mem
bcr' Of the Industrial Workers OF the
World advocates the death penalty for
the agliatotS who have been responsible
for the uprising
The Derrlck's view is
"Whilc many of those captured IN tho
ranks ~ the disloyal are to be pitisd In
ths ignorance which caused them to fol-
low the anarchirtic leaders, nevertheless
Il IL time Of war and summary dealing
with their cases can be expected, The
firing squad In nm effective romsdy and
tho troatmen, usually prescribed In Jones
family cases Let ur hoIr that the law
Nil ho allowed to take It's course and that
rebellous and disloynl members of the
Ora n resisting horde he placed during tho
period OF tho war where they viii do tho
least harm"
Republican Skepticsl.
The Tecumseh Republican, published
in the county seat of Pouawatomc
county which Is credited with being
the birthplace Of the Jones family" Is
reluctant, to believe ,ha, many Of the
men arrested are guilty OF the charges
placed against them II says
Reports wcrc frequently circulated
that tho men belonging to tho W GU
or tho Jones family" were coming into
And IN all we know rhs reports may
have had some foundation. but II tho
mon who wers arrested last week along
with others were the ones TO como into
this town to burn out tho business insti-
tutions with which they had dealt dur
ing the past twenty or twenty FIVE Year,.
We arc just n little slow In believing II.
Wo would rather believe that somo Of
these men would have come to tho city's
rescue In cnHo an attack had been rnsds
on tho town"
The Ada News again reads into the
uprising" an abuse OF the freedom OF
speech and the press. possible effort,
of German agents and intimate that
some blame attaches to congressmer
and senators who, in an effort to max,
political capital out OF the war situs-
ton have made inflammatory speeches
which have been circulated in the war
territory.
Says the News
while Americans nave prided them
selves on freedom OF the press and speech,
tho Seminole county outbreak shows tho
result OF tho abuse Of this privilege For
several years thfs country has been flood.
cd with anarchists posing as socialists,
who have stirred class hatred
and inflamed tho minds OF the people TO
frenzy
/" No doubt this sentiment hss
been famed 10 siill greater intensity by
! German agents II must not be forgotten
that npoecher were also made In congress
that have since been dintrubutod by thou
sands, the congressman seeking To mako
political ,en pitnl out of their opposition to
the Wilson program
And the .Drumright Derrick face.
,iously summarizes the whole situation
in a paragraph which says, From the
manner in which the anti registration
bellgerens conducted themselves ~
their recent efforts at resistance they
would amount to very little as soldiers
anyway"