The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-10
THE l. W. ". REyOLUTIONARIES.

Christian Science Monitor; The log
ical answer to the immigration policy
pursued by the United states during the
last fifty years, the wide-open policy,
the welcome-to-all policy, the policy
that looked to the melting pot for the
solution of everything, has come re-
Gently I'm the form of strikes ,incendiar'
ism. the destruction of crops and OF
forests. lawlessnes in all It's variants,
conspiracy. sedition, and plotted revo-
luton. The factors that make for these
things have been coming into the coun'
try for decades without let or hindrance,
and the country. trusting to what it
has regarded. with no little vanity as
it's power of assimilation, has smiled
complacently on the incoming horde. IL
is due rather TO the good fortune than
to the good judgment of the republic
that the great majority of the incomers
have had "a peaceful and industrious
people: had the case been reversed, as
well it could have been, the institutions
of the land might have been seriously
mperiled. AS matters stand, they have
been threatened and assailed.
Among the millions that have come
in, there has been n large percentage
of the element that leaves its country
only for its country's good. Whether
the people composing this element set
tie i'm town or in country, in the manu-
featuring or the agricultural districts,
in the East or the West or the South
they constitute Il disturbing and often
an unruly factor They have been re-
pressed at home; they have never known
what liberty meant; they have been
strangers to love of country, to allie
glance to a flag, to observance OF law
in the fuller sense; instead of being
grateful for the boon which America Of
fers them. they are, in numerous cases,
disposed to take freedom by the throat
and strangle it,
The l. w. w. embraces many of this
element 1t is largely composed of peo
pie who have perverted sense of dem
ocracy. who resent the privilege that
goes with liberty of action, who de-
spise the equal chance, who scorn the
right OF citizenship, who are secretly
and openly at war with society. Such
persons should never have been ad-
mitted to the country in the first place;
now that their character has become
so thoroughly known. they should be
sifted out and expelled from the coun-
try, without unnecessary delay.
1t is no doubt due mainly to their
ignorant miscalculations that, in addi-
ton to all the other crimes properly
chargeabe to them, they failed to start
an nsurrection in the United States last
July. Circumstances support the state
ment of the witness at Enid, Okla, who
testified that the /. W. w. leaders
planned for the rising. in that month,
of 1000, 600 malcontents throughout the
country, under the auspices of that and
forty-eight affiliated organizations. the
program to include assassination, in
cendiarism. robbery, the decentralization
OF communication, the fomenting of a
revolution Intended to draw to its sup
port all the forces opposed TO estab
lished authority. At a prearranged
time. it was testified, the Working Glass
Union. an understudy of the |. w. w,
was TO capture small towns. take charge
of banks. burn bridges, and cut tee-
graph wires: while the |. w. w. was TO
deal with the more populous districts
in a similar manner. In the work OF
spreading the revolution, advantage
was to be taken of the foreign compli-
cations of the government. Treason
was TO become dominant. Ii would even
force the disinclined TO help in fighting
its battles. The witness testified he was
Informed that carloads of rifles would
be ready when needed. and was told
that the Working Glass Union had 'as
much right to conscript recruits for a
revolution as the United States gov.
ernment had TO conscript troops for
service In France"
Now, whatever may be thought OF
the revolutionary scheme, il will be a
mistake TO think lightly OF the revolu-
tionaries who were engaged in IL. The
important fact Is that the United States.
In its generosity. IN its complacency,
and in its carelessness. has admitted
to its territory & most pernicious and