Arizona republican., 1918-12-10

{ The bolshevist rioters chose in Faneu Hall,
most inappropriate place for their demonstration last
Sunday That ancient market place the Cradle of
American Liberty not to be occupied and defiled by
the offspring criminal, worldwide license. The
event of last Sunday is only another incident showing
the necessity Of sterner hand in dealing with the
]. W. W. the bolshevki of America. They cannot be
dealt with too quickly and too vigorously.
We do not though, share the apprehension OF
those who fear that this element may time OBJ
tain ascendancy in this country For two reasons
cannot. one is its inherent cowardice. 1t
needs only to be frowned to so into hiding The
conviction of Hayward and his associates. even the
wholesale arrest OF the T. W. W. last spring suf-
ficient to put stop to W. W. activities They
not stand the gaff.' They not of the stuff Of
which martyrs made.
About that time Bolshevism under the name Of
l. W. w rife in Arizona except in such places
the populace had risen and quickly suppressed it But
when the federal government stirred into activity
L ". w went into hiding. We need not fear them
except local nuisances but nusances ought always
% be suppressed.
There is another and a stronger reason why boil
shevism become a That is the
Americanism Of the great middlewest that populous
territory lying between the Appalachian and the Rock
We do not to say that there is American
this side of the Rockies beyond the Aeghenies,
but is the great middewest with its farmers that
keeps America straight 1t is in that RECON that
ing national parties chastsed and sent TO bed sup
PEERLESS. is in that region that woodshed sessions
held. That is where presidents and lesser states
men to be spanked
The people of the middewest may be slow TO act
but when they they surely and relentessy.
No force can stand against them 1t is there that the
traditions are preserved In that great stretch of
country the foreign element is sssimlated as is
nowhere else in the country. New York and San
Francisco cosmopolitan In both those racial
lines are preserved We have in them Little Italics
Chinatowns and various foreign quarters. Chicago
IS not cosmopolitan. There the foreign element is
drawn in and made American. If any element proves
to be refractory for assimilation it is otherwise
disposed Of If it permitted influence Ameri-
canism.
The New England states, the birthplace of Ameri-
canism has been invaded by foreigners until the for
eign influence in the cities towns become pre-
dominant On the Pacific coast Americansm has been
strongly tinctured.
So the middle west has become the stronghold
and will always be strong enough from its central
position to exert sway the of the country
the extreme east, the south and the west.
1t that region, which less camorous for war
than almost any other part of the country furnished
the great bulk of the soldiers sent and who gave
good account Of themselves at St Mihiel and wher-
else they met the Hun.
1t is unpromsing soil though for bolshevism and
l. W. W.ism. Neither can flourish there or in its
shadow which falls the whole country. So boil
shevism in America We have said can never become
than nuisance but it is foolish to permit a
nuisance