Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
BY JAMES B. MORROW.


~ HAME may lie in the fact-oow-
ardioe, also, some persons will
=. say-but Americans in many re-
W fons Of the country are afraid
of the l. w. WIS.
A man living in an orderly and set
tied community, police protection
within call. cannot understand why the
Industrial Workers of the World should
be feared by anybody. But the man liv-
ing on a farm has barns and grain
stacks that can be burned and live
stock that can. be poisoned. And the
workman, homeward bound In the
evening, can be struck down and
beaten.
If it were not so, and gravely so, the
thought that hoboes could, to degree.
terrorize American villages and whole
counties, not to mention states. would
seem to be impossible and ridiculous.
The /. w. WIS are hoboes. for most
part Their leader affectionately refers
to them as red necks." They move. in
companies, often, from place to place.
Their number is unknown. Several
thousand of them, however. have as
dreds were rounded up in Arizona last
year and hauled in freight trains to
New Mexico. One was hanged ana the
others were threatened with death II
they returned. Wheat fields. ripe ana
ready for the harvest, are set on nre.
Orchards are girdled and killed Ma
chinery Is destroyed Gathered crops
are ruined. Small towns are oVerrun
and robbed. And. what makes matters
worse, some politicians believe that
To- ,oy. ia doing these things.
There is law enough, 1t is said. In
every state to stop the crimes OF che
1. w. WIS and to put those wandering
and marauding vagabonds to work, but
marshals. sheriffs and governors think
ing of their own reelection. are IRE
quently unwilling to antagonize the
Labor vote.
Haywood, chief of his beloved req
necks whose numbers he shrewdly
keeps to himself. has made the once
holders believe that the l. w. w 8. non
est workingmen. one and all. MI inc
woods farms, mines and factories OIL
the Pacific states.
And not only the Pacific states. says
HAYWOOD but other states and other ma
lions. The world itself. Haywood boasts,
is to be conquered by labor and LABOR
by his definition. is made up OF un-
should be said. can neither read nor
write their own names on paper.
The bluff of Haywood is the most
colossal ever attempted and carried out
in this country. A big man. physicaiiy,
with a big voice and an armory OF big
words, Is, using the vernacular of his
own species, making monkey OF the
United States" Even the Senate Is de-
batting the measures that it thinks will
end the l. W. w. menace to the stability
and welfare of the nation. The Huns. of
course, are brought into the discussion.
They are financing Haywood, it Is said
most solemnly and positively.
, nna9go!eo sep and ey wr o dI
hobo in the country. would jump at the
chance of getting Prussian money, and
undoubtedly Prussia would jump at the
chance of thus corrupting the people"
of America, but Haywood. 1t should be
said, began his work of pulling the world
to pieces, as he supposed, long before
the Huns started their housekeeping
waves of gray looters and ravishers to-
ward Paris.
Listen, men," read one of the l. W.
w. documents printed in 1912. 1.-The day
is once more at hand when treason Is
the supreme duty of every man and
mutiny soldiers highest obligation"
Members Of the I. w. w. are being
taken into custody by officers of the
United States, not because they have
been bribed by Germany. but for the
reason that their organization and
themselves are doing all that they can
to obstruct the preparations for war by
denouncing the draft and by starting
strikes. especially in the ship-lumber
and spruce districts OF the northwest
Among the men so arrested. quoting the
Language Of Senator Borah, 'is the evil
genius of the I. w. w" No name was
mentioned by Senator Boreh as he COM
pleted his description and announced
his remedy.
THE best thing" he continued, adj
dressing his colleagues in the Senate,