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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26
WAS RESULT
OF CARELESSNESS
Ash Port Left Open Said to Have
Caused Sinking Of Liner st.
Paul at Her
DiAr

NEW YORK, April 26.-An ash port
carelessly left open. was believed to-
dav to have flooded the American liner
st paul, sinking at her pier.
However. so far, no official an
nonncement as to the cause OF the &C
cident which probably cost three lives,
has been made. Twenty men of the
40 aboard were injured. WORK OF
raising the vessel was proSresslns
rapidly today. Meanwhile lnVesusa
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26
How Blind We Are.

Topeka Journal: While the whole
world was talking and writing about
tho yellow peril the Hun peril was in
sidiously extending itself into every
c;vilized country in the world. How
Mind were the statesmen Of the en-.
tente and Of America!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26
SOCKS AND
WRISTLETS
sb;nment Made to Red Cross and
Women Having Wool on Hand
are Directed to Use IL
up at Once.

The knitting committee OF the
ronL,,I Red Cross announce that it
has shipped $50 pairs of socks and
twenty wristlets. 49,
The central division has sent the
Keokuk quota for sweaters. and every
kn,tter in town will be needed for
this order. Hence. every knitter hav-
ing warn on hand is directed to knit
n nm as soon as possible.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26
Do Not Neglect 1t.

When you use indicated sprays
atomizers and douches for your Ca
tarrh, YOU may succeed in unstopping
the choked-up air passages for the
time being, but this annoying CONF 1h :
tion returns, and you have to 90 'iie
same thing over and over again.
Catarrh has never yet been Gqreu
by these local applications: Haee
you ever experienced any real dement,
from such treatmeut2
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26

CavaIrymen have superstition o.
their own. mounted man hrmlya
believes that he will come through
the deadliest charge unscathed II hs
carries on his person the tooth OF q
war horse, the only condition oeinaa
that the horse itself has at some tinie
been through charge unhurt.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26

Statistical sharps have informed
Philadelphia that the city's rubbish
heap last year amounted to 2.796,724
cubic yards. Piled up and squared 1t
would smother more ground than the
city hall and rear itself up to the
clock in the tbwer, or $50 feet from
the street level.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26
NO FIGHT ON
FOURTH OF JUL
Governor Of Minnesota VIII Not Al
low Bout in His State on
That Date, it is
Said,

limited Press Leased Wire Service.I
ST. PAUL, Mimi, April Discover
nor Burnqust will not permit the
Willard Fulton fight in Minnesota
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26

"That was close one. Now just once
more" were some OF the cries that
went up.
Everyone was bending back. shad-
ing his eyes and watching the sight.
The airplane got through the circle or
cream puffs" safely and darted back
toward home, an occasional shell burst
ing behind him.
"Foller him up, kid; foller him up,
was the encouragement shouted from
the American rooters. But the Boche
out-legged the guns and disappeared.
who's at bat and who's on base? q
sergeant yelled, as the machine dis
appeared A minute later the ball
game was on again.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26

IStromboli is volcanic island, the
northeasternmost of the Lipari IS.
lands, located in the Mediterranean OH
the north coast of Sicily. The volcano
is 3,O4O feet high. The island has
population of about 2,5o0.l
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26
National League.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

American League.
Boston 6. Philadelphia l.
Washington 7. New York S.
Cleveland s, Detroit 4.
st. Chicago game postponed;
rain.
National League.
Chicago 3, st. Louis 2.
New York 6, Brooklyn 3 (ten In
nings).
Pittsburgh l, Cincinnati 0.
Boston 6, Philadelphia 8.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26
National League
TODAY'S SCHEDULE.
American League.

Chicago at st. Louis.
Cleveland at Detroit.
Washington at New York.
Boston at Philadelphia.
National League.
St Louis at Chicago
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh.
New York at Brooklyn.
Philadelphia at Boston.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26
Mount Stromboli In Eruption.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
ROME, April 26-Mount Stromboli
is In violent eruption. Falling lava
has set fire to vineyards. 1t is be-
lieved some lives have been lost.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-26

-suoscr1pe Tor The Gate Gle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

generous in that respect. The speak
opens the foodgates of sentiment,
and, 10, Mr.. Speaker becomes a strike
leader. With cheap phrases and
fioWery language the strike leader
appeals to the emotions of the crowd,
lashlng them into a religi Gus frenzy.
for he knows we'll that if he ever al
lows the strikers to cool down the
boosted solidarity will disappear and
the men will crawl back into the fac
tory. Take the speaker away from
the strike and it will go up in smoke
unless the workers or some part of
them have been previously organ
lied. Arrest the speaker or strike
leader and the crowd will remain
firm until another one gets on the
JOB. The new speaker does not have
to know anything about the shop con-
dltlons to make good He raves
about persecution and the brutality
of the police. 1t is surprising how
you can revive the dying enthusiasm
of crowd by a TRADE against the
police or the army
While the crowd is still enthusiasts
TIC We take in many members, many
of whom would just as soon Join the
Salvation Army as the Industrial
Workers of the World. providing
that the Salvation Army had sense
enough to use the same cheap
weapons that we are forcing our
speakers to use. To stampede a
bunch of slaves who are working for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
THE HOMICIDAL MARCH OF THE I. W. W."
Strikes Often Ordered Delude Public Into Giving
to Their "Relief Fund-Free Speech Fights
Said To Be "Good Craft

tests. However, they overdid the
thing to such an extent that the So
cialists turned on them and were
forced to expose them as frauds be-
cause they were getting money out
of Socialist party organizations,
which, Of course, that party would
not stand for. Victor Berger, at
that time Congressman, in his
paper, "The Social-Democratio
Herald" referred to the San Diego
situation in the following language
"Ths paper, at time when it was
unpopular to take such a stand and
apt to be looked upon as treason to
the cause of the working class. made
it pretty plain that it considered the
San Diego free speech fight shame
full frame-up for panhandling pur-
poses. and it received lot of indig
nant letters as a result of its stand.
It's position has since been abundant
ly justified"
The official organ Of the Western
Federation of Miners, at that time
a Socialist paper, asserted that the
Scrap was started in San Diego In
order that funds might be secured
under the pretext that free speech
was in jeopardy, and said:
"Many members Of organized labor,
Socialists and other sympathizers,
swallowed the bait and parted with
their money, believing that they
were aiding in protecting legal rights
and constitutional liberties"
Ralph Korngold, leading Social
ist, referring to the same matter
wrote in 1.-THE New York Call" as
follows:
Starting free speech fights seems
to have become a regular order of
such free speech fight has been re-
Gently nipped in the bud by the ex-
posture of The Western Federation of
Miners Magazine.
Kasper Bauer and P. S. Ford, the
treasurer and secretary, respective
ly, Of the Free Speech League
which had the fight in charge, de.
nounced the I. W. w. as follows:
"Most of the T. w. w. organizers
who came to San Diego to speak used
language upon the street corners
such as would not be tolerated in any
civilized community. They were
foul-mouthed and vile. AS a
result, they infiamed the people and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

of the war, as the government RON
tends, but "for revolving against fra
intolerable byproducts of tinbe-
mining and Grass speculation in nuh.
lie lands. The l. w W, accordino
to this sapient sophomore mind i
a symptom" of a social maladvr
The Bolsheviki, who have bee,
praised, defended and intellectually
feted and toasted by "The New Re-
public" and who are nothing no~s
nor less than the /. w. W. of Pms.
STA, might also be interpreted as ths
Symptom" of "malady," and on
the basis that conditions were pr;-
marily responsible, be acquitted Of
all censure or blame for undertak-
ing their venture with German
money and Of subsequently, selljne
out the great Russian nation to the
masters Of Germany.
The l. W. w. defenders not only
insinuate but declare that we shall
not have industrial peace-reHef
from 1. W. W. outbreaks Of crime
and terrorism-until the causes Of
l.. w. W. disorder are removed; in
other words, an overnight Miller
mum. Carlton H. Parker, quoted
in the l. W. w. defence propaganda
says:
There will be neither permanent
peace nor prosperity in our country
till the revolt basis of the |. W. VI.
is removed. And until that = done
the |. W. w. remains an unfort-
unately valuable symptom of dis
eased industrialis-al. y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
|. w. w. Becoming
A Real Menace

1t is pertinent to ask why this
lawless body, the I. w. W., has been
able to rally to its support persons
who by their profession and public
pc sition would naturally be regard
ed as opponents Of such an organ
iza1lon. This is one of the social
phenomena of the day. A few years
ago it threatened to become fad
with certain superficial members If
college faculties and women Of al.
emotional type of mind, who coui1
get front-page stories, illustrated
with their pictures, by the simple
process of fraternizing with the
I. W. w. type of hobos. Some OF
the poets, artists, charity workers
and htterati generally professed to
be greatly enamored of the 'insn'1
ing doctrines" Of this organization.
But the most surprising thing was
the manner in which certain radical
preachers espoused the doctrines of
Tho |. w. w. During the last few
years several churches of the
Protestant denomination have or
gained social service departments,
seine of them dominated very large
ly by the radical contingents within
tAose bodies. At convention of
one of the largest Protestant
churches in this country, held in
New York in 1915, the rector OF
church in Brooklyn made az. al
dress in which he paid the following
tribute 10 Haywood and the othe:
sabotage and violence preaching
leaders of the Industrial Workers
of the World:
"Syndicalism, as every investiga-
ton has shown, finds field only in
our Industrial centres where immi-
grants are herded. Without vote,
strange, bewildered, put upon de-
serted by the Church, the labor
union and the Socialists, it was
their distress and gave them cour-
age and hope. All honor to the L.
w. W. leaders that they we're found
at the hottest point of the industrial
conflict"
At the time of this utterance
the l. w. W. had been expelled
from the Socialist party on account
of their "direct action" and an
archistlc methods. Since the |. w
w. began playing the German game.
however, the proc German, anti wac
Socialist party has rescinded that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
A Look Inside
The Organization

1t might be interesting to the SYM
pathetic editors, authors and social
workers who have tried to awe-in
spire the public by the mighty power
of this organizat ton, to look inside
where the wheels go round" Just
how big is this giant of destruction I?
Well, we have direct evidence on that
point. At the hearings before the
Federal Commission on Industrial
Relations in New York City, Vincent
st. John, secretary treasurer of the
/. W. W., testified that the member
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21


that demands be made all the time on
Governor Sulzer, Albany, N. Y. for
an immediate grand jury investiga-
tion Of the Little Falls authorities
BE SURE TO SEND ME- A COPY so
| can get it into the local papers;
that will help some here. 7 n1ioht
add that public meeting for such
resolutions consists of a chairman,
secretary and audience. So, you
see, three persons can be meet
ing. A tip to the aUise should be
sufficient for q lot of action along
these lines. Be sure and use all of
the hack-Wo1n expressions. etc.,
that you can think of. Paper is
cheap and mag do q little good IN
this instance.
"But the most needed here are
funds. DON'T FORGET THIS"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Strikes Made
F or Relief Funds

That fund gathering has been the
dlligent occupation of these "porA
chop philosophers" and that strikes
have been fomented because they
afford opportunity for collecting
"relief funds" is asserted by John
IL. Steigler, ext. W. w. organizer,
IN his book, "The Memoirs of a
Strike Breaker"
Mr.. Steigler was expelled from
the l. W. w. because he demanded
an accounting Of the funds, which
ne believed were being shamefully
misused, and for denouncing the /
w. W. as "a union for disorganiza-
ton and revolution instead of for
organization and progress"
at is new kind of industrial
warfare that the l. w. w. have in
augurated and before it the author
TICS are helpless" says Steigler.
occasionally one of the more radi-
cal enthusiasts may get himself ar
rested, or may even be indicted, vet
this is all grist to the I. w. w. mill
1t gives them the opportunity they
want to justify plea for contribu-
tons to a defence fund. AS long as
the contributions continue to flow
into the Golfers of the l. W. w. the
leaders are happy.
ut is wonderful how these men
who never work-who never help to
produce anything but poverty and
misery among the misguided workers
create enthusiastic confidence in
the minds of their dupes wherever
they go. 1t is amazing, too, how
they manage to keep on squeezing
money out of the people when they
give nothing in return for it and sci
dom will even condescend to make
an accounting. -. 1t is good
professionalism the financial point
of view-that of the l. W. w agita
tor"
Writing of the Paterson strikes
Steigler tells the following:
Shortly after / was expelled from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

s1.e2 per day is easy and spectacu-
lar.
Had we kept as many organizers
in Lawrence after the strike as we
had during the strike we would have
an organization that could carry on
the next battle without the aid of
press agents or sensationalists. In
Akron it was the same story; the
members cried for sensations; Hay
wood was sent for. He filled the bill,
but after the strike was over every
organizer was called to other points
to supply the thrills called for by the
rank and file.
"Not one was left to build up an
organization in Akron.
at is getting to be a habit, and the
speakers are catering to it. In Pitts
burgh | heard one of our principal
speakers give voice to the following:
DO you think that | am going to
come here and talk to 200 people
when | can stay in New York and
talk to 10000 people direct and have
my speeches carried to thousands
more by the capitalistc press p"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

organization of the Industrial Work
ers Of the World, claimed for it by
it's intellectual friends, is not shared
by that body itself | will quote an
extract from leading article N
"Solidarity," the official organ Of
the l. w. W., published in the fail
of 1918, which ought to be conclu-
sive evidence on this point
To give emphasis to this absolute
conviction Of the solidarity" ed,-
tors, the article was double column
in width and double loaded, occupy
ing the most conspicuous place in
the paper.
of the Industrial Workers of the
World is going to organize the work
ing class then we will have to make
great change in our attitude toward
the labor movement and in the
methods that we are now using. At
present we are to the labor move
ment what the high diver is to the
circus. A sensation, marvellous and
nerve thrilling. We attract the
crowds. We give them thrills, we do
hair raising stunts and send the
crowd home to wait impatiently for
the next sensationalist to come
along. AS far as making Industrial
unionism fit the everyday life of the
workers We have failed mserably.
The crowd expects the sensational
from our speakers or organizers; the
members expect it, and our speakers,
if they intend to remain as such,
have got to apply them or go out of
business. We measure the success
or failure of our speakers by the
number Of spectacular stunts that
they arc able to pull off. 1t is child's
play to stand in front of some fac
tory and convince the slaves that
they have a grievance. Capitalism is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
By Ralph M. Easley

ment in favor of'the 40 I. w. w.
defendants, which might we'll BE-
come the subject of Federal Grant
Jury investigation, is made clear in
an article in "The New York Times"
of June 25, 1918, in which Roger N.
Baldwin, director of the National
Civil Liberties Bureau, is quoted as
follows:
Last winter a group of men. in
Guiding Mr.. West. Mr. Fitch, John
Graham Brooks and Professor Carl
ton H. Parker, prepared, IN connec-
ton with the arrest of the |. W. w.
workers. pamphlet entitled, The
Truth About the |. w. W Suisse
quently meeting was held in this
city and a fund was collected to de-
fray the expenses of an advertising
campaign in behalf of the indicted
prisoners. Mr.. West, Mr.. Fitch and
myself then got together and in our
private capacities We drew up let
ter to about fifteen persons. asking
It they cared to allow their names to
be used in an appeal to be published
for funds for the men on trial. The
men whose names appear on the ad-
vertisement consented. We expected
to carry on the advertising and to
extend it to other publications.
This intensely partisan, mushy
and grotesque attempt to paint this
criminal organization in the hues of
the lily utilizes, for the purpose OF
confusing the public mind, the
names of persons who, from their
public connections, might be as
sumed to be absolutely opposed to
any organization or movement the
conduct Of which was, in even the
slightest degree, tainted with crimi-
nality Or disloyalty, but who, as
matter of fact, are and have been
for long time pronounced sympa-
thizers with and apologizers for the
l. w. w. movement and are them
selves radicals and, some of them,
members of the Socialist party.
AS a wholesome antidote to this
propaganda, this mawkish and per-
verified sentimentalism, I commend
the brochure prepared by r. Ever
EFT Harre, a writer of distinction
who has the additional qualification
Of having once been q Socialist ana
therefore knowing the dishonest
methods and tricky tactics OF the
radical mind. Mr.. Harre has had
access to records and documents
and he has painted the picture of
the |. W. W. with the brush and
paint Of lrrefutable facts. He found
no "lilies," as the reader will dis
cover.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

ship Of that organization was Id 900.
while at the same time their dilet-
tante defenders were claiming in the
public press that they had a member
ship of 100000. During the last
year they have claimed 100000 men,
bers--a sweeping inclusion of every
migratory worker from whom at any
time they have been able to collect
dollar, and thousands of whom have
no dtrstanding OF the (. w. w.
philosophy and would probably re-
pudiate it if they had. 1t was also
testified at the same hearings before
the Industrial Relations Commission
that the American Federation of La
Dor and the railway brotherhoods
had over 100000 dues-paying MEM
bers and that the American Fedora
ton of Labor had within it's member
ship thirty-five times as many un-
skilled men as the entire membership
of the |. W. w. What is even more
to the point is the fact that the
100000 men in the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and the railway
brotherhoods have no sympathy with
the anarchistic doctrines of the In
dustrial Workers Of the World
The I. w. w, naturally, have no
sympathy for the sane and success
full trade union organizations. In
fact, as shown by Mr.. HARE, the l.
w. w, wherever they can do so,
have sought to undermine and de-
stroy the legitimate organizations,
playing simply the role of the Hun
in the industrial field Shortsighted
and ignorant employers have some
times taken advantage of this fight
to help the l. W. w. put the A. F
of L. "out of business" only in turn
to be attacked by the I. w. w,
whose object is to put them out of
business, if they can. On such en-
ployers little sympathy need b.
wasted.
But the superior quality Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
The Reasoning
Of the New Republic

should like every American read
er to ponder on this pro,e1tncia4nento
carefully, TO delve into it's meaning
and to bring it home to himself. I
should like him to realize that. ac-
cording to this doctrine, when an I.
W. ". hobo blows up a railroad.
wrecks train or registers any such
Legitimate" protest against not be-
ing one of the owners Of the railroad
every American citizen who is part
of the present social order is mar
ticeps cTim5nis.
"The l. w W." purls the New
Republic with seductive reasoning
in so far as its tendencies are anti
social, is a sure indication of social
and economic acknowledgements. for
which we, as a democratic COM
munlty, are primarily responsible.
30 long as we persist in expiating
our own sins of omission by per-
scouting the individual victims af
our defective economic organization
the forces of rebellious discomfort
Will grow as certainly as epidemics
spread under the old demon exorcis.
ing and witchcraft polity."
The l. w. w leaders, according
to The New Republic" are not or
TRIAL IN Chicago for seditious con-
splracy in opposition to the conduct
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Their Ability to
"Bunco" the Public

The delicious frankness with
which the l. W. w. refer to their
ability to "bunco" the public is il.
Illustrated by an appeal for money
published in this same official organ
"Solidarity," at the time Of the al
legged free speech controversy at
Little Falls, N. Y. An extract from
this appeal, referring to the strike,
which was signed by ]. S. Biscay
the organizer in charge of that par
ticular campaign, follows:
"In the meantime it is necessary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
The Signers
OF the Appeal

The advertisement in question is
signed by three of the Competent
industrial investigators and noted
economists" contributing to the
pamphlet issued by the National
Civil Liberties Bureau and already
described. Additional signers t,
this appeal for $4,000 are Percy
Stickney Grant, rector of the
Church Of the Ascension; Professors
John Dewey and James Harvey
Robinson, of Columbia University {,
Walter E. Weyl, Carlton j. H
Hayes, Inez Haynes Irwin and Helen
Keller, all known as members of one
or more Of the radical groups. That
these two moves-the issuance of
the publication and the raising of
the fund--are all part of the same
conspiracy" to create public senti-