New-York tribune., 1919-05-10
Seattle's Fighting Mayor
Makes Five Speeches
for Victory Notes in
Whirlwind Tour of City
Eyes of Country on N. Y.
Asks That Government Curb
Agitators and End the
Red Peril i'm America

Ole Hanson, Mayor of Seattle, came
to town yesterday. He rested long
enough to sign his name on the register
of the Waldorf-Astora and then
whirled about New York to speak at
five Victory Loan meetings.
Between appeals for subscriptions to
the loan he told what he thought of
New York
"The people Of this city are too
busy" he said. "They don't think.
New York should visit the country as
frequently as the country visits New
York. / understand that you are only
80 per cent American in New York;
that you have only subscribed 80 per
cent of the bonds that you're supposed
to subscribe for.
"Are you New Workers. hypocrites 2"
he asked of one of the meetings he
addressed, cor are you honest-to-God
American citizens? Has money got
into your blood so you don't realize
the eyes of this country are on you?
Unless you ere subscribing to the
Victory Loan don't stand on the curb
and cheer when the next parade goes.
by and sit still when they play "The
Star~Spangled Banner"
Gives Bolshevism a Blow
Mayor Hanson had something to say
about Bolshevsm and the labor prob
lem, too.
"The world is too small for one
half of it to be Bolshevik and the other
half civilized" he told reporters.
"Lenine and Trotzky know this. They
know that their government cannot
stand unless our government falls.
do not imagine for one moment
that there is not an organized Boil
shevik propaganda in this country. It
is working twenty-four hours day,
we'll supplied with money and with
brains. The thing that offsets it is
the commen sense and clear vision of
the average American workingman, al
though it is unfortunate that the work
ingman, too, often puts the agitating
Bolshevik in the place of responsible
ity in his union and thus enables Lee
nine and Trotsky to put American la
Dor in false light.
81 request that the great government
of the United States defend itself
against the insidious attack of the
preachers of force and violence who
tempting to overthrow this govern
nlent ] request their punishment.
Il request the deportation, after due
investigation and trial, of the seditious
alien. | request the stopping of all
seditious publications in this country.
Liberty does not mean license nor does
free speech mean advocacy of the over
throw of our government by force.
Employers of labor must and will
pay the workers fair wage, establish
and maintain good, decent conditions,
treat labor more like a partner and
see to it that every child in this land
receives useful. first class education.
Then the world will witness joining
of the hands of labor and capital. and
we will love instead of hate, seek CO.
operation instead of class war and the
two will unite and drive from this
free country the red menace which is
no menance at all if we try to prac-
tice even in small measure the golden
rule
At his first Victory Loan speech, de-
livered at noon at Victory Way, Mayor
Hanson received greater applause than
any man who has stood in that pulpit
before him. His head was barred to
rain that drenched his auditors. The
blue-eyed man in the gray sack suit
captivated the crowd.
Don't let this great big city of
New York be shamed by some little
city in the Middle West he pleaded
Now this is the condition. The
government of the United States be-
lieves you. They spent twenty-six bill
ions of dollars in order that we might
win this war. Squander part of It !?
why, OF course, they squandered part Of
it. They squandered it in order that tho
war might be shortened. This coun-
try always thought more of manhood
ana a womanhood than it did Of gold