The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-31
TROOPS ENTRAIN FOR THE MINES.
TO HEAD OFF POSSIBLE TROUBLE
AND TO PROTECT THE WORKMEN
Seal All the Ports
for a Generation,
Says DR.. Freeman

II don't think the American work
ing man will stand for any plan. be
u plum, prune or lemon. which viii
take property without etVins sde-
auate compensation
This was what Colonel Thomas
r McAdams had TO say ~ the
Plumb plan TO an audience Of over
leo representative business men at
last nights meeting Of the aaCia
tlon OF Credit Men II sad tho
Plumb plan was only another name
tor condsC alton of property aud that
he saw TO more chance If its pas
sage than he did Of Virginia being
annexed 70 North Carolna~
HIS remarks were loudly applaud
ed. aa was also his reference to the
letter written by Congress man A J.
Montague in declining The invitation
OF local labor men for a Joint debate
on the subject
The meeting vas Ei"an over 70 a
discussion 81 the grave problems
growing out Of the i@ nor unrest ana
crystaiilzed IN the Impending coal
strike Cnlonei McAdan1s and DR.
Douglass Free mar. thc two speakers,
devoted the whole Of their remarks
leading up 10 the present crisis and
analyHrG the underlying sentiment
which has led the American work
ing man 70 MS presen' assalled po-
sition
Colonel McAdar7s expressed COM
rlete sympathy with the honest
am billions ot labor SAYING that had
he bean A working mar he would
have been c union man 'But when
they use these laudabie principles
as a cloak from which TO strike at
the vlta1s Of our social system" he
said 'sti1eY hara gone too FAR When
the railroad men in 1915 practically
At the point Of a pistol held UP con-
gress and forced the passage Of the
Ad2Yuson law. that was the first step
IN me w 1rg direction
In speaking Of the various de-
n1ar3s made by strikers a present,
Colonel McAdauls dec AIRED that the
people who made them did not want
thev7 1ranted, but sought to create
a situation which would enable
them So cause social revolution,
get control ~ the Industries. ana
sTerfwcisy of TIRE government tsssf
nr Freeman dealt brilliantly with
the psychological aspect Of the
nrSssoL Ssate or sFaTTs. HIS speech
carried n grave admission OF the
a'nosr pnprece dente' problem which
e.nnfronts. he '9e2insry TODAY ana
3 cheerful conviction that the sanity
of the nation would eventually as
sert Itself and bring permanent
reace ou+ Of trarendinx chaos He
/ attriuut al r7anE 81 the mistakes
NJ the working classes - jealous
Immigrants who we're entirely ig-
norant or needless Of rhe vass 9tf-
ference between the social syAens
~ Au1arjes and the and OF ihe.r
birth
,-.5 .WeEe ST. see& for nye aeatae>l
he cried would say Sea- all the
ports ~ aliens for a gene~1rIon -
THIS was greeted with tremendous
applause The meeting became
nore ana more enthused with the
fire Of the editors eloquence and
when he would have stoprad fear
irE TO abuse the privilege Of the
after-dinner speaker, they lried him
on
Or. Freeman concluded with =
touching appeal 70 al Vireirians to
stand for the things for which their
fathers and srandfathers died More
urgent than this appeal of ancee
try, he said. was the appeal Of pro-
geny OF the generation Of tomorrow
that the ideals written into our