Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-06
Grave Picture Drawn by Ma
tionaI Speakers Of Menace OF
Anarchists to Country-Ed-
ucation the Remedy.
ENROLMENT BREAKS
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS
Congressman Fess and DR..
Burton, President Of Univer-
sity of Michigan, Discuss
Issues Facing U. S. Today.

ISSUES FACING U. ). IOQdy.
Two men of national fame, one a
president of great university and
the other a congressman, drew grave
pictures of present conditions in the
United States and the possible re-
suits of these conditions in the COM
ing months at the meeting of the
Nebraska Teachers association in
the Auditorium last night.
One of these men was DR.. M. l..
Burton. president of the University
of Michigan. The other was Simon
D. Fess. Congressman from Ohio.
"We face the most gigantic and
portentous problems today" said
President Burton. "A great steel
strike is going on. A great coal
strike is in progress. We are told
that if congress doesn't pass the
Plumb bill 100000 railway men
may strike. In many cities there
are outbreaks of violence and con-
tempt for law and order. ......
Crisis Is Near.
IF enough of these crises should
come together the hour may strike
when American boys in United
States uniforms will have to demon.
strate that the power of the federal
government must apd shall be re-
spected and preserved. -
There is no use in being opti-
mistic and supinely saying that
everything will come all right. |
am not. a pessimist. am, in, the
present state of affairs, like the op-
iinist who fell from 20-story build
ing, and as he shot past the tenth
story he said, I'm all right SO far
Many people seem to think that
when the senate shall have ratified
the peace treaty. our troubles will
be over. But they will only have
commenced then. We shall then be
part of big going concern taking
in most of the world and the psob-
lens of the world will be our prob
lens. -
Must Educate People.
"The demand of this great democ-
raey of which we are part is that
we use our powers of thinking, that
we cultivate and instill into our
pupils plain commonsense, that we
cultivate a generation which shall be
independent but sane, tolerant but
possessed of convictions for
which it will fight or die, intelligent
but not supinely acquiescent in any
thing that anybody may suggest.
I'VE must recognize today that
grievances exist. The government
should, at public expense, make a
thorough investigation into griev-
ances and then let sane citizenship
decide on a sane, commonsense
adjustment of them"
Congressman Fess Talks.
Congressman Fess, in his speech
last evening declared that the Plumb
plan of operating the railroads is
the first step toward sovietizing the
railroads of the country and that it
is impossible.
The one great and ominous men,
ace now to this country, he said,
is the present demand to negative
the force of the government and
create revolutions.
With this tendency in the United
States, the government is ready to
proceed drastically, he declared, to
see, once for all, whether the revo-
lutionaries or the government shall
rule.
Says Anarchy Active.
Organized anarchy is active in
every center" he said. %Treason to
our institutions is heard upon all
hands. Imported doctrines are
preached with impunity in defiance
of order. City after city is witness
to insults to our flag, dishonor to
our boys in khaki and assaults upon
the constitution and our institutions
under it.
"The labor circles are the fertile
soil in which these foreign propa-
ganda are sown. Nowhere is the
contest more bitter than within Ia
Dor organizations where conserva-
tive and rational procedure is forced
to give way to radical sovietisnl, and
syndicalism as well as anarchism
through the process OF boring
within where the revo1utionist has
now taken charge as is evidenced in
the stcc! strike and the threatened
coal strike.
Gompers Loses Grip.
conservative labor leadership has
made its fatal mistake by first de-
manding class legislation, which is
unamerican, and must ultimately
prove its undoing. Congress under
stress exempted labor organizations
from prosecution for violation of
anti-trust laws in the belief that con-
servative leadership like that OF
Gompers would warrant such class
legislation.
Today Gompers has lost to the
revolutionist who claims the right oi
exemption from prosecution for his
violation of the same law.
"This conservative leadership is
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