Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1919-11-06
EXTERMINATE THEM.

What an astounding piece or news
! II Is to read in the Washington dis
patches Of our neighbor, the New
York Times. that "the Federal author
tiles are IN possession Of evidence
which shows that the I. w w. and
allied organizations IN this country
are now openly agitating the over
throw Of the Government of the Unit
ed States and the substitution Of 4
Bolshevlst form Of Government"
SO the Federal authorities have at
/ last discovered the fact! With over
500 newspapers, magazines and pam
phlets in every language, even in
Guiding English openly preaching the
revolutionary overthrow of our Gov
eminent, and anarchist orators howl
ing 1t to mobs all over the country for
n year or more, the Federal authorities
have found out that there is n pro
paganda Of this sort going on MAJ
vellous! They have found out what
every man. woman and child in the
country of ordinary intelligence has
known for months and years! This
is progress indeed.
They have found out also, let rs
hope. that back of this outbreak Of
strikes from one end of the country
to the other-over 1 900 In the last
eight months-there looms this same
sinister Bolshevist menace. They
have found out that strikes have been
instigated ana precipitated by this
same gang Of brazen traitors who,
once the strike Is under way, make It
the vehicle for the incubation Of their
creed Of wreck and ruin for our Amer
lean form Of Government; of property
seizure by mob violence; the substi-
tuition Of mob government for govern
ment by law.
The Federal authorities, we are in
formed have at last found out the
notorious, and are ''in possession of
evidence Of 1t. Possibly the shrewd
Suspicious Of the Federal sleuths We're
aroused by some such utterances as
these, taken from an l. w. w. pam
phlet scattered by thousands over the
country and particularly in the in
Vulnerable strike centers. We quote
from the quotation in the Times:
"when the proletariat shall have
overthrown capitalism, the l. w. w.
will stand, ready made, the pre- estab-
Ilished government of the new order.
1t will not be necessary to call con-
stituent conventions. 1t will not be
necessary to create soviets. 1t will
not be necessary to lavish the pre-
cious energies Of the proletariat in the
desperate experiment of politics, for
the /. w. w, which will have fought
the revolution, will also pass over the
framework Of the new communism.
The existing parliamentary govern
ment will crumble into uselessness.
The industrial unions win become the
supreme national power. Each in
dustrlal union win appropriate the
capitalists from its industry. The
functions of Industrial management
viii be taken over by the union"
This is the sort of stuff that has
been spread broadcast in print and
Ihowled from anarchist rostrums for
months. until, as Senator Poindexter
put it, the country is seething with
violations OF the law SO far as revolu-
tionary utterances are concerned"
And the Federal authorities having
the evidence Of all this, why in the
name Of Heaven do not the Federal
authorities act? Why are these an
arehistic agitators allowed to run at
large? There are laws in abundance
under which they may be Jailed, de-
ported. hanged if need he. Why arc
not these laws enforced?
Senator Poindexter has offered a
resolution calling upon the Attorney
General for an explanation of the
department Of Justices strange laxity
in this grave matter. 1t is a timely
resolution. II 1t results in stirring the
Federal authorities to action it will
be service to the country Of which
the country is sorely in need. There
is but one remedy for the anarchistic
vermin, foreign or native, now swarm
ling with impunity all over the coun-
try. and that remedy is determination.
l-Harvey's Weekly.