Arizona republican., 1919-06-19
To despise our species is the price we must often pay for our knowledge of it. Cotton.
The President of the A. F. of L.

But for President Samuel Gompers of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor organized labor in America would hardly have been able to withstand the storm of bolshevism which has swept over this country With a less powerful less wise leader it would have presented fruitful field for Leninsm han any outside of Russia and Central Europe. This country has long been an asylum for outlaws and criminals from those countries to much greater e1xentsthan England France has been. This ele- ment is the back bone of the I. W. W. movement which but for the firmness and good sense of Mir. Gompers would have effected the disruption of or ganized labor in the United States if it could not control 1t.
 Mir. Gompers whether foreseeing the evil not, had succeeded for many years in preventing social ist from securing ascendancy in organized labor, though he has had constantly fight it in it's old form as well as in it's later development of I. W. iW&fsn. There have been times when the issue was ddubtful but so far he has prevailed and we think now that he will be stronger than ever, for the -capitastic class" "the employing class" (we he bolshevst terminology) begin to realize how much they themselves owe to him.
 We do not mean to say that MT. Gompers has p1evented reign of boshevism in this country. It could never in any circumstances have become a d@sructive force here, but it could have been a serious Annoyance whose removal would have been accompanied by much disorder and bloodshed by Inc erection of scaffolds until they would the landscape thickly as the derricks of Texas oil field
 We may believe, and that is no reflection upon the present delegates in the A. F. of L. convention that but tho influence of Mr. Gompers not in that convention but during many previous years. there would have been an adoption of those twin boshevist
 
 ment and for the endorsement of the Mooney strike Both resolutions fronsthe same source and each equally aimed at the principles of democracy and Americansm.
 There are seed beds of bolshevism in this coun- try in almost every part of the country but the soil is unfriendly The plants are a sckly growth The specimens contemptible. But even a weak exotic under certain conditions may come to seem in digenous
 Under neglect of the soil. these plants might flourish and become rank and noxous weeds as Johnson grass or Canada thstIes
 The ignorant, cowardly, criminal and vicious advocates of I. ". W. ism or. dsclaiming l. w W. ism, but advocating the things for which l. w. ". ism and bolshevism stand, would become the leaders of misguided labor though themselves not laborers, but lazy parasites on labor.
 There is hardly an American community free from nucleus of bolshevism. They have secured control of many of the so-caed labor journals whose columns teem with praise of bolshevism ranging from excusatory articles the soviet government to insistent demand that the United States govern ment recognize on equal terms the government of the bolsheviki.
 The journals found demanding = Mooney strike and endorsement of the late Win Wa md alSo denunciaton of Mayor Hansen of Seattle admittedly friend of honest labor, for the promptness with which he met the I. w. W. outbreak there. And we found in them unveiled attacks upon the head of the American Federation of Labor
 When simmered down these attacks amount to assault upon our form of government If such 6 change as the bolshevists want can be effected in the structure of the government by provided by the constitution, they are welcome to bring it about; if they muster the votes. They have a right to wipe out courts and to install anarchy if they bring majority of the people to that way of thinking, just the same as any other group would have the right in the same way to set up a monarchy or a despotsm in the United States. All these things are allowable if they can be accom- pshed in an orderly manner.
 But our bolshevists do not want to proceed in an orderly manner. They would accomplish by in- limitation the setting aside of our courts and they would establish their theories of government by direct action.
 It is not enough that such methods should be opposed by the president of the A. F. of L. and majority of that organization Every citizen whether he belongs organized labor or not should see also in orderly way, that his community should cease to be breeding place for bolshevism and he should bring to the attention of the authorities every un- lawful and every unlawful utterance that the peace and integrity of his government
 The allies and associated governments may moi be able to make the Germans sign the peace treaty