The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-11-28
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1919.

/ sunny hipAbAiEiNNN VI NihN iONeei ANNs7"
"That the thugs of the lumber trust
were hiding behind the uniform and
name Of the American Legion in Cen
I tralia no one can doubt who is famil-
lar with. conditions on the coast"
This is the epitaph of convicted
criminal criminal stamped by the
federal court as a TRAITOR to his coun
try-would write over the graves of
/ those young Americans who, march
ing in peaceful parade, wearing the
uniform they had nobly worn in the
the Argonne, were shot from am
bush by his fellow reds in the little
Washington city.
While this skulking coyote, the lead
er of his pack, was prowling through
the Northwest, aiding and abetting
the enemies of his country, Grimm
and Hubbard and McElfresh, the uni
versity lads, and Cassagranda, the
little Greek bootblack, We're fighting
with the gallant Dist in France. They
were offering their lives for their
country while the hound who now at
tempts to malign them was barking
| 1t their flag.
The days dispatches carry the in
formation that these four men were
marked for slaughter-this is the
confession of one of the reds now in
custody; they were marked by this
| lnurdeTous cabal for no reason except
-'"t they had demonstrated their 10y
| atty to the nation and had expressed
their disapproval of treason and ter
rorism. They were not engaged in
war; they were celebrating the day
that marked the end of the war-the
| anniversary of peace. The crime
brings the blush of shame to the face
of all decent Americans. Not even the
perpetrators have attempted to ex-
plain it. And here in this city, which
we call an American city, is found a
creature who not only offers an apol-
ogy and defense for the criminals,
but the defiles the graves of those
martyred youths.
Five million Americans, alive to-
day, who answered the call to the COL
ors, will not soon forget Tuesdays as
sasinations. Those of their comrades
who witnessed them paused after
wreaking a summary vengeance on
the leader of the reds and guarded
the Jail in which the other murderers
covered. momentarily expecting to be
torn to pieces by an indignant band
of citizens
Such are the facts. uniisputed and
indisputable. There was no provoca-
ton for the crime; there can be TO
justification of it, and yet in Butte,
in fancied security, is found miser-
able, sniveling whelp who condones
it.
1t is almost inconceivable that an
Utterance of this character can go IN
noticed; that instigators of rank Sc
dition and anarchy can stalk in this
city of ours with impunity. True. no
doubt, the great majority of Ameri
cans who have read the details of the
crime and who notice what this viper
spews from his poison fangs will only
feel the more resolved to put an end
to his breed, but there are among his
audience the ignorant and deluded who
accept, without investigation, these
brutal ISLANDERS uttered on the very
heels of death over the still graves of
American soldiers. And what of the
boys into whose hands fall these pois-
onous vaporings Must we tolerate,
must we supinely inhale, as the pen
atty of liberty the poison gas of every
enemy of the government and of our
institutions
And to think that these are the peo-
pie who profess to represent labor!
Millions of men who toll with their
hands and who are ready to defend
labor's just rights in manly fashion
are to be found in America today de-
crying, with all the bitterness they
can express, the foul assassins of
Centralia. No snake of the type that
puts out the Bulletin can spread its
slime over the great mass of decent,
law abiding American workingmen by
a pretended advocacy of their cause.
These outbreaks, like the Seattle
emeute, mark the beginning of the
end of these treason mongers who in
fest the industrial centers of the
country. Their day is fast drawing to
close. Time will bring us in cycles
its Booths and Guiteaus and its
Czolgoszes. Monuments will be erect
ed over our Lincolns, our Garfelds
and McKinleys. over our boys who fell
in France or in Centralia, alike de-
Tending their country and their flag.
These monuments viii stand through
summer sun and winter snow when the