Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-20
1AROR STANDS FOR PURE
AMERICANISM.

Everv true and loyal American
.;+;zon should be grateful to the
American Federation Of Labor for
tho firm stand that organization has
taken for pure Americanism, says the
Memphis Commercial Appeal IN con-
oratulating 'the leaders and the rank
and file of the federation"
There never was time when it was
more necessary for the substantial
workingman of the country to STAND
IN for the ideals of our republic, ana
thew have not proved recreant, con-
times the Commercial Appeal. With
manv European countries living in
nowder house of radicalism, the
!. American workingmen have served
notice upon the European firebrands
that they have no place in this coun-
trv. It is the hardest and most effec-
tive rebuke the evangelists OF law
lessness and disorder have received.
No one ever questioned the loyalty
and sound Americanism of the great
majority of the workingmen in the
United States. They demonstrated too
plainly their allegiance both by serv-
ice with our armed forces and in the
factories that supplied our armies.
Although there were among them a
few disease minded radicals of boil
shevist persuasion, the country felt
confident that the great heart OF la
Dor was sound. No one thought for
moment that the federation would
indorse the Russian brand Of anarcry,
and the rejection of the soviet res
olution merely confirmed the general
impression. But it is gratifying to
know that this powerful organization
has constituted itself a bulwark upon
which the assaults of the syndicalists,
the anarchists, the radical socialists,
the |. W. w. and all the opponents OF
direct action will prove impervious.
What is more a subject for felicita-
ton and congratulation of labor is its
rejection of all sentimentalism in con-
nection with the effort to intimidate
the judiciary in the case of Thomas
j. Mooney. Whether guilty or not,
Mooney has been convicted of a
helnous bomb outrage in which a
number of innocent people lost their
llves. The obvious facts are that he
mas been tried and convicted by jury
IN one of the strongest union labor
towns OF the country. The higher
courts affirmed the findings, but not
outstanding this the government has
promised that an impartial investiga-
'lon will be made to see whether OF
not any of the rights of the convicted
man have been violated.
The federation was guided by wis.
uom When it decided that the deter
ninatlon of the Mooney case was
purely judicial matter and that g
general strike would mean the injec.
.on OF outside and political elements
Inc labor leaders and members real
'Aeo that any attempt to override the
.Ourts by intimidation would be the
opening wedge towards the destruc
.loh OF one of the three great
branches of our government. Onece {
sinnlng We're made the end coulC
~. oe foreseen. It would have beer
I'uiculous for the workingmen t.
ave injected bolshevism in principle
~ 70 have indorsed it in practice
.ae federation was far-seeing in it
,sermlnation and made stand fol
IN and lawful procedure that will
us effect in days to come.
: was left for Sam Gompers, how
i sr' to deliver the knockout blow t,
~. - element Of radicalism in the fed