Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-22

DonOugh knows exactly when a radical speech
pamphlet or opinion crosses the deadline of
the law. IIgan can arrest anything on two
legs. McDonouGh points the game and Egan
catches it.
McDonough and Egan agree that extreme
radicalism is on the increase in the United
States-~evcrywher except in Chicago. They
say, for example, that few years ago the
treasury OF the ]. w. W. contained only
three hundred dollars, aud that when they
raided the national headquarters it contained
fifty thousand dollars.
McDonoughs opinions OF radicaIism are
especially interesting. AS result Of having
lived with the radicals for two years he has
tcUme to understand their point OF view, and
he has a good deal Of sympathy with them.
He believes firmly in suppressing all attempts
to change political conditions by violence.
This is his business, and he pursues it with
zeal and success. But he says the bomb
throwing and assassinations are the acts of
irresponsible individuals, and that the mass
of the radicals have nothing to do with such
acts. He says the radical groups are made
up for the most part of hard-WOrking, I'M
skilled laborers, who see in it a hope of i'm
proving their conditions Of life. He says there
are very few criminals or vagabonds in the
ranks of the radicals, that most of them
are total abstainers and are in favor of pro-
hibition because they believe that: whisky
is an enemy of the working class. They are
merely working men who advocate measures
that go far beyond those generally accepted.
Egan and McDonough do not generally try
to break up radical strongholds and gather
ing places in Chicago. These strongholds
include several little book stores where all
brands of radical literature are sold and GER
tain halls where radical meetings are held.
Such places are useful to the detectives be-
cause they know that any radical suspected
of illegal tendencies will turn up sooner or
later in of them. If they broke up the
gathering places, the men they want would
be harder to find
All of the radical groups IN the United
States either have, or recently have had, head
quarters in Chicago. In addition to the
Socialists, these organizations include the
Young Peoples Socialistic League Commonly
called the "Ypsls), the Industrial Workers
of the World and the anarchists. The anar-
chists are said to have had a sort of an Or
ganization not long ago, but it has broken
up. 1t was a very loose organization, for
anarchists are individualists, and no two of
them believe exactly the same thing. For
that reason there is very little chance that
they will ever accomplish anything of any
magnitude.
q Egan and McDonough both say that ma
jority of the extreme radicals are either for
eign born or of foreign parentage. 1t is
clear that immigration is chief source of
radicalism in this country.
1t is interesting to visit the places where
radicals fOregather. One of these, for ex-
ample, is little book store near one of Chi
cagos busiest downtown corners In this
place you can buy the works of all the lead
ing European radicals, such as Marx and
Kautsky, in very cheap paper editions You
can also buy more different radical news
papers and magazines than you ever knew
existed. To judge by the profusion of these
publications, it must be that every time Mr..
BurlesOn puts one out of business two spring
up in its place.
The proprietor of this establishment is
very quiet, serene little man with Van
dyke beard. He will tell you in a soft voice
and with a pleasant smile that he believes
capitalism should be wiped off the face of
the earth. He defes the conventionalites
! by wearing large tattooed design on his
| right arm, which is barred to the public view.
! He is intelligent and logical.
t People of all types come into this place,
rich and poor, American and foreign. Each
throws dime quarter on the table and
walks off with the book or magazine he wants,
often without saying word. The smiling
little proprietor seems to be a worry success
full capitalist himself.