Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1919-10-07
REVOLUTION MAKERS

Speaking tonight before the Sunday
Evening Club, General Wood told OF
the Omaha situation and said:
The troops and the American
Legion were all that stood between the
local authorities and the destruction
of the city. II Is now known that plans
had been laid for widespread destruc'
ton but aid was at hand"
After recounting the acts of the moo
the general continued:
Just one agency was 10 blame for
this-timt was the 1. w. w. and its red
flag. the soviet organization Of this
country These are the enemies
of the American home. Their doctrines
lead TO ruin"
The menace OF the American boishe-
wiki has not yet come to the average
American. but the people OF Omaha
now know what IL is 10 be dominated
by a few red flaggers melting delin.
quent youth TO arson and murder. The
lesson does not need repeating there.
and In other places where l. W. w.
activities have brought disgrace and
suffering TO communities that have
been the victims OF their Vaccinations.
How long win the public look upon
these anarchists with complacency
while they undermine the foundations
OF democracy?
Late dispatches say that Omaha Is
perfectly normal and that the minority
that hanged a negro. burned the court
house and tried to hang the mayor Is
either in jail or scattered. The citizens
have awakened to find themselves
disgraced In the eyes Of the nation and
they are at a loss 10 know how II
could have happened. Their ignorance
has been their undoing. They found
that the agitators are not after better
government nor better working condi-
tons but that they count disorder of
any sort and for any reason as part Of
program that Is 10 bring about the rev.
olution that shall place them In a po-
sition TO lay their hands on the wealth
OF the country.
From Arkansas, South Carolina,
Texas and Georgia come news OF race
riots. murders. arson and lynchlngs.
A peculiar manifestation IL the connec-
ton between l. w. w. activities and
race riots. That white men were at
the bottom Of the uprising OF negroes
at Helena, Arkansas. appears from the
confessions OF captured blacks that
had planned TO kill the white p0pula.
tion of Phillips county. They seemed
TO have been convinced that the fed
eral government was behind them IN
their insurrection. Evidently there
was a guiding spirit spreading the
of violence. Ignorance
was here used TO feed the flames and
II is ignorance on which the l. w. w.
theories thrive. The country Is not
doing its duty in an educational way
bv either the blacks or the whites
of the south and the north that boasts
of its fine educational advantages
finds that its system does not carry
education to the lower strata OF socie-
~ where revolution and misery dwell
together.
The steel strike was begun In a per-
festly orderly way, but II too manifest
ed an inclination TO disorder and race
II has been necessary to call
out the militia TO protect the people
from the cruelties of the mob. No
doubt the more ignorant workers have
been the victims OF bolshevist propa- ..
ganda. As a consequence the more
sober workers are returning 10 work |
evidently preferring TO lose the strike
than TO encourage disorder with the
ruin which II brings. The problem Of
union labor Is to control its ignorant
and alien members from the excuses
that destroy that for which such men
as Samuel Gompers are working TO at |
tain. Thinking workers and their |
friends do not have much sympathy |
with the ideas OF the steel barons who
refuse to become parties to collective
and insist on being the ar
biters as to wages. hours OF work and /
But the average worker, |
with his home and family. cannot af-
ford TO chance a great deal ON strike
that Is called and conducted by pro-
fessional agitators.
The cooler heads In the nation are
calling for less agitation. II has been
shown that the average OF wages Is
not much behind the cost OF living and
IL has ben demonstrated that increas-
I'd wages means two things: Increas-
ed cost Of living and more extravagant
living. In other words many people
are not willing 10 practice economy
and thrift TO build up the capital that
means the enjoyment OF the little luxu-
ries of life, but demand everything
now and without sacrifice. II can't
be done.