Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-18
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER IS, 1919
WILSON AND HANSON METHODS.

Here is something to which the peo
pie at Helena, Mont, listened. doubt
less with some astonishment. Presi-
dent Wilson said:
| intend to beg that they (agitators)
will agitate in an orderly FASHION,
that they will use the orderly methods
of counsel and it may be the slow
nrocess of correction which can be
accomplished in a governing peo-
pie through political means.
Beg the radical agitators to be or
Derby? Why even the Federation of
Labor Is endeavoring to fire them
from membership. The Federation
does not beg them. but is fighting
them because their methods and aims
mean ruin to labor, according to the
words OF Samuel Gompers
Beg Bolshevists and |. W. w. agi-
tators to desist from their noise?
Why, one might as well ask bark
ing cur to be quiet.
A bold front or a heaved brick
sends. him to cover.
1t is well enough to adopt the cour-
teous 'if you please" and may ! not'
style with men who desire to govern
by ballots, as Americans have ever
chosen to do. But not to those who
seek control with bombs Ole Hanson
methods work best with such men.
Did the rough and ready mayor of
Seattle humbly beg the conspirators
modified there to secure revolu-
ton?
He lost no time in words, and SIM
ply called the game with an organi-
cation of men of honesty and sense,
put 1000 armed special policemen on
duty: defied the soviets to attempt to
run or stop municipal plants. He re-
stored order at once by showing the
sane element in unions that they had
been led into a sympathetic strike
under false pretenses,
Did the parleying of the Canadian
officers with the same sort of radicals
accomplish anything, except to en-
courage men to go on with violence
The trouble stopped when the govern
ment routed the rioters.
Did the mayor of Chicago. who
feared the roughs in race riots, OF
sought to talk them into orderly
methods get anywhere?
1t was the governor who put ma
tlonal guardsmen into the district ant
quickly stopped ruffianism. Begging
for orderly proceedings was not the
remedy
Did the California state council o
defense beg I. w. w. to cease burning
wheat fields and grain warehouses t
destroy the food intended for tn,
armies and the people? Armed guard
were placed with orders to shoot ant
when forty of the consprators wer
taken a jury made no begging plea
but sent the bunch to federal prisoi
for long terms.
Why should the president of tn
United States beg social bandits to b
good? Why should he beseech then
to use orderly methods. only to b
laughed at by an element that will blu
consider him soft and frightened, o
seeking political support?
Orderly methods are not in t.
dream of things. 1t is order tina
they fear.
1t may have been the remark o
the president in Montana that led t
the disagreeable demands made upo
him by committee of I. w. w. an
Bolshevists when he reached Seattle
Some of the gang in that city force
an interview in private when he wa
resting and demanded, not begged
for the release of Debs and othe
political prisoners" as they terine
convicts. While the president wa
speaking others of the ilk beat upo
doors and walls. and noisily demand
ed admission to hall already fillet
disturbing the speaker and the aud
ence.
Mayor Hanson had resigned afte
securing order and his policemen ha
disbanded, but it was deemed wis
in Seattle, where imported Russian
remain in number. to have force {
marines to guard the president.