The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-08
IIlNs N 1l1E1sIg;a5
Shall We Have Liberty or Hell
n America? The People IF
This Country Must AN
swer Promptly
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OF the nations against which he
launched his Juggerhaut of hate IN
1877.
The armed forces of Germany :are
essensibly unarmed, bat her nf0st
ssibtle euissaries of disaster, her
propagandists. are loose and they are
continuing the wrecki1fgs M YSeeshod pur
sued BY EHdenfdsrf sad s,nis sui unfspeak-
able associates in their retreat through
Belgium.
The Ana1gamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen's' Cnfon has been
$ trying to force recognition of the
closed shop by tying up the entire
meat packing industry of the East. =
"a strike was ordered in Baltimore
last week. In its account of the
opening of the strike, the Baltimore
Evening Sun says "the hand of Ger
man aliens, who during the war were
restricted to barred zones, and in
some cases were even vouched for by
the very employers they are now
s turning against, was. seen in the open
4 ing OF the strike. which resulted in
one clash in the northeastern section
of the city, -
The man who figured IN that clash
was an alien enemy. during the war.
SO was one Of the chief organizers OF
the strike, who was given the priv
nsge sof barred zones during war in
ssrad roff fnternent solely because hin
eH3paoyers 1ouched for him. Others
leading the strike Included. according
to the SHn, "a man named Rocco,
said to he "a radical from New York.
and a German named Mainhardt."
hen the San reporter went to get
a statement from tteystrike1l leaders he
was greeted by the bitter denuncia-
ions Of a leader Who Became so ex-
cited that he could scarcely under
stand his own broken English.
The Press used to say that there
Z was he'll in Belgium. There Will be
hel1 IN America if the brazen ex-
ponents of Industrial disruption, with
tho German philosophy Of hate stamp
red deep all over them, are permitted
to run freely about the country, stir
{ ring up strikes, preaching revolution
and mocking American institutions by
employing them as masquerade ur-
der which they work their nefarious
designs.
america did not want the Hun
civilization and sent some millions Of
men and billions OF dollars to Eu-
rope to drive it back into its own
habitat and utterly wipe it out from
the face of the earth. America did
not. want an economic philosophy
made in Germany to permeate
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wreck them. But that is just what
IS happening.
~ 1.-TWO satriotic work hours every
day. for<eyery Gernlan!" Tha, is what
the Hun breaches and practices for
himself at home Two hours a day
less work. less work per hour and
.nore pay is what the Hun preaches
for the workmen Of other nations.
9and his fellow-Huns march streets
sH American cities in perfect safety.
Spreading that philosophy and actually
1lnducing gullible Americans-a few OF
:1bem-and thousands OF aaiens-to
accept that philosophy.
Who won the war? Nobody Knows
NOW and nobody will Know for TWEEN
fty years, but white native American
bows were winning it ION the battle
fields of Europe, a lot Of profkeerfng
.saliens were doing what they could To
lose it in the workshops lat home, to
the extent of staging something more
than 5000 strikes IN the space OF
eighteen months and running up
wages until their bellies fairly bulged
with stufafIg. Tf1ey put load on
~ -Yt,sot k1,o,yONt
would break 'hin1 It did not, so with
the characteristic 1sffrontery and cum
ming Of the Hun, these same alien
elements, unIeasfed and mouth free,
are engaged in sapping sthe very
foundations of government and indus
try. They even move in the open;
they have dared not to conceal their
activities. Immunity has emboldened
them. They defy Washington and
mock congress. that congress which
has before it all the evidence un-
Tearthed in THE overrnan investigation.
that congress to which has gust re-
turned the committee investigating
the steel strike with a report Atfrat in
place after place about Pittsburgh IT
couldn't get any testimony because
the men employed Gid not speak a
language they understood, nor they "a
language the workers" could compTe-
hend-they mock that congress Be
cause it. with a full record of the case
in hand, with full:information OF what
the Huns are trying to do, merely ex-
tends the wartime Immigration re-
strictions, but is afraid to enact feg-
islation that will preserve the fruits
OF, bloody victory in the field and save
American industry from threatened
disruption.
While the Industrial ConfereYice IN
Washington is talking about the
closed shop" Congress itself ought 70
be talking about closed country.
That is the real issue.
Here in Baltimore we have aiiens
blackjacking good Americans wno
want to work. Had the Kaiser gent