The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-22
FROM ONE WHO KNOWS KNOWS HOW

Ex-Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle. who achieved a national
reputation by ~subduing the Reds in his city and malntainingl
the rule of law and order there, gives some straightforward
advice to the people of New York Writing in the columns
of the New York Sun he says that. having gone through al
worse experience with the mischiefmakers in Seattle than New
York has yet hadto face, he can speak with "a deflnite knowl-
edge of the cure for this cancer on society and industry"
There is no doubt about that.
During his campaign for the mayoralty, he tells us, Seattle
was a hotbed of l. w. WIS, anarchists, Russian bolsheviks and
radical labor union leaders. He promised the people in his
speeches that if he were elected he would "cose every ]. w.
w. hall and Red meeting place in the city and paddock the
DOORS" And the first thing he did after election was to carry
out this promise. What" he asks, "is your mayor doing in
New York to close the halls and dives where these pestiferous
enemies of our country are scheming day and night to over
throw the United States government? Your government, Mr.
New Yorker, as well as mine?'
As everyone knows, New York is the principal landing
place OF foreign malcontents. Some of them distribute them
selves through the country, but a good many stay WITHIN a
mile or two of the docks where they land. Mr.. Hanson says
that New York is today headquarters for the cleverest and
most dangerous Reds in the country" And he adds that If
New York would put its house in order, on the basis OF 1O per
cent Americanism, and clean out these human rats, the organ
lied antigovernment movement would be crushed throughout
the United States" The task cannot be undertaken too soon
or carried through too completely.
Follow the trail of the Red ring-leaders on their journey
eastward from the Pacific coast and middle west he goes on
land invariably you will find it leads to New York" On the
Fast Side and elsewhere. he says, speakers preach anarchy
and The overthrow of the government every night. What is
New York going to do about it? Will it rest content with this
dangerous condition of affairs? Will it weakly agree to the
dissemination of inflammatory doctrines? Will it permit
these soap-box preachers to counsel riot and revolution TO-
their hearts content? The eXmayor of Seattle explains the
plan of action he undertook in that city. To put it in three
words, he cleaned house. More in detail this was the pro-
Cedure:
"The places where the Reds met We're closed and
guarded by the police. Their vicious literature was
seized. Most of it was burned, the rest saved as a
basis for state and federal prosecutions. At the same
time the police raided the Reds printing shops, took
possession of their type, presses and paper-and
locked the doors behind them. The men found in
those places were arrested. Those who could not be
prosecuted for vagrancy or under a state charge OF
criminal anarchy were turned over to the immlgra-
ton authorities of Seattle and marked for deporta-
+! ton" a.
And he adds: "The first thing New York should do in the
crisis now confronting this nation is to make up their minds
that the Reds must go or rot in jail. Then they should get
busy. The time to start cleaning house is now. With your
support and help, your police, state and federal officers can
do the work" No good citizen will dissent from this sturdy
doctrine. The Bolshevist evil is widespread, insidiOus, treach-
erous. The teachers of anarchy can be found throughout the
land. But particularly they congregate in New York and that
city owes it not only to itself but to the rest of the country to
crush them out.