Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-09-18

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derby city rule. They have had the
Of the presence Of a uni
versity which holds itself to be the
greatest in the world, of school of
technology, of conservatory of
music and hundred other educational
and uplifting enterprises. Boston is
also the head city of great re-
ligious cult, which issues therein
every day a splendid newspaper.
The policemen of Boston formed a
union. They made certain demands
upon the city authorities. These de-
mands were refused. The city au-
thorities stated that the policemen
ought not to belong to union or be
affiliated with other unions. The po-
licemen then went on a strike.
The moment the policemen struck
the forces of chaos broke loose.
The people of Boston had not pre-
viously gone through strike. There
had been no confusion in the city.
They were not drunk with liquor.
Immediately thousands of people be-
gan to rob stores. They might have
been excused if they were starving,
but they were not. They not only
threw away food, but took clothing,
knickknacks, and bits of jewelry. They
took shoes and threw them away.
They might have robbed the banks,
but the banks were guarded. From
these transactions they proceeded to
rioting. Then they mistreated and
outraged the women whose reputa-
lions had not been good. From this
they proceeded to assault all women,
good and bad, with whom they came
in contact.
When we were young we read the
stories of how the bowling mobs Of
Rome and how they were fed in order
that they would not pillage the city.
Then when we read how the work
ulers furnished them with cruel
sports in order to amuse them. Gladi-
iators fought with one another and
fought in the arena with wild beasts.
Christians were disposed to the lions
in order to make Roman holiday.
Flaubert, in "Salambo," tells the
story of riot of the mercenaries in
Carthage. 1t is a picture gorgeous in
its brutality.
The stories of the murders and
blood-letting during the French Rev.
olution are so striking that he writes
of history regard robbery and rape
as of small comparative importance.
During the Commune there was
much of this sort of disorder, and
history records it.
A few years ago we read the stories
of riots in the Russian cities and how
the Cossacks rode down the 'strug
Cling" masses. What were these
masses doing? They were
doing what people always do when the
restraint of the law is removed. They
were reverting to primeval savagery.
They were giving the brute in their
natures the ascendancy. They were
doing exactly what the Bolsheviks in
Russia have been doing for year,
but they were not so pharisaical as
these Russian rascals who excuse their
qualification of their murderous, lust
full and thieving desires under the
fight for liberty ard the establish
ment of a new philosophy.
If the Russian papers were as en-
as the American journals
what a tremendous Indictment they
could draw against an American city
on this, the university of the be-
ginning of the battle of st. Mihiel.
One year ago to-day Pershing let
DOSE the American artillery on Ger
nan front and American soldiers
made their first Independent attack
upon the Germans. These soldiers
started to whip civilization and de-
,ency into the Germans or to kill
hem, and from this day in 1913 until
November II of the same year the
American soldiers pressed forward
md barred their breasts to the bullets
# the enemy that peace and order
night dominate the world.
Here we are to-day, one year after,
in one American city quail
ties of manhood that beshame all of
Is.
That is not all.
The senator from Massachusetts, is
eading "a faction of marplots in Con-
,ress who in order to get political
will permit the wreckage
# the world. Lodge and his crew
md, alas, he is getting some sym
'athy from southerners, proclaiming
desire to keep the United States