The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-22

first of all be citizens. ANY MAN WHO OWES A HIGHER
ALLEGIANCE TO ANY ORGANIZATION THAN HE DOES
TO THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE SENT TO A FEEDER
AL PRISON OR DEPORTED.
And he said this loud enough to be heard. And he pro-
teeded to back it up by all the authority that organized gov
ernment had placed at his command. And already
more than fifty of the leaders have been rounded up.
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There are a great many l. WV. in Seattle, and accord
ing to the estimates about 1000 Russians, mostly tainted with
bolshevism. Those elements contrived to get hold of the sit
nation and they declared a series of strikes, intending, no
doubt. to start the big dongs OH the western coast and then
sweep the country eastward with them. That they had such
"a plan is not a matter of conjecture. They have been talk
ing about uprisings in many places, talking ominously, trying
to upset all manner and conditions of minds, making the men
of business timid and the men Of labor discontinued.
And when the. match was touched to things in Seattle
they expected the conflagration to spread like a holocaust.
But in Seattle Ole Hanson, sitting in the mayors chair,
dared to speak up, and he spoke so that he was heard clear
across the country. and even Lenine in Russia by this time
has probably heard the voice of Ole Hanson.
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And what did this mayor have to talk with? Why, he
had simply that rare thing that used to be thoroughly Amer
lean nerve. Instead of meeting the l. w. W. and the boil
sheviks behind some closed door or other; instead of catering
to them and instead of compromising with them he talked as
General Grant did to General Buckner at Fort DOnelson. And
the moment they found an official who was brave enough to
say boob to those lions of straw they put their tails between
their legs and sneaked away-those who were not caught and
held to answer to the law.
Those mountebanks did not represent the laboring men
of Seattle who want to work and to support their families.
They represented nothing except their own viciousness and
righteousness.
"'ihis is not a strike said Ole Hanson, "t is attempted
revolution engineered by anarchists, Bolsheviki and |. w. W.
And he added: "The labor unions must now cleanse them
selves of their anarchistic elements or the labor unions will
fall. take the position that our duty as citizens stands ahead
OF the demand of any organization ON the face of the earth.
1t is not better laboring conditions that they wanted to
restore or to install; they wnated to stop everything and live
on loot and plumber as long as there is anything left, and
after that the deluge of misery for all as it has come to Rus
STA.
The bolsheviki do not belong here, and all of that per
suasiOn who have been caught in Seattle ought to be shipped
back to Russia. where they can eat each other if they so de-
sire. We had a country here before they came and we be.
lieve that the American people propose to keep what they
have without asking leave of long-whiskered lunatics from
Russia who are accustomed to dealing with those who have
not learned to read and write.
There are two ways of dealing with anarchy. One was
applied from Washington to the case of Hi1srOm, the |. W.
w. burglar and murderer in Utah, and the ease of Thomas
Mooney in California. The other was applied by Ole Hanson
in Seattle.
Which is the best for the worker who wants to work?