The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-06
GARY IS PRAISED.

1t is gratifying to the authorities and loyal citizens
of Gary and East Chicago to find that the state papers
are ready to give praise for the way the situation was
handled. The indianapolis News says editorially:
In Gary there was more of the real Russian arti-
Gle. The Reds met and denounced the government Of
the United States. the government of Indiana, and the
municipal government of Gary. Mayor Hodges had an
nounced that no revolutionary tactics would be toler-
ated and he made his word good. Elsewhere in Indiana
there had been some apprehension about what would
happen in Gary because of the mixed population there.
The Reds seem to have been in a decided minority.
The people generally were sound Americans and they
used the United States tank corps slogan in dealing with
the revolutionists. Treat EN- rough was the watch
word, and those Reds who did not escape from their
hall through a rear entrance had all the revolution they
wanted when they met the crowd of loyal officers and
citizens.
Perhaps the whole story at Gary Is told in the sim
pie statement that speeches at the mass meeting were
made in a dozen different foreign languages. Those
who engineered the gathering were not Americans.
They did not speak or understand English sufficiently
we'll for this eountrys language to be used TO express
their wishes and desires. They are here by our suffer
ance and by our lax immigration laws. trying to tear
down our institutions and substitute anarchy. The real
people of Gary will not stand that, as they demonstrated
forcibly yesterday The whole state is preparing to vel
come home the men who fought to preserve the Ameri
can flag. Indiana is in no temper to tolerate stay-at
homes who try to substitute the red flag for it."
The Chicago Tribune asks some pertinent questions
which the local Bolshevists had better find time to an
swer. 1t asks boldly:
Why not fire the intruder?
We have just had another spectacle of riot and
disorder, this time in Gary. 1t was no question of Gary
going loco. Gary at heart has proven sane and iudicious
n the treatment of public affairs. 1t is too bad that Gary
had to be the scene of a disgraceful turbulence wrought
not by those who have at heart the best interests of the
city and nation but by those who care least about civic
consciousness, good department and reputation.
THE matter of a place fit for heroes to live in means
nothing to the imported radical. His chief aim is to
make it unfit. The nation is obliged to men like the
mayor of Gary and the mayor Of Seattle for firm Ameri
canism. But it will require a sturdy Americanism in
deed to Withstand a continued flow of undesirables. The
movement of radicals should be outward. not inward.
Il Morris Lieberman, leader of the Gary socialists.
interested in the political emotions Of the mob he en-
courages? Or is he more thoughtful about the amount
of disturbance his following can create? Does it mat
ter TO him if his cohorts are Russian or American
Does he take care that only American citizens follow
him? Not So If undesirables were to be deported to
morrow, Lieberman would be left shouting his execra
tons into the air. 1t is not Americans OF the home fl
for heroes sort who tag after Leberman.
If the red flag waited for Americans to wave it
it would have TO stand alone. Bolshevism is not the
ents of Bolshevism had done walking in manacles
What, then. do Bolshevists mean by ranting their crazy
doctrines here? Why not in Russia, in Hungary. or il
any other place where Bolshevism is welcome? AnC
why do we let them rant here?"