The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1919-11-11

ployment and go begging on the
streets. Thus appealing to their pred
judice they tried to establish theil
cause on which they could appeal fol
the overthrow of government, anc
seize the property of the property
owners and use it as they saw fit. The
literature stated that the peoples o1
the European governments had over
thrown their ruling heads by arms
and that it was up to the people OF
America to go at destroying this
government in the same way.
But what kind of a government dc
they now have in Russia, asked the
governor. The government under q
czar was bad, but far better than
that they now have, he asserted. The
city of Petrograd, which five years
ago was city of 100000 popula-
ton is now city of 100000 starv-
ing people, others having sought re-
fuge elsewhere, for this is the kind
of condition that must come when
the red flag is hoisted. But we peo-
pie of America will die before we
will let the red flag be hoisted over
our fair land he asserted, as the ap-
plause drowned out his voice.
Gov. Roberts scathingly denounced
William A. Foster, who is leader in
the syndicalist movement and in the
Dig steel strike, and impressed upon
the minds of the people that no such
men as this have any place in a gov
ernment where the people would have
constituted authority. He quoted
from him the plans by which the
syndicalists would go to overthrow
the government. 1t would be by the
strike and mob movement he asserted, /,
and the steel strike was their first
card played in this program, with the
coal sstike as second and the rail
strike 4 l. third. For years they have
sSeen as&nning this thing, and believ-
ing that tn time is opportune for ac-
complishment of their task, they
have not begun to try to do this.
He referred to the fact that some
of the agitators have already been
dep0rted, but their poisonous doctrin-
es have been impreganted into the
minds of thousands of others, and it
will take time to weed out their
damnable teachings before America
can rid herself of this curse, he as
serted.
Tennessee Threatened
But the proposition may be offered
that no such conditions prevail in
Tennessee, he asserted And IN
answer to his own suggestion he said
he would not have to go far from
Maryville to find men who are agitat-
ing movements against constituted
In
Nashville a few weeks ago, when an
agitatOr came among the laborers in
that plant and melted them to a
strike. He told how the 300 or 400
employees were receiving good wages,
out had become discomfort because Q
man in whose mind anarchistic prin-
ciples had been implanted, came to
stir up trouble. He said as governor
he tried to reconcile the employers
and employees, not taking sides in
the issue, and said that late one after-
noon, the managing executive Of the
shoe factory stated they wanted to go
to work on the morrow, but he had
been prohibited from entering his
plant by the strikers. The governor
said that the foreign agitator asserted
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