Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-22
EDUCATION OUR
HOPE TO GUARD
U. S. LIBERTIES
Speakers at Tri-City Manufacture
ers' Banquet Tell Of Dangers
Of Radicalism.
IGNORANCE GREAT MENACE
Would Break Down Constitutional
Safeguards This Country
Has Built Up.

That an immediate start of a
nationwide educational program
to teach the foreign born and
poorly informed classes Of people
what liberty stands for in order to
prevent Bolsheyism from spread
ing in the United States, is urgent
Iy necessary is the view expressed
by George Haight, attorney of Chi
cagO, and Rev. H. L. Haywood OF
Davenport, at the annual dinner
of the Tri-City Manufacturers as
socIation held at the Outing club
in Davenport last night.
Danger OF changing the consti-
tuition as it now stands. pointed
out in Washington farewell adj
dress, was referred to by Mr..
Hatght. Opposing government
ownership Of public utilities. he
said at least 20 per cent of the
! working population of the country
1 would be federal employees should
Fl the telephone, telegraph, railroad
and express companies be con-
II trolled by the government.
4 THAT 20 per cent is going to
B stand by the administration under
which it is employed. Not all, pos
sibly, but the majority. What does
that mean? 1t means that human
nature will lead them to support
the government executives who
furnish them employment.
Power will be going over to the
departments, controlling the util-
tiles and our constitution will be
in danger. 1t has been the ten
dency during the past decade OF
n &c CT
tiOnal, TO seek individual power.
Government ownership not only
will aid but it will prove the great
est harm to the country. to the
freedom of man and to the con
sitution and the laws of the United
States.
can example of government
ownership can be found in Russia
Danger Lurking.
'In our country today ther-
exists the greatest danger, due t.
lack of knowledge Of the consti-
tuition and the fundamental laws
that govern man and give him
freedom. What we need to do,
everyone of US, is to go back to
our schooldays and think and
think hard of what we learned
try In every city, town and ham
let Of the country, this should be
taught"
Warming was given the manu-
facturers of the dangers of So
ciallsm, l. w. W.ism and Bolshey-
ism in the United States by Rev.
Z Mr.. Haywood.
He said: "BolsheYism in Russia
IS nothing more than syndicalism;
in the United States I w. Wism
is nothing more than syndicalism.
The syndicalist wants the people
to control the railroads, telephone
and telegraph companies, mines
and every great industry. How?
He wants to operate the businesses
for himself and not for profit. A
Socialist wants division Of all cap
itai.
Sabotage Extensively Used.
How are these Socialists work
ing? Winning over the ignorant
classes of people, they influence
them to be as great an expense to
their employers as possible. Sa-
botage, or destruction is their
working scheme, with their
thoughts conferred on cutting down
the profits OF the manufacturers
and other employers all they can.
Seek All Power.
ut is the endeavOr of the syn
dicalists to have a majority in the
national house and the senate and
TO control the country. The syn
dicaiist wants to take over every
great industry in the country.
Their work goes on daily. What
can we do2 The man next to you
may be a Socialist or a syndicaI-
list. He wears no badge to show
his belief. There is where the
problem lies. National education
of the people along the lines of
free government must begin in or
der that the ignorant may be
taught what their country stands
for and what rights the American
citizen has.
Socialist, 1. W. W.ism and syn
dicalism must be wiped from the