The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
TIME TO FIGHT
D|SLOYA[ UNIT,
DECLARES H0UGH
Americans Must Determine by
Force Of Arms Who Shall
Own Their Country. Author
Tells Newspaper.

The time has arrived In the present
Industrial situation for battle to the
death, with no quarter asked or given,
between the Americans and those per-
sons who only regard this country as
n place. Emerson Hough, famous
author and Journalist, declared In an
interview given THE News Soimitar
saturday morning upon his arrival IN
Memphis from Chicago, II am not an
optimist about this situation, he said,
I'VE have got TO fight and the sooner
we get at 1t the better ] expect 20
hear Of the machine guns ,ponning IN
Chicago at any moment tell yen,
we have got to have war. We must de-
termine whether thefAmericans or those.
other people shall own America,
When asked to discuss tina "indus-
trial situation, Mr.. Hough. declared: II
Is the only question today worth while
discussing"
There are hundreds of thousands Of
foreign born persons IN this country
who have absolutely no love nor re-
spect for America and slmply regwd
II as q place To- exploit MI. Hough
said These people are cOIitNndlng for
the mastery of the country, Ahf though
they are In the niiporIty, tlHsfe now
actually governing tho ooufitfy But
! believe there are enough Americans
TO redeem the nation" he said "Therd
are a lot OF Americans left In this
they are lovers Of law and order, The
only trouble is that they are morgan
lzed while this other element, this
Bolshevist element Is organized
Explaining what course he thought
should be followed to arrest the alarmS
Ing march Of radicalism or un-AmerF
canism, Mr. Hough said; II would like
to be quoted In every newspaper In
America as urging deporta ton; depor-
| tation by the hundreds OF thousands.
| Deport these un- American people; get
them out of the country and then put
up bars against the future influx Of
such people. Then the nation will have
chance to recover from, the poison
| which they have brought into its life
| We win have a chance to educate the
| Americans We will have a chance to
| cure those American born citizens who
have been poisoned by the Bolshevsts."
Mr.. Hough punetuated these sentences
| by bringing down his clenched fist
upon the arm of the chair which he oc-
! cupied. He spoke feelingly without
reserve and with all his Characteristic
| vigor
"The old America" said this man
| who has shown by his works deeper
| greater love and understanding Of his
native country and Its ideals than any
other living author, "is gone 1t Is
| dead" He spoke with touch OF gem
| uine sadness. This country Is no
longer the country of our fathers We
are suffering from the same ills which
affliet the European countries. our
| splendid isolation Is gone, and we are
| Europe"
| Mr.. Hough expressed the opinion that
we are In just as much danger from
Bolshevism as Russia was before the
reds took that nation over I'm my
opinion our war Is not over; we have
just begun to fight.
The expression from Mr.. Hough here
set down are not the random thoughts
OF the author but conclusions which
he has drawn from his careful observa-
ton Of affairs. To begin with he has
a consummate knowledge Of America
| ne has studied the country like a
chemist studies bacteria under micro
scope that he might write the pungent
| American stories which he has written.
Then during the war he was attached
to the secret service In Washington
and learned things about the disloyal
does not know. Since the war, he has
lived in chicago, where among Its
polyglot citizenry a keen observer like
himself has found out many things that
the average man does not know.
II do not care to write fiction any
more" Mr.. Hough said cant put
my heart on funny story during these
times. What | want to do and what
am working on now Is articles which
will help America II have the power
to write such articles"
The Saturday Evening Post publish
ed an article on May from the per
Of Mr.. Hough called the Fools Para
disc" in which for the first time warn
ing was issued against the spread o.
anarchy which today endangers the ma
ton,
Mr.. Hough came TO Memphis to vlsi
his lifelong friend, Harry IT, Boyd, on
of the city's leading attorneys. Mr.
Hough and Mr.. Boyd will leave mex
week for Lake Chico, Ark where the!
win spend ten days shooting ducks. Mr.
Hough comes down to Memphis from
Chicago two or three times year u
visit Mr. Boyd and TO hunt.