El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-06-05
BOMB OUTRACESARE WHOLLY FUTTLE;
THEY DEFEAT THEIR OWN PURPOSES

TIE futty OF It, is the outstanding Characteristic Of
anachys attempted revolution BY assassination even
the factors Of c0wardness criminality are over
looked
Suppose attorney general Is murdered BY an an
arehist- What has anarchy accomplished Another is
ready 70 take the slain officials place to prosecute cmi-
be murdered.
When OF anarchists attempted to DESTROY BY
bomb the home Of attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer
hoping thereby assassnate him thew did not strike at
Palmer the but at the attorney general Of the United
States IN his capacity Of prosecutor Of criminals But
logical reasoning sh6ad have convinced them that It
impossible for bomb any other weapon to destroy
Office CT the law which creates susains and renders that
Office effective Nor IS it possible for bomb any other
weapon destroy the American determination to uphold
the law and destroy revolutionary crminalty It is
possible 1or anarchists to XII enough officials TO produce
intimidation Nor is It possible for anarchists
from the pubcs mind adherence OF revolution BY
assassination That adherence grows with each fresh
outrage So long It lives and grows the greater becomes
me opposition anarchy the united the public senti
n for enforcing law and order protecting life and prop
erty and defending the form Of government which exists
By virtue Of popular choice.
The attempt against the life OF attorney general Palmer
not the only bomb outrage Of Monday night Efforts
were made 70 blow up judges and other public officials the
night and about the time IN New York Boston,
Cleveland, Pittsburg, Paterson Philadelphia and Newton
vile Mass This plainly indicates prearrangemeut that
points to central organization Of anarchists as respOn-
sbe for the attempts The Of the governments agents
is to locate and destroy this center That there
is such nay be deduced further from cred" cir
uar Of which Of copies found in the yards
Of prominent people living the neighborhOod Of the
c1rcular SUBSIDIZED Anarchist
Fighters Il speaks Of cass war and Of readiness "o
DO anything and everything suppress the capitastc
class Just you doing anything and everything to
suppress the proetarian revolution II goes to say
that eve are class conscious men"
Thus the anarchists mouth the phrases used
BY the Bolshev In Russia and the Industrial Workers Of
World the United States Perhaps because they
ont in the open the I W. W do not publicly sane
ton assassination They say their @cass consciousness
their accomplish revolution Of the proletarat
By overthrong the @apsstie class" is to achieve its
purpose through @drect action" such strikes and abo
tage destruction Of life is than destruction
property only in degree and neither be oondoned in
country where It is the I'll Of the people that govern
mental changes shall be accomplished only at the polls
possible that the bomb thrower but the M Hy9e
Of the I " " doctor Jekyl That IS but surmise It
win be work Of government agents. supposedly, to trace
whatever connection there may be between the ". "
ard the anarchists.
Bomb attempts such as those Of Nay Day and June
signal failures IN every way First, because they
failed KIN those whom they intended to kl sec
oud because If they had killed the intended victims
they could not have killed the offices the law, and,
third because they merely aroused and stimulated the de-
termination Of officials and the people everywhere TO stamp
ont the menace Of red fagsm America devoted to free
dom Of speech and freedom Of action has been too tolerant
Of evil within the oouaty These latter have thrown
az civilization the challenge Of It VII be surprising
If they are not overwhelmed and speedily.