Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-11-13

the sensible performance IN the House
of Representatives on Monday, when
by a vote Of 300 TO the members
voted that Victor L. Berger, the Mil
waukee Socialist, was ineligible to a
seat in the House. The one vote n
Berger's favor was cast BY Weight, Re-
publican, also a Wisconsin product.
THE coal miners strike has not yet
been settled. Federal Judge Ander-
son last Saturday ordered the union
officials to rescind the strike order.
and they announce that they will COM
DIV with the courts order. But the
miners, probably acting upon secret
instructions. have not yet returned to
work, ami the output of coal is great
ly restricted.
A conference OF miners and oper-
ators is called for Friday of this week
THE government authorities made
a big haul of anarchists and radicals
the past week, when by concerted ac-
ton in a number of large cities they
arrested several hundred rascals who
have been active in efforts to under
mine our government and stir up
strife. Nearly all of the rogues who
were taken were foreigners, most of
them Russians, who have been trying
to destroy the government snder which
they have been living. Of group of
these disturbers taken in New York
Saturday night, only one was an Amer
lean. The others were men who had
been run out of other countries and
had found refuge in the United States.
The government authorities have de-
termined TO get rid of these undesirable
rascalS, and measures are being taken
10 promptly deport them to the coun-
tries whence they came. A relentless
war will be waged upon all anarchists
and Bolshevists and reyolutionlsts,
and those who cannot be sent out OF
ibis country will be imprisoned if law
to cover their cases can be found.
To show the wicked and blasphemous
character of the men who are causing
the present disturbances, we quote
from one of the documents captured in
raid on Baltimore "RedS" last Fri
day night, in which instructions are
given in detail for the overthrow Of the
United States government, the &C.
struction Of private property and the
wiping out of churches and religious
creeds. A secret paper issued by the
Federation of Unions of Russian
Workers" is as follows:
I'VE must consciously hasten the
elementary movement of the Strug-
gle Of the working class; We must con-
vert small strikes into general ones
and convert the latter into an armed
revolt of the laboring masses aeainsl
capital and state. AT the time Of this
revolt We must at the first favorable
opportunity proceed TO an Immediate
seizure OF all means of production
and all articles of consumption, anc
make the working classes the masters
in fact of all general wealth. AT the
same time, We must mercileSSly de
Stroy all remains of governmental au-
thority and class domination, libe.-
ating the prisoners, demolish prisons
and police Offices, destroy all legal pa.
perS pertaining to private ownership
of property, all field fences anc
boundaries, and burn all certificates OF
indebtedneSS-in a word, we must take
care that everything is wiped from the
earth that is a reminder of the RICH
to private ownership of property; tC
blow up barracks, gendarme and policl
administration, shoot the most prom
inent military officers, must be the i'm
portant concern of the revolving PEG
pie. In the work of destruction W
must be mercileSS, for the SlighteS
weakness on our part may afterwar
cost the working class a whole sea
needless blood.
1--WE hate religion because it lull
the spirit with lying tales, takes ava,
courage and faith in the power of man
faith in the triumph of justice her
on the real earth and not in a chimeri-
cal heaven. Religion covers every
thing with fog, real evil become
visionary, and visionary good a reality.
1t always has sanctified slavery, gre
and tears. And we declare war upon
all gods and religious fables. We are
atheists"
1t is almost inconceivable that such
wickedness should have found a foot
hold in our beloved country The fact
that it is here should stimulate every
patriotic man in the land to fight it
with nuer,, reSnmrce thnt con be