Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-06-17
Secretary Wilson Delivers Important
Address.
NO ROOM HERE FOR BOLSHEVlSM


justified a new trial and that he him
self was devoting much time to th$
ccse.
The secretary declared that so fal
the governments inquiry had shown
that the Judge and jury before whom
Mooney was tried had conducted them
selves properly and that on the EVIL
dence the jury had to convict He ad-
mitted that new evidence might devel-
Cd which would alter the case.
But" he continued, for organized
labor to participate in such strike as
Is proposed would simply mean that
labor was trying Mooney without the
benefit of evidence. Very few OF us
are familiar with the evidence, yet ev-
ery workingman is asked to make him
self q Juror. Justice can not be OBJ
tanned in that way.
Secretary Wilson then turned his at
tention to Bolshevism and was heartily
cheered when he asserted that no ele-
ment of American labor would stano
for Bolshevism for a moment when
the true meaning of the movement
was understood.
Closely allied to the work Of the
Industrial Workers of the World dur
ing the past year." ne said, there mas
been more or less Bolshevism agitation
in the United States which has not
been to any great extent manifest
among the real wage workers or the
country, but which has exist I'd espe-
cially among the parlor coal diggers OF
our country.
No Fear of Revolution.
1--WE have no fear Of political revo-
luton In the United States. 1t may be
possible that the parloites may be mis-
guiding a sufficient number OF the Ia
boring people to cause local disturb
ances that will be annoying, but no one
In the ranks of labor-whether he Is
classed as an extreme radical or an ex-
treme conservative or in all the ele-
ments between these two-will stano
for Bolshevism for a minute when he
knows what Bolshevism itself STANDS
for. ------a-
They talk a great deal about the
dictatorship of the proletariat and we'
who have been more or less famlllar
with the theories that have been pro-
mulgated by Marx and his associates
of the dictatorship Of the proletariat
had interpreted the dream to mean
that a majority Of the workers OF the
land would determine the policy OF II
and impose it upon the balance OF our
neople. And our workers were not
willing to accept even that kind OF
principle.
1.-THE workers of this country, the
laborers who have fought and strug-
gled for all these centuries, take the
stand that every person who has 10
obey the laws Of country ought to
have a voice to determine what those
laws should be and having fought
through all the centuries for the ac-
complishment of that ideal having ac-
complished for themselves then the
American is not anxious to impose the
same kind of disfranchisement upon
other portions of the people that he
had fought being upon himself.
Principles of lenine.
But the Bolshevists did not even
take that Interpretation of the dicta-
torship of the proletariat as their
Guide. In his long speech before the
soviet at Moscow little more than q
wear ago, Lenine laid down the prin-
oiple of the dictatorship Of few Sc
lected socalled advanced guards. He
held that the proletariat was not to De
trusted because 1t would waver and
that this self-selected advance guaro
would impose its will upon the workers
and others must obey. The struggle ol
the masses has been away from slaV-
sry, to get away from compulsory Ia
bor. and yet it is proposed by this new
form of government to reintroduce oo'
lgatory labor upon the workers or the
world, imposed upon them by single
group Of the proletariat.
THE great distinction between slav'
ery and freedom is that under free
dom every man shall have the right te
cease work for any reason that may pe
sufficient to himself. We have pro-
ceeded to the extent Of sacrificing ou'
blood and our treasure against the dlc'
tatorship Of the monarchial authority
of Germany which was built upon the
self same idea that the kaiser and hi:
group Of advisers knew better what the
workers desired and what was sooe
for them than the workers knew them
selves.
The American working man wants
nothing Of that kind Of dictatorship o.
the proletariat. The American WORK
ing man wants nothing Of the political
social or economic conditions that have
existed and still exist In Russia. we
have worked our scheme far beyont
that stage and we are going to con
tinue to work it out to the achieVe
ment of higher ideals and by the VII
of no advance guard, no matter nov
lust or how right their position mlgh
be. but by the will Of the majorit!
themselves
Not Like Europe.
Secretary Wilson pointed out tina
the condition in eastern Europe an'
the United States were entirely diner
ent and always have been.
Force in Europe may have beel
necessary" he declared. Force t
overthrow a monarchy may be grea
patriotism, but force in overthrowinI
a democracy, as some people are advo
eating, is high treason against tn
masses of the people. In this countr'
we can settle things by evolution
There is no necessity for revolution
President Gompers, after roar
applause for Secretary Wilson had sub
-.s.a ,oid that uorkerS everywher