Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-06-16

about you to your neighbOrS. =
of the country have started in upon a
campaign Of organized crime. and the
attempt upon the life Of Attorney Gen
eral a. Mitchell Palmer is clearly part
Of the scheme to terrorize the country.
A Socialist politician says that anar-
chism is form of insanity, and in
cidentally he puts in good word for
his own queer cult--tO which Others
may agree unless the Socialist bug has
bitten too deep. in which case it be-
comes one Of the breeders of violence,
which is cropping out with alarming
frequency. a
In the debris scattered about the
Palmer home there was picked up an
|infiammatory circular. on which appear
ed these words: THE time has come
when the social questions solution can
be delayed no longer. Glass war is on
and cannot cease but with complete
victory for the international prOletar-
iats.''
Organized crime. directing its guns
against organized government. can do
nothing but strengthen the govern
ment. There were others to succeed
Lincoln. Garfield. and Mckinley; just
as there are many men who might have
carried on the work OF the attorney
general had he lost his life. 'lnterlla-
tional prolctariats" are not, as the cir
cular declares, arrayed in opposition to
the government: for if this country
and in all the other allied countries, the
international proletariats" We're the
ones who fought the war for justice and
freedom: sand if there is-as the presi-
dent stated in his recent message, a
great awakening "-then the dawn
that is beginning to show, was won by
the proletariats PrOletariats have at
every turn of affairs stood against orga-
nized crime
Those who have instituted organized
y
that theirs is a class war. But they are
the same impOstors today that they
were in the days when they practiced
the trade of buccaneers ut sea and high
waymen of the road: the same as
when they tried to pull off a revolution
in Seattle: or farther back when they
attempted TO tcrrOrize Chicago through
the Haymarket riots.
Organized crime is likely one of the
afterma tbs of war and it must be sup
pressed. This class of violence admits
of nc argument since it represents
deeds for which jails and prisons have
been built in every town and city in
the land, to take care of the enemies
Of society.
The .'proletariats' of America have
always settled their affairs at the bal
lot box. The murdererS who believe
that this is time to organize their
practices are not ''proletariats' Mt all.
They are plain criminals. And NO
respectable government can counte-
nailce organized crime against organic
ed government Efforts of the federal
government are being vigorously direct
ed towards rounding up these evil
forces i'm orr own country, ana an
archism will speedily remove its domi-
ellie to quarters enclosed behind prison
bars.
What Will BE Doing Now?
One of the reasons given by the Ma
tional Womans party for the i'm
patience with which they pressed suf-
frage. was that we want to get this
Job over and get at something else.
Even when they were picketing they
insisted that there ARE a lot of other
things 10 he done Two very fine
national suffrage headquarters have
been maintained in Washington for sew
eral years There is joy in both of
these establishments over the. victory
in passing the Susan i. Anthony
amendment The next step will be a
general campaign in the states that are
doubtful When the finishing touches
are put onto the great task. it will he
Interesting to follow the something
else" that the good women'of the nation
will turn their attention TO.