The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-22


, generates. AS you believe, as some
| do, that hell is on earth, why that
it. Picture your real and person
property; the wife of your bosoi
your daughter and yourself forced q
the tender mercies of these debased
denizens of debauchery.
eff one takes an occasional bath,
or through thrift and industry ac-
quires property, as you good people
have here at Oldsmar, you belong to
the gentle people, and have no rights,
or very little.
"Your holdings are susceptible to
confscation for the benefit of any ex-
convict or unwashed hobo who hap
pens to possess a nettr> so debased
that he can furder and piliage without
conscientious scruples."
Frank Whitman, Of the editorial
staff of the Florida Grower, is deve1-
oping into finished orator. He sur
prised and pleased his best friends by
the impressive manner in which he
handled the danger to democracy
which is threatened by the advocates
of the outlaw style of doing business.
Mr.. Whitman drew a moving picture
of sacrifices which have been made by
the United States mothers and faith
ers in the great world war, and asked
if this was done in vain-if ignorant
! foreign agitators should be allowed to
nulIify the accomplished work of maxi
ing the world safe for ,eIll,..- ,lcy.
Kaiserism was overthrown, bat if bol-
tshevism should come out on top, IL
would be a worse dictatorship and
more cruel autocracy than the kaiser
ever dreamed of.
Mr.. Russell Kay, advertising mana
ger of the Florida Grower, was called
on unexpectedly by Chairman Thomp-
son, and proved himself to be Won
derful extemporaneous speaker, deliv-
ering one of the most interesting ad-
dresses of the evening, in which he
gave high praise to Mayor Ole Olson
of Seattle, who broke up a threatened
bolshevistic movement in that city by
a wideawalZe policy which received
the support of a great mapority of the
people who had not yet gone crazy.
Rev. DR. L. H. Shumate, pastor of
the First NJ. E. church of Oldsmar,
told how the l. w. w. and bolshevism
threatened religion, law and order,'
their acknowledge slogan being: mo
God, no church, no nation" In other
words, it is. band of infdels bent
upon destroying religion and over
turning national governments. DR..
Shumate told of one instance in Rus
STA where bolshevist jabbed paint
in gof the Savior in the mouth and
stuck cigarette in the mouth of the
painting. DIR. Shumate called upon all
sane people to be active in stopping
bolshevism right where it is.
Mrs. Russell Kay delighted the au-
dience with two artistically played
piano solos, and the program closed
with stirring rendition of the pa
triotic song, MY Own United States",
Sung by Mrs. J. c. Martin, Tom Mar
tin and Bob Martin.
The American Defense society of
New York city has taken this anti
bolshevistic- movement in hand and
has organized branches in many of
the large cities and towns of the Unit
ed States to handle the situation They
do not propose to let few bolshe-
visits run amucI in the United States,
seeking to destroy the best form of
government the world has ever had
for the people at large. Under the
laws of the country the majority
rules. The bolshevists are a very ex-
tremely small minority but they make
as much noise as a bass drum does
compared to hundred violins.