The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-02-19
DRIVE OUT The RIOTERS

In crime in some localities is be
cause men drawn of juries are too
kind-hearted and are led by their
sympathy to fail to convict when
they know the accused is guilty be-
yond doubt
Prosecuting officers, deputy sheriff, /
and police officers have ne spirit to |
protect community whose citizens !
will not do their part when called |
for jury duty. This applies to Ben.
nington and to certain other com.
munities In Vermont and to sections
OF the country outside the Green
Mountain state. lt
The chief reason for the growth of
the Bolsheviki, the |. w. W., the An.
archists and other. riotous radicals
In this country is that we have been
too lenient with them. The move
fnent in congress to drive out the
preachers of resistance to organized
society should be pushed to active
fruition. w g
This country offers, an asylum to
all people Of the Caucasian race
where they have a better opportuni.
ty than they ever could have had In
their own land. Most OF them are
reasonably appreciative but some
few are too lazy and dishonest to
work and seek to live by preaching
violence and resistance to the rules
!, fixed to regulate life liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness The currel'
/ Issue OF the Saturday Eeyening Post
ssEhas q commemorate editorial On this
as followsH stiB5s y'teQ
~ siaa The bill recently introduced "A in
m Congress providing for. the deporta-
.is ;tion ~ .interned alien enemies is9
IsNsood beginning. Il is g bill with Cir
Ifcisors hui Ii lacks molars. !, a dainty
n..littie tHck At this alien-enemy bust
fysness ,is not, enough. Deportation of
isia small and re atiyeIy' Insignificant
81 group Of German who were canglit
s4with the goods is not enough. Like
tlmuch American legislation this bill
vs. does, not sgo to Ae. root of the trouble.
A group q even more dangerous
ALTER e rv' es, made in Germany and
flnishe9 Russia, is. operating in
America today. They are conspiring
against, our Institutions and hoping
to loot our country. We are not so
a oh arts Ne tam or. Il that ~ ,.,. oco.s
Il spare some for them. One shipload
"a Of Bolsheyik agitators started home
for Russia via Siberia and second
M shipload started home for Germany
~ would end the whole business.
Was Congress the courage and the
common sense to act? In the past It
has usually been more given TO
catching a snake alive and counting
its rattles and trying to tame It.. than
to stamping on its head. This Is not
however, a domestic snake, but one
ofsthe wellknown German viper fam
fly. We should have learned by this
time not to play with that breed
Courage and common sense would
have prevented almost every evil
with which we are contending today
A little simple root legislation passed
when the problems we're young would
have, done What multitude of re
pressive laws have since been power
less to effect. These measures were
so obvious that they We're not states
nianship--only common sense.
The need for drastic Legislation
10 restrict immigration has been ap
parant for some time Congress fin
ally passed law that requires tn.
would-he immigrant to tel how fal
he has progressed in the Seoont
Reader or something equally search
ing. II It had decided to be rea
nasty 1t would doubtless have IRE
scribed an examination in the new
dance steps.
"'The real trouble with American,
is that there are not enough of then
and that the rank and file do no
make themselves decisively heard II
matters OF legislation. They believ,
in their country and their institution
with all their hearts, and arc inclined
to, let II 90 at that. OF late years
too, they have beer in danger o
being overwhelmed by mass OF I'M
digcsted aliens, True, q largo mum
Der OF theserforeigners are good ma
terlal for citizenship. but they hay,
poured IN too fast for proper assimi
iatlon. And while they are In a tran
sition state from the customs meth
DDS and institutions Of the Oh,
World 70 those Of the New. speakin
English imperfectly or not at all
they are easily misled and preyed OF
by dishonest demagogues aud agita
tors. One Of the great tasks ahea
sEof our generation, is the teaching O
our Ideals and our language to thes
hnen. II We let IN new fopd O
foreigners before we do this the mel
iftg pot win end up as a garbage pai
Among Americans there Is no rea
Bolsheyik sentiment. The stuff
all made In Germany and exported [
us via Russia. The newspapers pla
IN every happening that can no.
sihly be given Bolshevlk head Q,
actly AZ they would mysteriou
murder or hotstory divorce. an
for tho same reason. 1t Is abnorma
un-American and sensational. But
IS the news fad OF the hour. like
Thaw trial, to which the papers sen
sob-sisters.. specialists In emotion an
big Names For u certain part {
the public are morbidly Interested 1
Bolshevism. rs they are IN the late.
murderer and his crime. Man
psychopathic women affect a mil
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