New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
General, Back From Gary
and Omaha, Says Trouble
Was Directly Due to Reds
Preaching Open Anarchy
Deportation His Remedy
Courts S h hould Exercise
Power to Ship Out Citizens
Who Agitate, He Asserts

From his experience oueIlino d,s-
order and lawlessness In Omaha and
Gary General Leonard Wood said yes-
terday he had drawn the conclusion
that the United States never again
should lower the bars to indiscriminate
Immigration.
quality, not quantity, should be our
aim hereafter in that regard" he de-
cared.
Speaking with group of newspaper
men at the Biltmore, the general. who
came here to assist in launching the
national Roosevelt Memorial campaign,
expressed the hope that no time would
be lost in gathering in and deporting
all alien agitators who have been try
'ng to spread sedition from Seattle to
New York
The whole trouble" " he asserted, sis
due to small number of foreign Reds.
They do not start strikes or race out
breaks. but they take advantage of dis
turbances everywhere, hoping some
where to light the spark of revolution,
or at least to further their pu. pose to
overthrow our republican form Of gov
ernment. They seem to have an or
ga Nized group to keep on the trail of
trouble. They were in Seattle then
in Omaha, and now they are in Gary.
Calls Deportation Remedy
"fhe American people should at once
be apprised of the menace, and con-
lnocd that the only remedy is to force
hese anarchis ists and Bosheviki out of
the country.
In Omaha General Wood said the
Reds deliberately used quantities OF q
vicious con raband intoxicant COM
posed of alcohol and Jamaica ginger
the population and recruit the mobs.
Whether contraband liquor was used
with similar purpose just before the
riots of tie steel strikers in Gary, the
general added that he did not know,
but he said secret service men had
found large quantities of "raisin
bra ndv" there.
Speaking of the work already accom-
plished in running down alien agita-
tors, General Wood declared thn, they
were found working among the for
eign-born element OF the steel strikers.
Hundreds Of pounds of radical it,
erature. mostly in the languages Of
Slavic Europe. have been contiscated
Referring to the possibility of deport-
ing them he dec Jared it was within
the power Of the Federal courts to de-
port even those who have attained
citizens hip
General Wood paid tribute to the
members Of the American Legion for
their influence in favor of law and
order both in Omaha and Gary.
Praises Work Of Legion
"At Omaha" he said "the members
of the legion gave splendid demon
stration of the fact that their service
in the war had enhanced their sense
of respons bility. But it was even
more remarkable at Gary.
"When arrived at Gary saw a
good many men in uniform. called
some of them in They told me they
were members of the American Legion.
and had put on their uniforms while
making efforts to restrain violence.
And many of them, found, were mem
hers Of the unions"
The general confirmed reports that
the disorders were due almost entirely
to the foreign element among the
strikers. saying most Of them were
either Russians or South Europeans.
"There are many Slavic Europeans
in Gary" he continued, land these
have fallen under the influence and
leadership Of Reds who speak their
language The most dangerous group
If agitators there call themselves
soviet. but they are really anarchists
and should be deported at once"