Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-19

tive element in our labor circles will
rise and assert itself and say we have
had enough The speaker who talks
for American labor must talk Ameri-
ca at the same time he speaks for
labor.
1T is great folly to assume that all
radicals and bolsheviks are in the
ranks of so called labor. Oh, no, there
are some in palaces SO great, eating
from plates of gold. Some employers
and some business men are just as
dangerous to the institutions of Am
erica as the laborers are. 1 have no
more respect for the business man or
employer who wraps himself il the
folds of u old glory to shield their
own interests than 1 have for the
memory of Benedict Arnold.
Voice of Foreign Tongues
THE voice that is speaking for
labor today is not the voice of labor.
No, dear people, 1t is the voice of for
eign tongues. And let's get at it.
mot every man who makes a pro-
test against labor conditions, or who
has a grievance, is an I. w. W. or a
bolshevik. But every man, or son of
man, who speaks in the voice of Ia
Dor anarchy or radicalism should be
defeated and taught to know that
America will not allow its flag to lay
at the feet of any alien ~agitator."
Here Mr.. Fish read from an edit
orial clipped from a leading labor
journal. 1t compared the constitution
of the United States as inferior to the
charter Of the soviet government in
Russia.
When 1 read this" he resumed,
sending each statement with vigorous
gestures int the ears of his listeners,
Il said to myself that it is time for
the American laboring man to take
the PLATFORM; because the true Am
erican laboring man will not stand
for that kind of rot.
Preach Glass Hatred
"For years soap box orators, rad
ical newspapers and editorial writers
have carried on an energetic cam.
paign teaching class hatred and dis
respect to the institutions of Ameri.
ca. Not all agitators are confined tt
logging camps. Once in a college class
a professor sought to SOW seeds o.
disrespect for the United States ir
my heart. / tell you you have had
crop of high men in these institutions
slowly but steadily sowing the seed.
of unrest and disloyalty among you
children. When you put your hant
across the mouth of the labor agita
tor, put it also across the mouths o.
the professors in our colleges. Let Vi
see to it hat every man and woman
entrusted with a voice in educating
Americas young be 100 per CEN il
his desire to teach loyalty and respec
to the constitution OF the Unitet
States.
THE laboring man knows that tn
bullet of the assassin and the bloc,
stained knife of the murderer will
never win for them their desires. Blu
they know that they crush foreve
! their chances of winning into the dir
Ibeneath their feet. Bolshevism, at ma
turity. knows no language but tn
J language of force"
} Activity of Agitators
The speaker then cited the activi
ties of agitators in spreading propa
ganda in the United States during tn
war against answering the call of con
scription, and protesting that the wa
. was one Of capitalists.
Y Surely we need no other argu
ment," he Numbered, "to make u
rise in wrath and crowd the doctrine
! of radicals down the Threats of tn
: people who are trying to down tn
standards of this country.
I "Bolsheviks--if there are any {
you here tonight-you are my friend
and Fish's voice rang with irony. "An
at heart, you have my sympathy. ]
I any of you don't like our ways her
our free press and free speech
: pack up your things in your little re
bandana and go back to the countr
: from whence you came as fast as Go
G will let you. I love you, and advis
r you, just quietly, to get out. Go as SOC
S as you can go. For if you don't yo