The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-11-15
Ceniralia Reds
Fire on Service
Men in Parade
Anarchists Greed Compared
with Tha, Of American
Legion.

As the parade OF the American
Legion passed the !. w. W. hall In
contralla. Washington. on Armlstice
day. Industrial Workers or the World
opened firc on the EA-eorv'ce moa IA
the parade from the top or a build
ing. killing thrco and wounGod sayer-
al others.
The parade broke up IN disorder,
and an enraged mob razed the I. w.
w. hall ard set n on fire aud later
hanged the ringlender under bridge.
IL is timely TO compare the creed
Of the American Legion with that OF
the Russian Anarchists OF America
evidently adopted by the centTalIa
Reds.
THE AMERICAN LEGION
"For God aud Country we associ-
nte ourselves together for the follow
Ink pnrposoG
ITO uphold aud defend the Con-
stltution OF the United States OF
America; 20 maintain law aud order;
TO foster and porpoiuato a one hun
drod per cent Amerlcanlsm; 20 pre-
serve the memories and mcldonts OF
our association I'm the Great War;
To incuicatc sense OF individual oh.
Iigatlon TO the community. state and
ration; 10 combat the autocracy OF
both the classes and the masses; 10
make right the master OF might; to
promote peace aud good VIII on
earth; To safeguard and transmit
To postority the principles OF Justice,
freedom and democracy: TO conse-
crate and sanctify our comradshlp
by our devotion To mutual helpful
ness."
THE ANARCHIST
Nrom' documents recently seized by
the Government OF the u. s.
ITO complete the destruction OF
private control of natural resources
aud capital and complete destruction
OF power OF rule and the instltutions
invested with power To enforce rule
Of ono man over another.
THE immediate seizure OF all
means Of production and all articles
or consumption and make the work
ing classes the masters In fact OF all
general wealth.
AT the same time TO mercilessly
destroy all that remains of govern
mental authority and class domlna-
ton. liberating the prisoners. demol-
ish prisons and police ofIlces--des-
troy all legal papers pertaining to
private ownership of property; all
field fences and boundaries, and burn
all certificates OF indebtedness-in a
word TO take care that everything Is
wiped from the earth that IL re-
minder OF the private ownership OF
property. To blow up barrocks and
genadarmes and TO shoot the most
prominent military and police officers
must be the most concern of the
revolving working people. In the
work OF destruction we must be
mercless for the slightest weakness
upon our part may afterward cost
the working classes a wholt sea OF
needless blood.
I'VE go TRANQUILITY, cheerfully, not
because IL is painful to us eternally
10 be calling TO bloody combat-no! (!
But because there. far beyond the
corpse of heroes. beyond the blood
covered barricades, beyond all ter
rors of civil war, there already shines
for MS the magnificent beautiful
form of man without a God, without
master and free of authority.
I'VE hate religion because II lulls
the spirit with lying tales. takes away
the courage aud faith In the power
of man, faith in the triumph of JUS
tlce here on the real earth not in u
chimerical heaven. Religion covers
everything with fog; real evil be-
comes visionary, and visionary good
reality. II has always sanctified
slavery. grief. and tears, And we
declare war upon all gods and re-
ligious fables. We are atheists"
II you believe II Is your duty to
your country to love It, to support It's
constitution. to obey its laws, to re-