The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-18
CITIZENS
Of GARY
CO ABROAD
Seven Start for Europe Today
Accompanied to Border
BY immigration
Officials.
UNDESIRABLE ALIENS
Charged With conspIrIng Against
Government and All Admitted
That They Were
UNDESIRABLE ALIENS

United Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1S.-Seven residents
of Gary, Indiana, were to be started
for Europe today, conducted by i'm
migration officials.
They were alleged by army officials
and immigration inspectors to have
been undesirable aliens, their undesir,
ability being uncovered during the
steel strike. The formal charge
against the men was conspiracy to
overthrow the government"
THE men were ordered deported on
their own statements" Col w. 8;
Mapes, military commander of the
Gary district said today There also
was written evidence showing they
had plotted against the government"
Debs Would Like Out
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Eugene V.
Debs, head of the socialist party IN
America, now confined in the federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga, was quoted by
the New York Call in an interview to-
day as follows:
"If / should get out of this prison
today, l would be in Gary or Pitts.
burgh tomorrow That is exactly
WueT6 UelOuS duu thhI 10 SAeiSeA.
where I would go. Mr.. Palmer and
Mr.. Wilson and the capitalists know
that perfectly well and that is why
they keep me here.
II am not being kept prisoner here
for the speech l made at Canton in
June. 1918. | am being kept here for
the speech | would make at Gary OF
Pittsburgh in 1919.
cl,O nf nriSnn TO-DAY
I would continue my work on behalf
of the workers for socialism where
left off in April Of this year when
went to Moundsville prison. The in
tervening time, while it has been
waste. could be easily made UP by re.
newed activity and fresh endeavors.
Just Like Rattlesnakes.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-"Kill radi-
calism as you would kill rattle
snake" Major General Leonard
Wood told a mass meeting OF New
Workers last night. He was the prin-
cipal speaker at a meeting which
opened the campaign to raise $1,000
600 for perpetuation of Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevel's birthplace in New
York.
Fresh from his command at Gary,
Indiana, Wood said:
Roosevelt stated openly that
there was no room in this country
for the red flag-and let me repeat
that there is no room in this country
for the red flag. 1t is against every
thing which this country stands for
the home, the town, the nation,
public morality, private well being,
the security of our Institutions
everything that we hold most dear.
kill it as you would kill rattle
snake, and smash those who follow
it, speak for it or support it. They
are enemies of the state and danger
GUS enemies"
Mention Of General Woods name
as a candidate for the presidency
aroused cheering that lasted nearly
five minutes.
Americanization Day.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1S.-Governor Low
den today issued proclamation
designating October q, former Presi-
dent Roosevelt's birthday, as "Ameri-
canization day" and urging the pub
lie to honor the memory of the ex-
president by assembling and taking
measures for the Americanization of
all the people in their several com
munities."
The governor asked the schools of
the state to hold appropriate exer-
cises, on this date, "impressing anew
upon the minds of the boys and girls
of the state, American ideals and
American aspirations ana the solemn
duty of genuine Americans to COM
bat with all their might the destruc-
tive foreign doctrines which are being
imported to our shores"
More than 500 persons in the United