The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1919-11-11
GOV. ROBERTS
HITS ANARCHY
Chief Executive of Tennessee
Makes Ringing Appeal
For Right Living

The Honorable A. H. Roberts, law
yer, jurist, governor of the state o.
Tennessee, 100 per cent American
and Christian gentleman, delivered
soul stirring address to an audience
! that crowded VOORHEES, chapel at the
college Tuesday afternoon. Gov
Roberts was invited here by the
American Legion and the Law anC
Order League, under whose ausplce:
he spoke. Gov. Roberts was 8
stranger to most of the citizens OF
Blount county, having never spoken
here before, and having only visited
here for a short time when he was
making his race for governor. How,
ever, he made friends of all who
heard him Tuesday afternoon and il
is a safe bet that his appeal for 100
per cent Americanism and his impress
sion upon the minds of his hearers as
4 100 per cent American, fighting for
The people of the state, will give him
1 bigger percentage of votes in this
county in the next election than he
received in the last, though he ran
we'll here then.
Gov. Roberts fired hot shot after
hot shot into the hunks of the an
archists who are trying to over throw
he American government, and his
appeal brought forth repeated ap-
olause from the large audience.
The governor began his address by
referring to the great victory won
me year ago Tuesday, when the
German army laid down their arms
md ran up the white flag, thus ac-
lnowledging defeat in the thing they
hey had been planning for thirty
years-to put the neck of the peoples
IF the world under their iron heel,
and rule by might rather than right.
The speaker referred to the coming
If the Pilgrim fathers to American
;oil many years ago, that they might
,ave asylum from the oppression of
men who thought they could rule by
night and by right of blood, and that
IN the principles of freedom, and
with the confession that every man
had a right to worship God according
to the dictates of his own conscience
the American government was born,
and on this principle she M; grown
o be the leading nation of the world.
He spoke of the statement made
by Gen. Joffre that the French Army
saved France at the Marne but that
the American soldiery saved the
world at Chateau -Thierry, and that
one year ago the boys in the trenches
believed that the world was safe for
democracy and christianity. But to-
lay that more than twenty wars are
in progress in European countries,
md that thousands are dying from
hunger and starvation, while here in
our own free land-the land which
sent out the army that saved the
World-the spirit of anarchy is creep
ing forth and the feet of American
government is becoming entangled in
it's meshes, and it may not be long
until these same boys are called upon
to put on their uniform and shoulder
their guns again, to drive out the
anarchistic movement that is threat
cning the life and liberty of Ameri-
"a.
Gov. Roberts said that the recent
world war was born in the statement
made by Bismark that the Word of
God has no place in the government
Of the peoples of the world, and that
German youth had been taught since
1870 to believe this and it was upon
this principle that they laid claim to
become the dominant people of the
world. And it is upon this same
principle, asserted the governor, that
the anarchists and syndicalists are
trying to govern the world todav-be-
lieving that the Word of God has no
place in the government Of the peo-
pies of the world, that might is right
md constituted authority must be
Overthrown.
Anarchists Busy
The governor referred to the con-
ference held in Washington in March,
1T the call of the president, when
thirty-seven governors of states and
300 mayors of the largest cities
If America met in conference, and
how it was there pointed out that the
anarchists were planning to over
throw the American government, and
try to establish such a rule as is now
cursing the people of Russia. 1t
was alarming, said he the evidence
mayors presented there in the way of
literature, prepared by
Syndicalists appealing to prejudices
and melting people to rise in their
might and overthrow constituted
authority. He came back home to
warn the people of Tennessee, as
other southern governors had come
back to warn their peoples, of the
dangers just ahead.
Gov. Roberts entered into a dis
cussion of the kind of principles
taught by the syndicalists, which are
none other than anarchists, and read
from their red literature their charges
against the American government, in
which they allege that the men at the
heads of big business in America had
made their fortunes out of the great
war just ended and that soon factor
les would be closed and the laboring
people would be thrown out of en-