The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-14
most industrially progressive country In the 1

most industrially progressive country Ia the
world.
Misery may increase with militarism, but ny
where has it increased with and because OF IN
creased industry The workers OF America d.
not fooled by any nonsense about progress
and poverty They know too well that Witnou'
progress they cannot hope to improve thelr coz
dition. They are not afraid OF progress
It is not the industrious worker that IS decels
ed by all this editorial and professional 1noo,,
shine about 81 the poor downtrodden masses'
He is not interested in boshevisn; on the otnei
hand. he is much more concerned with tue ms
price of gasoline By means OF unions ana col
Elective bargaining he has so improved MS CON
dition that he will not risk his new status ~
flirting with radicalism. Organized LABOR na9
emphatically and repeatedly repudlated raai-
caIism. It wants no interference from reu-
shirted soapboxers and fiery radicals raslis
historically about the overthrow OF the cohs.i-
tuition and the establishment Of the dictatorship
of the proletariat What labor has won IL mas
won bv organization and not by anarchy; a.io
contrasting its substantial progress with the
misery of Russian communism, 1t Is IN no lllooel
Ito drop the substance for the shadow
But there is a type of defective mlnd upon
which the constant dropping OF radical doc-
trine makes deep impression 1t is the typo
that cannot think for itself, and must Ieed oil
the phrase food provided by Others 1t may not
know Just what is meant when 1t hears o.
OBLIGATED plutocrats who loll in the lap OF
limouisined luxury and splash the mud OF Inelf
insolent pride upon the tattered clothing OF the
honest proletaire,'' but in some vague way II
understands that it is being urged to awake anu
arise and tear down the constitution.
The radical press is the kindergarten OF an
archy. What it cannot teach by words II
teaches by pictures The inflammatory editor
ial is supplemented by the inflammatory car
toons Pictures speak all languages and picture
writing appeals to all standards, of intelligence
Readers who may not understand just what Is
the significance of the statement that 'Bolshe-
yism is the purest form of democracy have nc
difficulty in grasping the message OF cartoon
representing prominent persons in the act OF
robbing their country or crushing the people
under heel
And this sowing the wind of radical doctrine
means reaping the whirlwind of anarchistlt
communism. Some readers of such publication
may take little interest in the inflammation
editorials and cartoons Probably they thinl
of them as merely SO much 'guff, /" designed t
please the chronic malcontent And then som
day they read of an anarchist outrage and ar
amazed, positively amazed, because some criml
nails or fanatics have actually attempted to car
ry out the doctrines advocated by the journal
they have been supporting.
, Even then they do not think that their sup
port is in any way responsible for the resul
they so much deplore.
| Anarchy is the chaos that comes as much o
those who ought to think but do not as OF thos
who cannot think but who act as they are IN
spired by malicious or dilletante radicals an
candidates for public Office who seek to gain
!" stranglehold' upon the electorate by asser
tion of half truths or downright lies.
Americans must awake to real Americanls1
and be no longer deceived by that spuriou
brand that is used as label to wrap around
homb