Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-05-12
A NEW YORK LETTER

All New York has been laughing at
Attorney General Palmer this week and
at the huge military and police arrang-
ments made to- cope with the Red
on May Day AS a matter OF tact there
was not the slightest danger of any
revolutionary outbreak, and the whole
thing was simply a bogeyman of Mr..
Palmers excited imagination.
The simple truth is that al! this talk
rev9luti1n, is fiction There are S ;e,
drawing salaries from the Secret
Service fund whose personal interest it
is to make folks believe that they save
the country from destruction every
'' Federal i' j J iSsS George w. Anderson,
of Boston. was United States District
Attorney during the war and, of course
stated from the Federal bench that
ninetynine percent of the so-called spy
cases were manufactured out of whole
cloth by Secret Service agents and had
no foundation at all. He further de-
clared that agents Of the Department
OF Justice themselves get up revolu-
tionary" Communist meetings and in
cited bogus Communist activities
that they could make raids and arrests.
What Judge Anderson said from the
newspaper man in Washington and in
New York has long known. The simple
truth is that there are not enough Reds
in the whole country willing to start a
revolution or to make even a respect
able riot. The police force OF any one
of New York's five Boroughs could take
care of all the revolutionary Reds in
New York City in case they attempted
revolution.
When one reflects upon the vast size
of this country and the fact that it is
pie, of whom at least ninety-nine per-
cent are thoroly loyal to the Republic
and to it's institutions. Mr. Palmer's
obsession that revolution is imminent
happens to view it, A good many peo-
pie insist that Palmer simply staged
his bogus Red scare for personal poll
teal purposes; that he was simply
call attention to the fact that he is still
a candidate for the Democratic Presi-
Dental nomination.
Of course there may be something in
this surmise. but the real truth is that
Palmer did believe that Red uprising
had been planned. His agents have
he has revolution on the brain. The
fact that he took his own bogeyman
seriously is proved by the armed guards
with which he surrounded himself all
was scared all right enough and made
| it perfectly evident.
After all. Mr.. Palmer has added to
| the saiety of nations, and in these dull
and sober times it is something to have
made people laugh, even at the expense
| of being perfectly ridiculous.
But l want to say quite soberly to
| all you folks who read these letters that
| the newspaper talk of Red revolution is
tommyrot: There is no more danger of
an armed attempt to overthrow our
lady in the circus up at Madison Square
| Garden is going to jump over the Wool
| worth building. The whole thing is
| manufactured propaganda. got up to
20 nd ~ do To nc,S
to make further appropria tons to pay
| a lot of hangers-on who draw salaries
and expenses from the Secret Service
| fund.
When I say that there is no danger
of attempt at revolution 1 do not
mean to infer that there is no discon-
tent ia and "a anger among the working
do not actually do manual labor. I new
er know so much discomfort and SO
much outspoken anger among the mas
cost of living; angry at the Government
II because it permits the big profiteers to
keep on squeezing the people; angry at
) the Supreme Court because it has found
way to let the big trusts and corpor-
atlons and war profiteers eVade the pay
ment of the income tax.
! This discomfort and anger shows it.
self everywhere in the way in which
damn the Administration and the Con-
gress and the Supreme Court with
| equal enthusiasm. But the folks who
talk that way are not foolish people
who think that they will make matters
right by blowing up buildings with
bombs or takins guns and shooting ur
| the streets They are just plain, every
day common sense Americans who
| know mighty we'll that they car
straighten things out with their ballots
and who intend to do that very thing
next November.
For the most part they feel that some
way or other they were completely film
TANNED both during the war and after
the war. They feel that the ideal:
which were so eloquently held up be-
fore them and which made them so en-
thusiastic in giving their sons and Their
money to the war have become only
bad and offensive joke. They see tn,
diplomatists of the old world going OF
spoils of the war; denying little PEG
Piles their independence; parcelling GU
| territories among themselves; and mail
tanning the same old huge naval ant
military ornaments, which they charg,
to Germany as her crime. And 1ookins
at this miserable spectacle of dip1o
matte treachery and greed the peopl
ask themselves what good we did d.
going into the war and what either W.
or the other peoples Of the world hav
gained by our enormous expenditure
of blood and treasure. And the troubl
is that nobody in Washington can Civ
any answer to these questions which
satisfies common folks.
| Then. too, every effort of the work
| ingmen to better their conditions is lie
about by the controlled and subsidize
press. In former letter I explaine