The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-25

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demned such conduct.
| OVERLAPPING AN ENDORSEMENT.
| A member of the executive committee OF the
Iowa State Federation of Labor has returned
| to his home in Keokuk after attendance at a
session of the federation held at Fort Dodge and
brings word to this center of American Legion
activity that the state labor body endorsed the
aims and principles of the World War Veter-
ans. This organization, it may be explained, is
| composed of ex-service men who believe that
the American Legion, whose membership COM
prehends soldiers of the late war; is too 'capl-
Italistic' because it stands for law and order and
! for the flag. a... ..- s
! Representatives of the World War Veterans
were heard by the delegates to the labor con-
vention and it is reported that their diatrlbes
were loudly applauded. Here is a specimen Of
the sort of doctrine offered at the Fort Dodge
gathering, and it was voiced by one of the wild
talking advocates of opposition to the American
LEGION:
We don't want a revolution but if organizations
like the Greater Iowa association
it ought to be called refuse to stop their insid-
guise of Patriotism there will be a revolution
within ninety days.
pie, all liberal organizations banded together to
uphold the constitution. to march to the polls and
settle this question by the ballot. Our forefathers
fought establish the constitution. our fathers to
it, and if some people don't look out there
will another fight to uphold it before very long.
/!
And this from one other:
It is time that workngmen of this country
woke up to resent the charge of bolshevism. If
had a red flag in one hand and the black and yell
low flag autocracy and slavery in the other,
I'd choose the red flag every time and If had
red flag standing autocracy and industrial
tho the he
In what home in Iowa can this sort of doc
trine be read without northumberland father
would have his children taught that such senti
ments represent love of country, respect for the
flag. respect for the equal rights of others?
Do people want revolution in ninety days, in
ninety months or ever? The blatherskltes who
spoke before the Iowa State Federation of La
Dor at Fort Dodge would more properly orna-
ment an Institution at another fort-Fort Leav-
enworth They believe that conditions already
exist under which they prefer the red flag tol
the mingled red white and blue. They belong
to that group of dangerous men who have con-
tracted the craziness of the direct-actlon So
cialists and bolshevists who have filed Russia
with disease and want, ruined It's industrial en-
terprses and who have reduced the products of
the soil to thirty per cent. OF its former normal
ity.
Surely there's much wrong with and in the
world But the way to right the wrong IS not
bv preaching class hatred, disseminating false
and dan gerous doctrines. Humanity is greater
than the few and it has greater interests to
serve Hysterical and half baked advocates of
revolution should have no place in a convention
of men supposed to represent labor and thrift.
While the garden a patriotic effort, /
the new freedom The old freedom satisfied
one s personal advantage. From every agency
of information comes the word that the farmers
are planting less of our staple foodstufs, wheat,
corn, potatoes and the like. The city gardener
cannot of course, grow enough wheat to make
the effort worth while, but many Of the gardens
of the city can grow enough vegetables to sup
ply a small family. In some, intensive cultiva-
ton will give a potato supply for the winter.
In more, sufficient carrots beets, onions can be
grown. Some can grow enough tomatoes to
give winter supply when canned Almost all
can grow beans enough for the ordinary family.
Less planting by farmers means shorter crops (
Short crops mean higher prices. Making the
most of the home garden is going to pay this
summer. +
When city has great and principal as
set a drawing power in the attainment of
business growth it is folly to minimize the i'm
portance of that asset. The practice known as !
passing the buck'' which is so common nova !: