The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-04-19
REGULAR EDITION
Repression and Revolution
Contributed EditoriaI.)
"As it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be!'


President Woodrow Wilson once said, nrepresson is the
seed OF revoIuon" The truth statement has been
proven throughout all aces.
Under the old order things developed system of
repression which has been equaed by any nation
system For years the system repression
was Incompatible for its efficiency its unreennq
ferocty One after another revolutionary
sia were stamped OUT and the leaders executed Dy
cratic and the officials surrounded Them But
the revolutionary spirit Of the Russia peasant stamped
out or destroyed and Russia today is Soviet repubc not
perfect perhaps, but the obtained under
such fierce condition Of affairs, few
short model to be followed by many revolutionary
nation now awaiting the leaders to arise
The English have tried repression Ireland for century
or more Those who but the slightest attention
ditions in Ireland existing would try
TO persuade themselves anybody else into the belief that
the revolutionary spirit Of the Irish people broken. 1t
It never was strong it today They prison singing
and laugh at British bayone do these Irish patriots.
Poland, Hungary, Serbia ay-for tried
repression in Itaw all be Soviet republics part the
United Soviet States Europe before many
George III thought that repression would be proper thing
for the great unrest which filled the colonies. resulted n
the United States Of America proved the
very thing to turn the people against the British monarch
To those in America who think for that
repression will existing political economic trou-
bIes let it be here said, "As beginnings is now
and shall be-. The revolutionary spirit of the American
people the henceforth and forever Freedom
death.
Bishop Butler has truly said:
sns % I ALL the uss BY law il
tation out Of the free air of ouof-doors, into the
dark gloomy channels of underground conspiracy And
is there, in these places hidden away from the air
light of day. that the argument Of violence for violence
is irresistible If the reaconaries in this country
make of assassnaons and riots and revoIts, let them
continue in the way that they going. Let them
refuse to the opportunity of speech let them rob
representation IN Congress and in the New York
political organization! Violence Of this kind in the past
by force-repression by revolution. see no ele-
ent in the situation which will prevent the habit
Of the ages from taking the here in America
elsewhere. The laws of psychology suspended
soiI any than the laws Of astronomy
pended in Skies"
Repression strengthened and united the Nhsts England
is busy today doing all in her power strengthen Sim
Feners.
The officials of the United States Of America right now
gallopng pelIme into the tragic results which follow acts
of repression Tens Of thousands Of citizens have been turned
from the Of late by the brutal and ntoerabe
activities Of the department Of Justice Some
cas we'll understand this There be refuge from
tyranny Herbert Spencer the springs of action
ntelecta but emotional. Men act when their sentiments
stirred Ludlow striking example of this great
TRUTH The dangerous not the patient oiers but the
INSCRIPTIONS despots who have studied the psychology
Of the mob Take warning before ae for the sign
cant thing is the camness of a great people.