The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-01-10
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TWO YEARS AGO
TO RED REBELS
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., COrrectS
Wilson'S Department Of

Washington, Jan. 10.rThe Rcpubli
can Publicity association, through its
president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr,
today gave out the following statement
from its Washington headquarters:
1.-THE statement made in news dis.
patches that the nationwide cOnspir-
acy against law and order was first
discovered on April 80, 1919, is a false
hood that ought not go nnchallengcd.
That may have been the first time the
department of JUSTICE began to realize
the gravity oA LAe situation, but 1t
was not the first time it had cause To
recognize the serious menace to the
good people of the United States.
"Any man can turn to page 5395 Of
the congressional record for the Sixty
fifth congress, second session, and find
that on April %, 1918, Senator Mile:
Poindexter of Washington and Sena-
tor Jacob Fl. Gallinser Of New Hamp-
shire, called attention to the anar
chistic movement then we'll under way.
Poindexter was talking on The
Mooney Case and the Propaganda Of
Anarchy Unfortunately the subject
was dismissed by many people with
the assumption that the address was
chiefly for partisan purposes. Subse.
Quent disclosures demonstrated that
PoindeXter had a grasp of the sitnn-
ton and was uttcring a warning that
the department of justice could no:
comprehend. In the course Of his ad-
dress. Senator PoindcXtcr said: .
"'The greatest issue that cOnfrOnts
not only the American people, but the
westrcn world. is the suppression Of
this arrogant. insolcnt and tyrannical
movement (anarchy). It's leaders need
to he subjected to the power Of the
government
"And yet it was more than year
later that the lenartmont Of Justice
awOkc to the situation and nearly two
years later that it tOokk action.
ADVOCATED SABOTAGE
r'During Senator POindcXtcr's adj
dress, Senator Gallingcr intcrruptei l
page (530S) to remark that when the
industrial commission was conduct
ing an investigation in New York, Z
short time before, a Mr.. st. John gave
direct testimony advocating sabotage,
violence and murder, yet that man,
after that testimony, was permitted
to march out Of that room and
Join his compatriots in continuing the
kind of thing the senator Is so ably
and properly presenting to the senate
today, (April %, 191S).
''In another portion of his address,
Poindexter pointed out that although
the l. w. w. were endcavoring to act
in the name Of organizezd labor, they
did not, in fact, represent the ideas or
interests of the laboring people OF the
United States. If the law and tn"
courts arc to be cverthrOwn, there WILL
be no security in the enjoyment Of
the fruits of labor, nothing but slavery
and woe he declared. 'rhcy (the J..
w. w. ought to be put down in the
interest of labor, organized or unor.
ganizcd. so that Il man shall be fro.
from their tyranny and oppression;
that laboring man may join union
if he sees fit, exercising his own rea-
son and intelligence in the matter:
that he shall not be cOcrcrd by Il To-.
of soft-handcd, misnnmcd labor lead
crs into giving up his position or the
wages of his toll at their dictation.'
"If the department has entered upon
n determined effort TO eradicate boil
shcvism from the United States. it is
to be commended. but the public
should not be mislcd into believing
that the anarchistic movement was not
discovered until April, 1919, whcE
these remarks of PoindcXter and Gal
lingcr are spread upon the records OF
congressional proceedings Of April %,
1918"