Arizona republican., 1920-01-05
MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY 5. 1920
We are so much accustomed to
 disguise ourselves to others that at length we disguise ourselves to our
 selves. -ROchefOucauld.
overthrovinq the Government

Overttrovvins the Government
 It a are-brained scheme, wild impos- sfble that may plead that in Justification of failure take against it earlier-that of the bolshevists government through the of a great strike Yet there is ndubitable proof that there thousands of crazy Reds who had such a thing in mind. And when look back upon threats by I. W. W. leaders years be- fore, threats which attracted attention only be- of their impotence and impotence that idea overthrowing government a new one when it proposed to begin the execution it with strike again, the strike of the coal miners.
 Five years ago W. D. Haywood, the head of the l. W. W. issued ultimatum declaring that the country should not engage in with Mexico; the workers" would prevent it. That the throw of the government If the workers any other group could prevent the country from going there nothing else they could do with he government. We did not go There were -wo reasons why did not, either which would have been preventive. One of them that the administration, whether O the threat of Haywood. could been driven, coaxed shamed provoked into Another was that the great, overwhelming population the north and east against a Mexican just New England against the Mexican war of 1S47.
 Haywood followers also threatened to prevent entrance into the world when the administration finally let the against which the nation had been pressing for nearly two years. brushed workers taking notice of them and rushed into paid ther attention the workers then to throw of them. among them Haywood, jail for pygmy efforts to annoy it in the
 We should here explain why we have consistently workers" with the double apostrophe sometimes used expression of contempt. We used 1t a mark of distinction between those who work, whether not members a organization, and those who class conscious The
 
 workers. They have put themselves into a class, have classes in this country, contrary the lief of many wise and excellent persons who think have not. of us heard of the criminal classes" of which the workers" are one?
 But we have no high class no low class no favored class which any member of society be rrevocably assigned. We have stations in life but there easy from another. No be into and kept there against his desire. he will fall according his merits. why there the United States only three generations shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves again.
 There quite other such a country worid is other where there is such freedom of approach from station another There something of it in the British Dominons, though little of Great Britain itself a of it in every democracy. real only There would be a good deal of 1t in the Iattn-American republics if dense ignorance apathy of the people. and ignorant apathetfc people constitute masses. and on masses classes inevitably arise.
 The workers" who going to overthrow government the United States had in mind only the conditions in Russia before the revolution There was a country O There those who did not work but who preyed upon and oppressed those who did work, merely the trained artisan all who with hand brain, the peasant. every body wh belong the aristocratic which also the official class So when the division in Russia it had long been coming the oppressed middle class which enjoyed a measure of pros the hatred those who had suffered more: bitterness workers against the bourgeoise
 Tn this country all bourgeoise except those ers" The who worth millions may harbor delusion that he belongs to superior class and SO may with a pride of family handed down. or rather up. through five generations, from a very humble beginning. But they bourgeoise who lives decently. who is industrious thrifty whether a thousand year a million. A democracy is essentially government of the bour- And this the kind the handful workers, would have overthrown.
 How far they fell short the result of the steel strike. No sensible person predicted the success that strike; yet believed that it would cause so little disturbance become so flat failure. with the coal strike notwithstanding the apparently reasonable grievances strikers. uprisings. the former headed by ". z. Foster bad previously advocated that the --sac hadsthe approval of the American Federation