The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-02-12
Thursday, February II, 1920.
HOUR HAS ARRIVED FOR PATRI
OTIS TO ACT.

The hour has arrived for America tl
thoroughly arouse herself This hom
is one Of ringing challenge and grow
ing hope. The general unrest. radical
ism leading to treason. and a startling
disregard for law and constitutional
authority seething through our land,
cry to all true-hearted, liberty loving
Americans to awake from their leth-
argy In the face of all this the signi-
ficant events of the past few days
indicate that there is reason for be-
lief that the great common people of
this land will awake and save their
liberties from the vicious in the ranks
of both capital and labor
For fully three-score years we have
been receiving the incoming millions
of immigrants with little heed as to
their purpose in seeking our shores.
The high minded and aspiring have
come with the criminal outcast and
politically undesirable, and compare
tive slight effort to discriminate has
been exercised by our government. We
have allowed labor prOfiteers to prac-
tically enslave and expolit the great
masses Of these bewildered people, and
set them at our most undesirable tasks.
They have been colonized and left UNI
Americanized, subject to the wiles of
the soap-box orators and political ex-
ploiters who have unhesitatingly de
nounced our religious and political
standards heralded defiance at God
and the nation. They have misrepre
scented and exaggerated the grievances
of the unthinldng masses, they have
reiterated and circularized their ler-
nicious doctrines of anarchy and Dol
shevism until great part Of our peo-
pie have unconsciously become inocu-
lated with the virus destructive of
economic right and true freedom.
The thinking public have long stood
by asking themselves if Uncle sam
would never defend his own and his
home from the guests, who having en-
joyed his shelter and his bountiful
table, now set striving to pun down his
house and rob his children of their true
birthright. So defiant had been some
of the groups under our liberal system
of government that they have openly
insulted our flag, defied our courts,
their red banners in our faces
and gathered their forces and their
dynamite to work their policy of de- /
struction. our great labor organlza-
tons. once conservative, had become /
50 drunken with the Wine of false eco
lomic teachings that they gave ala
and comfort to rebellious and seditious
among the masses.
When despair had seized upon many +.
rope again raises her head. The month
If November brought forth works
with great encouragement
some had said that the Massachusetts ,
4 the days Of the Puritan and stanch ,
.mericanism had given away to the f
ana the unassimilated for i
igner. The elections of November 4 {
bowed that there still remained on S
arm and in villages of the old town
leeting type and in cities roaring with Z
reat wheels of industry citizenry n
lat would not stand for rebellion. The o
lumphs Of Americanism in the old A
ay state stirred our national leaders Il
greater activity until the roundup c
anarchists and radical bolshevists a.
IS somewhat areviated the threaten C,
g danger to our political existence. c.
he stand our government took in the b,
luminous coal strike in the interests es
the whole people versus the de- laI
,nds Of a part-delicate as the issue pt
ally was-gave evidence that the les
untlet had been drawn for battle. Tn
When the officials Of the union wi
lded to the mandate Of the court, err
d the acting president Of the union III
de the significant. and what viii ma
we a historic statement 1--WE are mi
iericans. We cannot fight our gov Of
ment." new radiance was given to in
dawning day. It was an evidence
{ patriotic and constructive leader cor
p had not been entirely uriven from zin
ranks of our powerful labor or tra'
izations.
mid all the darlxening shadows ish
oh have gathered about since the acr.
great reinforcement to the forces moi