Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1920-07-22
Former Mayor Of Cleveland,
Whose Famous Leadership
of Forest City's Campaign
Against the Reds Led to May
Day Riots and Attempt to
Blow Him Up, Writes On
Subject Of Anarchistic Plot
tings From His Own Boos
of Experience.

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mount need of the hour.I
| With events and conditions
crowding upon us as they are,
with industrial, financial, COM
Imercial and labor unrest preva-
lent, with the spirit of get the
money while the getting is
Igood" running amuck through
the land, only 100 per cent
Isimon pure Americanism will
finally serve to bring US back to
Jour senses and normal safe-and-
Isane existence. /.
Existing conditions could not have
been made to order more favorably
for Bolshevism. Every element that
makes for dissatisfaction is with u.s..
Profiteering, thinly disguised, is with
us on every hand. Corporate greed
is playing the old and favorite game
of cornering the market wherever it
may. The courts are dilly-dallying
with litigation that affects the whole
nation. And the department of
justice has been letting things go by
default. The greatest offenders es-
cape unscathed.
There is no use trying to disguise
these things. We all know it, have
all stood aghast at the spectacle.
And the Bolshevist leaders have
been making the most of it ALL
n1x va
idea that Bolshevism is dying out
just because, momentarily, it is
Quiescent. Bolshevism works while
YOU sleep. Always it moves under
cover, stealthily, insidiously, and
and with marvellous persistence. 1t
isn't confined wholly to the cities. 1t
is like the plague Of influenza that
swept the country. Every once in
while 1t bobs up In most unexpected
places. Every once in a while it is
uncovered where it had been least
suspected.
Always it Is boring in upon the
foundations of our government, at
tacking the stability Of our institu-
tions, breeding discomfort and dis
satisfaction with our oafnmon lot.
and inciting its converts TO a radi-
calism that approaches the very
verge Of revolution. 1t waves a red
flag and breaches a red doctrine. Its
trademark is bloodshed, it's animat-
ing ideal is violence. 1t is the out
standing national menace and should
be crushed as you would kill a
yenomous snake.
The Cleveland Riots.
Such policy was pursued vigor-
ously and persistently during my adj
ministrations as mayor of Cleveland.
where, perhaps more rabidly than
anywhere else in the state, Boil
shevism was waging it's warfare
against American ideals. Cooper.
ating with the federal authorities
the city police made raid after raid
of the Red hiding places. They
found great quantities Of Red liter
ature which preached revolution and
advocated bloodshed now If blood
shed there must be to attain thei1
ends. They were instrumental in
putting a number OF Bolshevist agi
ltators behind the bars; in starting
others homeward bound across the
Atlantic.
The situation eliminated fnall.
In the May Day riots Of year ago
on the occasion Of the Reds parade
When we served notice on the Rex
leaders that we would not tolerat'
the Red flag in the parade for on
instant, and that heads would b.
cracked just the minute any inf1am
matory speech was started on tn
Public Square, they served notice OF
us that they intended to stand Of
their constitutional rights Of free as
semblage and free speech.
Up to that time, there was nothin
on the statute books to prevent then
from doing as they planned
When that ultimatum was deli1
cred, decided that law or no law.
was going to have it demonstrated t
the rest of America that Clevelan
would not tolerate unAmericanism
] called in the chief Of police an