The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-28
PRESS ACHAST
AT BOMB PLOT
FutlIity Of Attempt on Morgan
Building Stressed by
Newspapers.

| ~ great variety OF lHeOTles ana CON-
illusions concerning the Wall street
tragedy have been evoked from all
shades OF journalistic conviction.
There Is no paper, however, but con-
| dennis the deed as both criminal and
! futile. Extracts from as large a num-
Der as II is practicable TO quote APP
pear below:
! The design to centralize the meat
Industry, the plan to bring about the
Capitalization OF steel, the effectlng OF
virtually unified control of coal, had In
them morally, the same violence that
Is In the protest OF anarchists and red
! radicals when they place bombs In the
much frequented public places. The
obsession with n single purpose in
wolves, morally, the same inhumanity.
the same heartlessncss, as that OF the
most ruthless OF bomb throwers.
Christian Science Monitor Boston.
Ind.
1.-THE one thing. we repeat, Is for
this city to go about its business In
| the full knowledge that the existing
order is still able to take care OF It
self. When the truth has been dis
covered the community will take a
full reckoning. We are quite able to
vindicate the law against anarchists
or lunatics. New York Evening Post
undo.
"The instant conclusion was that It
was the upshot OF the labor troubles
that have been prevalent In the great
American metropolis - Knoxville
Journal and Tribune (Rep.).
'In the dark background OF this
abominable blow at life, at property
and at public order, the power OF
American institutions and the Ameri-
can conscience will proceed with
equally calm determination against
the men whose inhammatory talk has
evoked the destroying flames from
weak and malicious minds."--New
York Mail tInd,).
$50 far as property loss IL con-
cerned. mans ingenuity would be
taxed to ind another spot where the
possibilities were Observation-Disclosures
ter Union Und.-Rep.). ,4 l!r
"All the dynamite and TINT ever
manufactured cannot blow America
Off its feet."-Baltimore Sun (Ind.-
Derl.).
Neither the United States govern
ment nor the New York police will
need to be urged to sift the mysteri-
Gus outrage to the bottom. "-Phila-
delphia Press (Rep).
"As usually IL the case. the men
whom the assassins sought to reach
escaped, while others. perhaps with
greater cause for discomfort than the
miserable creatures who committed
the crime, were the victims" --Raleigh
News and Observer Dem.). t,
Approximately 5000, government
detectives connected with the depart.
ment OF Justice, treasury department,
postoffice and bureau OF immigration
were working on the explosion within
two hours OF the blast, according TO
| an ofiicial Observation-Disclosures
Gazette Times (Rep).
80 long as the radicals. either OF
| the parlor or sewer variety, are per-
| mittod to preach theories that are
| inimical TO tho American government,
| to foment class hatreds and infiame
| the minds of irresponsible people. just
30 long will the danger Of such calam-
tiles exist."-Washington Post Und).
Politicians have been appiauded as
they busted themselves nrousing class
hatred and capitnlizing II TO their
personal profit. Crime Is criple,
though II camouhages itself by pre-
tending to zeal in behalf OF some in
| dustrlal or social cause."--New York
Tribune (Rep0.
| "Society owes II to itself to mako
amends 10 far as that shall be posi-
bio. by an unspnring review of Its
own shortcomings and n new dedioa-
| ton OF all Its powers TO removal OF
all remedial causes of discomfort and
the strengthening OF the legal ma
chinery for dealing with the enemies
OF orderly government by law and the
rule of the majority. "-Philadelphia
| Public Ledger (Ind,).
/ L. "a Ia at NJ lFtnH0
II Ia also the first argument of the
|hnarchist and the favorite logic OF the
holshevlst. Sun dnd.-
Dem.).
ut Ia the task OF those who look
upon all business and production as
social service TO keep working along
toward their rather unspeotacular but
steadily developing betterment, with
| tho proper restraint on the unsocial.
| Economies which permit slums on the
| one hand and reward out OF proper
| ton 70 social service on the other are
not sound. But those who attempt to
change by emotional hatreds ana vio-
ience must Of necessity be elimi-
ated."--Newark Evening News
| Qnd.).
Radicals mistake the existing So
oial ana industrial unrest for a desire
on the part of the working classes for
n change In our form OF government"
Newport News (Va.) Record Cnd).
IF the radical agitator is the apos-
tic OF revolution the reactionary IL It's
ool"--Chicago Daily News Und).
AS far as the red theory Is con-
cerned, It is always Jumped to with
the greatest alacrity by tho police.
Such theory throws a glamor OF
romance about what might otherwise
be Bternly businesslike affair. II
makes everything vague: II estab-
fishes an alibi for the police In case
they fail to turn up the criminals in
tho caso,"--Chieago Evening Post
| Und). 49,.
"The whole nation IL concerned
that murder shall not be regarded as
n political instrument in America, -
Kansas City Times (ind).
THE Russian bolshevik and tho
American domagogue may shake
hands over this AFFAIR. the fruit OF
their Joint inspiration. bridgeport
Post Und),
1T all goes 10 show that society Is,
after nil, moro primitive than we
think, else II would he able TO pre-.
vent such outrageous occurrences,
And II shows, too. that society Ia more
stable than we think. for. In the dark,
Il Is unafraid. "-pittsbur.h Sun
(Deml,
'The more one studies the case tho
stronger grows the probability that
the crime in New York was one OF
negligence, rather than premeditated
murdor"--Groonsboro IN. c. Daily
News (Ind.).
''rhe authorities have absolutely no
doubt now That the Wall street ex.
plosion was OF f,cndish design--that
IL was bomb explosion. bomb