The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-11

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SRs - an3Gk unecrnpnausXS scamp who
AN1k n any community is the
X Q &oUr, ana We have arrested more
= xhoumnd OF these in this
ekY, and many Of them are now
o114g behind prison bars and !
- <hay viii remain there forever.
h dApeec3atea the practice OF deal
orn strong goods Ira warehouses wait
L ~ Tor higher prices. He said that
oDsernment agents have lowered cost
Qf foOd by forcing much goods from
eo16 atosHges into the markets.
Ihe action against combinations
1 ana monoplies was also reviewed. The
caeA against the Chicago packers.
The Big Five" was reviewed, and
the assertion that these big dealers
would hereafter be confined to butch
sering and selling meat instead OF a
hundred and fifty other businesses,
brought great applause. He said that
~ confining the big Five" to meat
producing they would be unable TO
eain 4 monopoly on other businesses.
thus keeping pdices up high without
competition to lower them.
Law SUPREME
The coal strike was good thing,
Mr., Palmer stated, because IL show
ed that American law WAS supreme.
Labor and capital during the past
strike were able to see that the gov
eminent meant what 1t said. The
~hefefits from that strike can be real
ixed BY the fact that there have been
no big strikes since the coal strike.
All disputes between labor and capt.
tai should he settled by the govern
ment. and IL is a shame that in thirty
,, hNn 1a8
10 settle these disputes. But after all
the real monarch in these disputes is
American public opinion, and that
viii reign. AS soon as the govern
ment provides proper machinery to
tell the people the truth about the
disputes. proper settlements between
capital and labor will be effected.
Mr. Palmer gave by far the
greater part OF his attention To the
radical movement in this country. He
said that while there was no cause
for fear. there necessarily should he
caution against the radicals, He told
of the spread Of the movement into
this country from Russia, which
reached its climax in the summer of
1919. These radicals came to
America from Russia, gaining en-
trance into this eountrN through
Mexico principally.
He referred TO government activity
against the radical movement. result
ing in the deportation OF about 500
to Russia. He said that altogether
1000 have been arrested in this coGn-
try and that many of these will be
deported to the land they preach
about Arcadia but TO which they don
want TO go"
THE RADICALS
He said that the Socialist party in
the United States has always been
. radical party. but nevertheless q
patriotic party. But with the en-
trance OF the Bolshevistic element
there was split, resulting in the
communist party and the communist
labor party.
Their purpose is to accomplish thu
injury and finally the destruction q
Al government. and especially of III,
government OF the United States. b,
slfe use Of physical force or violence
Their plan is to put into the rank
II labor communists who believe II
the use Of force to destroy govern
nsent. make them leaders to fomen
strikes, finally convert the industrial
strike into a political strike for III
redress of political grievances: cap
ture the industry in which the strik
IL EuEAkFU anu olStFlpuIf 1t dInbnEr
the workers. removing entirely III
owners of the property, and FINAL
Joining all OF the several political an
industrial strikes into one great gen
erai pcfittc4t strike. the effect O
which Ii is hoped will I've that the gov
eminent itself will be turned over t
what they call the proletariat'
OF course, the absurdty of TIL
proposition in America is Immediate
apparent; there Is no 'proletariat"
the United States, 'Pro1etariat'-
given that name by Karl Marx, tn
great Russian Socialist writer---cone
from the word probes" or offspring
They arc called proletariat' becaus
In eastern Europe their only pun
pose. their only usefulness was
produce offspring for the support {
The state; they had no political right
whatever; their chief enemies
Europe. OF course, were those VIII
had property and, by reason of ths
property. had political rights Their
are no such distinctions in America
! there are no political distinction
here. no class political distinction
and such social distinctions as ther
may seem to be at first glance can h
and are constantly overcome by ir
duxtry and effort on the part OF tn
individual So that we have tn
anomalous situation Of l25 900 mo
in the Communist and Communist Ii