, 1920-01-15

way IN PROCESS OF construction In tne
granted that their utterances, or at
lite indication of the platform on
which the next Republican nominee
for the presidency would stand. AS
suming that this is true, the main
planks of that platform will deal with
labor and Industrial relations and with
the radicals who seek % overthrow
the government. A fair summary of
the propositions with which the party
may be expected to go before the peo-
pie this year is:
Fair representation for labor in all
the councils of the nation.
Development of closer relations be-
tween capital and labor with justice
to both and also to the third side of
the triangle, the public.
Sympathetic help for business, not
a~ntagonistic curtailment, as part of
the economic readjustment.
Strong repressive measures against
1. w. W.-ism and other forms .of ex-
tremism which advocate overthrow of
the present form of government.
Efficient inc honest administration.
No taxes which kill initiative. Ade-
quate taxes, but none for extrava-
gance.
A plan for spreading payment of the
war debt over a long period of years.
No undue liberalization of indus
tries and activities, such as railroads;
strong federal regulation, but not gov
eminent ownership.
No federation of attempts to array
group against group, section against
section or sect against sect.
Back to the Constitution in times
of peace.
General Wood handled the reds
without gloves, as might have been ex-
pected. His hearers vigorously ap-
plauded such eplgrammatic sentences
as these:
1.-The big issue today is, first and
foremost, maintenance of law and Or
der, respect for constituted authority,
and maintenance of a government un-
der the Constitution.
"Give labor American leadership.
Don't allow it to drift into the hands
VI uhuiN iVu VI
"As for the reds. let's stamp them
out. They grow only in communities
where government is tlmid and slack.
They are a cowardly lot, assassins and
m%urderers often. towards always.
With them go the l. w. W.; their
brand is treason.
we've got to oIlow up our immi-
grafton more closely. Why not in
struct the newcomers in Americanism?
When they get over the ~gangplank the
literature of the reds is placed in their
hands. Let's meet them with the liter
allure of Americanism.
SIT is very fine to picture America
as the refuge of the oppressed of the
world, but there is danger in making
America the dumping ground for the
degenerates of the world. We've got
to watch our immigration more
closely"
The government evidently has ac-
cepted with a~lacrity the challenge of
the reds and the war on them is ex-
tending to lengths which they probably
did not anticipate. If their cause
needs martyrs, they will soon have
thousands who may be so classed by
their sympathizers. Since the year
opened the agents of the department
of justice have been making daily and
nightly raids on'the headquarters. re-
sorts and homes of the radical leaders,
and as fast as they can be examined
by immigration commissioners the
prisoners are being sent to the ATTAIN
tic coast for deportation. Ellis island
could not begin to accommodate all of
them, so one Of the army camps is
used for that purpose. At h time of
writing Martens, self-Styled ambassa-
dor from the soviet government of
Russia. was still at large. though the
authorities were searching for him.
believing him to be the real head Of
the revolutionary communists in Amer
lea. His "chief of staff" Gregory
Weinstein, who is rated as Trotzky's
best friend in the United States, was
captured. He has been in control of
the distribution of bolshevist money
and propaganda.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
doesn't yet see the light. At a recent
meeting It adopted n resolution de-
~nouncing the raids on the reds as n
plot to kill labor unions in America,
and also called on congress to give to
Victor L. Berger "the seat to which
he is entitled" Then the delegates of
! the painters union were applauded