The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-03-10
LETUs STAND TOGETHER.


There is much that is said by word Of mouth and
in the printed page as to the disease which has
siezed upon the body politic and which seems Ike
y to give to this nation such distemper as 1t mas
never known But most Of US write and talk about
this revolution" as if 1t were sort Of malady
which was being waited to from overseas in
stead OF malignant growth which has been Tester
Ing In this country for many years.
Some Of us may remember years ago. before ever
Coxey's army marched upon Washington from Chi
cago and encamped on the White House grounds.
that our literature was impregnated with warnings
In the form OF such books as Caesars Column
and WHITTIER Are We Drifting" and Looking Back
ward"
Years ago Persons Magazine sounded many
warning note, particularly active in expos
ing the methods pursued by a number of the ship
ping agencies in rounding up emigrants to this
country from the Old World. and in exposing the
impossible tales Of wealth which induced many OF
them to their small possessions and embark upon
the perilous adventure of crossing an ocean to
settle in a strange world where many Of them be-
lieved they should become rich over night
When Coxey led his valiant army OF hoboes from
Chicago to Washington, those men were In need OF
work Today this country is in need of workers.
And yet our problem seems to be nearer of So
luton now than il then. Then work was
scarce and so was money. Today work is plentiful
and so is money. Labor has never been well
paid And yet the unrest of today is greater than
the OF the day when mills and factories We're
shut down and bread lines common to all large
cities.
Men and women are writing about the present
times just as they wrote about those other times.
from the safety Of and the secluson of office
desk and are treating the trouble which is fostering
| in this country, IN entirely academic way.
| But the trouble which America faces today is not
academic lines. We cannot put stop to the poison
by dipping a pen into ink bottle or by beating
out columns typewriters.
But while we cannot in this way. we can
help to inject the only antidote which can possibly
neutralize this poison. We talk and write and
urge Americansm
One thing that the people Of this country seem to
be unwilling to face Is the fact that there is great
force in this country which is banded together to
overthrow this government They will not admit
this fact. And until that fact is admitted, until
| the truth is recognized how under high heaven
may it be combatted?
There is certain class OF people which we shall
probably always have with us. who will always try
to cover their eyes with bandage rather than look
upon any thing that happens to offend their sense
of decorum.
Any person who does not believe in anarchy any
man who SCOTS the possibility of revolution any
against this government and are not trying to get
hold of the country through the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, and in every other possible way.
should read George Kibbe Turner'S story: THE Pos
sbilist" recently appearing in the Saturday Evening
Post.
But we do not need to read fiction, though we
may learn much from the more progressive of the
fiction magaznes-He need only study the press, we
need only read inteIligently and do little thinking
for ourselves, to see with what insidousness the
reds" trying to get strong hold this ceun-
try.
! There is just hope of keeping this country
free from soviet rule, and that is for the Of
Am erica to wake from their false of security.
been sautary. 1t has made think.
| There enough American men. born under the
American flag, imbued with its American ideals
to combat the spirit of revolution which is surely
., growing in this country. There plenty Of men
who believe in the principles OF liberty against
the license of anarchy If they will stand together.
| Stand together. That is what all good Americans
must do if to keep this country safe for the
pursuit of life. liberty and happiness" instead Of
handing it to the mal-contents and hoboes who
have earned honest living. and the scum
of foreign countries. who know nothing about the
principles for which forefathers laid down their
| lives, and for which millions of men died in Flan-
ders that these might be free-free to wreck the
nation whose flag gives to them its sacred pro-
lection
| TO BECOME PEOPLE"