YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1920-08-06
Formsr Mayor a. Clsveianl,
Whose Famous Leadsrship
| q Forest C;pa ca1npaisn
! Against the Reds Led - MIAy
I Day Riots and Attempt g
Blow Him Up, vrites On
Subject Of Anasshistie Pias-
tinss From His Own BooA
/ Of Experience. j
BY Harry i. Davis.
@NE hundred per cent
Americanisrn IS the para

mount need of the hour.
/ With events and conditions
crowding upon us as they are,
with industrial financial, CONF
II,hercial and labor unrest preva-
lent, with the spirit Of "get the
money while the getting is
good" running amuck through
the land, only 100 per cent
simon pure Americanism will
finally serve to bring us back to
|our senses and normal safe-and-
sane existence.
Existins conditions could not have
hem nada TO order more fayorably
tor Bolshevism. Every element that
makes for dissatisfact action IT, with US.
lPrOAteering, 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 unscathsd. :.
There is no use trying to disguise
these things. We all know it, have
au stood aghast at the spectacle.
And the Bolshevist leaders have
been making the most Of it all.
Don't deceive yourselves with the
fdea that Bolshevism is dying out
just because. momentarily, it is
Quiescent. Bolshevism works while
syou sleep. Always it moves under
cover. stealthily. insidiously, and
and with q marvellous persistence. 1t
isn't confined wholly to the cities. It
lis like the plague Of influenza that
swept tho country. Every once in a
while It bobs mp In most unexpected
places. Every once in q while it is
uncovered where It had been least
suspected
Always it Is boring In upon the
foundations Of our government, at
Itacktng the stability Of our institu-
stions. breeding discontent and dis
satisfaction with our common lot.
and melting its converts to a radi-
ealism that approaches the very
verge Of revolution. It waves q red
nag and breaches q red doctrine. Its
trademark is bloodshed, its apimat-
Ing ideal is violence. It is the out
standing national menace and should
be crushed as you would kill q
,venomous snake.
The Cleveland Riots.
/ Such a policy was pursued vigor-
ously and persistently during my ad-
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 IL blood
shed there must be to attain their
ENDS. They were instrumental in
putting number OF Bolshevist agi-
Itators behind the bars; in starting
others homeward bound across the
Atlantic.
The situation eliminated finally
in the May Day riots Of q year ago,
on the occasion Of the Reds parade.
When we served notice on the Red
leaders that We would not tolerate
the Red Aag in the parade for one
instant. and that heads would be
cracked just tho zaiaute any in1am-
matory speech was started on the
Public Square, they served notice on
M that they intended to stand on
their constitutional rights Of free as
sembiage and free speech.
Up to that time, there was nothing
on the statute books to prevent them
from doing - they planned.
i When that ultimatun was deliv.
cred, decided that law or no law,
was going to have II demonstrated to
the rest Of Amsxics that Cleveland
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