The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-05-23
PROPAGANDA BY
!. !. PARAD|NC FAILS
fHoeTs CARRYING BANNERS IN
( WARRINGTON DON'T ACCOM-.
PLIsH THEIR AIMS.
BARRED FROM White HOUSE
'latest Gang Of Marehsrs Sought Re-
T. lease Of Those Who Tried to Undo
United. States During the War;
! Paeifst Women Busy.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK

j BY EDWARD q. CLARK
! Washlngton.-General Coxey's army,
which marched over the mountains
from Ohio and descended on the capt.
tal about thirty years ago, is looked
on as the progenitor, If that be the
WORD, Of all the be-bannered hosts
(which come here to attempt In
"a spectacular way to force congress
or the administration to do something
which the paradine ones want done.
Washington is hotbed today. and
has been a hotbed for some time, of
propaganda Of this, that or the other
kind. Much of the effort Is expended
In typewriting and lluch in parading.
The paraders seldom get anywhere
and the typewriters fail or succeed as
their cases happen to appeal to the
powers that be. If Washington cor
respondent were moved to write in
behalf Of this or that cause by the
stun which comes to his Office every
day he could do little else than con-
|stitute himself a pleader, pro or con,
for hundred different endeavors.
The latest street demonstration has
been in behalf Of prisoners who today
are where they are because they at
tempted to undo the United States in
the time Of trouble. A procession Of
men, women and children has tried
several times to make its way into
the White House, carrying banners
of various hinds. in order to induce
|the President of the United States to
'set free men Who did their best to
I5eopardize the liberties of their coun-
try when 1t was in the throes of war.
T. sentimentaIity That Fails.
President Harding refused to meet
the paraders in behalf of the so-called
political prisoners. One Of the BAN
'ners which has appeared. and at this
writing still is appearing, at the head
OF the column Of paraders. is borne by
the side of child who holds one hand
upon the staff. The banner is in
|scribed: II never have seen my IA
Ither."
o It was believed by these paraders
In. behalf Of the seditious that this
banner certainly would win the day
with the President and the people.
There are some hard-headed patriotic
ones In this town. however, who know
that there are q good many American
children whose -athers died for their
country in France some months before
the little ones were born and who
probably would not have died IL the
prisoners of today whose release Is
sought and the thousands of persons
who escaped imprisonment for like
talk and like deeds, had not by their
influence prevented the United States
from preparing Its men fully for the
battlefield. giving them adequate
means Of personal defense and ade-
,quate means for defense against bat
teries Of artillery and ships Of the air.
Judging from the present-day Gu
pers of persons akin in sympathy and
in policy to those who are parading
in behalf Of the imprisoned ones, there
lis to be no ceasing from the endeavor
to propagandlze in America In behalf
lof un-American policies.
Women Who Would 30 DisioyaI.
l. Recently in this city there was held
a meeting of women who form the
American section of an international
league which declares its object to be
30, secure lasting peace in the world.
At meeting of representatives of this
international league in Geneva not
long ago it was voted to be the sense
Of the gathering that In the years to
come no woman Of any land should
raise her hand to help her country in
case it was called upon to take up
arms against another nation, or even
IL the call was to arm itself for purely
defensive purposes against invasion
and tyranny from without.
Any amount Of printed propaganda
material was received by the WASH
ington correspondents from the repre-
,sentatives Of the American section of
this international league. The inti-
tmation was that the American women
who were to meet were to pledge them
selves to refrain from all war work in
case the United States should become
iinvolved In conflict.
What would this mean? It would
mean simply that II this country
some day should find it necessary to
defend itself against foreign nggres-
sion the women members of the
American section of the international
league and all the women they could
influence to follow their own course,
would refuse to do works of mercy for
American wounded, or to do those
other things which woman knows how
to do for the comfort Of the soldiers
fighting In the field for their country's
sake.
! Three foreign women, it Is an
rnounced, will travel through the
United States to speak in behalf of
the objects Of this international
league. One Of them Is an English
woman, another is French woman
and the third Is a German woman.
They all have the nonresistance idea
and their endeavor probably will be to
attempt to bring American opinion to
the point where it will be willing to
make a second Russia out of the
United States.
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