The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-06

II who lacks either information or the com.
mones, attributes OF vrracty has the cffrontery
20 say you are today working under worse
serfdom than my poor Russian ever worked
under"
This 10 men and women who, whatever their
grievances whether they ore real or imagined.
arc enjoying standard ot wages ana Of living
at tho very least 400 per cont greater than Rus
sian pcasants ever enjoyed. whose blessings in
the way OF personal safety. individual liberty
and freedom ~ action compare 10 tho condi.
uons prevalent In Russia AT its beet hour docs
tho ngurauve heaven compare 10 tho fgurat0yc
hell as sct forth by Martin Luther or Dante.
Neither Emma Goldman nor BIN Haywood
IN tho days OF their widest defiance of govern.
mrnt In this country. made statement Of
greater violence than this statement voiced ot
Sand Springs by "Walton's personal Representa-.
tive" and uppolntcc And Emma Goldman ana
Haywood both. after being torcIbly gent 10 hat
Russia which they pratSd volubly about.
where tho working man was finding his earthly
paradise speedily discovered the error Of their
ways and have FOR months honed to return 20
this blessed land OF freedom and charity where
alone such Impossible and dangerous leaders
are permitted to run at large ana talk as they
please.
Ruth, II he ls so fond OF Russian conditions
and the political system set up by Lculnc and
Trotsky inter precisely such tnctlca as he and
his chief are attempting to, practice IN Okla.
homn, should take passage Tor the land OF the
Bear. Ho will speedily find that not In that land
has he such freedom OF speech and action, and
that workmcn work not by any clock he has
ever heard OF, but cntlgely subject to the win
OF their masters the kings OF the new proe-
tarat government, and their wages are precise
ly what they may be allowed with no right to
bargain collectively or strike II they are ag-
grlcved.
There II not another government In existence
today. one possibly, excepted, where any man,
himself an officer of the government twice oh.
iigntcd, first ns n member Of the bar and sec
ond Ms nn npp0intcc of abe administrative nu.
thorltIcs, could voice the sentiments IN respect
20 that goycrnmcnt voiced ny Ruth and remain
twenty-four hours at liberty. There Is not an
other government cNtant, one alone possibly cx-
ccptcd, where such an offcnsc would not he
tionnblr ns treason. And Russia, the Innd where
Ruth says the Inboring mnn is more fortunate
than here In the United States OF America.
wonld he the very first 10 place such M offender
behind the bnrs II II did not execute him without
trial.
~ ODAY In America men work or cease work
when they are personally disposed to do so.
when they are engaged In work. they receive a
kings ransom compared to the wage paid in
any other government earth. England. the
nearest approach to America, not excepted: and
tho conditions under which they labor or rec
rcate are so far above tine conditions under
which tho laborers OF other nations work ana
recreate that the comparison must be with the
so-called upper classes" of those lands and not
with tho laborers
II Ruth and his cotcrle Of political adven-
turers who seeking to act our people upon
the red path OF revolution were studcnts and
homes! with themselves they would know Sall
thls. But they seek their own fortune and theirs
alone Therefore they seize upon the prejudice
and the credulity OF people who have Just com.
plants, brought upon them by men OF similar
lrrosponsiblty and criminal tendencies and by
practcing Il mendacty that knows no bounds.
lash into fury the mob spirit
Men and women OF Oklahoma, II you ever
thought seriously IN your lives now Is the time
to do so, You are hearing advice full of de-
structive suggestions, but whore and when have
these self-appointcd leaders OF yours proposed
a single thing that is constructive? They preach
revolution with ayidity, yet you must know that
| your help, when it comes viii come In a normal
and healing manner and along conservative.
constitutional lines, what you need Is honest,
| sincere leaders not dishonest revolutionarles,
who promise the utterly impossible,
! Is there man or woman In this state SO
completely lost To nll sense OF reason that he or
she believes II possible for Walton, even II elect
cd governor, Ia give the growers of food higher
| prices for their product and the Consumers of
that food lower prices? Such clap-trap Is off
the same identical piece Of flimsy this advice
about dragging federal judges from the bench
! who observe thclr onths seek to enforce the con-
| stltutionnl guarantees and serve the whole pco.
pie; the grossly false statements that Amcri.
can laborIng men nrc worse Off than the Rus.
sian peasants
! a Ill Of this appeal TO prejudice is in the In
terest of a gang OF politicians who seek to re-
tain control OF the government and prevent the
| light being thrown into dark corners. Cover.
! nor Robertson, widely declaiming that ne would
rather ose all other candidates on the demo
cratic reconstruction ticket than to lose Walton,
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