The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-06-24
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SATURDAY .GHT

SATURDAY ,,IHT
Turmoil at home and abroad seems to have been
the dominant factor of the present week. Ireland
has continued to contribute its share of the gen.
eral world unrest the rami6cations Of the Sim
Fem plots evidently extending to England, the as
sassinaton of Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson
in front of his home in London being charged up
against the Sim Feiners. According to other
sources of information than the police, a wide
spread plot has been unearthed which had for its
purpose the killing of many of the prominent lead
ers in English political life. Away around on the
other side of the world China has been ndulging
in a revolution that has already cost thousands of
lives and will cost many mere before the end
comes. Press reports tell of fnghtful massacres
of the populations Of entire cities. General WI,
at the head Of the northern forces has admins
tered singing defeat to the South China troops
under Dr. Sun Vat Sen who is said to now be
prisoner aboard Chinese warship And SC the
everlasting struggle goes on, humanity cropping its
way to higher and better things.
On reading the dispatches from China telling of
the killing of so many unhappy and defenseless
people, there has come feeling of horror that
such things could happen in this enlightened age
and the first inclination to say that cruelty
of this kind could only be practiced by the I'M
civilized humans to whom the light of knowledge
has been denied Then, like bolt cut of the
blue came the story Friday from our own State Of
Illinois telling of the unbelievable outrages per-
,petraled by the striking miners on the non-unlon
workers. The details are so terrible that men and
women everywhere are 10th to believe them true
and some question the veracity of the Associated
Press correspondents who wrote the stories. Con-
frmation is sure to come either that the murders
massacres of scores OF men were actually carried
cut or tha! the whole story is fake. But the
face of the first details as sent out to the world,
this country has been the scene of crimes against
humanity so horrible as to beggar description. AT
this distance it is difficult to realize that such
curences could happen Under the Stars and
Stripes That the United States government will
make full and thorough investigation Of the en-
tire situation may we'll be taken for granted. The
public will insist in knowing just where to place
the blame and will be up tc the federal authorl-
ties to see that righteous puni lment is meted out
to the guilty Ii is inconceva. that women and
little children gloricd in the inhalation Of defense
less men and aided in their death. Living and
working conditions must indeed be terrible where
such outbreaks could occur and while the gov
eminent is engaged in getting at the bottom of the
massacres, attention ought also to be directed to
those circumstances and conditions that were pos
sbly partly responsible l. h brutality. 1t is
not in order for peopi, are those resid-
ing in Florida. to pass JIG on the miners of
southern Illinois whose ccn,i:tion in life must in
deed be deplcrable and almost without ray of
hope. Rather should the entire country give its
moral support to any movement that would rectify
conditions that are blot upon our civilization.
Primary causes should be established and the can
ker removed. There is abroad probably we'll
founded suspicion that human greed is at the bot
tom Of all this CHASTITY misery.
Reports of financial conditions hroug hout the
United States continue to be more and more graft
flying. especially these affecting industrial enter
prises. The week has seen some marvellous price
advances, especially on naval stores. Naturally
Ncrida is particularly interested in turpenhne and
resin because Of the enormous quantity produced