The New York herald., 1922-12-31
SOCIAL POLITICAL AND INDUSTRlA AL STRIFE COVERS VIII
Ku Klux, Agricultural Depression,
Radicalism, Rum Running, Race
Problems and Labor ConflictsMar
the Effort Of the United States to
Get Back to Normal Conditions
By LOUIS sEIBoLD.

By LOUIS SEIBoLD.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 80.
I" HE "War Map" OF the United
states reproduced on this page
= establishes the fact that Eu-
ronaan and Asiatic countries hold no
monopoly In tho matter OF human
troubles.
The actual dangers confronted DUR
ing the last year have been met with
out serious injury to the Fundamental
structure Of the Government; the po-
tentialities are disturbing enough 70
warrant the deep concern OF botn FED
eral and state governments.
The extent to which the peace and
valfare OF the 112.o0o,0o0 people OF
tha greatest democracy In the world
has heen. and still Is, menaced IS
shown In the trouble zones designated
on the map. These zones are widely
distributed, due to many disconnected
.auses. and continue to be acutely ir-
,Itatine to the responsible officials OF
the general and community govern
mentR
Some Of the troubles arc the natural
consequences Of the shock to the ner-
vous system Of the country resulting
from war conditions or 10 deep rooted
pretudices generated by them. Otners
are directly traced to the contempt IN
which the law and some OF the Gov
ernment policies have been held ana
OF the violations provoked by rebel
lious resentment against them.
Manv Of the most serious ana DIS
tnrb,ng manifestations of popular un-
rest have grown out Of the age old
6ispute between capital and labor,
which have at time threatened actual
industrial revolution, but have been
prevented by the negotiation OF
truce that may or may not prove 10
be permanent.
Partisan politics has played, and
still is playing, an important part IN
fomenting much OF the discomfort
which has been responsible for peace
ful outbreaks against the public veal
and threatens to cause even more Sc
rjous dissensions In the future. Radl-
calism, generated by political eco
nornic and social resentments, mas
grown tremendously as the result oi
political differences.
The permanent effect OF the eco
nomic. social and political fermenta-
tons still manifest in various parts Oh
the country is a matter Of con1ecture
and speculation. Bolsheyism itself has
openly thrived In some parts OF the
country and plotted for the destruction
OF the Government.
black border defining new mo
Mans Land" has been drawn around
the country on sea coast ana iand
frontiers. 1t provides a theater Tor
piracy on the seas and guerrilla war
fare on the land in which the rarely
revealed tragedies of the rum rebellion
strike at the very foundations OF law
and order.
Almost as great menace TO the
security of the American institutions
is the insidious end invisible army
which has taken into its own
f, hands the control OF public morals and
in some sections Of the country
usurped the functions of constitutional
law and Government authority. Big
otry. race prejudice, the visitation of
feudal penalties have, in many In
stances, set at defiance the orderly
processes of the American democracy.
Resorting to the practices of the
Vigilantes of seventy-five years ago.
and those Of the molly McGuires''
who set up a reign OF terror in the
Pennsylvania coal fields in the early
7Os. the Ku Klux Klan Of to-day Is one
of the two chief causes for popular and
governmental concern in the country.
The other is the rum rebellion which,
quite as insidious as the Ku Klux
Illan, wages war against law within
and without the borders Of the United
. States.
In the mad confusion duo to con-
flicting and dangerous cross-currents
in the national life, are menacing seeds
from which may result a wider and
more serious variety Of disorders than
those which now actually exist within
the national borders. The War Map
reveals the heart centers Of the most
important OF our national troubles
The United States starts the new
year with moro than 10000 Of Its
citizens in jail and with 10000 under
indictment I'm the Federal courts alone
The number of persons arrested for
various offenses against the Federal
and State laws during the last year
was In excess Of 1900. 900 and those In.
dictcd for State violations exceeded
600,000 most OF which are still pend
ing and the greater number of which
grew out Of the rum rebellion.
Tho greatest amount OF actual dis
order that occurred during the last
YEAR was due to the strike called by
the shopmen of the transportation sys-
TENS last summer. The Federal Gov
crnment spent more than 81. 10000 in
policing approximately $500 points
where the peace OF the local COM
munities was threatened by depreda-
ions growing out Of the labor contro-
vorsy. More than 1000 crimes were
investigated by the Federal Govern
ment In connection with this strike and
twcnty-six first degree murders werc
directly traced to II.
Government officials agree that many
OF the crimes and depredations COM
mitted during the railroad strike were
beyond the control OF the trades union
units directly involved in the strike