The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-07-27
ILLINOIS MURDERS A WARNING
To the Nation Against Radicalism in
Labor CnioniSn.

The awful crime committed at
Herrin, ILL.,, in the murder of ~ or
more innocent men developed fend-
ishness perhaps almost without par
allel in human history. A young wo-
man with a baby in her arms, so the
report says, placed her foot on the
body of one of the innocent men who
had been shot down-shot merely
because he was willing to work
and looking down into his face, COW
cred with blood, and hearing his beg
ging cry for water, said: ''I'll see
you in hell before you get any wa
ter"
On the road where six men tied to-
gether had been shot down as though
they were mad dogs, burning with
thirst they begged for water, and re-
ceived from both men and women
only jeers for their cries.
These are but typical illustrations
out of dozens of equal horror re-
ported from spot where people
seem to have given the world new
conception of the awful degradation
of which men and women alike can
sink under the leadership of hell.
The situation at Herrin, shocking
beyOnd all power of words to eX-
press, marks a new phase of human
depravity. 1t is indicative of the
spirit which has been created in many
thousands of people by the bitter de-
nunciation by labor leaders Of the
right of men to work untrammeled
by radical unionism. 1t is indicative
of the spirit that is abroad through
the teaching of those who denounce
our courts and who gloatingly violate
our laws.
If ever a nation needed to heed a
warning which is but sign of the
times, this nation needs at the pres
ent time to be called to it's senses
and face the facts.
We need to learn that the dor!ina-
ton Of radical ulionism can give Boil
shevism a long lead and still beat it
in the race to desperate criminality.
We need to learn that the inde-
pendence of this country from union
domination and from lawless men,
whether of high or low degree, who
violate laws and denounce courts, can
only be safeguarded by an awakened
conscience of the American people
stirred to it's deepest depths by the
black horror which Illinois has let
loose upon our country. That hcrrc:
is but the natural and inevitable har-
vest of the seed that has been sown in
hatred by radical leaders O. labor
unions against independent or open
shop men. 1t is but the inevitable
harvesting of the seed sown by every
man who violates law or who assumes
to denounce courts and all legisla-
lures or who gives unbridled rein to
his own desires regardless of statute
or moral law.
The law breaker is criminal.
Law breaking is anarchy; and the
fruit of anarchy is death to the ma
tion.
ANY man who has wilfully violated
the laws of his land is to the extent
of his influence responsible for bring
ing about the lawless spirit the fruit
of which is seen in the situation in
Herrin; and the same harvest is be-
ing gathered in every part OF our
land where murders are rampant and
murderers go free.
The teaching of radicalism in la
Dor unionism and the hatred thus en-
gendered for all open shop or inde-
pendent men leads inevitably in final
fruition to the spirit which found
vent in the diabolism which was ram
pant when hell broke loose and set
it's stamp of approval upon the 1lli-
nois es.-Manufacturers Rec
ord.