Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-04-13
sees rsInt Of eoIshevIsm.

America. Maryland, Baltimore. are
poisoned with the insidious influence
of Bolshevism."
Thus United States Senator A.
Owsely Stanley. of Kentucky. Sunday
night described "one of the main
causes Of our troublesome time" in
his address before large audience at
Grace and St. Peters Protestant Epis-
copal Church. Senator Stanley's sub
ject was Good Religious, Indus
trial. National and International"
"Just as Lenine and Trotsky in Rus.
sia have destroyed the last vestige of
personal liberty" said the Senator. so
we see the unconscious reflex in these
United agricultural blocs. in
dustrial blocs. financial blocs. And.
strange to say. few recognize in this
legislative program. or Its admittedly
pernicious effects, a thinly-disguised
Bolshevism."
Behold, not in Moscow, but in
Washington, laws innumeEable, writ
ten while you wait, admittedly de
signed not for the common good, but
for the emolument of special interests
or the aggrandizement of aspiring fac
tlons. These laws are forced through
a subservient assembly, not to satisfy
any popular or spontaneous demand OF
the people or to serve any State or
national need, but to satisfy the GU
pidity of lobby or to silence the per
sistent clamor of interested and or
ganized minorities"
Powerful interests are controlling
our laws and our feelings, said the
Senator They engender. he declared,
bitter intolerance. and this intolerance
is permeating the social and religious
as well as the political and industrious
life of the nation.
Violation The National Game.
"And then" Senator Stanley went.
on, "and then, everywhere we hear the
cry. Let us have respect for the lawl'
If you want the law respected, make it
respectablei Duty is obedience to the
law out or respect for the law"
He closed his attack on factions and
lawbreakers with the following re-
mark:
Violation of the law is getting to be
the great national gamel'
cumberland-Pra the entire
population Of Frostburg. the leading
city of the Georges Creek coal region
and the scene of the greatest actiyi-
ties Of the coal mine strike. was
aroused about 1 o'clock the other
morning by the explosion of a bomb
which partly wrecked the two-story
frame house on McCulloh street, oc-
cupied by Joseph Greco. miner
Greco has wife and eight children
ranging in ages from 1 year to is
years. The mother and two Of the
children are very i'll from fright.
Greco and his wife occupied the room
worst damaged. the bomb having been
placed against the rear end of the
house. The explosion blew an out
building away, wrecked the rear of
the house completely, tore of the
caves and blew down the plastering.
twenty-five window lights were blown
from the house of John Bolden on
McCulloh street, and the residences OF
Joseph Footen, John Vogtman. Joseph
Carter. George Taylor, Robert Shuck
and John Grove on the same street
and Mrs. P. 7. Davis and Jack Poland
on Grant street were damaged, Where
the bomb was placed a hole four feet
deep was torn in the ground large
enough to hold the body OF a man.
Greco had received letter written in
Italian and unsigned, warning him to
cease work or he would be sorry. He
had also received a Black-Hand letter
about Christmas time.
Hyattsville.-The. last meeting of
the school year Of the Prince Georges
County Teachers Association was
held Saturday in the law school build.
ing of Georgetown University. These
officers were nominated, the election
to take place in. the fall: W. R. c.
Mccormick, Of Baden, president;
Roger l. Manning. Brandywine, vice.
president; Miss Maude Gibbons, Up
per Marlboro, recording secretary:
Mrs. Miriam Hill, Upper Marlboro.
corresponding secretary, and Mrs. II.
N. Sturgis, Hyattsyille. treasurer.