The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-24
Professional Patriots

fessional Patriots" edited by Norman Hapgood
iron, material assembled by Sidney Ho20Grd
and John Hearjey
The present attack on this paper gjUes added
interest to the sensational facts about the carr
ous brands of jealous patriots" a0bo are out to
crush all groups fighting the forces Of reaction
in the United States.
group of military officers and organizations have
been active in attacking pacfsts and the opponents OF
compulsory military training in colleges and schools
usually on the familiar thesis that pacifism is aimed
at destroying American defenses against Boshevism.
The military organizations most active the Reserve
Officers Association the Military Order of the World
War-both national in scope-and local ASSOCIATION
in Chicago the Military Intelligence Association OF the
Sixth Corps Area.
This covers the newer type of organizations and
individuals engaged professional patriotism OF the
older types active and then in the new crusade,
organizations devoted to other purposes which have
taken it on, only nationally conspicuous-the
American Legion and the Ku KluX Khan. Various en-
poyers associations notably the National Association
of Manufacturers the National Clay Products Indus
tries Association, Inc the National Founders Associa
ton the National Metal Trades Association and various
state and local associated industries have been active
occasionally when aroused by some such revolutionary
proposal as the child labor amendment. The Sons of
the American Revolution, the Daughters Of 1872 and
the Daughters of the American Revolution have also
been sporadicay active when stimulated by the Mill
tary Order Of the World War more historical
post of the American Legion.
Propaganda Against Radicalism and Pacfsm.
The conspicuous activity of all the professional
patriotic societies their propaganda against what they
conceive to be revolutionary movements Their con-
cepton is vague and inclusive, ranging from the Com
munst Party to the child labor amendment and pro-
posals for municipal ownership of public utilities Pacl
fsm comes under the ban the theory that any
ment against war is intended disarm the United
States and open the country capture by Russia.
The conceptions of radcaism vary with the societies
The center Of attack is of the communist move
and all friends of Soviet Russia. But from that
center have radiated attacks socialists the LaFoette
progressive movement the church peace organizations
liberal magazines and reform agencies and particularly
on proposals calculated affect private businessnoa
bly, the child labor amendment and protective laws for
women.
Here are some characteristic utterances and state
mens Ralph NJ Easley chairman of the National Civic
Federation writing to Allen Wardwel chairman of the
executive committee of the Russian Famine Fund in
1922, which served such citizens Governor Alfred
Smith, Cornelius Bliss, Jr, William Fellows Morgan
Charles w. Eliot and Cyrus H. Mccormick, delivered
himself thus
IF the people who are contributing to the Russian
Famine Fund understood that their money going
be used by Lenin and Trosky, contributions would
soon cease He added that he had turned the matter
over to the Department of Justice"
When Mr. Easley interviewed by Miss Mary
Lena Wilson concerning his attacks the American
Committee for the Relief of Russian Children, he in
dulged in characteristic language referring to Captain
Paxton Hbben, its secretary, "a rascal and
drel," to the Reverend John Haynes Holmes wild
and crazy the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin as
red" because he founded that Labor Temple down
there" and to Raymond B. Fosdck as "a wild red"
Easley Scared TO Death.
Some of Mr.. Easley's other Characterization are
interesting: the former Mrs Willard Straight he
ferred to as "the most dangerous woman in America
the Amagamated Clothing Workers 'the Balkans
of America, revolutionary anything in Europe
eighty-year-old Mrs. Henry Willard "a notorious
proGerman and leader of the nonresstance forces in
this country at time when they played into Germanys
hands,"
He is quoted as saying: Il would drive every
damned Quaker out of America and "There are plenty
to believe Will Irwin they TO believe the Govern
ment." Mr. Irwin had written up Mr.. Easley in a mag
azine article entitled "This Man Worries Too Much"
Among the persons and movements publicly attacked
by Mr.. Easey Father John A. Ryan of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Conferences the Reverend Id
dngs Bell president of st. Stephens College,; Bishop
Charles H. Brent of Buffalo, former chaplain of the
American Expedtionary Forces H. G. Wells for radi-
calism in his Outline of Historyp-"wlful msinter-
probation of the teachings of Jesus and the unpatrot
ic Tostoan psychology (sc) of non-resistance."
Radicals in A. F. of L.
Mr.. Easley's attitude toward the radicals in the
labor movement which he was deeply concerned in
his effort hold the American Federation of Labor
in leash through the Civic Federations union of
ployer and trade-unionist, voiced thus
Organized labor has in its own ranks some of the
dsloya elements preferred elsewhere in the article
as socialists, LW.W. and their 'high-brow" echoers
-Ed), the pro-German Germans and the anti English
Irish who will play the Potsdam game at every possible
opportunity; but disturbances will be reduced to mini
mum because there are now plenty of laws and ma
ehinery for seeking these reasonable persons anc
handing them over to the firing squad.
ITO talk about education Americanization
method of dealing with such people is waste of time
effort, and money Only the fear of the law, backed
up by the police, the militia, the Army and Navy i
necessary, has any terrors for such terrorists"
So much for Mr.. Easey the most picturesque il
speech of all the militant patriots
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