The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-09
REVOLUTION IN PENNSYLVANIA
GIVEN DOSE OF ITS OWN
MEDICINE

Pennsylvania farmers have made the in
evitable answer to the revolutionary move
ment in this country. 1t was as certain to
materialize as it is certain the sun will
shine from day to day. Those who take
the sword to enforce their will and their
real or imaginary power will perish by the
sword. Those who defy the laws and the
orderly processes of government may as
suredly expect this treatment to be In
voked and used against them. The wonder
is that the revolutionary movement, the
defying of law and government, has been
permitted 10 go on in this country for sew
eral months without many such outbreaks
as that occurring at Hershey, Pa, Wednes-
day.
Of course, there is no ground for argu-
ment on the point that the Pennsylvania
farmers and the Hershey employees who
desire to work and who joined them in
ousting the insurrectionists from the Her
shey plants, were acting outside the law;
but where is relief to be obtained when
government fails and abdicates before the
threats of the mob? When public officials
prove to be the puppets of a revolutionary
movement in the United States; when it is
evident that they are either in collision
with groups organized to defy and resist
law and duly constituted government or
are too cowardly to do their duty and
undertake law enforcement, what course
shall those who believe in the American
government and are opposed to alien radi-
calism take?
When the authorities (aS must have
been the case in Pennsylvania, as we know
it has been in Michigan and other States)
PROSTATE themselves, through fear or ia
vor, before the mob and give the mob free
rein to work its will on helpless employers
and decent laboring men and women who
desire to peacefully proceed with their
employment, what course is open to the
large majority of the population, the de-
cent, law-abiding citizens of Hershey, Pa,
or any other town or community in the
nation?
Furthermore, when this majority of the
population finds that it is bound hand and
foot through the action of a lawleSs, reck-
less and destructive minority of revolution
aries, either in collision with the authori-
ties or absolutely defying the authorities
to the point of rendering them helpless
and impotent; and furthermore. realizes
that beyond the State of Pennsylvania a
central government pledged to support
that commonwealth in maintaining Re-
publican form of government, is sympa-
thetic with the revolutionaries, if not ac-
tually in league with them, what may be
expected to be the natural and logical re-
action of good Americans who love liberty
who love their country, and who, by the
Eternal, propose to see that American free
dom, American government and the Amer
lean social and economic system is main
tanned at any cost against the assaults OF
Russian Communism, alien Fascism, anc
all other isms which now or hereafter may
attempt to wreck and ruin this nation?
When confronted with conditions such
as exist in scores of places in several o.
the States today, what are red-blooded
patriotic Americans going to do about 1T!
The answer is that in increasing mum
bers they are going to respond in this crisis
as the farmers and workers of Pennsyl
vania responded at Hershey.
If public officials cringe and cover be
fore the onrush of revolution; if COVER