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Comment - - and
Discomment
One of the best articles we havt
run across In a long time Is the fol
lowing, from the pen of L. P. Ed
wards, published In a recent Issue of
the Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Edwards
doesn't believe that all of the bol
shevists are manufacteured as toe
result of the efforts of paid propa
gandists from Russia. Instead, he
points out a few ways whereby per
fectly decent, hardworking foreign
ers may be Induced to herd with the
Wobblies. Here's his theoVy:
Whatever modicum of truth there
may be In current Btories of the
Soviet government's plots against the
United States, it Is evident that many
of these stories are, on .their face,
gross and palpable exaggerations.
Without doubt a certain number .of
'Reds' enter this country from
abroad; but the manufacture of ex
termists goes on In the United States
all the time, and in such r manner
would be greatly different If every
Red' newsppaer, magazine, book,
and pamphlet were suppressed, and
every foreign agitator safely deport
ed or locked up.
Lax state banking-laws are fellow
causes with the policeman for the
production of 'undesirable cltlicns.
, Anton comes from Trague. He
saves up a few hundred dollars and
deposits It In an unregulated private
bank run by one of his wa coun
trymen. Anton does not kno ibat
the banker Is a person without finan
cial standnlg, and when the bank
closes Its doors, Anton quite natural
ly, even though quite unjustly, ac
cuses the United States government
of robbing him of his hard-earned
money. The unregulated private
bank being an Institution unknown
In Prague, Anton most mistakenly
takes It for granted that the same Is
true of Chicago. Instead of blam
ing his own Ignorance for his loss,
he most mistakenly blames the gov
ernment of the, United States. The
actual party at fault In the case Is
the legislature of the State of Illi
nois, but of this Anton knows noth
Ing. He meets'an I. W. W. organlier
while still smarting under a sense
of the injustice done him and an
other 'Red' radical has been manu
factured
Angelo comes from Calabria. He
that it may well be doubted whether Pa8 a labor K,ncy fifteen dollars
the final number of such radicals 'or a J UP Wisconsin. When he
nets-mere, ne nnas mat me jod is
cood for only ten days. Instead of
for three months as the labor agency
had assured him. He had to walk
two hundred miles back to Chicago,
gets locked up as a vagrant In one
A little while sen the writer had a town, and is warned to 'beat if out
rather unusual opportunity to Inves- of another. When he gets back to
tiPat the I. w. w.' in Chieaeo. a I Chicago Angelo joins the 'Reds.' The
wealthy radical had provided funds ,aDor eency was "ol a government
Mnstltution; but because. If Burn a
.ftnMprhi local fume for a short thing had happened to him In Cala
time. It became a favorite gather- Dr,a tne Povernmeni wouia nave
ing-place of the 'Red' radicals, where bfen responsible, Angelo s Justifiable
hCv froiv rtiHriiHB(..i thMr oninioim: anger, . instead of being turned
for the government had-not yet start- asatnst the agency, as. under similar
H ita tinllrv nf aimnrean on nnri 1 " -uiiibibii.-b, an nuirniiio
be is directed against . the United
States government.
Tom is a negro I. W. W. from
Texas. He raises cotton for a white
farmer on shares. When the time
conies for sharing, Tom finds that
even cooperated to the extent of hav
ing United States health officers lec
ture on personal hygiene and con
tagious diseases.
The writer visited this Hobo col
lege on various occasions, and with I his white partner has robbed him of
the aid of the superintendent, him-1 more than fifty per cent of his due
self a thoroughgoing extremist, ob-1 On asking redress he Is told to 'get to
tained the unpremedlated stories of I hell out of here.' and on his further
about thirty-five representative I. W. I return his life Is threatened.. He
V.'s. He even delivered two lec-1 makes threats In return. He Is event-
turea there on 'The Evolution of thelually hunted like a wild animal, and
Alphabet,' and strange as it may Ion reaching Chicago, he is ripe fruit
seem to some people, the 'wobblies' I for picking by the 'Reds.
were evidently Interested. They paid
close attention, and at the end askeu George Is a Greek. By hard work
numerous questions some of them I an(j frugal living he saves a thous
very Intelligent. and dollars. His great ambition is
to become a land-owner and raise
Tabulation of the case-studies I fruit after the manner or tne weauny
chows that one of the causes of 1. 1 peasants of his home -land. He falls
W. W.-ism In the United States is Into the hands of a 'Florida' Ind
- - - ...
the ordinary American policeman I Company which maintains an omce
n.rf tha nrriinnrv American municl-lln Chleaeo. He Invests Ills little
Dal code. One of the surest proofs! hoard in ten acres which, he Is as
of a man's Americanism Is whether sured, will make him Independent
he understands or does not under-1 for life. On reaching Florida he finds
stand how to take the policeman. The I he has purchased a sand-bank. After
American policeman is a strange la hopeless struggle for a year or so,
. . ... i i i . i 1- i, i
tnecies. He earns nis living wun nis ne gives up mm rumta unm u v
feet instead of with his head. Forlcago trying to get Justice from the
the most Dart he is scandalously un-1 company. It Is vain. The company
trained in even the simplest rules of I is not actually fraudulent. The land
evidence, and annually arrests hun- for which George paid a hundred
dreds of thousands of citizens with- dollars an acre Is really wprtn twen-
out the smallest legal justification, ty-five. and If properly developed by
Mi Korh.l position is Inferior he is I a person with plenty of capital and
he nroner beau for the kitchen girl able to wait four or live years lor
No resnectable middle-class Aiueri- returns, could even be made to pay.
can famllv would ever dream of This, however. Is no consolation to
treating him as an equal. He Is fre- George. . When he Is told tnat tne
auentlv underpaid. Finally, he Is company Is perfectly legal ana mat
very often brusque and domineering he can get no redress at law, his rage
in his attitude toward the public. In turns against tne government, im
most, if not all. of these respects, he believes, most falsely, to De in
he is different from nearly every Prague with the company to swinaie
other policeman on earth. The Eng- nim. -o, he too, joins tne uens.
lish Dolireman-is a courteous and
obliging public servant, the Italian Such cases could be multiplied, dui
r,n;nn.nan la a trains inwpr hi those eiven are very typical, as
Japanese noltceman belongs to the I causes of 1. W. W.-ism they are not
I . . . 41-1 I 1
aristocracy. I nearly so spectacular as umum mil
lions or uussian- gold smuggled into
Pietro is a Jaoorer from Milan. He
the United States by the Bolshevik!.'
on
lish and remains where he Is. The
'cop' thinks he is insolent and bits
him with bis club. Pietro makes
wild gesticulations, which the "cop
interprets as violations of law and
order; so he beats Pietro up and
takes him to Jail. Next morni-g
Pietro la sentenced to a ten-dollar
fine for resisting an officer. He
hasn't the money and works out the
fine by ten days in the stone-quarry.
By the time he is released, Pietro
firmly believes that the government
of the United States is brutal, un
just, and tyrannical. He finds an I.
W. W. pamphlet, or hears a soap
boxer, and a 'Red' radical has been
manufactured.
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I. lnnJInir n a tncl.lnrnr in uui lur, Bu.Ui.i- . "
ou. an . . .n ,a unquestionably real causes. They
.MlttfeU. il.c ...... IU mv.v .l..V.
T'ifitto dos not understand EnK- a,e lnuBr" wu,v" ,
rour nours a uay on oeyrii o) a
week. Radical propaganda Is un
doubtedly at work, but it is In gen
eral merely the last step in a long
process, and would be quite power
less in the great majority of . cases
except for these previous cases. Such
causes cannot be counteracted by
teaching George to recite the Decla
ration of Independence or by making
Anton sing the 'Star-Spangled Ban
ner.'. They can be counteracted only
by the reform of court procedure,
adequate slate banking-laws, educa
tion of the police force, stricter sur
veillance of employment agencies,
and by the hundred and one works
of righteousness and reform which
are being carried out, often with lit
tle public encouragement, by a great
host of private agencies for social
justice working in all parts of the
country.
OFF OX MA KIMOXAS,
NIXiLIGKSS, M A IH K It A,
APUOXS, KLLK I'NDKltWKAK
AXI SILK HOSFi.
OXK WEEK ONLY, IlEGIX
XIXO SATURDAY, JULY 21th..
TK) HOT TO MOVE
"I have changed my mind about
going to Arizona for a vacation,'
said Al Meierhofer.a few days ago.
"I received a letter from a friend
there the other day and in an effort
to show how hot it was he wrote:
"Saw a dog chasing a jackrabbit and
they were both walking.' " Mlnok
(111.) Neews-Ilerald.
IX l'LUXKVILLE
"Mrs. Flubdub is mad at the
Plunkville Palladium."
"Didn't tha paper mention that
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This Mock of Ladies' lleady-to-Wear nml Furnishing; Goods to be CLOSED OUT and
must be sold in the next 7 days. Ak your neighbor, she knows the BARGAINS that arc for
th public. r
Ladies', Misses and Cbil-
dreu's Hats
$3.50 to $5.50
values
to close out
$6.00 to $9.00
values
- to close out
$9.00 to $12.50
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$1.98
$3,451
$5.98
All New Fall Hats to
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Dress Goods, All New
ff1.48
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$2.00 values
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J80
Sheeting
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Summer Underwear
$3.75 values
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$1.98
$1.29
Silk Gloves
White, grey and black,
$1.25 to $1.75 QO
value JO
DRESSES, SUITS
AND SKIRTS
to close out
y2 Regular Price
ALL LACES AND
RIBBONS
Va Regular Price'
Children's Hose
50c values
go at
65c values
go at
75c values
go at
80c values
go at
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Dress Ginghams
75o values
to close out.
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FIXTURES FOR SALE
Show cases, tables, coun
ters, chairs, shelving, wax
figures will be sold next
week. If you need any
call and see us.
Singer Sewing Machine
for sale; in first class run
ning order.
Western Sale & Auction Co.
F. W. BELL, Mgr.
ANNOUNCEMENT !
The business interests of F. W. Molick" in our "Wholesale & Retail Grain
& Coal Business have been purchased by Oscar O'Bannon. Hereafter the
firm will be known as
Stephenson & O'Bannon
All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to Meliek & Stephenson
will please make immediate arrangements for settlement.
Mclick & Stephenson wish to take this means of thanking their many
patrons both old and new for the generous share of business accorded them
during the past months. This has been thankfully received at all times and
an effort made to merit the same.
Stephenson & O'Bannon want to assure thc public that they will ap
preciate a continuance of their patronage, promising on their part a like con
tinuance of the coureous and painstaking service that has marked the con
duct of their predecessors.
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Oriental Store
she was 'At Home' last week?"
"Yes. but they dldn t put a scare
head on it." Louisville Courier-
'Journal.