to "March Into Hell" to Meet the Enemy Willing death ls easier in Oklahomd less not have been devised. hurta and is "The Boston Journal" makes a striking- 'registration could The Draft or FranceT ethical standing, need for and 165 examined in one Indianapolis district 115 But "The Tribune" comments that it be Dodger or Georgia than in Belgium Ifl TnB . . . The mining counties will espe- selective draft claimed an individual contribution to the discussion has been found that only one in fifteea lfl Krviceability of the exemption. It is obvious that many difficult to imagine officer petty enough !y cia'ly hard hit. It is said the registration in t -'fl--. .:.''¦ men are in some measure and of the asserting that "our century- hurt or killed on the modern battlefieM, ajiny were icussed and conceded young supporting to display any such spirit as this, draft, includes aliens to the is to jGreenlee County men themselves with country last week. some relative, and if all of these were to be out that of such material were the old boast of freedom and justice put cent. native where protect trenchefl^ tBB of the points amount of 70 to 80 per Every maska and other contri*ew preis exempted the nation would not have much of the test with all the world looking on." It American in that steel helmets, gas 'and naturalized registered It is that the casualtiea 14 an army. declares it would be both stupid and dan- county will be taken, and then the quota ancea. probable "The War should make it im¬ a battle fought between anti-drafters aad Department Dead gerous to conceal the fact that the draft cannot be met." AH Ready, Boya for men to cvade service a Morally government posses in Oklahoma or Georgia possible through law and the regulations that surround it of action false of issuing a clear On the question governmental would be much more numerous." plea dependents by do not grow more popular. ruling, so that there will be no difference in against slackers "The Birmingham Age- Senator who was one of the eigirl The same paper continues: Gore. the practice of the boards in any part of the Herald" says: against the selective draft law, said "The cheerful assurances from Washington voting country." "As the war drags on and it is more fully disturbance in hir» state: to the effect that the draft had been accepted of the On the ethics of exemption the "Spokes- realized that America will have to sacrifice the Seml« .¦^Sb^L 'sY^'H/W in proper spirit may have been valid in some of her "The trouble originated among man-Review" writes that for the efforts of thousands, and perhaps millions, aa measure a week or two ago, but could noles and the Seminole freedmen, thfl they young men to win a vietory over Germany, those men who have undertaken to sift the atm not be Whatever the cause, negroes who used to be slaves in that eee- %*mw&1 repeatcd to-day. there is a spirit of disaffection nation's "there will be little ">i- the growing tion are termed. In the Indian bill of laat registrants 4-taKiM it is the effect which must now engage 'which cannot be stamped out too soon. Over pra se and some blame," but that this is L^*s6-n&*mm:jm attention.an effect which has alarm- winter a per capita payment was provided public n Georgia the anti-draft agitation has made not the time to think of individual inter- for the Seminoles. The Controller of tbe ing aspects. some headway, and in parts of Alabama a was as the swift- decided under an old law that thia ests. The paper continues: "The draft law adopted similar state of affairs prevails, particularly Treasury fairest means of must be held up because of a reservatVon "Therefore the exemption boards must con- est and' surest and raising in the mountain dlstricts. It is rumored an army. The men and economi- for a school fund. sider, not the individual's needs, but the na- physically that men are not only organizing to rcsist were to be selected for became a with the Indlaaa, tion's. -Boards are to 'exclude rigidly' the cally eligible military tha draft law by peaceable protests, but are "This grievance service in an national of Some of them said didn't want to fight pleading of individual cases by the drafted orderly programme being armed." they war The burden of sacrifiee for a that would not pay them. man or his attorney. Kach case must be de- development. assumes, however,' government Th* Xc-wt was to be allotted as evenly as possible. "The Age-Herald" had a cumulation ol From In-li'tnapoli* cided on its strict merits." is to .From The St. LflBBfl I'ost-Dispateh They thought they "Then came b horde of objectors claiming that the government amply prepared grievances. Admiration for the Man conscientious and a itamp out treasonable movements of all as he might once have been of the from the basis scruples proclalmlng dishonorably, "I do not think the disorder will amoual Jvery phase question, for non-resistanee. Then it was kinds. ?" Indians have to ba to the debts of the drafted OnlyWho Is Drafted preference honorably to a great deal. The may i registration learned that many thousands of young men, The most serious phase of anti-draft dis- treated with some discretion, for they harflj has undergone The chairman of an board, Slackers Will Be Caught niB ai i ilacker marriage, exemption -From The Birmingham Age-Herald plain shirkers, had evaded registration. Next turbances occurred in Oklahoma. The not long been citizen3, and perhaps do nofl analysis. Draft resisters, writing to "The Chicago Tribune," says: followed what must be as And Made to Suffer , atrareaing recognired All troubles there assumed the form of an 'properly understand the obligation of cltfe (,t" the °Pen-v v'()lcrit 80rt "There seems to be a accepted formidable of the arhflther generally heroes of Cold Harbor, and also those who question constitutlonality "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" believes armed "rising" in which Indians, negroes zenship.'" terrorized a part of the State of belief among young men that those who wait of the draft act in this instance. And now Brho have turned the German back at the Marne slackers are not numerous in proportion to and small tenant farmers took part, to the or th -< who a working to be drnfted for the National Army will be there has been actually introduced in the Oklahoma. sought not let him at number of ."00 or <>00.. Of the "rising" out of their looked upon as slackers when they arrive in and those who would pass Senate a bill exempting from foreign service the population: for sneaking military "The Boston Transcript" says: Before and After leripe of vcrbal ex- the training camps, and will be so treatcd by Verdun. all drafted men who ask such exemption. ii.y, have bei n the subject "It is not that the first armed the petty officers who have their training in "The Tribune" concludes: "In this crisis no ordinary remedy can be surprising Th< acker brigade that has de- resistance to the draft ihould break out in ra**tion. hand." admiration and gratitude and a na- adopted. Government threats are cheap.it is 14'-.** behind the ramparts of feminine "Only Oklahoma. There aro district! in that state aVjed to But this is a and ¦¦".' tion's love will go out to the drafted man." easy say 'jail.' republic, *-*_». *»*. --..¦ =1 has been contrastcd with men .."".i-': r*i*.'"' *c' .'" "'. ''° where the are mostly incapable of frp-jerie "the drafted man and his wholesale jailing is out of the question. Nor '''..i/a1 / 'J\ \ people in their normal emotions by "The Concerning comprehending a war which they did not dothed Mamma! in whose behalf the Detroit Federa- are the American people accustomed to be News," which paper wastes no Just Before the Battle, debts," start themselves. There is much more ex-| fodianapohs tion of Labor asks for a national morato- led by threats." with the wearera of the lingerie. m/r-M cuse for a draft resistance among ignorant .i-rmpathy rium, "The Detroit Free Press" says: to "March Into Hell" ar.d Indians than there is in the or- "Tnig paper comments: negroes "Michigan already has a statutory pro¬ WillingIf Necessary ganized conscientious objection of Massa- woman who pcrmits herfelf to be "A young vision exempting officers and enlisted men in chusetts. Ihe bottom crust of the Oklahoma » slacker does so knowing full "The Journal" points out that the des- «c i»ed by the actual service of the state or of the population has no national background. Its .shU what manner of man it is that she is tiny of this country is in the hands of its the . . cattle United . but the provision does vision has been lirrited to range, ' States, She " know him for a coward and if are to -.urrrnir. not extend to those called out by the draft." young men, they willing pre- the isolated farm, sometimes to the tepee, afashirker. or, most likely, both. How can serve what their fathers have won they the "The Free Press" seems to doubt the ad- often to the mud-chinked cabin in river lat regard him v- ith respect or confidence? will "march into hell itself to meet bottom." or in the of Congressional action and . No sympathy now, future, visability the It cautions the in these out that the cases that should be enemy." people Curious Case of .StuJd be wasted on either of them." points circumstances against talking about "red- for are almost always laid in provided for at best this is a i-lynching continues: to by the Department of Justice." ranged body . News" . "The of citizens in Butte. Mont., of sinister purpose back of the I. W. \\. . raving. and State Journal," Lansing, Mich., "The Chicago Tribune" declares that Fresno, Cal., his home, for burial. A tcle- of the The of this country now are fully "come as near to high treason as anything Frank Little, an organizer people This paper makes the further point that "Ihe men who lynched Little put Into in tho case of the lynching of Little the gram from Haywood, with the command: the aware of the danger threatened by the I. W. the ordinary man can apply that term to." asfla-trial Workers of the World, "such outburst* of indignation will convey practice.in so far as he was concerned Industrial Workers of the World were "Bury the holy on the battlefield," al- W., and, being aware of it, ought to be en- aranef the country was unanimous in de- to our enemies the that a con¬ what I.ittle himself had preached. What This paper adds: , treated to a taste of their own medicine tered their About 5,000 men are abled to act aceordingly." impression plans. aaflasiir.ir the of that organiza- the fault can his followers find with what has mine owners hired the men to have in the funeral suppression of the Western papers Viad askea dition of outlawry prevails, indicating "The factorios of Detroit. tho mines of and that if the said marched pro¬ Bfla. Its anti-Amencan of Many happtaed, therefore? How can they appeal policy strikjps to take action the fact that we are a divided people or that the upper peninsula and the West and the that hanged I.ittle they only anticipated cession. Some 200 messages from many was Qm government against to tstabliabcd law for the punishment of the BBaiabotage the papers agroed peril- our boast of free is a sham." harvest fields of the West are all necessary what the community would have been com- parts of the United Statos were read at a Industrial Workers of the World. "The speech ¦Bfl who did the lynching? However much 881 to the nation, especially iti war time. to the country at all times, but doubly so to do if the law did not act. "The after the funeral. All of the Ogden Examiner" says: Contrasting the acts of the mob that the Iynchers may be condemned by clear- pelled meeting For the past two years the Industrial in war time. And the food crop not only 'Iribune" assumes that if the authorities mcssatres resentment at the "So far the nation has not taken this defi- hanged Little with the theories he .hinking men, it is true that if ever a man expressed Wfltiers of the World agitation in the concerns our own country but all the civil¬ will not act "when the of society is and some con'ained threata of nite action, and the of some centres, preached and wanted to put into practice ¦as 'hoist by his own petard,' that man was safety lynching Wnt, the papers point out, had been se- people ized people of the world." the citizens will take it upon violence. Circulars distributed at tho as Bisbee, Globe and Butte, have become ex- in Montana, "The Savannah Morning I.ittle, the I. W. W. agitator." concerned, with all kinds of in- concludes: was lifaaly interfering treirarly restless." News" writes: "He preached the lynching Haywood's threat to cripple the farms, "The Journal" themselves," and concludes: funeral charged that Little murdered flaatrial activities. It had been instru- of the Going on to speak of the lynching "The "The howls of Industrial Workers by men hired by the mining companies. off raw material from a*aatal in {-hutting Examiner" World over the lvnchlng of Little will find, the business of says: Ameri- taa mines, in disrupting "Whether the people of America feel that we believe, no echo in any reasonable and in in- wonder ia that more of Uncle Sam .What are you «aiBbuildi::g and of railways the lynching of Frank Little was justified or In Last Week can's heart. The Congress in the West have not been BB*r*jptir.g farm work. Its anti-patriotic, r.ot justified, the startling action taken by these agitators doing over here? tafliibie-rnakir.g proclivities had been recog- masked citizens of Butte, Mont., must be treated in tho same way by outraged com¬ The Connressional which have listoned to their vicious ¦aifled by leaders of the American Federa- taken as the first definite showing of the (From Record) munities threats. Some of these men have gone so far bbb of Lab'ir. It had been agreed by the 'feeling of the West that the I. W. W. agi- advise his friends in the House of Represnt- before thfl heads of any of the executive the American The Senate as to threaten the burning flf standing crops 4*flnefs of that organization that a cam- who discourse against atives to bring in a rule to make this prop- departmenti? jtators fortvcr end such agitntion if their windy warnings were not heeded of and education should government must MR. JAMES.Mr. Prflflident, will the osition in order in the Hnuse the next time Miss RANKIN- I tried to see the President aaif-n publicity Now that one of them has been treated to or take the consequences." Senator yield to me for a question? the House comes together? and the (ieneral in order to Attorney lay his own medicine. who can complain?" J "The Examiner" further points out The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Mr. JAMES- Mr. President, I sat in the those facts before them, and also the Secre¬ «¦*¦¦¦--CIE on Little's Does the Senator from to "The of Oregon, Tke Warning Found the of the of the West MflSBBtfbaflflttfl yield House for ten and I know how jealous tary of Labor and the Secretary of War, just Spokesman-Review," that majority people the Senator from years p.fter several years of sporadic warfare or court-mar- Kentucky? the House is of its rights and of outside in¬ as I reported. I was unable to see the Presi¬ Body would prefer trial by jury with the Industrial Workers of the World, and then sentence, to Mr. WEEKS.Tflfl] I yield. terference, and I would not want to under- dent. tial. lynching. Mr. JAMES Ts it not true the amend¬ which it rocounts. takes the stand that the that take to give any advice as to what they ought Mr. MOORE, of I'ennsylvania.Did you re¬ m**i**w>n*w>rM*tmy'"--'" "^ Than the ment, as I was tirst the is such .*-T?*.. ... Higher which, understand, pro- to do or interfere in any way in their delib- ceive information from one of the de- position of country to-day ¦¦*#. j from any the ALawLaw of Montana rosed by the Senator Ma^achusetts, erntions; but is it not true, I ask the Senator, partments, the Attorney General's depart¬ "that sullen and violent opposition to a committee on war act "The Western creuting expcnditures, that the conferrees of the House, both the Re- ment in particular, as to whether ariy action law is as actual a crime as an overt Another Montana paper, was to food bill? from not germane the publicans and Dcmocrats, stood unanimously might be expected against thoso who control would he." News," writing of the deportations Mr. WEEKS.It was or I have no germane against the proposition to create a committee the copper output, as the lady described it? Several of the cities along the northern Butte before the lynching and anent the cioubt some Senator would have made a km point which the Senate had on war expenditures Miss RANKIN I was told there was no way Pacific coast are making to; neglect of the Eederal authorities to act of order BfBiBBt it. ? preparations adopted to get action except by utilizing moral influ¬ receive Industrial Workers of the World "T'CHIG** the Industrial Workers of the Mr. as the Senator well knows, as 'apainst JAMES.Oh, Mr. WKKKS Mr. President, I am not enee and asking Mr. Ryan to try to uct for be driven out of seems to think the citizens justi¬ the of order of does not 8***itatOi*fl should they The Grand World, point gormaneness familiar with what happened in the confer- the benetit of the nation. states. .From llapid* Herald, the law: lie in the Senate. That is well known to their more southerly neighboring fied in going beyond ence as the Senator from Kentucky seems to Mr. of the and, of course, the Senator uneler- MOORE, Pennsylvania.Did lady In Seattle a conference of city, county, ¦~n********W*mm***W*Wm**W*****>+n-' "There is a law greater than that of the everybody, Jbc. to the attention of the stands that. Now, the question I want to ask from Montana bring state and Federal officials was held, at State of Montana, greater even than that of Mr. JAMES.The Senator must not dodge officials the of the man "Big Bill" Haywood the Senator is this: Is it not a well-known department lynching v.hich it was decided that the Industrial the United States of America. It is the law la that way. Is not my statement true, and to whom she has referred? -TTT ILLIAM HAYWOOD'S recent BpeeaAg rule that where one house be treated * of If the national govern¬ parliamentnry lfl not that the Senator's understanding? Workers of the World should » made on the occasion of Frank Li(s» self-preservation. uts in r.on-gurniftne matter and the other Miss RANKIN.I appeared before the Sec¬ does not soon uncover and punish this 1 drastically; and it pledged every agency has ment house refuses to rather than let the Mr. WEEKS.That is not my understand- retary of Labor and the Secretary of War tle's anti-American utterances, brougirf to humanity. if the law of military yield, the Senator from Ken- "to cooperate in combating any the Amer* enemy bill fail it is the duty of the house that in¬ ing; and, moreover, and tried to see tho Attorney General. possible him again into the headlines of necessity does not take supersedence of knows that the conferrees are the trouble that may arise." a***» . what This time Bill" 'in i >e-*twm ". ¦". * corporated the non-germane proposition in the tucky Mr. MOORE, of Pennsylvania.And ican press. "Big ,--i technicalities, then the people of creatures of the which appoints them, While other states are making prepara¬ peacetime measure to yield in order to allow the original body satisfaction did the lady receive? pears as the champion sorely stricken the communities threatened must for the oc- end tha; it is the of conferrees to carry the acts and of question to become a law? duty Miss RANKIN.No satisfaction, except as I tions to check propaganda with grief at the fate of a comrade. make their own law." out the purposes of the body they represent. the Industrial Workers of the World the jcasion Mr. WEEKS.Mr. President, I am not crit- have statcd. William first appeared before Butte Miner" returns to the sub¬ Mr. JAMES I know that the conferrees are in Montana are Haywood "The icis.ng the conference committee in this case. The SPEAKER.Is there objection? authorities say they the American in 1907, when he waa of the govern- in the House as they are in the to arrest public '***+* ject of the alleged neglect I know the d.fficulties of conference commit- appointed There was no objection. making every effort the lynchers from from the ranking members of the charged with instip-ating the murder of ment, quoting a message Washington tees; but, if current rumor may be taken as a Senate, The SPEAKER-The gentleman from North of Little. No one has as yet been arrested. the committee of a given (Iovernor Steunenberg of Idaho. While to the effect that "drastic action by basis for commei.t, I should say that the having jurisdiction Carolina [Mr. Pou[ is recognized for nine Ihe the sheriff and his deputies as- measure, as was done in the case of the police. his trial for life was going on in Boise, -rovernment to meet the labor disturbances Senate conferrees did not make as strong a minutes. sert have no clews that lead to the food and the Republican membera on they he showed courage and presence of which officials are sure have fight as they should have made for a proposi- bill, Mr. MOORE of Pennsylvania rose. of the crime. Idaho, in the West, that committee were in accord identity of the pcrpetrators all German tion which had been so signally and foreefully unanimously The SPEAKER.For what purpose does the mind, gaining considerable popularity been stirred up by propaganda, with the Democrats in this very Members of the Metal Mine Workers, how¬ shows indorsed by the Senate. Yet I have no inten¬ opposing from Pennsylvania rise? through the United States. After his ac- will be taken if the situation any which the Senator Is now discussing, gentleman ever, declare they can identify frve of the tion of criticising them. question Mr. MOORE, of Pennsylvania.To make a quittal he came to be regarded by many as namely, the creation of a committee on war growth." Mr. JAMES.But is it not further true. parliamentary inquiry. lynching party. a martyr in the cause of the laboring; same comments editorially: expenditures. Btttta Minrr The paper the Senator speaks of the House and what it The SPEAKER.The gentleman will state the Lynchers class. "This statement leads one to wonder just Mr. WEEKS.Mr. President, I think if the Hope might have done on a separate vote -that a the it. During the years that followed he de- how bad the Federal authorities want the Senator from Kentucky will look up desire to LittleWill Be Apprehended vote practically was had in the Mr. MOORE, of Pennsylrania.I m . W.¦¦ t separate voted himself to and -r».**H a;-. jt I'resident condition to BBCOBM in the "Record" he will (ind that the Republican from is re- entirely organizing Gcmpers industrial House on this very question, as was under- know how it is that the gentleman "The Indianapolis Star" skeptical, waa ¦ worth while looking into. members of the conference in the House, uniting the working elasses. He al¬ S«m»arv Morriaon of the American kefore they think it stood by every member there; that the oppo¬ North Carolina [Mr. Pou] comes to be recog¬ fusing to believe that any one will ever be to the failure of the national when they voted on a matter in a form which ready to listen to workingmen dls- ***ariU>,u of f r hal indwtd that body "It is owing sition to the committee on w^ar expenditures nized at this time? arrested for the crime. It makes a singu- ways *» take interest in the labor the Senator from Kentucky admits was not Mis¬ -atisiied with the wages they were reeeiv- eon«id#r ? 100,000 to that end. government to any was led by the distinguished member from The SPEAKER.The gentleman from ipending W. W. element a direct vote, supported this proposi- iar analogy, thus: Idisturbanc.s cr.-ated by the I. Illinois Cannon] and many of his con- exactly Collier[ yielded him three min¬ ing. Many important strikes in the of the [Mr. tion. I think he will find that is the case. sissippi [Mr. "lt is su.spected in somo quarters that the Not Clear What ,n Arizona and Montana that some fr.r.s; and that the mujority of the House utes and the lady from Montana yielded him United States, paralyzing entire indua* j1***1 felt had Mr. JAMES*.Well, the margin of ditTerence authorities in Butte will bring those Little the I. W. W. Meant citizens in these states have they expresses itself as opposed to this proposed six minutes. and six and three make nine, and the time tries for" weeks, have been ascribed directl*f into their own is very narrow in the House between the two lynchers to justice along about excuse for taking the law I he ia for nine minutes. [Laughter.] " times he was aj¥ *¦* labor u-.. ' ... Lfl committee but the vote was recognized Lflfl Frank's to his activity. Several lir-ved the country political parties, overwhelm- have no Georgia punishes slaycr- hands." % WEEKS Mr. I can not ad- Mr. MOORE, of Penniylvania.I strike of the character ar,d make- Mr. President, ing on this proposition against it. So it was As a result of the hanging of Little, rested for disseminating propagatja J1-**'*war* the Senator from seems desire, of course. to interfcre with the gen¬ mit what Kentucky at . . on two occasions faced saQa .*« Induitrial Workers of the he Lynching Is Condemned, not a united Republican vote, least. and would like I'utte faces several additional strikes. da, and prison SjJ to think is a eorrect statement, that the tleman from North Carolina, he did in *"»8-id to con found that but it seems to ma thia /'bout 12,000 miners are still out in the tences which, however, not, thfl) p^rhapH likely T Yet Provocation Is Admitted House passed on the merits of this proposi- to hear him spcak, ¦*.* are said to be have to se-*ve. arith th* r own. Writing on this The House was not in the agreement. district, the streetcar lines end, few of AU of the Southern and Western papers tion. has already tied the clcrks in stores and Mr. Haywood is opposed to trade uniona* ',1* ''¦'*>' )"'t''T" the b'''rhing Mr. JAMES-While they did not do ao di¬ SPEAKER.The lady from Montana Mr. Dt.'PRE.The Speaker completely up, aM tondemn the lynching, hut most of them was. ac¬ that the latter take into considefa eap4ecifilly with regard to the rectly, it was so understood by the House, THEasks unanimous consent to extend her ruled that it railway olfices threaten to strike, and, claiming are satiafied the had the has ruled that are ti Willitrn I). Haywood to with- lynchers greatest and that was declared as the purpose of the remarka in the "Record." Is there objection? The SPEAKER -The Speaker cording to the Metal Mine Workers' ation o»ly the favored few who able tO jr* "Tbe f'ulvestc.n custom of the rri,,ri frorn JumbeT ar.d farm possible provocation. Ii-Htl'-r, Mr. Mann, in asking for a separate Mr. MOORE, of Pennsylvania.Mr. Speaker. it has been the immemorial Union, the mine engineers are seriously get membership. He thinks that thi !'|ttO/KKi that when ona the V,, t, "The ButU- Mir.«r" Tribune" says that while the utteran.-en vote. So upon this question the House, with before that request is put I want to ask the House, so far as he knows, considering leaving their jobs. working class can expect no reforme tQ J*tn a leave to make a and has of tht victirn were of a sort U> arouse mob that knowledge, voted it down. lady from Montana if she will answer ques¬ member gets speech The funeral of the mob victim, which come through assistance of other have be.;i Senator from tion: Did the from Montana undertake time assigned him he can dole it out. The clnase||| 1a» not hava wngeance the people should Mr. WEEKS.The Kentucky lady was to considerable but that the carrying of its ideals ***>K ti»« tha nation did so Carolina ii recog¬ expected provoke «ytit restf jf-^ff* the Federal and atate authori¬ an leader in Congress, and I to lay any of these faeta that she has gentleman from North .J* **kt*srt.ow *f what tha I. W. W. or- backed hy ia important violence, passed off very quietly. The In- with the laborcr alone. auch a that could have want to ask him if he would be willing to Igraphically depicted before the Preiidant or nized. . . . ^** aaflflBt. , ln reeant wtalu ties in way they
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