Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1919 — CONTINUE THE GOOD WORK. [ARTICLE]

CONTINUE THE GOOD WORK.

With Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman on the high seas bound for territory where they probably will find more congenial associates, the department of justice, with a great show of pride in its achievement, announces that it has “raised the curtain of secrecy” behind which have been concealed “years of investigation?’ The report goes on to declare that Emma Goldman was indirectly “instrumental in helping to form the unnatural ideas” of Czolgosz, who assassinated President McKinley. As further proof 'of its uncanny ability to ferret out the criminal practices of the turbulent Emma, the document states that she has devoted the most of the past twenty-five years in denouncing the United States government, teaching anarchy and disrespect of authority, advocating violence and obstructing the law. It has been proved, the department .announces, that this ! woman was involved, directly or indirectly, in nearly a score of killings and assassinations. Her. status las an alien was established also. Practically the same crimes have been chalked up against Berkman. Out $f its own mouth the department is condemned for these years of inaction and inefficiency, ending only when the entire nation demanded that prompt measures be ' taken to free our land from the . menace of anarchy. The government virtually was forced into deporting the arch criminals after permitting numerous radicals Ho cheat justice on various pretexts. Part of the criminal brood arrested in Seattle escaped after reaching New York, and for several weeks the department of labor quibbled with the department of justice over minor details hf jurisdiction in such After years of investigation, the government is now awaiting .the plaudits of the hation for upholding the sovereignty of the United States. It has rid the country Of the. two leaders and 250 of their radical followers, but the “soviet ark” carries with it the best wishes of thousands w,ho have been converted tc' radicalism by this evil doctrine preached from the Atlantic tc the Pacific. The immigration bureau of the department of labor ap pears particularly guilty of inefficiency. With the country rid of the anarchist leaders, the good work should continue with a house clean- . ing ’Of the immigration bureau.— Indianapolis Star. ,