Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1919 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. / TELLS TROOPS TO DO DUTY Gov. Goodrich, in Address to Soldier* for Strike Duty in Hammond Instruct* to Use Force If Mobs Defy Law. Indianapolis, Aug. 22. —“We will have fought to little purpose to ■destroy the autocracy of the kaiser if we are to submit in our own land to the autocracy of the mob,” declared Gov. James* P. Goodrich, addressing state troops mobilised here for duty at Hammond in connection with strike disorders there. The governor charged the militiamen to use “most vigorous exercise of force” should the occasion demand. “More than 140,000 of the young men of Indiana were recently called to defend the honor and integrity of the nation in sj foreign war,” he said. “You are now called upon a less glorious but no less important mission. Ours is a government of laws and not of men. If men are to be permitted to substitute the inclination of their own wills and their own selfish desires for obedience to the law, then orderly government is at an end and we must soon reach the unhappy condition which now obtains in Russia. I trust that it will not be necessary to resort to extreme measures, but those who have arrayed themselves against society should be taught that they cannot do so with Impulty.”