Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 256, 7 September 1917 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, SEPT. 7. 1917

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Company. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Streets. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as Second Class Mail Matter

The boss is apt to fight political innovation to the last ditch, but his keen eyes have become accustomed to reading the handwriting on the wall. Walter Tallmadage Erndt. Checking Anti-War Propaganda The government's forbearance with agitators who are preaching sedition in the United States came to an end yesterday when Attorney General Gregory ordered federal marshals in many towns and cities to raid headquarters of anti-government organizations. Many grand juries will act on the disclosures that will follow the raids that took place from Main to Washington and from Florida to California. A number of alien enemies were sent to detention camps yesterday, and penitentiary gates will swing open for many who were caught in the dragnet. The government has been exceedingly lenient with men who have seditiously used the doctrine of free speech to protect their disloyal attacks on national safety.

German money and the German secret service undoubtedly are connected with many of the outbreaks that have taken place in the United States. If German intrigue did. not stop at blowing up American industries before the United States and the Imperial government were at war, it is safe to infer that German baseness is fostering and encouraging the anti-war propaganda that is mainfesting itself in widely scattered communities of the country. The I. W. W. agitators who have terrorized the western states are not acting on their own initiative. The leaders either are supplied with German money as pay for their treasonable work or are powerfully influenced by the insidious forces which Germany with master hand knows how to exert when she is seeking to overthrow an enemy. . A sinister influence has" directed the I. W. W. campaign. The government obtained immense quantities of evidence in the raids yesterday, which may show how far the Imperial government went in instigating the riots and acts of arson and murder that have accompanied the I. W. W. campaign.

Neither the I. W. W. nor any organization or individual can adduce the doctrine of free speech as a defense for seditious utterances. When an abuse of free speech imperils the social structure, when it jeopardibe the welfare of a nation, the government must Aieck the nuisance. Higher than any theory of free speech i3 the

paramount duty of self-preservation. When free speech degener

ates into open attacks on the government, when it incites to

treason, then the government, to preserve the political structure

which is guaranteeing life, liberty and pursuit of happiness to mill

ions, must muzzle the source of dangerous utterance. Seditious

speech cannot appeal to the doctrine of free speech for protection

Free speech never yet entitled a citizen to preach sedition, agitate riots against established order," and write articles that

jeopardizes a nation's safety.

We must keep in mind the fundamentally vital truth that we are at war. The safety of our country is at stake because of the

war declaration of our Congress. The highest duty of every citi

zen is to help his country win the war. Every other consideration

is subordinate to this one gigantically vital issue. The citizen who

speaks against or acts against the government is directly striking

at the safety of every citizen of the republic. For this reason, every citizen is held strictly accountable for what he says and does.

He cannot denounce the government and expect immunity on a

plea of free speech, for his disloyal utterance is essentially an attack on the safety of every citizen of the republic and must be curbed.

Organized Labor Is Loyal No thinking man doubted the loyalty of the members of organized labor in the United States. The misguided efforts of the I. W. W. to create unrest and dissension at home, a studied effort to take base advantage of a situation, found no response in the ranks of Union labor. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and chairman of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy which is in session at Minneapolis, in his opening speech there expressed the stand of organized labor, "to combat every form of propaganda, no matter by whom it may be carried on, which tends to weaken the loyalty and devotion of the masses and their willingness to strive and sacrifice for the nation and its high purpose." Every worker will subscribe to this statement and voice it as the conviction of his heart. Gompers emphasized the principle for which America is fighting in these words: "The United States has declared that she can no longer live in safety when there is, stalking throughout the earth, this thunderous machine of murder. She has cast her lot with the allied countries fighting against the greatest military machine ever erected in the history of the world. "We want peace. To ask the government of the United States now to statf specifically the terms of peace is to play, consciously or unconsciously, into the hands of the enemy. At this time the military machine of Germany and Austria is upon foreign soil. A peace at this time must necessarily be predicated, in part at least, upon Germany's conquest of these countries and territories." I. W. W. members and sympathizers of that movement ought to'know now how organized labor stands in this war. The United States and its allies must win. Union labor is enlisted in this cause.

News From Home

Frank Kilgus, training with Pershing's forces in France, writes that the American soldiers are pining for word from home. We can inlagine that the lads are homesick. Not only are they in a strange land, but also in a land whose newspapers and magazines they cannot read." At home they received their newspapers daily. Now weeks may pass by before they receive an American newspaper. Friends of the fighting boys ought to co-operate with their parents in letter writing. . A soldier boy will be "tickled to death" to read a letter from an acquaintance who had not promised to write but nevertheless acted on the patriotic impulse of helping our boys feel at home in France. If you are acquainted with a soldier, write him. Do not excuse yourself with the thought that you are not one of his intimate friends. Just because you are not of his bosom companions, the letter will be doubly welcome.

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The Forum

(All articles for this column must not exceed 300 words. Contributors must sign their names, although the name will be withheld by the management at the request of the writer. Articles haying no name attached will be thrown into the waste basket.)

Sept 6, 1917. To the Editor or the Richmond Palladium, Richmond, Indiana. Dear Sir: In the "Richmond Palladium" of September 5, 1917, concerning the appropriation for a "tax ferret" contract in Wayne county, you have made the following statement: "Only one of the commissioners, W. A. Seaney, is on record as favoring the measure." This statement is so manifestly incorrect and unfair to the other: members of the board in implying or intimating that they are antagonistic to a "tax ferret" contract, that we feel called upon to direct your attention to the minutes of the board of commissioners of Wayne couny of August 18, 1917, of which the following is an exact copy, to-wit: "In the matter of the investigation, discovery and report for taxation of

to employ' for said purpose a competent person or persons under a proper contract in writing. -f (signed) WM. K. CHESSMAN ANDREW J. SIMPSON, WM. O. SEANEY." Pursuant to this request for an appropriation above set forth, the Wayne county council has now made an appropriation of $25,000 to enable the county commissioners to enter into a sequestered tax contract. No part of this sum is to be paid any "tax ferret" until after the taxes colkcted through his work are actually paid Into the county treasury. The "tax ferret" contract is made on a percentage basis; if no taxes on property which has heretofore escaped assessment and taxation are collected, no payment Is made to the "tax ferret" In the event that sequestered taxes are collected, a percentage of same is paid to the "tax ferret" out of the taxes collected. The appropriation in itself is a mere matter of form prescribed by law before a legal contract on a percentage basis can be made. Requesting that you make a correction in your newspaper in conformity with the above, we are Yours very truly, F. P. VAN DER VEER & Co.. ' By F. P. VAN DER VEER.

omitted property and the employment and compensation of accountants for such purpose. - "It is hereby found by the board of commissioners of Wayne county, Indiana, that an indispensable public necessity exists for investigation in counties other than Wayne county, within

and without the state of Indiana, for U . . a j, . . I

mo yuipusB 01 aiscovenng property owned by residents and inhabitants of said Wayne county and subject to taxation therein, but which has escaped taxation and the existence and ownership of which are unknown to the officers of said Wayne county, and of which they have no information or means of information, and which la the judgment of said board of commissioners can only be ascertained, dis. covered and reported by persons especially employed to make such investigations and render such service. "It is further found that an indispensable public necessity exists for the employment of some person other

than an officer of said Wayne countv

to make said investigation and report.

ana tnat tne person or persons so em

ployed shall be compensated for such service upon a commission percentage basis out of the taxes derived from property which they may discover and

report for taxation. "It is, therefore, ordered that a request be made on the Wayne countv

council for an appropriation adequate

lor tnis purpose in order to enable the board of commissioners of said county

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT State of Indiana, Wayne County ss? Estate of James M. Houts, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Wayne Circuit Court Administratrix of the estate of James M. Houts. de ceased, late of Wayne County, indi ana. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. . -' .' LUCY J. HOUTS, . aug. 24-31-sept.7 Administratrix.

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Swedes Try to Stop Heavy Immigration

STOCKHOLM, Sept 7.

Bpondence of The Associated Press.) More earnest efforts are being made to prevent emigration from Sweden as a result of the publication of statistics showing that in 1916 more than 7,300 persons left this country, as compared with fewer than 4,100 in 1915. About 67 percent of those who go are between fifteen and thirty years of age, and virtually all take passage for America. Notwithstanding the increased emigration last year, a great number of Swedish-Americans who returned to Sweden have been induced to remain here, many having purchased farms, while for others places of work have been obtained through the instrumentality of the National Association Opposed to Emigration. The endeavors of this organization, of which Dr. Adrian Molin is president, are warmly supported by the government. Prince Carl, brother of the King, addressed the association's tenyear jubilee meeting recently. He said that during fifty years, 1,173,000 Swedes emigrated, representing more

FLOUR SUPPLY SHORT

HELSIN6P0RS, Finland, Sept. 7. According to the Hufvudstadsblad, communes containing 1,600,000 inhabi-

(Corre-tants (of a total Finnish population of

3,200,000) have reported that their supplies of flour will run out at least a month before the reaping fo this year's crops.

than one-fifth of the country's present population. In a single decade, from 18S1 to 1890 inclusive, 376.401 persons left the country, he said. Dr. Molin described the association's propaganda work, which included some 800 addresses at public meetings in 1916, and told of the success in finding places of labor for returned emigrants.

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SMOKED MEATS Sugar Cured Hams, lb ,..27 Sugar Cured Shoulders, lb 23

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