PAGE FOUR- THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS at its least, can only be released as we grow more of this good lhe hospitals functioned, the stores reopened, the sereet cars started home garden food to supply qur own tables. Twice as much—a runninf. Thomas Murphine, my friend and appointee as F. my round billion dollars' worth—is necessary if we are to make our Superintendent of Public Utilities, ran the first car through the AND BORDER BUDGET war gardens do the nation's American, Christian duty. crowded streets, ungarded but unafraid. GEO. P. WATSON, Editor An abandoned war garden looks like—Belgium! We cannot I gave orders, to shoot on sight any lawbreaker and Joe Warren, Entered at the Post Office at International Falls. Minn., as Second-class Mattel afford to have anywhere in the land such examples of what Germany Chief of Police, a dead shot and a true man, stood ready with did to the lands over w"hich she ran. Admittedly, a growing fifteen hundred men under- him to quell disorder. We used no SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER'YEAR war garden increases the beauty of the neighborhood as well as soldiers for any purpose, either as guards or policemen, although the supply of food for the people, but an unkempt, neglected wreck one thousand stood read to help. No martial law was declared 'Curfew shall not ring to-night" or shall it? provides a worse appearance than the preceding tin can landscape xhe American spirit of our people burst into flame, and the Bolsheviki, and avoids the beneficent food advantage. No man voted for the new mayor who did not figure that he the I. W. W., the Internationalists, the traitors—all Qf them The national war garden commission is anxious to avoid a food was going to clean things up. We believe he will, and we'll tell you cowards crowded the railway stations and wharves to make their catastrophe in 1919 and it has issued victory editions of its two escape. Seattle stood four square and loyal, and in judgment, its when he does. I my pamphlets, one entitled "War Gardening" and the other "Home citizenship and its love of country prevented the spread of the hellinspired Canning and Drying," in order to help to keep the land patriotically doctrines of Lenine and Trotzky. Republican state leaders are already expressing their wish for fruitful. These will be sent to anyone upon request addressed to a Democratic governor by their unwillingness to agree on one or at I am proud to be Mayor of such a people and of such a city the National War Garden Commission, Washington—Muskogee the most two candidates for that important office. proud to know that misled and befooled union labor realized its Phoenix. error in time. The leaders must be deported or sent to the penitentiary. A man like Frank Lang on the city council, at this time, is The betrayed workers will be forgiven. Seattle may forgive HOW MAYOR OLE HANSON worth thousands of dollars to this city and if the rest of the council but it can never forget. CHECKED BOLSHEVISM IN SEATTLE would follow his suggestions those thousands would be saved, jj The War was won by unflinching determination and untold An Account of What Happened by the Mayor Himself as it Appeared sacrifice. We assisted in the destruction of Hun-ism affd all it To be of service in bettering conditions is the great thing in in Last Month's McClure's stands for in Europe. Today we are facing a still greater peril life. It is no longer asked, "How much has he got?" But "What right here at home. We have welcomed to our land with open arms has he done?" and "How* did he make what he has got?" At ten oclock, February 6th, 1919, a strange silence fell over oui the people of the world. We have allowed folk* to come here without city of four hundred thousand people. Street-car gongs ceased their question, and they have partaken of our bountiful resources. The returning of the cables and telegraph lines will probably clamor, newsboys cast their unsold papers into the street from Most of them have become true, liberty-loving Americans, but result in this country being enforced as to what is really happening the doors of mill and factory, store and workshop sixty-five thousand many, so very many, have enjoyed our hospitality and now stand around the Peace Table. Thus far there has been so many conflicting workmen. School children with fear in their hearts hurried ready to restroy our Government, the best, freest government on rumors that it is difficult to find out just what is the true homeward. The life stream of a great city stopped. the face of the earth. status of International affairs. The mass strike, most potent weapon of revolutionists, was in There can be no compromise when the issue is Americanism. operation. Merchants, bankers, tradesment, preachers, lawyers, We must not only do the best thing or the wise thing, but we must The 206,936 majority of the drys in Michigan at the recent doctors and workers stood in silence with questioning looks on their and will do the right thing. Immigrants desiring to come to the election against a constitutional amendment legalizing wine and faces. It was as if a great earthquake was expected from which United States should file an application and sign a questionnaire beer in that state, is an awful black eye to the brewery trust boosters none could escape. before leaving foreign soil. All should be investigated before taken who are still living in the ancient days. The vote for the amendment The criminal leaders of union labor issued their ukase refusing on board ship, if possible. was 322,19 and 529,055 agiainst. to allow anyone to do anything in any way without first securing Any alien who repudiates his first papers should be deputed" their august (permission, evidenced by a printed slip marked "Exemption." Not only did the recent legislature vote $32,000,000 budget for all aliens should be compelled to register and re-register with each They announced that only a few exemptions would? fre the next two years, but it also voted several unnecessary salary increases change! of address. The Bolsheviki and I. W. W. should be outlaws. granted. They would bury thie dead if the hearse and automobile to county officers which can only be met by increase of local The national government must forget everything but the danger owners gave them half the profits they would allow hospital^, 6 taxes. There is neither economy nor regard for the taxpayers to our institutions. There must be no equivocation, no evasion, no operate, if exemption was applied for but light, transpoy^ticin. pocket book in such uncalled for legislation. mildness. Deportation or incarceration for one and all. Mildness food in stores and restaurants, were not exempted. encourages breeds contempt with these people kindness only continued They said "We will run our souphouses, and that is all we will Don't forget the pennies for the war tax which begins today agitation. Iron-handed justice and not pity is the remedy. do." when you buy soft drinks. It will cost you one penny more for a They who are with us I would foster and care for those against us They graciously permitted the sale of a ration of milk for all fiyei and ten cent drink, or ice cream. Two cents addition on fifteen I would remove from American society forever. bottle-fed bathes. They demanded that our municipal utilities and twenty cent drinks and three cents on a twenty-five and thirty should cease to be. They opehly advocated the taking over of all This is the land of freedom, but not the land of license and lawlessiiess. cent treat. We are sure paying for the trouble the Kaiser started. enterprises. By they I mean the leaders. And who were they? Leon This is the land1 of opportunity and promise, but it is not, Green, Russian, alien, slacker, liar, Bolshevik, I. W. W. and head of and never shall be, the refuge of anarchists and criminals. A Missouri Democrat who recently delivered an address before the Electrical Workers' Union E. B. Ault, editor of the "Union Let us clean house let us clean house now the Rotary Club, of Dallas, Tex., told his hearers that if any of them Record," who said to me on the day of Roosevelt's death, "I am glad A government that will not defend itself cannot stand. Let us wanted his youngest child to be able to say he had ever seen a he is dead he stood in outlay!*' Hulet M. Wells, convicted for be real men and not eunuchs. Either we destroy these vermin now Democratic President, he should take the baby to Washington opposing the draft, out on bail! A. E. Miller, said to carry an I. W. or the time may come when they will destroy us. All who are for and let him look at Mr. Wilson before his present term expires, W. card, head of the Metal Trades Council Frank Turco, alien this Government are my friends all who are against this Government because the chance would never come again.—-Ex. Ben Nauman, city 'employee ^rid boiler inspector. these Supporting are my enemies. As to the first, God bless them as to the men by word and deed were thousands of Bolshevists and I. W. W. last, to hell with them.—Mayor Hanson of Seattle in McClures for The new law which goes into effect today taxing all the net aliens, as well as many others of the same ilk. One woman was March. profits of factories, mines and quarries employing children under prominent, Anna Louise Strong, recalled from office of school director the specific ages, will do more than any other method of enforcing on a patriotic issue by vote of people of Seattle, and ev^n the child labor laws of our country. It also provides severe penalties ONE SOLDIER'S PLEA today, as I write, she is one of the writers on the "Union Record," for those misrepresenting the ages of children who labor. This is which said: "Labor will not only shut down the industries, but labor Now that the war is over a good law but it is too bad that such a law is necjessary in a coun will reopen under the management of' the appropriate trades such Our thoughts do homeward fly, try like this. activities as are needed to preserve public health and public peace. And' we are filled with bitterness Labor may feel led to avoid public suffering by reopening more To think the Nation's dry. Let them have the home paper and read of the persons whom and more activities under its own management. We are undertaking The prohibitionists took advantage they meet, and places with which they are familiar, and soon an the most tremendous move ever made by labor in this country, a While the boys were over there, interest is awakened which increases with every arrival of the local move which will lead no one knows where." And passed the law that stopped them paper. Thus a habit of reading is formed, and those children Green said: "You shall'have no light and no power. Your From making wine and beer. will read the papers all their lives and become intelligent men and streets shall be dark. Hospitals cannot function. We will make it women, a credit to their ancestors, strong in their knowledge of so terrible that in a short time we will win." the world.—Ex. How often do we picture in our fancies. I said: "We shallN have light and water and transportation. As our though do homeward stray, Our municipal activities shall not cease. This is America and not The friendly boys in the bar-room Indiana reports its survival of the blow, received a year ago, Russia. You and your anarchists shall not control this Government." We were to meet again some day, through the sudden loss of 33 breweries, 15 distilleries and 3,500 And how we would sit and tell them saloons. The extinction of so much business in any other li'ie Thus we defied them. Their plans were carefully laid. Soldiers' All about it would bury a state in blues. The Indianapolis News reports that and sailors' and workmen's councils had been organized to have the state seems more prosperous than ever after its loss, though How we met and whipped the foe, super-control of all things. Different crafts were to conduct each And all the while we were talking it admits that the industry of wife beating has diminished by 80 per industry. Confiscation and reappropriation were to come, they The drinks would freely flow. cent.—Nebraska State Journal. thought. They were wrong. We had prepared with, machine guns, rifles The bunk going the rounds that when this country goes dry Then we would meet the other fellows, and shotguns. We took over the arms in pawnshops and stores we Who had been over here the American distillers are going to move their plants just across stopped the sale of cartridges and ammunition. An on Friday morning the Mexican border looks doubly foolish when one remembers that We would sit there and notes compare, I issued my Proclamation, as follows: Ovier our glass of beer the Mexican Pulque has American whiskey backed right off the "Proclamation to the People of Seattle" But never again those good times, boards both for cheapness and immediate hilariousness. This agricultural "By virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor, I hereby Will we ever see by-product is so cheap that a plain souse can be had for two guarantee to all the people of Seattle absolute and complete protection. cents, a complete jag for three cents, insensibility and a fine headache No more will we have the pleasure of going on a spree They should go about their daily work and business in And it m'akes us surely miserable, for five cents and a murderous .fit of the D. T. for a dime. perfect security. We have fifteen hundred policemen fifteen hundred As we think of what wie will miss regular soldiers from Camp Lewis, and can and will secure, We never thotight when we left home, We reprint on this page, by special request of some of the union if necessary, every soldier in the Northwest to protect life, business That it would come to this. men here, a copy of Mayor Ole Hanson's account of how he and property. stopped the Bolsheviki uprising in his home city of Seattle as it "The time has come for every person in Seattle to show nis appeared in McClure's magazine for March. Had not Mayor Hanson Oh, Congressmen have pity, Americanism. Go about your daily duties without fear. We will had the backing of the officers of the International union and their And of us a little think, see to it that you have food, transportation, water, light, gas and endorsement that the strike was in violation of previous contracts, Deprive us of what you will, necessities. The anarchists in this community shall not rule its But leave us our li'lj drink. it would have been still more difficult for him to have performed affairs. All persons violating the laws wil be dealth with summarily this stupendous task. Notwithstanding these facts Mayor Hanson We ask for no reception, "Ole Hanson, Mayor," is entitled to great credit for by his prompt and patriotic action he When we return from "over here" I then sent my ultimatum to the strike committee, and demanded The only thing we beg of you, undoubtedly nipped, in the bursting bud, that which was intended for unconditional, complete, and unequivocal surrender. The "Seattle the signalvfor a nation wide Bolsheviki aijd-I. W. W. revolution. Is to let us have our beer. 1 Star" guarded by one hundred police, printed one hundred thousand If you folks at home are with us, copies with a headline:, DONT LET THE WAR GARDENS BECOME PEACE DESERTS And to please us is your aim, "Seattle—United States of America!" The best way you can do it, With Proclamation occupying most of the first page, our Herbert Hoover insists that we must save and ship to Europe Is to make it wet again. my more food in 1919 than we did in 1918 if we are to stand up to our policemen and motor cars and trucks spread them broadcast over Louis Alexander, world job. Last year, authorities say, the war gardens of America the city. ,v". Co. B. 32nd Engrs. produced $525,000,000 worth of the choicest possible home-grown The effect was like a fire-alarm. Seattle awoke. Thousanis A. E. F. France. food, raised so closie to the table? that it did not interfere at all with flocked to the City Hall. Within fifteen minutes after the first The above poem is published by special request, but it voices our tired transportation systems. pap»er was given away, two hundred and fifty. Elks came in a bod)' the sentiment of a very small minority of boys." The great "our The 20,000,000 tons of food which must go across the Atlantic to my office. The strike was broken! majority are glad to be rid of the saloon with its nuisances and 1919 to keep the wolf from the door and the Bolshevik menace The light plant, the water plant, never stopped one moment. temptations.—Editor. I 4