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...with prudence. If it is desired to prove the point that our Government has become unfortunately somewhat class-biased of late, nothing could do it better than the continued imprisonment of a kindly old man like Debs, while men of the stripe of Franz Von Rintelen, German spy and bomb-plotter, are released. Nothing is better calculated to arouse the desire to shake the control of the owners of the means of production over our public life than such a spectacular example of the results of this control...
There is another point seriously open to doubt. I refer to the statement: "for in spite of government efforts, plots and bomb outrages have not diminished since the war." What are the facts on which this is based, or is it only some more speculation and inference...
...fault, but if investigation demonstrates that revolutionary propaganda is still at work to such a degree as to cause a $2,000,000 blaze, the occasion would be ripe for a renewed and thorough-going attempt to suppress this increasing danger. For in spite of governmental efforts, plots and bomb outrages have not diminished since the war; yesterday's fire should be only one more argument against the extreme methods which the radicals appear to have adopted to attain their desires...
...what law there is in it. She is attempting to maintain the law with a system of cruelty and killing by the official police. It is explained that such acts are reprisals and are justified. "In speaking of reprisals, Mr. Lloyd George argued that the police would not bomb houses and shoot men if there was no provocation." Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland, defended the Government's actions by saying that "while the Asquithians put the emphasis on the reprisals, I put it on the provocation...
...country referred to as robbers, he develops hatred for them as men that have in some way gained the wealth that should be his, and when this hatred reaches a certain intensity in the muddled thoughts of a man with unbalanced brain, he is ready to throw a bomb and kill any number of people in order to wreak revenge on the wicked bankers that demagogues and their approving newspapers have taught him to hate. --Boston Commercial Bulletin...