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and Trotskys, the serpent of bolshevism, has set its fangs in this 

 country, and tonight while you and I are sitting here in this room, 

 the government, the prominent men of this country are studying 

 and working with might and main to thwart the work that Germany 

 started on the other side and it has come over here. Do you realize, 

 and have you ever stopped to think (and, mark you, in these re- 

 marks I do not charge it against American labor, but I do charge 

 the foreign labor that has been brought into this country), and I 

 say, while we are sitting here the thinking men, the men who 

 are in touch with these afTairs, realize and know that we have a red 

 flag in this country that is trying to sink us into oblivion far worse 

 than that which was threatened by Germany. It has been demon- 

 strated by the government, and the evidence was obtained, that the 

 steel strike was started and started for no other purpose than as 

 part of a program to bring an open break in this country. The coal 

 strike was to follow, and it came. We broke the steel strike, and 

 we have broken the coal strike, and'God knows that is the best news 

 I have heard in days, when the note came that this strike was over : 

 but we are going to root out this foreign labor that is making this 

 agitation. America believes in a league of nations ; America believes 

 in assisting the rest of the world, but the first thing that we have 

 got to do is to see that America is made safe for Americans. We 

 have now in this country hundreds of thousands, aye, millions of 

 foreigners who came into this country as immigrants who are mak- 

 ing our best citizens, they have become assimilated, and have be- 

 come just as loyal as you and I and just as good Americans, but, 

 gentlemen, we have assimilated all we can assimilate for the present. 

 Our doors have got to close, and make loyal Americans of all that 

 we have in this country, and if he is not satisfied to be an American, 

 and stay here and be a loyal citizen, let him go back to the other 

 side either alive or in a box. 



I haven't time to tell you the things I would like to tell you, but 

 I throw out this word of warning without any desire on my part 

 to alarm you or mar the brightness of this occasion, but, my friends, 

 the conditions in this country are so serious that we have got to act 

 and act immediately. The day for education has gone by. We have 

 been talking for months about going out and educating our people 

 and training them in American citizenship, but it is too late to do 

 that, and I call upon you fair men, you who are in touch with the 

 people in this country, you must counteract bolshevism or anarchism 

 that has been circulated throughout the state of Iowa. Do you know 



