If one could unite the plain people politically, or against a foreign
war, why could they not be united against an enemy at home? The
South had had a similar problem, and the result was the Ku Klux Klan.
The Chief of Police was convinced that a plan was being formulated
to repeat the Seattle experiment against the city. The Mayor was
dubious. He was not a strong man; he had a conviction that because
a thing never had happened it never could happen.
"The mob has done it before," urged the Chief of Police one day.
"They took Paris, and it was damned disagreeable."
The Mayor was a trifle weak in history.
"Maybe they did," he agreed. "But this is different. This is
America."
He was rather uneasy after that. It had occurred to him that the
Chief might have referred to Paris, Illinois.
Now and then Pink coaxed Willy Cameron to his club, and for those
rare occasions he provided always a little group of men like
themselves, young, eager, loyal, and struggling with the new
problems of the day. In this environment Willy Cameron received
as well as gave.
Most of the men had been in the army, and he found in them an eager
anxiety to face the coming situation and combat it.
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