American history reveals some very interesting things if you look for them. I found something a bit profound from the Woodrow Wilson presidency and posted a short article on it. It concerns the 1920 Wall Street bombing by the radical left and I found the Democratic administration’s actions on it to be fascinating: different! but fascinating.
Below the article are all of the sources that I used to put it together: underlined text is sourced below.
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1920 Wall Street Bombing
Sept, 16, 1920
One of my favorite things about history is following an event through and looking for it in the future…
The Wall Street Bombing of the JP Morgan Bank building was America’s first act of domestic political terrorism that went unmatched until the Mcvey Oklahoma City bombing seventy-five years later. What’s interesting about both bombings is that they appear to be one from each political extreme and both being linked to anarchy: something very akin to the 1861 agenda of our then confederate states. The Wall Street bombing however was never solved and was finally closed sixty years later in 1940. By 1919 WWI had become “another poor man’s war run by the rich: the 1863 Draft Riots were the result of this imbalance and the Vietnam War was lost to the same.
WWI produced 42,000 new millionaires as a result of defense contracts nad profits from related industries. The divide in income and political agendas that was created however led to the rise of the radical left in way we hadn’t seen before in our history and communist sympathizers found audiences which created a shift toward attention to communist doctrine that led directly to America’s first Red Scare.
The one consistency that we find in all this is that failures in capitalism always seem to open the door to radical elements that fill the void of loss: something that all countries suffer in a vacuum of leadership. Our financial leadership was nowhere to be seen during The Gilded Age that produced names like Morgan, Vanderbilt, Van Nortrick and Carnegie.
Lennin’s Bloshevics took over Russia, without Lennin’s presence, in 1917. By 1919 the US had suffered two hard depressions, that of 1873 and again twenty years later in 1893’ both the result of financial abuses that came again in 1929. That’s three all but catastrophic financial collapses in just fifty-six years and as always the greater suffering was passed down to the lower end of the financial scales, while the upper ends of that scale sat back on their huge reserves and used whatever means necessary to distance themselves from the troubles that sunk the markets.
By 1919 there had been twenty-nine mail bombs sent and the only group that was considered was “The Anarchist Fighters”. As a result of Woodrow Wilson’s WWI campaign of cracking down anti-Americanism there were over 5,000 deportations from the New York area of Russian born noncitizens and even some naturalized ones. Italians were also deported and under AG Mitchell Palmer (D), the cleansing of radical anti-Americanism was so successful that citizens began to think that the campaign went too far. As a result, forty-five days after the Morgan bombing, on November 20, 1920, the country elected Republican Warren G Harding who in his campaign speeches dismissed the Red Scare… Later to congress, a very angry Mitchell Palmer rebuked congress by reminding that he had forewarned about future attacks.
By this time rag publishers like Luigi Galiani had also been deported for running media using unfounded misinformation that only inflamed radical sentiment and violence. Galianist Mario Buda(h) of Boston was believed to have been the one who drove and parked the horse drawn wagon bomb in front of the Morgan building that day. He was also believed to be a member of the Anarchist Fighters, at the time the only known organized resistance group though as earlier pointed out, the sixty year investigation only had a possible motive to work with. It should also be said that J Edgar Hoover worked for Palmer at that time and was so impressed with Palmer’s leadership and methods that he took over prosecuting the Red Scare for his entire career. It would be Hoover who would plant informants into labor unions and then of course later with the civil rights movement, both of which had nothing to do with communism in their root or cause, but suffered the attachment of radical barnacles who could find an audience and this country’s political movements have been watched ever since.
Finally, what we can conclude from this chapter of American history is that the Democratic administration under Woodrow Wilson indeed went hard after communism and anti-Americanism as a threat to first our war effort, in which I’m sure that Wilson’s war policies were aimed at the “all-in” to win that we applied in the second world war. Socially however, people who for all intents and purposes are in fact abused by capitalism’s failings will always rise up against said abuses and we have witnessed that both sides of the political extremes can be dangerous. Having said that, we have recently experienced an attack on our government on Jan 6th, 2021 by a home grown political movement, the sponsors of which, whether foreign or domestic (we may never know), are successfully destabilizing our country to the point wherein our methods of democratic representation are facing an existential threat, just as was thought in 1920. Would it be a good thing to enact heavy handed tactics against an obviously violent political movement, the ideals of which were taken just as seriously by their participants in 1919. Mitchell’s campaign worked very well, so well in fact that by 1924 the incidents of extremism by the radical left had dropped significantly and finally, it seems that that since at least 1964 our country’s radical right has picked up Woodrow Wilson’s agenda and run with it. Why is it okay now?
Was it okay in 1920?
JP Morgan Bank
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | American bank
1863 Draft Riots
New York Draft Riots.
WWI produced 42,000 new millionaires The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
The Gilded Age
Gilded Age | Definition, History, & Mark Twain
that of 1873
Financial Panic of 1873
1893
Panic of 1893 and Its Aftermath
The Anarchist Fighters
Wall Street Bombing 1920 | Federal Bureau of Investigation
cleansing of radical anti-Americanism
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Makes "The Case against the Reds"
Luigi Galiani
http://www.clevelandhs.org/ourpages/webdesign4/dane/history.html
Mario Buda
Mario Buda - anarchist
Prosecuting
Definition of prosecute | Dictionary.com
Below the article are all of the sources that I used to put it together: underlined text is sourced below.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
1920 Wall Street Bombing
Sept, 16, 1920
One of my favorite things about history is following an event through and looking for it in the future…
The Wall Street Bombing of the JP Morgan Bank building was America’s first act of domestic political terrorism that went unmatched until the Mcvey Oklahoma City bombing seventy-five years later. What’s interesting about both bombings is that they appear to be one from each political extreme and both being linked to anarchy: something very akin to the 1861 agenda of our then confederate states. The Wall Street bombing however was never solved and was finally closed sixty years later in 1940. By 1919 WWI had become “another poor man’s war run by the rich: the 1863 Draft Riots were the result of this imbalance and the Vietnam War was lost to the same.
WWI produced 42,000 new millionaires as a result of defense contracts nad profits from related industries. The divide in income and political agendas that was created however led to the rise of the radical left in way we hadn’t seen before in our history and communist sympathizers found audiences which created a shift toward attention to communist doctrine that led directly to America’s first Red Scare.
The one consistency that we find in all this is that failures in capitalism always seem to open the door to radical elements that fill the void of loss: something that all countries suffer in a vacuum of leadership. Our financial leadership was nowhere to be seen during The Gilded Age that produced names like Morgan, Vanderbilt, Van Nortrick and Carnegie.
Lennin’s Bloshevics took over Russia, without Lennin’s presence, in 1917. By 1919 the US had suffered two hard depressions, that of 1873 and again twenty years later in 1893’ both the result of financial abuses that came again in 1929. That’s three all but catastrophic financial collapses in just fifty-six years and as always the greater suffering was passed down to the lower end of the financial scales, while the upper ends of that scale sat back on their huge reserves and used whatever means necessary to distance themselves from the troubles that sunk the markets.
By 1919 there had been twenty-nine mail bombs sent and the only group that was considered was “The Anarchist Fighters”. As a result of Woodrow Wilson’s WWI campaign of cracking down anti-Americanism there were over 5,000 deportations from the New York area of Russian born noncitizens and even some naturalized ones. Italians were also deported and under AG Mitchell Palmer (D), the cleansing of radical anti-Americanism was so successful that citizens began to think that the campaign went too far. As a result, forty-five days after the Morgan bombing, on November 20, 1920, the country elected Republican Warren G Harding who in his campaign speeches dismissed the Red Scare… Later to congress, a very angry Mitchell Palmer rebuked congress by reminding that he had forewarned about future attacks.
By this time rag publishers like Luigi Galiani had also been deported for running media using unfounded misinformation that only inflamed radical sentiment and violence. Galianist Mario Buda(h) of Boston was believed to have been the one who drove and parked the horse drawn wagon bomb in front of the Morgan building that day. He was also believed to be a member of the Anarchist Fighters, at the time the only known organized resistance group though as earlier pointed out, the sixty year investigation only had a possible motive to work with. It should also be said that J Edgar Hoover worked for Palmer at that time and was so impressed with Palmer’s leadership and methods that he took over prosecuting the Red Scare for his entire career. It would be Hoover who would plant informants into labor unions and then of course later with the civil rights movement, both of which had nothing to do with communism in their root or cause, but suffered the attachment of radical barnacles who could find an audience and this country’s political movements have been watched ever since.
Finally, what we can conclude from this chapter of American history is that the Democratic administration under Woodrow Wilson indeed went hard after communism and anti-Americanism as a threat to first our war effort, in which I’m sure that Wilson’s war policies were aimed at the “all-in” to win that we applied in the second world war. Socially however, people who for all intents and purposes are in fact abused by capitalism’s failings will always rise up against said abuses and we have witnessed that both sides of the political extremes can be dangerous. Having said that, we have recently experienced an attack on our government on Jan 6th, 2021 by a home grown political movement, the sponsors of which, whether foreign or domestic (we may never know), are successfully destabilizing our country to the point wherein our methods of democratic representation are facing an existential threat, just as was thought in 1920. Would it be a good thing to enact heavy handed tactics against an obviously violent political movement, the ideals of which were taken just as seriously by their participants in 1919. Mitchell’s campaign worked very well, so well in fact that by 1924 the incidents of extremism by the radical left had dropped significantly and finally, it seems that that since at least 1964 our country’s radical right has picked up Woodrow Wilson’s agenda and run with it. Why is it okay now?
Was it okay in 1920?
JP Morgan Bank
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | American bank
1863 Draft Riots
New York Draft Riots.
WWI produced 42,000 new millionaires The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
The Gilded Age
Gilded Age | Definition, History, & Mark Twain
that of 1873
Financial Panic of 1873
1893
Panic of 1893 and Its Aftermath
The Anarchist Fighters
Wall Street Bombing 1920 | Federal Bureau of Investigation
cleansing of radical anti-Americanism
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Makes "The Case against the Reds"
Luigi Galiani
http://www.clevelandhs.org/ourpages/webdesign4/dane/history.html
Mario Buda
Mario Buda - anarchist
Prosecuting
Definition of prosecute | Dictionary.com
