America 1919

Chapter 274: 132. Threats to the Family_2



"Donnie!"

Leck Young slammed the table and shouted, "You can't do this!"

Donnie waved his hand and said, "I didn't do these things, and as you should have seen, everything recorded here is backed by evidence!"

The contents of the documents Donnie handed to Leck Young naturally concerned Leck Young's children.

Eddie Young!

Leck Young's eldest son, now in New York, never worked due to his father's wealth, even though he was already in his thirties.

His usual pastime in New York was to enjoy hosting PARTIES, and then two days ago, the New York police suddenly raided Eddie Young's villa and found several books about the Bolsheviks inside, which was a serious violation of the current American laws!

Let me tell you something interesting, what are Americans most sensitive to at the moment?

It's not the stock market, not the Black Sox Scandal, not even the presidential election.

What really makes Americans sensitive is the Red Scare!

The fundamental reason for this phenomenon is that, with the rapid development of the labor movement during the war, its scale kept expanding, its prestige kept growing, and it had started to gain overwhelming response.

The wealth of the capitalists was accumulating more and more, while the salaries of the workers did not increase, just like the strike movement that Donnie had planned before.

In the entire United States, such movements occurred more than a hundred times just in 1919!

It affected all industries across the country.

Even Boston's police held a strike movement.

If it were just that, it would at most have sparked nationwide attention, without involving issues of belief.

It wasn't until some groups began using these strike movements to create various violent incidents that all Americans started their Red Scare.

Among the most notable incidents was last year's bombing by mail in New York!

At the time, Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson received a package, and when he noticed that the package was somewhat unusual, he immediately called in staff to dismantle it.

Then, the staff found a bomb in the package capable of destroying half an office building.

The next day, in the home of Thomas Hardwick, a senator from Atlanta, Georgia, a similar package was received. Hardwick's maid opened the package, and then the bomb exploded, completely blowing off the maid's hands.

No one had connected these two incidents until the third day.

A postal worker in New York's mailroom, Charles Copeland, read about the situation of the parcel bombs described in the explosion news and then remembered that in their post office, there were over a dozen similar packages waiting to be sent out.

And the recipients of these packages were the Attorney General Palmer, the Postmaster General Boleson, Chicago Judge Landis, Supreme Court Justice Holmes, Secretary of Labor Wilson, Immigration Bureau Chief Caminetti, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller...

As soon as this incident was reported, it instantly ignited the entire United States.

And after investigation, all these people were prominent figures who vehemently opposed various strike movements.

After this incident, the entire United States began the retaliation against these radicals!

It even reached the point where no evidence was needed at all!

When the retaliation began, it was no longer just against the radicals, but against everyone who was different from the American camp.

"The New York Call," a newspaper with a red background, suddenly came under attack by the military.

The same happened to some parades!

It could be said that by that time, the whole of the United States was almost at the brink of talk of 'brown'!

This is also why, when Donnie previously orchestrated the strike parade in Hollywood, those big studios had confidence, because if it weren't for Charlie Chaplin and others being too famous, their parade likely would have been intervened by the police as well.

In fact, what Donnie didn't know was that it was because of this parade that the Bureau of Investigation started to pay attention to Charlie Chaplin, suspecting that he might be a spy hiding in the United States.

As for Donnie!

Come on, everyone who knew the truth about this matter would only think that it was just an opportunistic move by Donnie!

There really wasn't any of Donnie's actions that could be associated with the color brown!

But no matter what, privately hoarding those books about the color brown was still an unforgivable act.

So, there were no problems when Eddie Young was taken away!

Joel Young!

Leck Young's second son, also a young man raised under his father's assets, who loves to drive fast.

In an era where no driving license was required and there were no traffic lights, incidents where people were run over by cars were quite common.

Yet, some after running someone over could cover it up with the wealth of their family or find a scapegoat.

And Joel Young was such a person.

Last year, he was speeding in New York and accidentally hit someone. With his father's powerful financial support, the real culprit was never found by the New York police.

But now, an anonymous letter, accompanied by the testimony of the beautiful lady who was sitting in the passenger seat of Joel Young's car, led the New York police to take action and take Joel Young away!

Serena Young! Find your next read on empire

Leck Young's youngest daughter, the most worry-free of Leck Young's children, married early, and her husband is a lawyer in New York, making them a happy family.


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