One Hundred Percent: The Story of a Patriot

Also he had a bit of genuine anxiety. He had told the truth when he said to Guffey that he didn’t know what a Red was; but since then he had been making inquiries, and now he knew. A Red was a fellow who sympathized with labor unions and with strikes; who wanted to murder the rich and divide their property, and believed that the quickest way to do the dividing was by means of dynamite. All Reds made bombs, and carried concealed weapons, and perhaps secret poisons–who could tell?