The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-08-16

.NI.N' ! VIM LUZ ~ u - - D.
th't German agents and spies opcr
ating in ;hc United States have
adopted and carried out the identical
program Of sabotage Of the |. ". W.
i" their Efforts to Ob5truyt the war
work of tn enatiOn are made in an
expose of the l. W. W. which il in.
Corporated in a statement isau"d to.
d"y by Ralph NJ. EaslcH III" ,nN"s,
legations into |. W. W and German
activities. the results OF Wliri Mr..
Easlcy presents. were mace by +. Ev.
erett HARE, the well-knoWl writer,
i Who has had access to records and
| documents. 1t was Mr.. HARE who
first uncovered the operations of the
German propaganda as conducted by
William Bayard Hale il America, and
which are now under investigation by
the attorney general of the state of
| New York
Mr.. Easley. In his statement, des-
! ignate3 the movement to defend the
| |. w w. leaders now on trial in Chi,
cago as a conspiracy and an effort to
! intimidate the carriage of Justice In
cluded in Mr.. Easley's arraignment is
the "National civil Liberties Bureau"
which has issued a pamphlet condor.
ing the acts of the l. w. W. and a
committee which is at present en-.
gagged in raising a fund of $4,000
for the defense of the indicted lead
crs. Among the members of the Ma
tional Civil Liberties Bureau" are
Crystal Eastman. Rev. John Haynes
Holmes, Dr. James p Warbasse and
Judah l.. Magnes. The signers for
the appeal for $4,000 defense fund
include Rev. DR.. Percy Stickney Grant,
Robert Bruere, Professor Thorstein
Neblen and Professors John Dewey
and James Harvey Robinson of Co
lumbia university.
The most idolatrous defenders OF
the |. w, W. can not deny facts which
stare them in the faCe-sabotage and
destruction OF property and life, the
contemptuous Reputation of all NOR
ais and decencies of conduct" says
Mr. Easley. What they do attempt
is to justify the most revolving acts
on the ground that the perpetrators
Individually are not responsible. l.
w. w. S may wreck trains, dynamite
factories, destroy supplies vitality es-
sential in the conduct of the war, but
so these infatuated zealots contend,
a jury should not find them guilty nor
hold them accountable because social
conditions inspire their acts and are
responsible for all their crimes. The
II W. W, thus relieved of the respon,
sibility OF free exercise OF will, is
eXonerated from every Ofense against
society
This l. W W. doctrine OF yicarious
responsibility is expressed with DIS
tinBuished felicity, Win characteristic
literary nnality, by that organ which
cncrIshes the solemn, il son ewnat
green tradition OF doing the thinking
OF the nation. The New Republic.
The rebellious propaganda OF the
|, W W. We have suggested de-
clares this organ, is born not OF the
perversity OF malicious individuals.
but OF unhealthy social conditions for
which We, as a democratic people, are
responsible.
This doctrine, relieving the indi-
vidual OF all responsibility by placing
the blame Tor his acts upon society,
had It's inception in the German Marx.
ian Socialist philosophy. To the ig
norant. the weak, the unnt. to soft
sentimentaliBts, and to the intellec
tually loose and vicious. it has had a
powerful appeal. and that appeal is
to the lowest OF all human qualities.
moral cowardice. The l. W. w. by
the law OF natural selection, took over
this doctrine, elaborated ii, and car
ried it to the extreme. not only in the
DRY, but i'll practice.
1t was 'intellectuals OF the same
| kidney as those now engaged in de.
tending the |. w w. who prepared
the Russian people for the advent OF
Lenine and 1rotzky and brought
Russia to her undoing. And the same
L species have gone far toward under
mining Italy and France and in max.
ing menacing inroads in England One
is inclined to ask to what limits they
will go in the United States before
the indignation OF an aroused citizen
ship, comprehendng what American
Bolsheyism means, calls "A halt.
Even before the European war