El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-15
THE BOLSHEVIKI
IN OUR MIDST.
Otto Kahn Denounces For
eigners, Drunk With Free
DOM at Work Here.

A%4l4, dJ w VI n L4O1 Os
Madison, Wis, Jan. 15.-Speaking
at the University Of Wisconsin. Otto
II. Kahn, Of the banking firm Of Kuhn
Loeb & Co., OF New York city, said in
part:
Wherever in this fatefui time true
Americans are gathered together,
their thoughts will turn to a purpose
which is one and the same wherever,
Throughout the world. the language
OF free men is spoken.
1T is the purpose Of a common de-
termination to fight and to bear and
to dare everything, and never to cease
nor rest until the accursed spirit
which has brought upon the world
the unutterable calamity. the DEVILS
visitation, Of this appalling war. Is
destroyed beyond all possibility of
resurrection.
''one element there is in our popu-
lation which does deliberately chal-
lenge our national unity.
The American BoIshcviki.
7 mean the Bolsheviki in our
midst. the preachers OF liberty run
amuck, who would place a visionary
class interest above patriotism and
who in ignorant fanaticism would I
substitute for the tyranny Of autoc-
racy the still more intoIersbl !
tyranny OF mob-rule, as for the time
being they have done in Russia
If it were not for the desertion Of |
Russia the battle against autocracy
would have been won by now. As so 4
often before. liberty has been wound !
ed in the house Of its friends- Lib /
erty in the wild and freakish hands l
OF fanatics has once more. as fire. /
quently in the past, proved the effec- ]
tive helpmate Of autocracy and the /
tWin-brother Of tyranny.
The Gar is Out-Czared.
"Outc5aring the car. its votaries
are filling the prisons with their po-
litical opponents, are suppressing,
savagely and lawlessly. freedom OF 4
and are maintaining the self-consti-
tuted rule Of a minority by the force
Of bsyonets-
The deadliest foe Of democracy Is
not sutocrscy. but liberty frenzied.
Liberty is not foo1-proof. For its
beneficent working It demands self
restraint, a sane and clear recognition
OF the practical and attainable. and Of
the fact that there are laws Of nature
which are beyond our power t.
change.
Liberty Is Not License
Liberty can. does and must limit (
the rights OF the strong; II must in
guard and promote the
well-being of those endowed with I
lesser gifts for the struggle for exis-
tence and success, it must strive in
every way consistent with sane rec
ignition Of realities 10 make life
more worth living 10 those whose
existence is cast in the mould OF the
vast average Of mankind; it must give
political equality. equality before the
. - e ~
ent and worth the door OF opportu-
nifty.
1T fills ne with burning indigna-
lion to see the very foundations Of
Dur majestic and beneficent structure
and GENEROUSLY assailed
by some Of those to whom the great
republic generously gave asylum and
10 whom she opened wide the portals
u her freedom and her opportunities.
Found an Asylum IN America
These people. with many hundreds
II thousands Of their couutrymen,
,ame to our free shores after centu-
lies of oppression and persecution
America gave them everything she
lad TO give
Most Of them have proved them
selves useful and valuable elements
n our many-rcOted population. But
some Of them there are, spiritually
and actually kith and kin Of the Boil
shevikL who have shown themselves
OF the trust Of their fell
ow citizens: ingrateS, disturbers. ig-
lorant OF or disloyal 10 the spirit Of
America, abusers Of her hospitality.
Drunk With Wine OF Freedom.
They have become drunk with the
strong wine OF freedom, some Of these
nen. who until they landed on Ameri-
as coasts had tasted nothing but the
litter water OF tyranny. Drunk, they
resume TO impose their reeling gait
ipcn Americans TO whom freedom has
zen a pure and refreshing fountain
or a century and half.
The time is ripe and over ripe TO
all a halt upon those spreaders OF
utlsndish and pernicious doctrines.
he American is indulge1t 10 a fault
nd slow to wrath. He is now pass
ng through a time of tension and
train His teeth are set and his
erves on edge He sees more closely
pproaching every day the dark val
~ through which his sons and bro
hers must pass and from which too
lany, alas, viii not return.
Time to Call a Halt.
at is an evil time to cross him He
not in the temper to be trifled
nth Let the Bolsheviki IN our midst
e warned in time.
when I speak Of the Bolshevili IN
VI midst as foes of national unity
lean to include those OF American
took who are their allies, comrades
nd foIIoWers-those who put &. mar
DIV class interest and q sloppy inter-
above patriotism, with
HON class hatred and envy have be-
1me q consuming passion. whom Wis
mary obsessions and a false concep-
on OF equality have inflamed to the
pint Of possibility"
We is benefited, the Industry IN
H,E