New Britain herald., 1918-07-02
Bolsheyist Propaganda.
(NeW York Tribune)

If we could sec ourselves as the Germans see us it might be discon- certing. We should like to know what they think of the fact that the NUlShcVlki, who delivered Russia to tho Hohenzollerns, are conducting | openly ln this country d propag2nda d'tl'n5l American intervention in huSSla We should like to know what they know about it.
 consider, first, that the collapse of : fNuSSla, procured from within by Ger man propaganda in the guisc of radi- l cal social doctrine, is the greatest , Slngle victory the Germans have : HrhlcVcd-incOmpar moro sinis- ter in it's possibilities than auy ! achievement of arms.
 Consider, secondly, that. while Eamblins desperately for a military "eclSion on the west front, with all the forces that were released from the east by the infamous bargain at 1'rest-Litovsl< the C;ermars pray hour ly to their Gott that conditions in Russia shall rcm9in as they are for only little while longer.
 Then reflect, again, upon the fact that Russian BoIshevists. appoarine suddenly in large and vocjrerouS numbers. are allowed to carry on in thlS country a violent prOpa ganda against American intervention in Rus Sla. They have access to many pa pclS, because American papers are very tolerant. They are continually making mfammatory speeches, in which they represent. as with one voice, that intervention in Russia is demanded by American capitalists That is not true, but since they allego that all the uon-BOlshevist world is corrupt we may be excused for ask ing how and by whom these prOpa- gandiSts them selves are supported? :? They have no visible means of liveIi- hood. They are spending q great deal of money.
 Always in the BolsbeviSt propa- ganda, the purpose with which Amer ica should intervene is misreprescntcd It would not De to fight Bolshevists, as they say, but to reach Germany on the cast--to establish again an East cru front All that is asked is thor ouGhfare.
 Russian BoIshevists we regret to say, are supported in their dangerous propaganda by American Bolshevists. There is, for example, this kind of thing from the Call:
  ists to invade Russia and overthrow the Soviet republic is not dead Every increase of strength to the workers government at Moscow advances the proba bIity Of official recognition by the United States, but it also stlmu- Iates the interventionists to renew their lying about conditions in Rus sia, especially in Asiatic Russia.
 This interVentiOniSt prOpa aganda IS supplied with almost unlimited funds, and is vocal with all the noise that a Vcnal and ignorant press can create.
 Comment of this character not only tends to create feeling against meas urcs which it may be necessary for the Government to take, but if char arterizes those measures beforehand as imperialistic and immoral.
 The EOlSheyilli, whether they mean to or not, are playing Germany game in America. Their propaganda might is well emanate directly from the Imperial German Foreign Office. It IS conducted systematically, as II under direction. The Government has had occasion to wonder at the facility with which professional BolsheviSts here and in Russia exchange informal ton. There is evidently d working nrganizatiOn. It is more ethclent than innocent I9olShevism ought to be- What ara its resources and mo- tivcS? If is time to know