The Connecticut labor press., 1919-10-18

1 withdraw from their ministry, as God i is my witness and as I believe that
 God will judge between me and them that assail me, I will withdraw with nothing but friendship and good will and affection for every member of my congregation, whether 1 cont...ue to serve 1t or whether the hour has come | tor my withdrawal
 There is one charge that 1 will not de1gn to anSWer-the charge that some person, especially such as c1othe them selves in the noble garb of anonymity, have made against me-that 1 am a BolShevist or in favor of Bolshevism. It IS not my habit to conceal my views ; else l would not have done the impru- dent thing of branding Garyism as aga1n brand 1t today as the most pro life breeder of revolutionary and Bo1- shev1st sentiment i'll the land That am not a BOlshevist is clear to every one, including those some of whom are prepared to destroy any man if he be a Jew.
 Let no one imagine that I am un- aware of or blind to the abuses which obtain within the ranks of organized labor. 1 know not little but much about the blacknai1ing and corruption and thlevery which are responsible for some of the almost inevitable i'll will felt against labor organizations by employ CTS of labor. I know these things and abhor them.
 "I venture to predict that there will be no betterment of conditions with re- spect to labor organization and leader ship and that the same practices and abuses that have for decades disfgured 1t will continue to obtain as long as labor organization remains under sus- picion and under fire, as long as it is outlaWed and semi-Outlawed, as long as 1t fails to have its normal and 1egiti- mate place within our industrial scheme. The one course to pursue toward labor unions IS not to attempt to outlaw and to crush them, but to regulate them, to give them legal sanction, to place upon them legal responsibility whether they will or not.
 Tt is noisome to my soul to find rep resentatives of the Roman and Protes- tant churches in the steel and iron dis trict, with some brave and noble excep- lions, doing everything that they can III order to Wean the workers from their union allegiance and to win them back to position of unrevolting acquiescence in anything which the Steel Corpora tion may devise.
 "Bo1shevism is not democracy at all. It purports to be a benevolent de mocracy, but in practice it is ma1efl- cent despotism; it is despotism without the courage of its unfaith. It is the un- doing of democracy in demoCracy's name; it is the subversion of all that for which democratic people ought to strive.
 q have stood against Bo1shebism from the beginning as 1 stand uncom- promisingly against it now. l gave up extraordinary opportunities for war ser vice abroad, because 1 was led to feel by leaders of the administration that it was my duty to remain at home and to oppose with all strength the tides of Bo1shevism. 1 am as una1terab1y opposed to Bo1shevism as 1 was to Prussianism Both are unspeakable evils; the one was fought and over come; the other is being fought and must be overcome.
 America has not room and no quar- ter and no tolerance for Bolshevism. It may make fairer promises and speak a more gracious tongue than Hohen- zollerism, but in essence it is at one with 1t. It denies and abrogates the fundamental freedom of men. To me Lenine and Trotzky are no less odious than czar or kaiser. A czar is into1er- able not because he is more or less cruel but because he is ear. The Le- nine-Trotzky regime spells ruthless de- spotsim; therefore to me 1t is 1oath- some and into1erab1e"