The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-06-21
RED MENACE
IN ENGLAND
The Revolutionists Are En-
deavoring to Get Together
And Are Biding Time
E1EMENTs GET TOGETHER
ELEMENTS GET TOGETHER
fBv the Associated Press.)

Of current reports of the growth OIL
the revolutionary movements In
England, A. M Drysdale, an expert
enced London Journalist and student
of sociological questions, has been
making a series of inquiries, with
the results summed up as follows:
Though 1 am of the opinion that
the number of revclutionaries in
Great Britain has been grossly and
dangerously exaggerated, | am con-
vinced their number is sufflclent TO
be a menace, if conditions give them
their opportunity. The political rev.
olutionary is spearpoint. The shaft
of the spear, without which the point
cannot wound, is economic d1scon-
tent of the multitude. If you keep
point and shaft apart there can be
no revolution.
There are comparatively feW
British revolutionaries, and they are
well known, stage army assemb-
ling in the same places week after
week. Their number has been swell
scientious objectors, not all of whom
of course, nor even a majority, are
revolutionaries jn the general sense,
though their resistance to the act of
Parliament was the conduct of revoI-
utionaries.
"But beyond the number, great
or small, of British reyolutionaries,
there are in this country many non
British revolutionaries- Sinn
Feinefs, East Indians, Egyptians,
Russians 1 don't mean of course that
the advocates of a republic in Ire
land or elsewhere are necessarily
revolutionaries. The men whom
have in mind place force, as dis
tinguished from parliamentary
| methods in the forefront of their
propaganda and undoubtedly are rev
| oluntionaries. They even include sus-
| pected terrorists.
"It is conceivable that these men
| might promote their several causes
| in Ireland, India, Egypt and Russia
| by Joint or even separate violence
| here. Since the deportation of So
| many undesirab1es from the Rus
sian colony in London a few weeks
| ago, the remaining Russian revo1-
| utionaries have taken little or no
part in revolutionary propaganda
in Great Britain. But this preven-
tive weapon of deportation cannot
be used against Irishmen, Indians
| or other British subjects, and De-
fense of the Realm acts are already
almost obsolete.
Our revolutionaries make no Sc
cret of their intention at favorable
conjuncture to seize the Government
| offices and food depots and to in
stitute what they speak of as a die
tatorship of the pre!etariat. They
are in alliance with the Industrial
Workers of the World, who, on their
part, are openly allied with the
| russian Soviet Government and the
German Spartacides. They are now
| engineering general strike against
the Peace Treaty and are urging the
| Labor Party to declare at once that
! the peace terms will be repudiated
on behalf of Great Britain by the
1lrst British Labor Government.
''Their influence was manifested
in crude form at the time of the no.
lice revolt in provocative talk about
tanks and machine guns which the
Government were alleged to have as
sembled in order to terrify the po-
lice, and in the allegation that the
authorities were careless of the spill
ing OF little blood They made
great efforts to bring about a gen.
eral mutiny of the British Army on
May 11th., on the pretense that all
Derby enlisted soldiers ceased on
that date to be soldiers. AS a matte,
OF fact, there were at that time
and there have been since. distur.
Dances in the army in every part
OF the world, which, however, can
De traced to reasonable grievances
originating in official stupidity a,
Ihome w
/ OF these and all other grievances
the revolutionaries are ever ON the