Evening star., 1919-03-12
ANTERED MEASURE
TO Be ADVOCATED
Senate's Subcommittee on
Propaganda to Urge Bill
With Teeth"
NEEDED IN PEACE TIMES

Legislation to put down firmly all
propaganda urging the overthrow of
the government of the United States,
such as that INDUCED in by T. w. W.,
anarchists and radical socialists. as
shown by their publications of recent
date, viii be strongly urged upon Con-
gress by the Senate judiciary commit
tee, which has been investigating
propaganda in this country, it was in.
dieated today.
While the committee has not yet
drafted a report members expressed
the view that steps must be taken to
curb such propaganda against the
United States government in peace
times as well as in war times.
Literature Called "Vicious."
Senator Sterling of South Dakota, .
member of the committee, pointed out
that since the signing of the armi-
stice in November the radical propa-
ganda, proposing the overthrow Of
the federal government and the es-
tabiishment of a bolshevik govern
ment in this country, had grown to
amazing proportions. Much of the
literature of the i. w w and other
radical organizations has been placed
in the record of the investigation,
and Senator Sterling declared 1t TO
be vicious" He said that while the
espionage act provided vehicle by
which the sponsors of this propa-
ganda may be prosecuted during the
war and until peace is proclaimed.
further legislation is necessary to
curb such propaganda after peace
comes.
Senator Overman of North Carolina,
chairman of the subcommittee, said
that undoubtedly a bill with teeth
in 1t would be introduced when Con-
gress meets and action upon 1t asked
without delay.
The senator's are fully aroused over
the mass of evidence presented. much
of it contained in a report of Solicitor
Lamar Of the Post Office Department
in the United States against the gov
ernment by the I. w. w. and others.
Barred Only by Post Once.
The Post Office Department is au-
thorized to exclude such propaganda
from the mails. Senator Overnan
PothtCa OAhs b4l t2tCiC 10 lio 40 ~ "
stop its circulation through othsr
means. ss'.s h;se6
He suggested that one of the steps
which should be taken to stamp out
this revolutionary propaganda was to
stop the publication Of some 500 for
efgn language newspapers in this
ward step would be taken toward
"undiluted Americanisin."
Senator Sterling today received
from Nine. Catherine ,Breskovsky.
the grandmother of the Russian
Senate committee, letter charging
that Raymond Robins of Chicago had
given the committee much misin-
formation with regard to the treat
ment of the Czechoslovaks by the boil
shevists in Russia. She denounced
Mr. Robins stories about atrocities
committed by the Czechoslovaks in
Russia, and declared that they were
brave men and had treated the people
Charges Treachery.
She said that the bolshevists, after
first agreeing to give the Czechoslo-
wax army a safe conduct through
Russia, turned on them and attempt
ed to disarm them.
Count Mirbach, the kaiser's ambas-
sador. she said, who ruled all the boil
shevist provinces, "and whose obedi-
ent servants were Lenin and Trot-
sky" was in power in Moscow at the
time, she said.
She described the joy of the people
at Tumen and in other parts of Rus
sia at the arrival of the CzechosIovaks
and their ousting of the bolshevists
Tumen, she said. was full of bolshe-
wiki when We enetered it. These bfi-
gands were turning the people mad
with despair and fear of their vio-
lence and robbery, taking from every
family everything possible and emp
tying all the shops and stores to send
the goods to Ekaterinburg.
The bolshevist party has opened its
ranks" Nine. Breshovsky continued.
mot only to criminals, but also to
many psychoIogically abnormal al
most inhuman elements"