Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-31
america Safe From BolShepism

Observer. And in the New York
Times we read:
In spite of the researches of the
Post-otfice Department., we find it
difficult to believe that this general
overturn is any nearer now than it
was thirty years ago.
Revolutionary germs are like
tuberculosis germs-they are always
present in the system, but they do
no damage until some condition "a
rises which opens the way for their
ravages. Nobody who contrasts the
present material and moral situa-
ton of America with that of Russia
is likely to be very badly scared by
this plot which the Post-office De-
partment has brought TO light"
Moreover, as the San Francisco
Bulletin reminds us, genuine Ameri-
can labor has no use whatever for
Bolsheyism, or for political parties
organized to promote it, and this
fact has been recently emphasized
by labor journals all over the
country" OF the advocates of Boil
shevism the San Francisco Labor
| Clarion says:
These blusterers have never
gained control of anything anywhere
without wrecking it. They are
| purely destructionists. Their ranks
are filled with individuals who never
made success at anything, who
have failed in everything, who are
the rankest kind of incompetents.
The fools have had their fling in
Seattle and their months of schem-
ing have brought the labor move
ment in that great city to the verge
of ruin"
| That Russian Bolshevism at first
1 l., n L..
of disgust in a British labor leader
is evidenced by the following dis
patch from John Ward, a labor
member of the British Parliament,
who is now serving with his regi-
ment in Siberia:
For the love of Allah, never more
talk of the glories of revolution--I
am in it here. Friend strikes down
him he thinks his foe and finds the
dead man his brother. Princes,
peasants, plutocrats, workmen, rich
| and poor, go down together in one
welter of blood and dirt.
THE Bolshevik thinks nothing of
standing five hundred social revo-
lutionists against the wall and shoot
ing them down before breakfast be-
cause of some small, petty difference
| of opinion as to whether the rail-
ways should be national or COM
muna1. How the, gods must cry with
rage that men can be SO mad. How
ever any of our leaders failed to
grasp the Bolshevik creed of blood
and presumed to condone the hor-
rors committed by this mob of
fanatical maniacs I can not imagine.
Rather pray Heaven defend our old
country from such a calamity
But while agreeing that America
is not a fertile field for Bolshevism
the Richmond Times-Dispatch re-
marks that "the American people
will do we'll to be warned of the
significance of these revelations" !"
and the New York Evening Post
thinks that the evidence submitted
by Mr.. Lamar "can not be whistled
down the wind" For, says The
Post
There is, unquestionably, an ele-
ment of mainly foreign-born revo-
lutionary agitation in this country
which may prove dangerous and
have to be dealt with. Italians of
the Left and Russians and Spaniards
bring their formulas of social up
heaval and anarchy with them and
take to printing them in the United
States. Whether they are sincere
in their fanatic preachments does
not greatly matter, so far as the
effect is concerned. They are sadly
ignorant of this country; wholly un-
acquainted with the main currents
of the public opinion which, as
Bryce said, is the real ruler of
America. They do not know the
slow processes by which needed re-
forms are achieved in the United
States. Because they feel them
selves in hopeless minority among
people whom they do not under
/ stand, they are led to rail at 'politi-
cal Government to give UP faith in
democratic methods of voting and
!, iegislating, and to advocate jblindly