The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-29
RED RULES RESULTS

gentle reader, if you should see the following dispatch from New York city some day in the near future;
 New York, etc.-In the streets tragic and terrifying scenes are enact ed A horse falls exhausted with hun ger and is immediately attacked by a score of famished dogs, who begin tearing it. Red Guards with loaded revolvers keep off the crowd which soon assemblies, watching the horrible sight with ferocious looks of envy But sometimes the guards do not ar rive in time and then men and women cast themselves upon the carcasses slashing with their knives and fight ing with the snarlmg dogs for the bleeding strips of. flesh, which they devour on the spot, not having sui ficient will power left to carry their booty home to cook.
 "Such is the communist paradise which the Bolshevik promised their miserable dupes. Fear and famine have engendered a veritable epidemic of insanity.
 'The asylums are overcrowded and for the last two months have been un- able to accept new patients. Lunatics and maniacs of all kinds stalk raving through the streets. The prisons are full of madmen. In the maternity hospitals the death rate is incredit- ably high. According to the manag- ing physician of one of these estab- lishments 90 per cent of the mothers die after childbirth, and infant mOr- tality is scarcely lower.
 Funerals, like everything else, are 'nationalized,' that is to say, the dead are carried away in carts and dumped into vast common grave at the cost of the state. No religious ceremony is performed, and no crosses may be erected over this gruesome pit"
 That is the story told of conditions in Moscow by Russian refugees who have arrived in Switzerland. It is a baleful, soul-chilling story of city under a socialistic regime.
 You say that nothing of the kind can occur in the United States be- cause the American people are experi- enced in self-government, understand the real meaning of liberty and are devoted to democracy as distinguished from socialism. Let us hope that you are right Indeed, we believe that you are, but let us all keep our eyes fixed constantly on that old maxi mum: Vigilance is the price of lib- erty.'
 Solicitor Lamar of the postoffice de- partment has filed with the propa- ganda comittee of the senate a memo randum in which he states that mail matter seized since the signing of the armistice reveals a movement to per feet an amalgamation" of anarchists, radical socialists and others which shall have for it's object the overthrow of the American government through bloody revolution" The memOr- andum was hardly necessary for in telligent observers of conditions. The I. w. w. organization has been preach ing that doctrine "for twenty years" as Raymond Robins assured us in his testimony before the senate commit tee the other day.
 MT. Robins is himself radical. He was head of the Red Cross in Russia and became the friend and confident of Lenine and Trotzky. He says with mildness characteristic of high brows" that he thinks Bolshevism is unsuited to the United States, but he takes care to testify that the Bolshe- wiki are not as bad as they have been painted-by Ambassador Francis, for example. The ambassador did not hesitate to declare that Lenine and Trotzky were and are agents of the German government, that they still are serving the Germans while trying to create worldwide revolution.
 Men of the, Raymond Robins type do incalculable harm. Instead of ac quainting their countrymen with the real conditions resulting from radical ism they seek to excuse and extenu ate. The picture they draw is filled with high lights and shadows which conceal the wretchedness, horror and bestiality of regime founded on theory which they would like to set work. Their tenderness for the theory ) induces them to become apologists for the fanatics and zealots who tr, to put the theory into effect.
 While human beings fight like wolve. among themselves and with dogs II the streets of Moscow over the torn , bleeding carcasses of horses, the Ray