The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-28
FRIDAY, MARCH 2S, 1919
BOLSHEVlSM IN AMERICA

To the loyal American citizen one of the greatest surprises furnished by the war was the considerable amount of disloyalty among our foreign-born citizens, especially those formerly owing allegiance to some autocrat1c ruler or government of continental Europe In our snug self-satisfaction it came as a shock to find that these foreign born citizens should not be even more eager to support the gov ernment of free America than those who as native-born citizens took the freedom and equality of our govern ment as a matter of course.
 In Germany, on the other hand. sur prise was manifested that the amount of disaffection in America was so neg ligible. The enemy had counted on disloyalty to government which was, as reported in German newspapers, corrupt to the core, and in which graft and robbery of the government were rampant-an idea gained from reading a certain class of American publica- tions.
 Recently Philadelphia judge, John M. Patterson of the Philadelphia court of common pleas, said in a public ad- dress that Bolshevism in this country was encouraged by "a flippant atti- tude" toward law and those placed i1r authority, and he added: 'o'
 The Bolshevik movement has
 found root here because thought
 less remarks are made about men
 we have selected or appointed to
 public office. If these people don't
 like the President of the JJnited
 States, or if they can not show
 hlm the respect to which his posi-
 uon entities him, let them move
 on. If those who came here be-
 cause they could not tolerate con-
 dltlons Ill their own country find
 that our ways are not to their
 
 they came. Our public officials
 should be respected until they
 prove corrupt, and then there is a
 lawful way of removing them"
 heVoiutlonary and anarchistic doc trlnes Ill this country have received thelr greatest impetus in this country Tn those, radical newspapers, usually printed in foreign languages, which appeal to the "class" prejudices of the working people. But these have been greatly encouraged by the atti. aude Of other publications which in. fdulge in extravagant and reckless statement to bolster up arguments for extreme political views. Thus the 1orelgn-born laborer, whose reading is not usually general, but generally con- med to a so-called Tabor" paper or cheap sensational city daily which caters to the class spirit, receives but warped and distorted view of Ameri- can politics, and that he is led to be- heVe that government and capitalist business and production are all in conspiracy to rob him, is not to be won- dered at. II ever serious economic disturb. ance should threaten, to disrupt the government of the United States. the fallacious preachings of the radical newspapers will be largely responsible But greater degree of responsibility will rest upon those newspapers and periodicals which, supposedly con- ducted by patriotic citizens, give voice to every islander against those in au- thority,, giving credence to every whisper of alleged graft and crooked ness, and creating the impression that federal, state and municipal govern ments are honeycombed with rotten- ness and corruption. And this respon- slbllity will be shared by those poli- ticfans who, for political advantage. 1mpugn the motives and distort the actions of their opponents, helping to bolster the impression that "aIl is graft" The ignorant or half-educated are not always able to sift the chaff from the wheat in these effusions, and