Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-17
CASH KILLS. BOLSHENISM
AS CARBOLlC KILLS A COOTIE
The Pest Will Die in Americs, for Disease
Bscilli Cannot Live on q
Silver Dollar

| The Fest VIII Die IN Americs, Tor Disease
BsciIG Cannot Live on
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uALF y DOZEN small boys armed with
- tin cans filled with dried peas can
make "a deafening noise and attract a great
deal OF attention TO themselves.
Likewise a small group OF dscontented
radicals can create the impression I'm the
mind OF the easily excited that dissatis
faction is general and tho established order
Is i'm danger
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be infected with the poison germ which
these people are trying TO propagate But
the physicians tell us that a disease germ
must have "a hospitable environment before
IL can develop. There arc disease germs In
every healthy man. but they cannot propa.
gate until the normal resisting powers Of
the man are weakened
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sary for its spread do not exist in the
United States There is freedom OF oppor.
her for nj ,rba
man accumulates a few dollars he has the
antidote TO the sort of social poison that
is running Russia. The germ Of Bolshe
vsm shrvels up and dies as soon as It
comes into contact with u fat pay envelope
on saturday night. IL cannot stand the
sight % Liberty Bond and IA savings
bank account kills IL as quickly as carbolic
acid kills cootic.
But IL we attempt 10 s,anp out Bolsbe-
yism or ary other imported social disease
gor,n nv irving 10 confine n in close quar-.
,ers where the poor congregate we shall
produce conditions favorable 10 it's spread.
The best way to treat it is to force 1t into
the open and let the pure air of reason
blow about 1t. Let the men talk as much
as they will. II they preach anarchy. then
hold them responsible for what they do
but for the sake Of all that Americans hold
dear. do not prevent any one from easing
his mind if he feels burdened with any.
thing. The rest of US are healthy enough
TO escape contamination.
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1908 uber Mr. Rrv.n vas annea,ir, ,o
all the discontented 70 rally TO his standard
and was promising them tina, thew could
nav their debts for ffty cents On the dollar.
! be rallied IA hts summon, all the Greenback.
ers and ronuIists and then polled fouer
than , million votes moro than vcro cas-,
| for Grover Cleveland four years earlier
ubiIo MCKINLEY polled about two million
VOTES more u,an were cast for BENJAMIN
Harrison in the last Cleveland camps,pn
| to muster only paltry 3b,ooo supporters
| for their candidate.
There are only about half a million So
! cialists in the whole country who go to
| the polls in a presidential election, out of a
total voting electorate Of nearly twenty
millions at the present time. About 800.
! 600 Socialist votes were polled in 1912, 1t
is true, but that was tbe year when Colonel
Roosevelt was running against Mr. Taft
and Mr.. Wilson. Hundreds OF thousands
OF men. dsgusted with the conditions IN
| the two great parties voted for Debs then
not because they we're Socialists, but be
cause they wanted TO register protest
against the political muddle OF that year.
And n few radicals, who call themselves
Socialists. as We all know, are the Bolshe.
visits Of America. We all know, too, that
tbov are obiecting TO abuses TO which the
rest Of ms object also. Those abuses will
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