The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-22
GEORGE ID. HEBRON

President Wilson has personally
appointed Mr.. William Allen White, OF
Emporia, Kan, and the ex-Rev. George
d. Heron of Geneva, Switzerland, to the
highly important diplomatic post of AM
,erican delegates to meet and confer with
the Russian Bolshevists (and other Rus
sian delegations if they decide to Gomez
on Princes Islands, in the Sea OF Marmo-
ra, near Constantiople.
A large part of the civilized world
gravely objects to any conference or ne
gotiation with the Bolsheviki, who have
founded despotism on assassination
robbery and terror. But if they are to
be negotiated with, the delegates repre-
senting this Republic should be men of
the highest character and of the most I'M
questioned Americanism.
William Allen White answers to these
requirements, but the appointment of
George ID. Huron outrages the decent
moral sense of this country, and has been
unsparingly condemned by the American
press without regard to party, the one
exception being brief cablegram to the
New York Evening Post from David
Lawrence, who is supposed to be closer
to President Wilson than any other news
paper correspondent. Mr.. Lawrence says
that Mr.. Herron's appointment .gratifies
the liberals both in Europe and in Amer
lea. If that is so, The Outlook does not
wish to be classified as liberal"
There is no need of going into the de-
tails of George ID. Herron's unsavory
carer. He was Congressional clergy,
lman who was turned out by the church
of which he was pastor and by the college
in which he was professor because he
abandoned his wife and childrenin order
to make a second marriage with an
affinity" who possessed, in addition to
j her charm, of person, the charm of mon
ey. His conduct produced such social
} scorn and contempt in this country that
he was practically ostracized. He is not
even an American in the best sense of the
word, for he has been living the life OF an
expatriate for several years in Switzer-
land. He is an avowed Socialist OF the
most radical type, and has supported by
money gifts and by written and spoken
words the Rand School of Social Science
lin New York City, which has been charg-
ed by the government authorities with
being a nest of sedition.
The American people, with the excep-
ton perhaps of the liberals" to whom
David Lawrence refers, believe that the
family is the fundamental basis OF organ
lied civilization. They vii not tolerate a
man who says, as Mr.. Heron has said,
"The coercive family will pass away with
the coercive economic system. NO
doubt Mr.. Herron's views on the family
will appeal to the Bolshevist leaders, but
it is not the kind of appeal that ought to
be made by the President of the United
States.
There lies before us as this is written
a copy of the Communist Manifesto" by
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Our
copy bears the following imprint, New
York, 1912, Socialist Literature Company
Is Spruce Street" From this manifesto
we quote the following passages:
The bourgeois family will vanish
as matter of course when its
complement vanishes and both will
vanish with the vanishing of capi-
tall
The ,ourgeois claptrap about the
3nmiv md education, about the
ali0wod correlation of parent and
hid, becomes all the more disgust
ing by the action of Modern Indus
" try by which all family ties among
the publications are torn asunder
and their children transformed into