Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
ROUND UP THE SPENOERS
OF LENINE'S RIOT FUND!
Today's News From Geneva Shows That
We Should Deport About Two Ship
loads Of "Borers From Within"

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We Should oeport About Two Ship.
loads Of "eorers From Within"
7 TITLE by little, as high priests and
IL emissarics Of bolsheyism are dragged
and kicked out into the light it is becom-
ing possible to see what their varOusly
defined cult actually is at bottom.
1t is the underworld trying TO drag
society down to its own level. 1t Is the
lazy. the immoral. the sensual and the
idle and their hatred for law and orderly
Justice It is the gutter, the unaspiring
slum and the Jail reaching out for the
throat Of civilization.
The true Bolshevists can go only one
step further. They can demand to have
the insane asylums emptied into Wash
ington, the British houses Of Parliament
and the French Chamber of Deputies.
Then the Red theory will have reached
it's logical elimination
Today's correspondence Of Mr.. Kos
poth. the representative Of this news
paper in Geneva, shows bow utterly mad
the thing is in Europe and how trag-
ically humorous it must appear from The
American point Of view. 1t is possible
now to understand how thoroughly the
normally intelligent labor leaders in the
United States have been duped in recent
months. Fitzpatrick was child in the
hands Of Foster Lewis, sincerely con-
cerned about the welfare Of the soft-coal
miners, became the unconscious instru-
ment Of organized fanaticism as it is ad-
ministered at Moscow. Even the austere
railroad brotherhoods have been used
without their knowledge in a scheme Of
radical mancuvernG rs crazy and as
fruitless as a nightmare.
Europe is in no mood for laughter If
it We're, if hardship had not made 4
weary sort of pessimism too general in
the Old World, bolshevism would have
beer laughed out Of existence long before
this. What must strike any reasonable
mind as odd is the futters Of anxiety,
the tragic whispers, the air Of deep con-
cern that is apparent among unimagna-
tive and uniformed people here when
ever stray pervert fires shot o. causes
a stir in organized labor in the name Of
bolsheyism or the !. W. ".
Yesterday "the Reds had planned to
seize Hog Island Hog Island normally
would seem the last place in the world
for Red. There is some very hard and
real work still TO be done there. And
what would the police have been doing
meanwhile? What would the invisible
Reds do with the ships after they got
them? Would they seize the railroads
and the factories and the farms and the
banks to complete a system without
which Hog Island would be heavy asset
and an intolerabie bore? That would be
a pretty big undertaking Tor men who
can't even win strike or get into 4
street fight without being maulcd by the
first casual citizens who happen along.
1t is possible to perceive the futility Of
extreme political radicalism in the
United States without ignoring the
shrewd and malignant Intelligence re-
sponsible for plans that have failed at
every turn, here and abroad. 1t is easy
to believe that Lenine and his associates
formulated elaborate plans to create gen.
eral unrest and disillusonmeut in the
United States.
They had here I great many helpers
quite as unconscious Of the role they
were playing as some labor leaders have
been. more recently. They had weak
| lings in politics, tinhorns in public office.
high-stepping capitalists in the imperial
mood, belligerent labor men without
decent sense of their esponsibilities-a
of them serving TO hinder the processes
which make for peace and order and gen
cral happiness and conLentment and to
slowly destroy the hope and faith Of mil
lions.
The propagandists of Moscow and
their representatives in the United States
could bank heavily, too, on the easy
going good nature of Americans them
selves, who are not always at pains to
see that the splendor and dignity and
efficiency of their institutions are as
surcd by intelligent public supervision
of political and governmental affairs.
If Lenino is spending great sums for
propaganda in the United States he is
sending his money after the kaisers.
! Somebody in the United States got $780,
! 900 from the German emperor for propa-
| ganda purposes. We know what Will
/ helm got in return. But it is not pleas
ant 10 know that Leninc and his friends
/ have been able to view the weak places
! in our social and political life more
critically and shrewdly than we our
selves are accustomed to view them
They waited for the time when the public