Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
RADICALS CONSPLRED AGAINST u. S.

further instrument of oppression
against the proletariat. They have
deafehed their ears to the cries of
anguish that rose to them from the
1eeps of humanity. 4
Shut up in their so called work
rooms. they have flooded the world
with books containing nothing but
lamentations about their own hard
fate apd descriptions of their i'm
aginarS sufferings. When they
degued TO descend among us, it was
not to listen to our complaints or to
suffer with us, but only to discover
new sensations for their art We
despise all this, and we call this kind
of work idleness, glorified idlcness.
The artist who can relish his sue
culent beefsteak Without choking at
the thought that millions of men are
dying of hunger il nothing but vile
merchant. If there is anything I
detest in the working classes, it is not
the Gistrust and disdain they profess
for this variety of intellectual reptiles,
but rather their silly credulity and
enthusiasm for the empty phrases Of
rascally philosophers and mercenary
men of letters who try to play the
part Of social rcformcrs.
Warning to Intellectuals
The pure spirit of bolshevism has
been rarely expressed with so much
sincerity as in this epistle. which should
certainly damp the political optimism
of the French writer and serve as n
warning to the far more numerous clique
Of intellectuals In America and England
who are coquetting with BoIshevik the.
ories and who imagine they would enjoy
favored position under Boishevik rule.
II stands to reason that the pl0tters
OF Bolshevik revolution. whose knowi.
edge Of American politics Is personal
and deep. are also seeking, In various
tortuous ways. to exploit the present
political situation in America and the
imminence Of a presidential campaign to
further their ends.
In this. as in most of their foreign
policy the soviet rulers are following
German imperial methods: and the ut
ter failure of the Germans to poison
American political life justifics the OK
pectation that they will be equally un
successful. 1t is SO self evident to the
observer in Europe that American pol
iticians or parties who truckled in any
way to bolshevism would be pursuing
a suicidal and reasonable policy that it
seems needless to insist on this particu
lar danger.
eff new sect have not two proper
ties" says Bacon in one Of his essays,
rfear it not. for it will not spread. The
one is. the supplanting or the opposing
of authority established. for nothing is
more popular than that. The other is.
the giving licenses to pleasures and n
voluptuous life" This profound re
mark explains exactly why bolshevism is
so dangerous and has spread so rapidly.
1t fulfills both requirements absolutely
Revolutionary Marxism." as LAID
down in German books. may be so com
plicated and obscure a theory as to be
wilder and defeat the most assiduou'
student. but to the misled masses il
presents itself as very simple doctrine
indeed. and one remarkably easy to uu
derstand. consisting in the welcome an
nouncement that the time has come tc
abolish authority and to enjoy all thu
pleasures of life without working.
Reds Plan Fight to Death
This deadly virus the Bolshevik die
tators have infused into their victims
among the workers all over the world
and. as Lenine himself recently pre-
dicted, it will continue its terrible raw
ages even though soviet rule in Russif
fall at last. To be sure, Lenine's over
throw, which seems possible today fol
the first time since his advent to power
will, in the end. prove a mortal blow
to Bolshevik agitation all over thu
world and lead to gradual calming
of the destructive waves that originated
in the revolutionary storm center a
Moscow. But the death OF the Bolshe
vik monster cannot fail to be accom-
panied by violent and prolonged convul'
sions.
Wben enine's situation becomes alb