The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-18
Ban on Red Immigrants


The overwhelming majority of 284 to l, which
The house gave to the bill extending for one year
wartime passport restrictions so as to keep radi-
Gals and undesirable aliens out of the United
States, is representative Of the temper of the
American people.
They are satiated with the doctrines of these
misguided people and angry at their plots to
overthrow our government and Kill our pubic OF
ficials. They believe that we have enough Reds
in this country now without opening our ports
wide to the bolshevists who are ready to leave
Europe as soon as they can obtain unrestricted
entrance into America.
Ambassador Davis at London and the Amerl-
can consuls at Archangel, the Hague, Amster-
dam and other European ports reported some
time ago preparations of "undeSlrables' to enter
America as soon as the passport restrictions were
removed. Congressional action has checkmated
the influx.
Many of our alien workers, who do not speak
or read English, have been corrupted by the
pamphlets and newspapers, printed in foreign
languages, and circulated by the bolshevists
within our confines. We cannot incur the
hazard Of an increased immigration of men and
women of this ilk to encourage and further the
work of their associates in this country.
We have underestimated the secret workings
f the I. w. w. and boshevist propaganda in this
untry, looking upon it as an idle vagary Of a
= diseased minds. Revelations in Gary and
s.Swhere have brought us to a sober valuation
of the extent and the viruence of the menace.
We are beginning to see that anti-Amercan pro-
paganda, printed in forty of fifty languages, and
intended to nflame the minds of our foreign
workers, is undermining faith in the integrity
Of our government and inevitably will lead to dire
consequences.
If the wartime passport restrictions had been
removed, the bolshevist agitators would have re-
ceved re-inforcements from alien agtators in
Europe intensifying our problem and increasing
1.-THE potential menace to our institutions.
Even organized labor, which under the leader
ship of men like Gompers, has put up a solid and
united front against radicalism and its sinister
effects, is menaced by the bolshevist movement.
Bc'shevist leaders know if they can secretly
poison the minds Of the members of the American
Federation of Labor, it will not be long before
they obtain executive control of its organi-
Zat ION.
Farsghted labor leaders appreciate the sin
lister moves the |. w. W. leaders and bolshevist
agit ators are making to GUST them from office
The rank and file of organized labor is waking ur
to the danger. The exposures of the bolshevists
in northern Indiana proves only too plainly that
they were planning to attack the very funda
mental principles of organized labor and to wres
3rom il tho victories gained in many a hare
struggle.
What will organized labor have if bolshe
visit regime wins the day? Assuredy nothing
but the sad memory of knowing that the very
principles for which it fought valantly and Ions
were sna.tched from it in the very hour Of sue
cess
BoIshe1ism is foe Of the whole social state
All of us involved in the fate of the move
:nent. Nome OF us can escape the paramount
duty of stamping it out effectively and quickly
Developed in a foreign country. foStered here
}0ainlv by alien naIcontents and agitators de
.igned to Substitute chaos and ruin for order an(
law, boshevisn offers nothing that can appeal t
an American citizen.
We have an inherent love for law and for tn
adjustment of our difficulties through confer
cnces and orderly processes. We believe that NJ