The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-07-10
(Harvey's Weekly

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The investigation Of the activities
of the Russian bolshevists in New
York has been followed with a similar
examination of the establishments OF
certain domestic bolshevist organiza-
tions, with equally interesting results.
The places visited by officers Of the
law were the Rand school of social
science, the l. w. w. headquarters,
and the office of the left wing social
lists.
1t was found that these places were
distributing, to those who were judg-
ed to be most susceptible to the in
fluences of such stuff prints ranging
from handbills to bound volumes adj
vocating in the most direct manner
such things as:
Reputation of all national debts.
Confiscation of all banks.
Confiscation of railroads and other
corporations, without compensation?
Abolition of marriage and substitu-
ton therefor of 'free sex mating"
Abolition of compulsory education.
Whole hearted support Of the boil
shevists of Russia and the spartacans
Of Germany.
These ends, it was frankly stated,
were not to be attained without blood
she'd, and "the proletariat" were urged
to prepare to seek them through a
violent revolution. The persons in
charge Of the establishments, and
those engaged in the active dissemin-
alton of the propaganda, professed to
regard the raid upon their headquar-
tiers as a revolving outrage, but as
something which would certainly re-
act strongly against the authors of it
and would add thousands of new sup
porters to "the cause"
This last-quoted opinion of the rev.
dictionary conspirators we might we'll
ignore were it not that it seems to be
shared by others who profess to be
not at all in sympathy with the revo-
lutionists, but who fear bad results
from anything that looks like repres-
sion, and think that the best way of
treating a disease is to let it runs its
course.
From this we most emphatically dis
sent We are for the utmost freedom
of thought, of speech, Of publication,
within the limits Of loyalty to the con-
stitution and obedience to the laws.
There is room in the American system
for latitude of political beliefs and
doctrines broader than in any other
land The fundamental law of the re-
public provides for it's own amend
ment, modification, alteration, to al
most any conceivable extent. In tok-
en- of the readiness with which such
changes can be made, note the amend
ments which have been adopted in the
last few years, including the imposi-
ton of nation wide prohibition.
But all this liberality makes all the
more odious any proposal to destroy
our system Of government or to make
any change whatever in 1t by violence
or by any extra constitutional means.
That is the damnation of these Amer
lean bolshevists, and that is what rad
icaly differentiates suppression of
their deviltries from any interference
with legitimate freedom of speech or
Of teaching. These people are teach
ing and suggesting the breaking of
he law. the commission Of violence,
he denial Of those common principles !
If morality upon which civilized So
'iety must rest. Their teachings are
lirect indictments to crime and toI
reason. We long ago got away from
he notion that assassination Is to be
egarded and condoned as q mere "po-
itical offense." It is high time for US
o realize that the Indictment to theft,
o violence, to the breaking of the law,