Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-25

fired upon and the king is wounded
In Switzerland there is discovered
a hotbed of intrigue. Attempts are
made to corrupt that self-respectins
people by the circulation of lnflam-
matory literature, by personal can
vassing, by the lavish use Of money
by threats and by diplomatic ultima
tums from Petrograd. With great
difficulty Switzerland escapes the
net, but not without alarming and
insistent demands for the revision
of the Swiss constitution. There
are outbreaks in Portugal-preced-
ing, but not connected with the at
tempted royalist counter-revolution,
The Scandinavian kings are clinging
desperately to their tottering
thrones. The soviet government
maintains an envoy at Stockholm,
apparently abundantly supplied with
money and everything else he needs
for his task of regenerating Sweden.
Red-hagged bolshevik propagan-
da ships actually anchor in Copen-
hagen harbor. In Norway there are
practically no moderate socialists.
Bolshevism dominates the. official
socialist party and sits supreme in
the socialist headquarters the
bolsheviki, of course, demanded
Haakon's overthrow, and of course
also the formation of soldiers and
workmen's councils, which would
hold all power. But the fact that
all Norwegian socialists are boil
shevik frightened all Norwegians
who are not socialists, and as a re-
suit they turned out solldiy at the
autumn general election and voted
for the conservatives"
There can be no doubt whatever
that the recent outbreak of most
menacing strikes in London and
elsewhere in England was stimu-
lated, if not actually caused, by the
active agents of the boishevists,
who, as was we'll known, had been
circulating among the workers and
spreading their pernicious doctrines.
And in Ireland, to add to the DIS
fractions of that unhappy people,
secret, underground, but very active
propaganda of Russian revolution
ism is at work. 1t is described by
correspondent as "a case of crime
camouhaged as politics. 1t is
case of crime seeking chance to
Law foundations for its work by TAX
ing advantage of democracy's tradi-
tional passion for liberty And in
France, the other day, if the COW
ardly hand which aimed blow at
the life of the venerated Clemenceau
was not guided from Russia, at least
its bastard act was prompted by a
bo,shevist heart.
"What Are the Limits?"
Who shall set limits to the ambi-
tions of such men as Lenine and
Trotsky? A dispatch from London
advises that: That Russian bolshe-
vik government for long time has
been organizing an extensive propa-
ganda for revolutions in China. In
dia and Persia, and is now ready, as
soon as the opportunity offers, to
send agents with large sums of
money to stir up trouble through
out Asia" Does all this seem very
remote from sane and 1ibertyloving
America? Well, let us bring the
tableau little nearer home.
In the middle of January, general
strikes, accompanied by rioting, or
ganized attacks on churches, con-
vents, hotels, and public buildings,
broke out in Buenos Aires. The dis
order was suppressed, the military
and police forces being aided, so we
read, by several hundred student
volunteers, machine gun company,
and patrols of civilian guards with
rifles and drawn revolvers." But
about 300 persons lost their lives,
and not less than 5000 were injured,
of whom 800 received treatment in
the hospitals.
1t was purely and simply bolshe-
visit uprising. There was an elabor-
ate plan to overthrow the existing
governments in both Argentina and
Uruguay, and to set up soviet gov
ernfnents in both countries. So sure
were the consprators of their sue
cess that they had already selected |
the chief officials for their new
states. And these men, by the way,
were among those put under arrest. |
And what was Argentina's answer |
to this violent assault upon her in
tegrity and peace? Let the simple |
words of press dispatch from
.Buenos Aires answer: Fourteen |
hundred prisoners charged with
maximalist activities are on board
a cruiser here awaiting deportation.
The majority of them are Russian
Jews"
Organized Anarchy. / 1
Still nearer to the United States !
creeps the black shadow of organ
lied anarchy and crime. No. that is
a mistake. 1t is already upon us.
The poison is in our blood this Gay.
And it must be admitted with shame
that there was already a faint which
permitted the deadly infusion. There
are not wanting prophets to tell US
that bolshevism can gain no head
way in the United States; that our
workinRmen are prosperous and
lcvel-headed; that our socialists are
of the "parlor" or innocuous vari-
ETY.; that the common sense of the
American people is sturdy enough
to withstand the balefuf effects of
the lethal dose. But have we no J!
w. W.? Have we no criminal and
criminal classes? The
state socialist convention in Illinois +.
demands that the American goverr-
,nent shall Immediately recognize
the bolshevik government of Russia.
The, state socialist convention in
Minnesota adopts resolutions in
dorsing the policies of the Russian
boisheviki. The state socialist con-