Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-22
vERIFiEs Suspicious.


MAYHEM Jacob Marsolis, an attorney
Nav for the I. w. W.. testified before
tue senate committee. investigating
Into the causes Of the steel strike, that
Russian unions. organized in the steel
districts of the east. are seeking to
perfect an Industrial soviet in this
country, he verified the suspicious held
by a great many people since the walk
out took place. Margolis was not at
al secret about the disclosure. His
testimony indicates that personally he
considers the step to have been a very
proper one. He admitted he is of that
radical. type, of whom there are now
too many in the United States, who
believe that organized government is
unnecessary.
The only really creditable side of
Margolis' testimony was his statement
that he believed the end sought by the
radicals should be obtained by peaceful
methods. very fine theory no doubt.
It's genuine Russian. This is the kind
Of a peaceful revolution that Russia
enjoyed, but what has followed in it's
wake makes all men and women, VINO
love law and order, shudder with
dread. This is the kind of peaceful
revolution-the soviet plan-that
plunged Russia into the darkest days
of it's history. Its fall appears imi-
nent now. The Russians who looked
for delivery through the soviet are to-
day smashing down the doors to Petro-
grad determined to stamp out the Boil
{ shevik champions.
The senate hearing is laying bare the
plot that Margolis and others backed
In the hope of starting the movement
that would overturn our present form
OF government. He had the assistance
of William z. Foster, secretary Of the
steel strike committee. With Fosters
aid he secured from the anarchist syn
dicalists and the Russian union their
promise to throw all of their support
back of the strikers. The story should
arouse the citizens of this country to
the forces that are at work.
While declaring himself as bitter
toward the /. W. W., Foster disavowed
to Margolis any responsibility for
statements attacking that organization.
In other words, although Foster person.
ally dislikes the /. w. W., he was will
ing to join hands with them in per-
fecting his plans to bring about the
steel strike
The time has come when we can
no longer shut our eyes to the activi-
ties around US, or close our ears to the
rabid rawlings of such agencies as Mar
golis, who admits that he was an anti
in all war movements and pronounced
in his opposition to the draft; a man
who brazenly informs the senate in
vestigating committee that the soviet
government of the type offered by
Lenine and Trotzky, if left alone, is
much better than anything offered in
the United States.
1t is the radical ideas of government
such men as Margolis has, that pres
ents the real danger. He is of the type
who would not give resistance to an
enemy invading this country. He would
not resist a marauder who wanted to
take his coat or attack his wife. He
II against organized government in any
form whatsoever. He does not believe
In the homo. The quicker we act in
deporting such radicals. and there are
many of them now in the United
States, the better we will be off. The
steel strike probe is doing a real good
for the country. 1t should continue to
bring out the causes leading up to the
strike go that we may know just who
fostered the discomfort: so that the
American laboring man can see the
class of radicals and the lurking dan
gers around them. When that has been
done, we shall then be in position to
deal effectively with the agitators.