The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
Written by George Horace Lorimer
 for the National Security League)

rid of their old autoCraLS' AH0 "~' has been cleared for them to choose democratic form of government Rus sis. has chosen anarchy. Germany and Austria have swayed toward tne abyss.
 | Autocracy Is government fpy the worst elements at the top; Bo4shevlsn fs government by the worst elements
 at the bottom They differ in that
 autocracy is organized hell and Bol- shevisn hell let loose. Neither can
 stand up long before democracy. When the ark of God was brought by i the Philistines into the temple of the false god, "Only the stump of Dagon
 was left to him.
 If this war had been fought to the
 end of delivering Europe over to the Bolshevild, it has been fought in vain. Instead of freeing the souls of men
 we shall have loosed the beast in
 them. The Allies have won the first
 world war and they will win this sec
 ond one. Until they do the fight to make the world safe for democracy is ionly half finished.
 Our relation to the seconh struggle
 is exactly what our relation to the
 first was Though not primarily An- vo1ved, we cannot remain an inno- fpGnt , Americans were loyal and sound to 1.-the heart all through the great war,
 but among them was small body of traitors, potential of deviltry out of all proportion to their number.
 The same condition confronts us in this now fight. The mushy-rninded and the good-natured sentimentalists were inclined to pooh-pooh the idea of German agents and Ger1nan-Amer- ican traitors during the early days of the war. They are disposed to be
 geniaIIy tolerant of the BolsheV1kt nov They will have to wake up
 again. Autocracy and Bolshevism are l both bitter enemies of democracy. 3 One would stand 1t up before firing 0 squad; the other would bend its neck : to the guillotine. r The foul crew that has been in con- e troI of Russia---one cannot say of = the Russian government, because a there is none---are not content with . anarchy at home; they would put the : torch to the world. Their agents are - everywhere among the ignorant. the f sapheaded and the vicious, working n for world anarchy.
 y What are we going to do about it . here in America? Are we going to  - ly foreign born, the rest almost who'll V, ly selfish, insincere or eeR-decetved, :, to mislead the simple-ninded and the r ignorant Are we going to welcome
 every Russian, German and Austrian ' Red who wants to come over here to u SOW discord and reap dollars? And l. how long shall we tolerate those who
 have sought sanctuary here, only to 10 vilify the host under whose roof they 10 have found safety and at whose table er they have grown sleek and fat? Along Id with these there is a silly lot of Amer le icans---some of a. peculiar and nou
 uncommon professor-type of mind Fl that takes home any theory it can Il, play on the pienola; others are self 1t styled 'intellectuals" who have in re herited money or have made 1t in any 1e way except the one they urge on the 1e rest of us for the good of our souls a little tin-horn Bernard Shaws without a. that great mans brain and heart.
 They are, of course. & joke and could ar be laughed asde, were it not for the ,b American habit of accepting a mans ,a appraisal of himself. A faker has only ~ to play the banjo on a soap box, or o . in solemn periodical, balyhoo his as Epanacea for world ills, and the crowd
 
 Se his nostrum.
 Ie For a century America was the or sanctuary of the oppressed; latterly d. 1t has been the sanctuary of too many ng would-be oppressors. But now the at people of Eastern and Central En- a. rope are rid of their old autocrats gs They are free to make an America at
 home. If they choose to set up new ue autocrats, to make a mess of their or, own affairs, must we submit to their in imposing autocrats on us, to their of making a mess of our affairs too? de Must we stand by idly and let them it. put the torch to 8 world that is now all as closely built together as a city k block? Bolshevism is as much the he business of Democrats as Kaiserism. a. It, too, must be decisively settled oh Fwo-thirds of our troubles in Amer oh lea are imported, Shall we keep on ox importing them? From our silly sys- no tenn of smart society, taken from +o European capitals with their class
 distinctions and monarchical tradi~ ., tions, down to our bogus Socialism. u tie made in Germany and Russia as a ny panacea for conditions that were ut- Ter terly foreign to America until indis- 5e' crimtnate immigration planted them
 III, e 4ON P4o5 5uO opOCS III OQT STGc1t ne cities, our worribs are due to our Of carelessness as to who and what sr- comes to America.
 ell This whole business of immigration. all both of ideas and men. needs re- gre vision. Why not keep out anthrax tie and smallpox and admit rabies freely 1 oh We need an influx of labor to keep be our factories going and to expand our rd commerce, is the usual answer Not m that kind of labor---nor any kind of ,ut labor that we cannot pey well and on that is not geod material for citizen n- ship. For what shall it profit US to
 have all the commerce of the world
 lf in the end we blow up in one grand
 BolsheVik bust? It might be better
 business to go just a little slower. to
 educate what unassimilated labor we F. have into American citizenship.
 So in planning our new list of i'm ports let us include only desirables ~ In planning our new list of experts 4@I @ let us head it with undesirGbles. Un- ,t 1,lo der our laws we send rotten feed tt a the dump because it is a menace te
 health: Rotten men, who are poison. - Ing America with rotten propasanlda
 belong there too. Why do they lingel
 here when in Russia they can live s the iseal that they pFeaoh9 Utopia
 7; yaWRs for them, Make them go ti a 1t. We do not want them. Americf ~ for Americans and men who want ts