Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-04-03
AMERICA SAFE
FROM B0LSHEV-
ISM, BELIEVED
Secretary Of Labor Wilson Thinks
America is Not Likely to Be
Controlled by Bolshevism, and
is Backed Up by the Press.
Giterary Digest,

of a soviet form of government in the
United States, vas the common mo-
tive behind the recent strikes in Sc
attic, Butte, Paterson and Lawrence,
Secretary OF Labor Wilson assured
the country's assembled Governors
during the White House conference
in the early days of this month: n
a little later Solicitor General Lamar,
of the Post-office department, announc
ed the discovery that various radical
movements in this nation had at last
found in Bolshevism a common cause,
and that "the Industrial Workers of
the World, anarchists, socialists, and in
fact, all dissatisfied elements, partic-
ularly the foreign elements-are per
fecting an amalgamation with one OBJ
ject, and one Object only, in view,
namely, the overthrow of the govern
ment of the United States by means
of a bloody revolution and the estab-
lishment OF q bolshevik republican.
THE /. w. W." he said, lis perhaps
most actively engaged in spreading
this propaganda, and has at its com
mand a large force known as recruit
ing agents, subscription agents, ETC.,
who work unceasingly in the further
ance of the cause" Mr.. Lamar reen-
reinforced his statement with hundreds
of excerpts from alleged revolutionary
propaganda sent through the mails.
He cited UGH slogans and declarations
as: the war is over, now for the re-
volution;" every strike is a small re-
volution and a dress-rehearsal for the
big one deportation will not
stop the storm from reaching these
shores: the storm is within and N~ry
soon will leap nd crash and anninil-
ate you in blood and fire
Yet, despite these remarkable warn
ings from high official sources, the
public mind, as reflected in the daily
press. refuses to be greatly ~perturbed
over the situation. The whispers and
rumors of b~olshevism in America be-
long with the odd phenomena II a
time of general nervous tension--a
time when mild hysteria is as fashion
able as pfng.pohg used to be,' remarks
the Philadelphia Evening Ledger,
which adds
1.-THE industrial and social systems
Of America are not perfect. But they
represent the best s~tarting-point ay-
ailable to any one who can visualize
or plan better things. The American
system is flexible. The people them
selves have it always within their poTW
er to make improvements. We have
achieved a system of government
which has been the only medium so
far found adequate for human better
ment and human progress. To sup
pose that a few men driven half-mad
by ill-digested theories can ever i'm
pose upon any considerable number OF
Anss:cans the insane decisions that
carried The credrlous and illerate.
Russians to starvation, pestilence and
general ruin is to reveal and incredi-
BILE lack of ordinary common sense"
There is no more danger of any
thing in the shape of bolshevism on
this side of the Atlantic than there is
that a majority Of the American peo-
pie will go ~insane,' insists the Brock,
lyn Citizen, which is convinced that
"the proverbial three tailors of Tooley
Street were quite as formidable OPP
ponents OF the British Empire as these
~tiso.called bolsheviki are of the govern
ment OF the United States The real
reason that bolshavism is not formid-
) able when presented to a common
sense peon]e, remarks the Kansas City
Star, is thai "it won't work; 1t viii pro
duce less well-being in the world, and
not more" Mr.. Lamarss quotation
says the New York World, prove only
what we nave known for many years
2 that we have taken some vipers te
cur bosom and that they are MAKING
Y a sorry living by their appeals to pas
E sion and i~gnorance.n But they can moi
get past the ordinary forces Of govern
. ndent iii this country, behind which
!, stands the great determination Of the
4 people to preserve order" affirms ths
i Utica Observer. And in the New Yorl
i Times we read:
TIN spite of the researches of the
Post,offce department, w find it diff
. cult to believe that this gfneral over
turn Is n nearer now than it wa
y thirty years ago.
g Revolutionary germs are like til
~hercuioisis gsrms-teey are always
= present in the system. but they do II
damage until sonae cotsssstion arises
!, which opens theMay re their ray
Lagos Nobody who contrasts the pres
3 emf material and moral situation d
IA 1Ahi1lerild with tfiat:spf Russia is Ike