Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-31
~ EVOLUTION, with the estab-
X lishment of a Soviet form of

~ nSnment OF soviet form OF
Government in the United
State, was the common motive be-
hind the recent strikes in Seattle,
Butte, Paterson, and Lawrence, Sec
retary of Labor Wilson assured the
countrys assembled Governors dur
ing their White House conference in
the early days of this month; and
little later Solicitor La
announced the discovery that var
ious radical movements in this Ma
ton had at least found in Bolshe-
vism a common cause, and that the
Industrial Workers of the World,
anarchists, Socialists-in fact. all
dissatisfied elements, particularly the
foreign elements-are perfecting an
amalgamation with one object only,
in view, namely, the overthrow OF
the Government of the United States
by means of a bloody revolution and
the establishment of BolsheYik Re-
public" The 1. w. w." he said,
lis perhaps most actively engaged in
spreading this propaganda, and has
at it's command a large field force
known as recruiting agents, sub
scription agents, etc, who work .ur-
ceasingly in the futherance of the
cause" Mr.. Lamar re-enforced his
statement with hundreds of excerpts
| from alleged revolutionary propa-
ganda sent through the mails. He
cited such slogans and declarations
as: the war is over, now for the
revolution;" "every strike is a small
revolution and a dress-rehearsal for
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not stop the storm from reaching
these shores; the storm is within
and very soon will leap and crash
and annihilate you in blood and fire."
| Yet, despite these remarkable
warnings 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 Bolshevism
in America belong with the odd
phenomena of time of general ner-
vous tension-a time when mild
hysteria is as fashionable as ping
pong used to be-" remarks the Phlla-
delphia Evening Ledger, which
adds:
"The industrial and social sys-
TENS of America are not perfect.
But they represent the best starting
point available to any one who can
visualize or plan better things. The
American system is flexible. The peo-
pie themselves have it always within
their power to make Improvements.
We have achieved a system OF Gov
ernment which has been the only
medium so far found adequate for
human betterment and human prog
ress. To suppose that a few men
driven half-mad by ill-digested
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considerable number of Americans
the insane delusions that carried the
credulous and illiterate Russians to
starvation, .pestilence, and general
ruin is to reveal an incredible 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
people will go insane" insists the
Brooklyn Citizen, which is convinced
the "the proverbial three tailors OF
lTooley Street were quite as formid-
able opponents of the British En-
Ipire as these so-called Bolsheviki are
of the Government of the United
States" The real reason that Boil
shevism is not formidable when pre-
sented to a common-sense people,
! remarks the Kansas City Star. is
that "it won't work; it will produce
less we'll being in the world, and not
more" Mr.. Lamar's quotations
saws the New York World. "prove
only what we have known for many
lyears-that we have taken some
vipers to our bosom and that they
are making a sorry living by their
appeals to passion and ignorance
"But they can not get past the ordi-
nary forces of the Government ir
this country, behind which stands
1.-The great determination of the people
to preserve order" affirms the Utics