Phoenix tribune., 1919-07-12
GREAT SCHEME BUT
WOULDN'T WORK
(By Associated Negro Press

Armed revolt to put down the govern.
ment when the Bolshevist day
should come in this country was open
ly advocated for more than two years
by the Rand School of Social Science.
the Lusy committee learned yesterday
from papers seized in the raid last
week on that institution.
Convinced that the proof of open
sedition had been presented, the state
Investigators gave instructions that
the document be turned over to the
district attorneys office, and that the
attorney general of the state be asked
to proceed to revoke the charter of
the school.
The radical groups in New York
had worked out a nationwide scheme
of propaganda to convert the Negro
Race to Socialism, this being regarded
as essential to their plot to seize the
government so the capitalist class
could not organize the Negroes for
defense.
Running through the secret schemes
of the radicals was the purpose to
strike when the day arrived to take
over the government and to be pre-
pared by having all labor industries
organized thoroughly.
Senator Clayton R. Lusk, chairman
of the committee, in reviewing the
evidence at the close of the hearing,
said the two amazing features were
first that it was shown the Rand
School and its associates were pre-
pairing for armed revolution and were
urging their army" to be ready to
resist the militia and, second, that the
slever propaganda designed to arouse
the Negro Race was seditious and
vicious.
Most elaorate of all the propaganda
schemes so far brought to light was
that by which the radicals hoped to
turn the power of the Negro Race in
to a great set The whole scheme
was outlined in an extensive docu-
nlent found in the Rand School and
prepared by WA. Domingo.
IF the Socialists should elect a
president, capital is prepared to use
the Negroes for a guard to prevent
the new government taking office.
With the Negro as guards they would
seize the arsenals six weeks after
election. Autocracy will use force or
fraud to control the Negro and sup
press Socialism. 1t is necessary to
change the race consciousness of the
Negro into class consciousness and
show him his duty is to support all
wings of Socialism"
The means by which that end was
to be accomplished were outlined as
follows:
Give financial support to Negro pa
pers which support radical doctrines.
"Subsidize Negro speakers and ora
tors to spread radical teachings in
Negro meetings and show that So
cialists are the only true friends of
the black race.
"All Socialists must make strong
point of condemning all injustices to
the Negro Race and particularly de-
nounce lynching.
Prepare special propaganda for
wide circulation among Negroes and
get them in the habit of attending
meetings at which their interests are
discussed by Socialist speakers.
"Show that capitalists control news
papers and schools with a view to
keeping alive class distinction while
not stressing the race question.
One of the strongest mediums of
appeal Would be through the church,
the memorandum suggested, and this
would be comparatively easy to ac-
complish as the Negro minister was
the most parasitical of all celestial
navigators.
The document on this subject as
read into the record was an exhaust
i've analysis of the Negro problem. 1t
dwelt on the psychology of the Negro
showing how he views the state and
government and pointing to the weak
spots in his mental status through
which the Socialist could force an en-
trance.