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was intense and we had every reason
10 be satisfied with It's results, for we
succeeded In considerably undermining
the authority Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. and in creating numer-
Gus labor groups and associations which
no longer owed It allegiance and over
which We virtually exercised sole con
troll. n the war had not broken out
and led to changes in Russia which
called us imperativcly to concentrate
our activity once more on that coun-
try, who knows but that we might today
he In the Capitol at Washington, in
stead OF in the Kremlin. as commits
saries of the American Soviet repub'
Iic?' o
Temporarily postponed while l.cnine
and Trotzky were busy capturing
power in Russia. the plans against
America revealed by the Soviet envoy IN
Switzerland were Immediately resumed
with renewed vigor as soon as the Boi-
sheviks were victoriously installed IN
the Kremlin.
Among the numerous departments
created in Moscow for propaganda III
foreign countries. the American De
Is nartmeptr is,ouc Of the most important
II was organized by the notorious hlD
stein, known in America as danger;
ous anarchist. and is still under nts
rorsonai management. unless he has
mite recently succeeded in returning
r. tho United States. To this depart
mont which employs hundreds OF ON
c;.ls and thousands of secret agents, IL
entrusted the task Of continuing tne
bolsheyisatiou Of American laoo, u
run by Trotzky and his followers aurins
their exile, and of preparing pro'e'a' i"
revolution in America
Would Paralyze Key Industries
Tho Bolshevik plan OF campaign ~
&ha same in America as everywhere
sisa. To obtain control OF the workers
oneratiur mines, transport ana com
munlcation. and to paralyze the 'i.e Ill ~
the community by sudden. 81 s," ".
taneous strike Of these three w. n.ta' ,,ua ~
eans of the modern state. 10 tms Pr.
ram there has lately been added the
nnzz,lng of the Bourgeois press py
striLes preventing the publication VI
news ,nfayorable to bolsheVism'
I;rste;n's bureau is in constan'
communication by means of its innumer
f, able and almost Intangible agents WIZ r'
tha American Bolshevik leaders ana OF
at;ons and ia able to concert their
sct;on with the plans and wishes or ths
Moscow dictators. There are also 'sooG9
reasons to believe that messases NV II,
orders are transmitted from MostoM w
wireless and received by secre. S.a',on, ,,,a !,
IN America hidden in out OF the wai
niaces. It was thus, apparently, tnu'
the full text of I.cnine,s famous
IT ,etter TO the American Workmen.
vr;tten during his sojourn IN SwitHer
iand hefore the Russian revolution Was
Frst sant across the Atlantic to o'
clandestinely printed and circulated az
nronaganda. 1t is likewise more .nal
nrobable that large sums OF nones nan,
been sent from soviet hussia 10 """"''
American anarchy. :, -,
The Bolshevik rulers are propaply wv
most consummate experts LOT p''pa
randa the world has ever seen, o, az, !,
Their secret service training schoot l,
Moscov has turned out vast army o
astrte agents, but they expect Amos
as much assistance. especially IN Anglo
Soxon countries from class OF person'
whom | should like to call 'unconsciou,
nrnnagondists'' and who are very muci
In evidence at present.
Idealists Duped by Reds
They are the kind of people who ar
sue that "Bolshevik rule in Russia can
not he so bad after all, because it ma
lasted so long'-an argument on TN
strength of which czarism, which laste'
hundreds of years. ought to have bee,
one of the best regimes ever estapllshed
They can be relied upon to voice hor
rified protests against the blockade
soviet Russia as a cruel and barbarou
measure involving the destruction
innocent women and children, aith0ug'
moments reflection should tell then
that agricultural Russia is, like tn
United States. an absolutely self
6c;np country so far as food is con
rerned. and that if her people ar
starving today only the soviet system
Of government can be held responsible
for it.
The schemers in Moscow are full
aware of the influence exerted by cred
ulous idealists of this sort on. publ
opiniou in Anglo Saxon countries an
they are past masters in the art o
playing on their humanitarian feelings
Great Bolshevik hopes are also cen
tered on certain type of modern in
tellectual' which, although not un
known in America, is perhaps more nu
merous in England at the present da
than anywhere else. Not long ago | wa
talking with Jean Longuet. the Frenc
Socialist leader, personally delightful
dreamer. but undoubtedly one of tn
EtIropean labor chiefs most closely al
sS lied to Russian bolshevism. as indee
& is indicated by the fact that Lenin
appointed. him an honorary profcs
Petrograd.
''What makes me hope that the An
glo Saxon nations are destined to pla
leading part in the liberation of man
kind from capitalist despotism," he ex
claimed. lis the great number of in
tellectuals. philosophers, writers an
journalists they can muster who ar
on our side of the barricades. Now, /
France it is unfortunately quite differ
.sa@ent. Almost all our intellectuals ar
=. rabid nationalists, mesmerized by pa
4trotic phrases and military glory, an
even among the young generation c
thinkers and poets there are to b
found scarcely any who espoused OIL
!. cause. All intellectual revolutionar
impulse is at present coming from acros
the channel, where some of the mos
famous writer's of the day, and eve
few very influential bourgeois news
papers. understand and sympathize wit
our ideas"
The moral disintcgration OF the Sin
tellectual classes is. indeed Il yer
Important factor in the calculations
the Moscow plotters and their supper
ters, for no Bolshevk revolution ca
hope to succeed without it. For I'll
country whose intellectual leaders pla!
II but from spirit of opposition an
paradox, with doctrine of crime an
chaos. there is but little hope of eludir
the clutches Of its Bolshevik foes.
Reds Hate Working Glasses
Moreover, a tragic though not entire
undeserved fate awaits, as the Russia
revolution has shoYn, lukewarm syn
pathizers with revolutionary socialis