Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-21
FEAR is RULER
/ OF ALL NATIONS,
EDITORS VIEW
Secret Service Tentacles Reach
InnermOst of Human
Affairs Is Charge.
WARNING TO BRITISH

LONDON, Aug. PA sharp attack
on the secret services of Europe and /.
warning to the British people that they
are partially ruled by an irresponsible
secret service" is made by George Lans-
bury, socialist, and editor of the labor
newspaper, the Daily Herald, in his
book, What 1 Saw in Russia" just
published.
The warning is given in the preface,
in which the socialist editor explains
how he came to make the nine weeks
trip into Russia which furnished the
material of the book.
81 learned one thing which is in
delibly fixed on my mind" he writes.
1T is this: All governments, from
the greatest to the least, are ruled by
fear.
ut is fear which has created the Brit
lsh secret police, under Sir Basil Thorn
son, and it is fear which has linked this
department W with the secret police Of
other countries.
$50 powerful, so widespread is the net
which Sir Basil Thomson and his Sc
eret agents are weaving that even the
domain of ordinary diplomacy is NOT
free Of them.
WHO ONE OF
HIS STAFF WAS.
when James O'Grady went to Den
mark to negotiate the exchange Of pris-
0ners, the most important member of his
staff was one Of the chief assistants in
Sir Basil Thomson, who, l suppose.
knows more about the activities of US all
than we know ourselves.
4 think it well that the British peo-
pie should understand we are now par
tally ruled by an irresponsible secret
police.
while the working classes are arguing
about the sort Of international they wish
to establish. the capitalist governments
have created a new international" made
up of spies and agents provocateurs,
and this in order to preserve for the
privileged few In all countries the right
to exploit their fellow men and women
THE Workers International should
make enc of the first objects Of its prop
Uganda the entire sweeping away, root
and branch. of this system Of interna-
tional mischief making and spying.
SOME THINGS
SWEPT AWAY.
Unless we do so there will be no
sanctuary in the world for revolutionists
or even reformers.
Had the present ubiquitous system and
laws been in force fifty years ago. MAJ
Eini, Marx, Kropotkin and thousands Of
others would have found no refuge in
England or elsewhere.
The sacred right of property for the
time being has swept away the sacred
right Of asylum for political offenders.
in Difference to this international
bureaucracy it is argued that the need
for it exists because Of the propaganda
carried on by secret societies and reEo-
lutionaries
1T is a strange commentary on this
argument that many governments carry
on q persistent secret propaganda, paid
for out Of secret service funds which are
never checked or audited. thus enabling
police officials to have at their disposal
huge sums of money with which to create
and stir up the violence they are en-
ployed to track down.
MY own solid conviction is that social
ist and labor government must be pre-
pared at all hazards to throw over all
such methods once they come into power
In my judgment no set of men and
women responsible for a revolution OF
the magnitude of the Russian revolution
ever made fewer mistakes or carried their
revolution through with less interference
with the rights Of individuals, or with
less terrorism than the men in control
In Russia