Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-02-10
NO ROOM FOR
ALIEN COM MUNISTS

rIlEfN SSW w StNAS ~
Pressure of public opinion has
for5ee from the Department of Labor
the most important ruling it has yet
made with reference to deporta-
tons"
This is the opinion of the Seattle
Times Qnd) on Secretary Wilson's
decision that membership is the
Communist Party is sufficient cause
for the deportation of aliens. And
according to the Knoxville journal
and Tribune (RepD the secretary OF
labor has already found three tloH-
sand radicals that he Will order de
ported under this ruling.
In iustifying his action. the score
taly says:
1T is apparent that the communist
party of America is not merely a
political party seeking the control
OF affairs of state, but revolution
airy party seeking to conquer and de
stroy the state in open combat"
But, thinks the Nashville Banner
Und.), there is no need for any sort
OF apology on the secretary's part.
The country must protect itself aga
inst the communists and vigorous
means are needed to that end. The
Port Huron Times Herald (lnd9
gives us these significant quotations
from the communist doctrine:
THE communist party shall par
ticipate in mass strikes. not only 10
achieve the purpose OF the strike, but
to develop the revolutionary implica-
tons of the mass strike. The revo-
lutionary era Compels the proletariat
to make use of the means of battle
which will concentrate its entire
energies, namely, mass action, with
It's logical resultant, direct conflict
with the governmental machinery in
open combat. All other methods,
such as the use of bourgeois parlia-
mentarism, will be OF only secondary
significance"
There can be little question, E"
scomments the Times Herald, as to
the soundness Of MIR. Wilson's logic.
The communist party pIInly stands
for revolution by force. 1t would
gain power, not through the ballot
box, but by violence They scorn
the proposition that the revolution
may be secured by the Vote adds
the Syracuse Post-Standard (Rep.1;
they claim that capitalism is so full
ly in command that the man who re
lies upon the vote to accomplish his
views is a fool. The man who
breaches this sort OF thing, whether
Vhe calls himself a Communist, or an
l.. w. w, or a Left Winger, belongs
in the criminal courts if he is a citi-
zen and where he came from if he is
not"
}, The communists are reminded by
the Mobile Register (Dem.) that
there is no despOtism here. that
must be overthrow by force. Ey-
cry needful change can be effected
by the people themselves by resort
70 lawful action, provided Ia the con
sutution they have themselves adopt
ed And the Columbus Disnatch
Clnd.) mentions two things which
those thinking e' communism ought
10 ask themselves
First are those who are demand.
ing it any better any more honest.
any more uuseitsb. 14E more fHlast.
rious, than these who oppose IT,
Then, are those who are preaching
communism any wiser than the rest
OF the world: DO Leuine and Prot
zky know more ape..t geVerHu4r--
and economy and humanity than aU
of the great }aeR Wbo have some De-
fore them? lis Eugene DeI7 NOR,
learned more 7hie. more =tut e}lsput
than sUca r. "a as Thomas jefferson
George Mas ucr0u Alexander Ham
llton, and tHe others who helped 81
devise This government or S aa an,
more intelligent than the millions o
az "a 81