The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-24
UNITED STATES
ANSWERS REDS
A S S is tant Attorney-General
Garvin Calls on Every Citi-
zen for Loyal Help.
SAYS SLOGANS ARE FALSE
Likens the Radical Call "Al
Power to Workers" to Huns
Cry a Place in the Sum-
published by Arrangement with The
independently


When the people of the United States
understand the Red movement in this
country and throughout the world the
present menace to our government and
our institutions will have passed. In
til they understand the danger will
persist in spite of the efforts of the
department of justice TO stamp it out.
1t is the duty of every loyal citizen
to study this movement and its aims
and to calculate the effects it's triumph
would have upon him, his family and
his interests. 1t is the duty of every
educator, every editor, every minister
to tell again and again what this move
ment really means.
It is a movement for world domina-
tion in the interests of its corrupted
leaders in Moscow and their confed-
crates in other countries. Just as
Germany went to war under such
phrases as freedom of the seas" and
"a place in the SUM- forgetting the
rule of God in it's desire to possess
other peoples property, so the Reds
have gone to war, calling for the die
tatorship of the proletariat" and all
power to the workers. but bent upon
the same objects. The war just
closed and the war just opened are
alike, in that both were started in the
interests of the rulers and not of the
peoples.
The Bolsheviks after more than two
years of power in Russia still promise
the people peace, bread and land"
but they have been unable to satisfy
the actual needs of the population ex-
cept by wasteful use of previously ac-
cumulated stocks Even the guaran-
tees, of their Soviet constitution have
been suspended ana - country is
ruled by a military Dictatorship Of
appointed communist commission
aries.
Now from Russia the Bolshevists
turn to the other nations of the world
for they know very well that without
new fields for action they cannot long
continue in power, even in Russia.
And in every country they find thou
sands ready to reach into the fire for
their chestnuts.
The American people must under
stand that it is not the old time soap
box orator we have always tolerated
that we have to deal with today. 1t is
a movement well financed and well
organized, for so rich a prize as the
United States is worthy of large in
vestment and the most careful thought
in organization.
During the war not much radical
agitation was aimed against the gov
ernment, for the people would not toll
crate it, but with the signing of the
armistice there came a relaxation of
vigilance. and they were willing for
anyone, native or alien. TO say what
was on his mind. AT the same time
the department of justice was, to some
extent. disarmed, fer the espionage acts
under which it wszs given power 70
deal with the advocates OF violence
against the government during the
conflict were purely war legislation
inapplicable in times of peace.
Agitators sprung up everywhere and
set to work. The year 1919 will be
remembered as year of strikes.
many of them fomented and seized
upon by revolutionaries to further
their ends. Radical newspapers, in
English and in many foreign languages,
came into being by scores in our larger
cities until now there are some $50
of various shades of radical views
being circulated in this country. Many
of them have no advertising to speak
of. indicating that they are receiving
money from outside sources to further
their propaganda.
There were dozens of divisions Of
radicalism at the end of the war. each
group holding different views, but now
there are only two: the Anarchists
and the Communists. The out-and- -out
anarchists are difficult 10 apprehend
for they meet in secret and are with
out any records of organization. Ere
quently members of the various So
cieties are unknown to each other.
They are working for the destruction
of an government and all law, but are
few in number compared with the sec
ond group-the Communists.
The backbone of one anarchisic
organization, the Union of Russian
Workers, was broken by the depart
ment OF justice raids last November
and many of its leaders were deported
on the transport "Buford." This or
ganization professed TO believe in the
Soviet form of government and to be
working for its establishment in this
country. In reality il was seeking the
establishment of Soviets in the Unit
ed States as a step toward no govern
ment at ala step toward anarchy.
The Communist Party and the Com
munist Labor Party, against which
the present activities OF the depart
ment OF justice are being directed
have grown by leaps and bounds since
their organization. The Communist
Party was organized September l.
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