Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-04-02
"RED" MENACE
+ MOVING EAST
Whole World in Grave Danger
Through Advancing Tide
of BoIShevlSm.
NOW FLUSHED WITH VICTORY
Practically All Of Asia Is Open 10 'ne
Propaganda, and Result May be
sIoodiest Chapter in Worries
History.

woshinrton.-The danger 70 the
uorld from bolShevism was heNef
greater than at the present moment
The colapse Of the Russian nntloi"'
forces under General kolThak III ~
berla and the retreat OF General Dem
tine's army from the Moscow front
are regarded in every capitai III r"'
rome and in Washington rs CONSTITUTE
ing a threat of possible INVASION "l
Europe. certain penetration ny 'l''
bolsbeyiI IN Asia and a menace To the
ueace Of the entire world.
Even Prince Michael CantaeuZene'
husband of a granddaughter OF Tres
dent Grant. who has just arrived III
tho United States, while hopeful thai
tba Russian national forces may SUN
save themselves, confeSSeS that theIF
rjioh, is desperate unless allied ala
reaches them. They have no shoes
no clothes. very little Ammunition ana
very little food. If the allies wish I"
stop the spread Of holsherism through
ont the world they must come 10 the
rescue of Kolchak and penikine.
This Is the belief Of man who IS
fresh from Siberia and who is optlllilS-
tic enough to advance the opinion that
If bolsbeyism can be kept isolated IN
Russia IT will wear itself ont by its
own excuses.
On the Hiuh Tide Of Victory.
The word If makes all the differ
ence in the world But the fact is that
bolshpvism is now riding on the high
tide of victory and there does not seem
one chance in million that 1t Will ne
confined to Russia. Nearly all of Asia
is now open to its propaganda. The
defeat of the forces Of General Deni-
kline opens the door between Moscow
and the Black sea. The connecting
military link between the former kol-
ehak and Denikine lines has been OBJ
liberated and nothing remains to pre-
vent the agents Of the holShevists from
moving toward Armenia. Persia, At
ghanistan and India. Agents of the
Russian reds have already stirred up
considerable trouble among the hill
tribes on the northern confines of India
and British troops are now engaged In
suppressing uprisings
As for Siberia, the red propaganda
Is moving eastward rapidly 1t has
and Japan that the government or
Japan is taking steps to halt the adj
vance of the reds before 1t reaches the
very threshold Of Manchuria and the
island empire itself.
Among the ignorant masses both Of
China and India there Is great oppor-
tunity for the bolsheviki to spread
their doctrines, and if these countries
embrace the propaganda, the sequel
will be written in the bloodiest chap
ter in history.
But ii is not against Asia merely
that the boIshevistS are plotting. An
invasion Of Europe IS among their
plans. All recent developments indi
cate that 1t is the program of the
reds to bring military pressure to bear
against the Baltic provinces, Poland
and the new nations which the Yer
sailles conference has been erecting I'M
central Europe and that the soviet
military machine will this year bp
hurled against that front
No Peace With BoIshevism.
1t Is idle. nay. II is criminal TO talk
Of peace while bolsheviSm remains in
Russia. ever threatening to spread It's
accused cult throughout the world.
Treaties of peace may he drawn up at
Versailles and signed at Paris, aS the
treaty with Germany was the other
day, but such treaties have no more
effect on bolShevlSn than the passing
of Sedition bill by the senate, Boil
sheviSm must be suppressed if the
world is to know peace. And holShe
yism must be ended If the world is
not to become holsheyik Between It
and the principles of government In
other lands there is an irrepreSsihlc
conflict and one or other of these op-
posing forces must perish
A few years ago in the United States
communism was regarded as a Joke
Is it a Joke today? Two years ago
bolshevism in Russia was regarded as
passing mania. But 1t has not passed
1t is in Russia still and it threatens to
overflow its confines and plunge the
world into another bath Of blood.