The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-02-09
WARNS nation
| OF RED PERIL
o. S Department Of Justice Urges
! Americans to Guard Against
Bolshevism Menace.
CAl Is, RED PLANS CRIMINAL

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and Civic Bodies Called Upon to
Teach True Purpose Of 6el.
! shsvise Propaganda.
/ Washington-Callin for the patr1-
totlc support Of Ill true Americans in
lts light to protect their homes, re-
gion and property from the spread
h1nG menace Of Bolshevism, the United
1tates Department Of Justice has is
tsoed . warning against the insidious
propaganda Of the "Reds" during the
new year. 1t reads:
TT would be extremely helpful to tho
eause Of good government, the main
bnance Of law and order and the pres
evation of peace and happiness in our
lGounhy If the people on this New
Wears day would resolve to study, un-
F1ezstand and appreciate the so:callsd
f:Red' movement They can counter
fact it most effectively by teaching its
|purpose through the press. tho church,
tthe schools patriotic organizations and
labor unions, all Of which are within
Ethe range Of its insidious attacks.
"Red" Theories Criminal.
The Red movement does not mean
I'm attitude Of protest against alleged
ldefects In our present political and
economic organization of society. It
docs not represent the radicalism Of
proGress. It represents q specific doc
|@rine-namely, the Introduction Of dc
teatorships the world over BY force and
violence. It IL not q movement Of lib
erty-loving persons, but a distinctly
terminal and dishonest movement.
l1.enine himself made the statement at
tho Third Soviet Conference, Among
zone hundred so-called Bolshevists there
k1s one real Bolshevik, thirty-nine GRIM
k1nals and sixty FOOLS It advocates the
destruction Of all ownership in proper
Ity, the destruction Of all religion and
belief in God. 1t is q movement or
lEanized against Democracy and in IA
vor of the power Of the few built by
force. Bolshevism, syndicalism, the
lSoviet Government, sabotage, ETC., are
only names for old theories of violence
,snd criminality.
! Russian Labor Crushed.
Though their adherents in this coun
Try are advocating and fomenting
strikes, Lenine and Trotzky forbid
strikes, and trade unions are being
broken up and completely subordinated
to the will Of the few demagogues in
|control in Russia. This Bolshevist ex-
Iperiment ON the living body of the
Russian people has not proven in any
sense Of the word an experiment in
democracy. The Boshevist leaders
frankly repudlate democratic princi-
vples as we understand them. 1t has
Nbeen a gamble which meant for Rus
tsia, and, indeed, for the whole Of hu-
hmanity, enormous losses in lives as
well as in material resources. The
fBolshevistS have run up d colossal bill
(which the Russian wOlkmen and peas
ants will have to pay.
"Reds" Menace America.
"1aving lived at the expense Of the
Russian people for two years, these
.speculators in human lives and other
lpeople'S earnings are trying to move
ITO new fields to the east and to the
tWest, hoping to take advantage Of the
economic distress and confusion of
tmind in which humanity finds itself
lafteR the terrific strain Of five years
.of war.
"Its sympatllizers in this country are
IcompOsed chiefly of criminals, mis-
taken tealists, social bigots and many
unfortunate men and women suffering
with varying forms Of hyperesthesia.
fThey are enemies Of the government,
ct the church and Of the home and ad-
tvocate principles which mean the aboli-
lt1On of all three of these safeguards Of
IcdviliZation.
Would Rob Everybody.
'~Twenty million people in this coun-
TRY own Liberty Bonds. These the
Reds' propose to take away; $3.50, 600
(Deople in the United States own farms
land 3,S3S.OOO more own homes, which
they would forfeit; II, ,O00, 900 odd peo-
lpae have savings accounts In savings
Danks and 100000 people have de-
kposits in our national banks, at which
9hey aim. There are hundreds Of thou
ands Of churches and religious insti-
feutions, all Of which they would abol-
t9sh. In other words, 10000, 900 hard
working and saving people who own
property, love liberty and worship God
lare asked to abandon all the ideals Of
freligion, liberty and government, which
are the outcome Of the struggles Of
their fathers and their own develop
nnent, and to place themselves, their
homes, their family and their religious
faith in the keeping and their property
under the domination OF, a small group
kof Lenines and Trotzkys.
Protection Promised.
This department, as far as existing