The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-06-17
representative Guy i. Hardy on Radcalsm '%$==- =.
From Speech in House
Of Representatives

ing men of all classes should cling 10
the liberties guaranteed by the Con-
stitution.
All iiberty-loving men and women in
America are proud of their country
and their Constitution, the greatest
document of its kind ever written by
man. and should aid in every Iawsur
manner to rid the country of those
who preach coufiscation and violence.
| and would overthrow the Government
by force.
As for Russia. she will in time righs
herself. Either the people will rise
and overthrow the usurpers of author
ity now in control, or the present ruI-
ing class Will grow conservative and
rewrite the laws in an effort to keep
possession of the lands and wealth
they have stolen from others
II was ever thus-the easiest way
tokeep an anarchist from burning down
the town is TO induce him TO buy a
home in the town. A Socialist with
two pigs does not believe in dividing
up the pigs. Americas safeguard =
in her great body of homecoming
people. Our greatest weapon of de-
fense against bolsheyism and kindred
ills is to keep wide open the doors IT
opportunity
At the same time we should close
our gates to the alien who would come
here to preach violence. anarchy. and
revolution; and the citizen who advo-
Gates sabotage. the general strike,-
syndicalism and revolution. individu-
ally or in the name Of some radical
group or organization. is no better
than a common criminal and should
be treated as such (Applause)
Poor Russia, 1t matters not what
circle of society you move in, nor
how you earn your daily bread. the
more you look into Soviet Russia the
more thankful you will be that you
live in America. and the more anxious
10 keep America clean, tApplause)
What the Radicals Are Advocating
Saturday May g. 1920.
Mr.. HARDY OF Colorado Mr..
Speaker. | desire to extend my re-
marks by giving just little more of
the giews OF the radicals OF this
country. The radicals are scattered
through quite a number of groups
Perhaps the l. w. W is she largest
group. The Socialist Party has been
split up into three groups Sociaiits
proper. or the right wing: Communist
Labor. pretty radical: and Communist
party, left wing. extremely radical.
There are dozens of other radical
declarations. societies. leagues and
groups, Attorney General Palmer
says AL radical papers spread the
doctrines OF the radicals through the
United States, 222 printed in IS diner
ent foreign languages; los ia English
and 144 coming in from foreign lands
And now | wish to give you some
brief samples of what these radicals.
stand for. told in their own words. IL
you read between the lines you will
see some things not in the type. al
though the written words are pretty
frank.
The Communist Party has issued a
manifesto in which it says:
The Communist Party recognizes
| that the American Federation of La
| Dor is reactionary and a bulwark OF
| capitalism.
Councils of workers shall be or
sanized in the shops as circumstances
allow for the purpose of carrying on
| the industrial union struggle in the old
unions. uniting and mobilizing the
militant elements. these councils to
be unified in central council wher-
| ever possible,
| -It shall be a major task of the
| Communist Party to asitate for the
| construction OF general industrial
union organization embracing the l.
W. w. ". |. l. T.. independent and
! secession unions. militant unions of
| the American Federation OF Labor.
and the -unorganized workers on the
basis OF the rev olu;ionary class strus
gle.
"The Communist Party shall keep in
| the foresroun- its consistent appeal
for proletarian revolution. the over
| throw of capitalism and the establish
ment OF a dictatorship OF the prole-
tariat
| Communism does not not propose
| to capture the bourgeois parliamen-
tary state. but to conquer and destroy
| IL"
| Let Mr. Morris Hillquitt who is
prominent Socialist. and came near
being elected mayor of New York.
speak of his party He says:
The split in the ranks of American
socialism raises an interesting aues-
tiop of policy. What shall be the at
titude of the Socialist Party toward
the newly formed communist organ
ization9
The division was not brought about
by differences on vital questions OF
principles. 1t arose over disputes on
methods and po icy. aud even within
that fea snhar.. - ,,.a. t.......t.- ....