Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-19
BOLSHEv|SM IS
SUBJECT Of talk
At ROTARY CLUB
]. W. Bryant, Chairman Of
Northwest Warriors, Ex-
plains Theory Of Social
istic Campaign in US.

Speaking to an overflow audi
nee of Rotarians at the regular
weekly Rotary club dinner, ]. w.
Bryant, chairman OF the Northwest
Warriors committee OF American
ization, sounded ringing appeal
for better Americanism.
Speaking of his experiences and
entry into this work, Mr.. Bryant
said, sin my early experiences |
had occasion to witness soap
box oration and realized from the
statements of the agitator that if
his statements were true our fight
for democracy overseas had been
in vain, and | readily recognized
the need of an organized effort to
combat these statements if they
were not the truth. With the desire
to knock the orator from the soap
box came the idea of fair play and
4 the rights under our constitution
which calls for law and order. |
then realized it was not the man
we must knock from the soap box,
but the ideas that were within his
mind"
Have l,400 Agitators.
He claimed that there are over
l,400 paid and trained agitators in
America today, spreading the doc
trine of bolshevism which he char
acterized the flower of Marxian
socialism in full bloom" and there
was no side-stepping of the issue.
that we were not fighting any
thing new, but the old doctrine of
socialism, the growth of which he
briefly explained.
Its birth was traced to the mind
Of Robert Owen OF England in 1887.
He said that from time immemrial,
the doctrine of socialism, which is
nothing more than communism, had
been attempted and experimental
all over the world. In the primitive
age the Christians in Jeruselum
shared all things in common. He
recited the many failures. to es-
tablish a cooperative common
wealth, especially in America, citing
the case of Brookes Farms in Mas
sachusetts, Oneida community in
western New York. and the Har-
mony society of Indiana, all of
which proved hopeless experiment
and blow at the utopian idea of
socialism in practice, commonly
known as bolshevism.
Tells Argument Used.
He rccited few of the soap box
arguments Of the red agitator, one
Of which is a theory that we are
in capitalistic age, which he said
was true, because capital is merely
the accumulation of savings, earned
by initiative, labor and self-sacri-
fice.. He said the reds referred to
the capitalists as men like Rocke-
feller and Ford, when in reality the
capitalist is any man who saves
his morA,, whether it be $1,000 in
vested ! his home, $1,000 life
insurance policy. or the small or
great business enterprise, and if
bolshevism only meant the remov-
al and confiscation of the wealth of
such men as Rockefeller and Ford,
we might selfishly join in the, at
tack upon such. capital. Bolshevism.
he said, means the confiscation of
all the accumulated wealth of the
masses to be used by the expert
menters of this soviet form of gov
ernment in an unworkable theory
which has proven failure wherever
practiced.
The speaker is here in connection
with campaign being waged by
their organization to fight bolshev-
ism. William H. Taft will address a
mass meeting in the Auditorium on
April 2, in behalf of this campaign.
Mr.. Bryant will address the Con-
cord club at the Hotel Fontenelle
at noon TODAY.