The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-27
ROOSEVELT HAD
FORESIGHT TO SEE
BOLShEvIk DANGER
Late Theodore Roosevelt Fearer l. W.
W. In This Country As He Feared
BOlsheyism in Russia.

Washington, Aug rs. That the
most inhuman and savage misdeeds of
the American Indians in the early
days of white settlement cannot match
the cruelties practiced by the Russian
Bolshevists. is the assertion made by
Mr. Edwin H. Bouton, prominent
Baltimore business man who has spent
eleven months in Poland. In fact"
says Mr.. Bouton, so hideous and re-
voting have these forms of cruelty be-
come that the Russians have in many
instances refused to carry them out,
and the Bolshevist leaders have in
their hire band of Chinese expressly
employed to commit the vilest of their
foul deeds against captives."
Not many people are are aware of
the fact-but it is fact nevertheless
that the Wilson administration must
bear large share of responsibility for
the dominance Of bolshevism in Rus
STA. The administration has played
hand-in-glove with the bolshevists and
their American sympathizers. 1t per-
mitted the holding of a bolshevik
meeting in hall owned by the gov
eminent at Washington, ind so dan
gerous were the. doctrines talked at
that meeting that protest was voiced
on the floor of the United States Sen
ate. The Democratic administration
has given refuge to bolshevik sympa-
thizers and kept many of them on
government payrolls. One of Presi-
dent Wilson's appointees wrote to
Col. Theodore Roosevelt in behalf of
Mooney, the San Francisco I. W. w.
leader who had been convicted of muir
der, and Col Roosevelt replied, refus-
ing his cooperation and saying:
81 answer your letter at length be-
cause you have taken and are taking
on behalf of the administration an at
titude which seems to me to be funda-
mentally that of Trotsky and the other
Bolsheviki leaders of Russia; an at
titude which may be fraught with mis-
chief to this country
Time has show that Col. Roosevelt
foresaw the danger but under estimat-
ed its degree. The Trotsky attitude
aided by the Democratic administra-
ton, proved to be not merely danger
to this county but to world civiliza-
ton. Not even the aboriginal Ameri.
can savage who scalped, his victim
committed such vile atrocities as are
recorded to the discredit of the boil
shevik proteges Of the Democratic
party. Roosevelts protest was of M
avail, and today that same Democratic
party would perpetuate itself in powe
by nominating man bearing thu
Roosevelt name who has been mem
Der of the administration Col Roose
welt denounced
Unless the American people los
their memories between now and cleo
tion day, there is no likelihood that tn
party which affiliates with bolshevisr
will be able to win blu such trans
Jparent ruse The vast. majority of tn
rank and file of the Democratic part
are men and women of patriotism, in
dustry,, thrift and sanity. Without thei
consent without their knowledge
the party leadersAhave linked the ad
ministration with bolshevikism a
though at this late day they seek
break the association. The lection re
turns in November will show that tn
rank and file resent the course pul
sued. They will rebuke the leaders
a manner that admits of no misundei
standing either in America or Russii