Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-02-26
U. S. Department Of Justice Urges
Americans to Guard Against
Bolshevism Menace.
CALLS RED PLANS CRIMINAL
Press. chHrch. Schools, Labor uRioNs
asd clvis Bosies Called Upoa 70
Tssoh IRIS Purpoos a Boi-
ohsvist Propaganda.


| It's 6gAs % protect their homes, re-
llgtOn and property from the spread
ING MESSAGE 81 BolsheYRsm, the United
i States Department Of Justice has Is
sued 4 warning against the lnsldicus
propaganda Of the REDS daring the
new year. It reads:
e would be extremely helpful to the
cause % good government, the main
tenanee o. law and order and the pres
ervation 81 peace end happiness in orr
country Il the people on this New
Years day would resolve to study. IN
derstand and appreciate the so-called
Red movement They Gun counter
act e most effectively By teaching its
purpose through the press, the church,
the schools. patriotic Organizations and
labor unions all OF which are within
the range Of its Insidlous attacks.
aRed" Theories Criminal.
the Red movement does not mean
an attitude Of protest against alleged
defects IA our present political and
economic organization Of society. It
does not represent the radlcalism Of
progress. II represents a specific doc
trine namely, the introduction Of die
tatorships the world over BY force and
violence. Il Is not q movement OF lib |
erty-lOying persons, but q distinctly /
criminal and dishonest movement
Lenine himself made the statement at +
the Third Soviet Conference, Among
one hundred so-caIled BoIshevists there
IS one real Bolshevlk, thirty-nine GRIM
mails and sixty fools II advocates the
destruction Of all ownership In proper
u. the destruction of all religion and
BELIEF ia Cod It Ii a movement or
ganized against Democracy and III Ia
vor Of the power Of the few built By
force Bolshevism. syndiealIsm. the
Soviet Government. sabotage, etc, are
only pames for old theories Of violence !,
and cglmlnality.
Russian Labor Crushed.
Though their adherents in this coun-
Try are advocating and f0menting
strikes. Lenine and TrotzkY forbid
strikes. and trade unions are being
broken up and completely subordinated
20 tie viii Of the few demagogues 10
control ID Russia. This BolsheVlst ex-
periment o. the living body Of the
Russian people has not proven Ia any
sense o. the word an e pertinent "a
Democracy. The BolshevisE leaders
frankly repudiate democratic prlnsi-
pies as we understand them. II HIS
been gamble which meant for Rus
s.a, and. indeed, Tor the whole Of ha-
mRnity. enormous losses 10 lives is
well as d material resources. The
Bolsheyists have run up a colossal bin
which fhe Russian Worhmen and peas.
knts YIN have to pay.
RsauV Menace America.
Having lived at the expense OF the
Russian people for two years. these
Spectators IA human lives and other
peoples earnings are trying to move
60 nSW fields 70 the east and 20 the
west hoping 70 take advantage of the
ee0nomic distress and confusion of /
mind 10 which humanity ands itself /
after the terrific strain Of I've years /
b war.
lts sgmpathizers In this country are
composed chiefly Of criminals, mia
taken ideaifsts, sscial bigots and many
unfortunate men and women suffering
with varying forms Of hyperestheGia. :
They are enemies 81 the government,
q the church and Of the home and adj
vocate principles which mean the aboli.
ton Of al three Of these safeguards Of
civilization.
WouI8 Reb Evervbesv
Twenty million people IN this cour-
Try own Liberty Bonds. These the
Reds propose TO take away; $780, 600
people Ia the United States own farms
and 8s58, 900 more own homes, which
they would forfeit; II 600, 600 odd peo-l
pie have savings accounts ID savings
banks and 100000 people have de-
posits u our national banks, at which
they aim. There are hundreds Of thou
sands Of churches and religious insti-
tutions all Of which they would aboE-
ish. u other words, 10000 COO hard
working and saving people who own
property, love liberty and worship God
IRE asked to abandon all the ideals of
religion, liberty and government, which
lro the outcome of the struggles oE
heir fathers and their own develop.
ngna and TO place themselves their
homes their family and their religious
.aith b ne keeping and their pFope-ty
lnder the domination of g small group
Se Lenines and Tr0tzlys.
protectisu Promlned.
''Ihis department.. IS far as existing
avs allow, intends during the forth.
,oming year to keep up an unainchiEe
persistent aggressive warfare against
inv nl0venent no matter how cioaked
Y dissnbled, having for its purpose
.lther the PRONUNCIATION o. these ideas
y the excitation Be sympathy Tor
hose VINO spread them. The move
nent win not be permitted to % far
lnough 10 this country to disturb our
leace and weIl-being or create any
distrlst Of the peoples
government II win fan away before
he light Of popular knowledge ard
Of its aims and purposes