The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-02-05

withdrew.
Law officers have reported through
the public press that the "parlor'
bolsheviki many of whom are rich
are supporting the extreme radica
periodicals and are contributing t.
the various funds Idlers most OF
them. the radical movement affords a
diversion. They help to pile the tin
der while the paid agitator holds the
match
Teachers Are Unsound.
Danger is said to Turk in the teach
ing profession and college and univer-
sity heads have reported a widespread
infection of unsound sentiment among
individual professors and teachers.
and. in some instances. the existence
of organized groups. In one of the
biggest universities was found Il So
ciety Of professors engaged in prac-
ticing and preaching disloyalty to the
fundamentals of the American form
Of government: and it became neces-
sary to break it up and to get rid OF
some of these nm American theorists
According to Attorney General Pal
mer, in a recent report to the senate.
there are 4l6 daily newspapers and
periodicals preaching the red doctrine
They are printed chiefly in the lam
guages of eastern Europe, and reach
thousands of foreigners who. fresh
from the grievances of autocratic re-
gime, have not yet learned what the
American form of government is
Beyond a benign Influence, because of
their ignorance Of the language of
their adopted country, they become
tools for the practiced hands of the
salaried agitator Lenine the red has
proclaimed a class war, and his pro-
the founders of United
assert is being diligently
followed in the United States
Such, in brief review. was the sit
uation which confronted a body OF
prominent men who first gathered in
Chicago a year ago to devise means
to combat the red peril. Counter
movements had already begun in the |
northwest states by the forming of |
several unrelated associations and |
similar effort was being made in the |
east. At the final meeting in Chicago /
t was determined to combine forces !
md to form one organization which
should be all embracing and which /
should have as its single principle the |
eaching of Americanism
Work on the project was begun i'm J
nediately and another meeting was
leld in New York last April when |
vas appointed committee on organ
cation which was to consider first,
he character and extent of the radi- |
al movement and, secondly, how best |
I could be cOmbatted by American |
citizens who had neither identity nor |
with the destructive doc
rine. This committee had 20 meet
ngs in New York and Chicago and |
Turing the time Of preparation made |
irst hand Investigations The result |
If the Investigations was placed be-
ore larger group of representative
men, who were thus able to measure
he extent of the radical enterpris
md who We're qualified to determine
What means should be adopted to off
ct it.
Meet FalIacy With Truth.
They resolved on two expedients
)ne was that fallacy must be met
With the truth. It was regarded as
lie to enter into controversy with
he radical elements as the new or
anization might be regarded as an
-bOlshevist rather than pro-Ameri-
an, between which there is a nice
The other expedient
ettled upon was that of education. II
as decided to present simple facts
oncerning the American form Of gov
and the principles of right
nd justice on which it is founded
y the written and spoken word IT
as decided to give respect to all the
her organizations and to help If
ossible, whichever ones might occu-
Y "A special field; but, none the less,
found an organization which quail |
led members Of any other whether |
labor, patriotic impulse, business
= what not, might readily join and
18th which other organization they
light happily affiliate for greater eff
'iency and for the prevention of
iplicate action.
A national committee to be COM
'sed of one representative from
cry state will be at the head of the
ganization. This committee will
'termine the program and policy. In |