The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
WANTSDRASTIC.
SEDITIONLAWS
Wade H. Ellis Says Red Ac-
tivities Growing at Alarm
ingPace.
TO CURB IMMIGRATION
Order Of Washington Hears
Fifteen Million Have Eyes
On America.
TO CURB IMMIGRATION

Red activity in the United States
has reached an unprecedented ex-
tent, unknown to the great mass Of
the national population, Wade II.
Ellis, former assistant to the Attor-
ney General. told the Order of WASH
ington. at that organizations annual
smoker in the Lafayette Hotel last
night.
Establishment in America of a
Red Guard" similar to that which
exists in Russia. is one of the pur-
poses of the Red organization in
this country, said Ellis.
The very last edition of the In
dustrial Communist for November
of this year." he said. prints an
application for membership which
its readers are asked to sign, en-
listing them as members of the Red
Guard the purpose clearly being to
establish in America the same sort
Of red guard as that which exists
In Russia, and which has recently
been exposed in Great Britain as an
organization now supplied with
arms and training and drilling for
the purpose OF violent insurrec-
ton"
Ellis said he was not an alarmist.
and did not fear destruction Of the
country by ''forcible revolution.1
But I do believe" he said, that
the public generally has no concep-
ton of the extent, the character or
the rapid growth of the insidious
conspiracy that is going on all over
the land to provoke an attempt by
throw orderly government"
Ellis declared that the number of
newspapers in foreign languages,
printed here, was growing; that q
of the most violent of these publi-
cations were being used to corrupt
the minds Of the colored population
of the country. and that innamma-
tory pamphlets and literature of all
kinds from Russia are pouring into
America
While we are sitting here peace
fully tonight" he said, there are
being held in every large city of the
United States secret meetings In
which speeches are being made in
every language demanding, by
bloodshed and revolution. the over
throw of the government under
which we live. This is not an ex-
travagant statement, but a simple
recital of fact"
Ellis declared himself for more
drastic immigration laws to check
the influx of undesirable foreigners,
and demanding application of the
existing deportation laws to all
those who worked against the
country's welfare.
Eyes ON America.
The representatives OF trans
Atlantic steamship companies, which
operate into the port of New York
alone. have just announced that
there are 15,000.o 900 Europeans-
men, women and children of all So
cial and economic qualifications, in
every old and new government
abroad-who are clamoring for i'm
mediate passage to America"
He said conditions were a dis
grace" that permitted violent aliens
and 1. w. WIS to spread the doc
trine of overthrow of the govern
ment through force or violence.
'Tt is an intolerable abuse or
power" Ellis stated, that those
charged with the enforcement of
the deportation laws should hole.
as they have held. that membership
in the L w. w. is not sufficient to
warrant deportation. although the
official organs of this association
are, in thousands of editions and
copies, advocating the forcible over
throw of-the American government
Ellis said he favored anti-sedition
laws that would make 1t a criminal
offense to advocate overthrow of
the government by force OF violence
He urged the Order of Washington
to prosecute a campaign against
Red activities with other patriotic
organizations. The order appointed
a committee to attempt, with other
similar bodies. to secure from Con-
gress remedial legislation.
Other speakers were Gen. Isaae
W. Littell. Admiral Thomas Wash
Ington, Col. G. Noble Jones, Daniel
Smith Gordon and DR.. ]. G. B. Bull
loch. Col. Neyle Colquitt. vice cem-
mander general of the order, pre-
sided. s.