The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-24
No. Continued From
Page One

1919. with an approximate membership
Of $4,000. S nee that time its mem
bership has doubled. 1t differs from
the Communist Labor Party only IN
name. AL the Socialists, except
comparatively small number in the
right wing. and all other extremists,
became the supporters, If not actual
members. of the Communist Party
Recently here has come TO light EVIL
dence that the two Communist, par
ties were about to join hands in a
desperate movement for the overthrow
of the government.
1t requires only the reading of the
Communist Party manifesto. which
is patterned after the manifesto of
the first congress of the communist
international, held at MOSCOW in
March, 1919, and the constitution of
that party, to convince any loyal
American that its existence is inimical
to our institutions and our govern
ment and that it should be stamped
out I wish these two documents
might be read by every American
citizen. There are thousands of sym
pathizers with the Communists and
other rad Gals who do not know the
doctrines for which they stand. This
very sympathy is a stumbling block
in the way of the department of jus
tice in its present efforts. All mis-
understanding as to the aims of the
Communist Party should be cleared
away.
Its manifesto clearly states:
Communism does not propose to
capture the bourgeois parliamentary
state. but to conquer and destroy it.
At long as the bourgeois state pre-
walls. the capitalist class can BATTLE
the will of the people"
Again:
THE proletarian revolution comes
at the moment of crisis in capitalism,
of a collapse of the old order. Under
the impulse of the crisis. the prole-
tariat acts for the conquest of power
BY means of mass action. Mass action
concentrates and mobilizes the forces
of the proletariat, organized and un-
organized; its acts equally against the
BOURGEOIS state and the conservative
organizations of the working class.
Strikes of protest develop into general
political strikes and then into revolu-
tionary mass action for the conquest
Of the power of the state. Mass ac-
ton becomes political in purpose while
extra parliamentary in form; IL is
equally a process of revolution and the
revolution itself in operation"
The program, although it does not
saw so in so many words, is an express
sion of the desire of a group of the
people to possess the property of 9TH
ers. To fulfil that purpose it is nee
essary thai all government and all re-
ligion shall be destroyed.
Let us consider the property these
revoIutionaries desire to seize. 1t is
the savings bank account of 100000
people, the national bank deposits of
lis. 600. 600 people, the houses of $685.
600 home owners. the lands of 9,S30,O00
farm owners. The Liberty bonds held
date. To these seizures loo, 00o.0o0
honest, God-fearing people are asked
to submit for the benefit of a small
group of Lenins and Trotzkys.
One of the most potent and far
reaching Influences used by the Com
munists and other dangerous radi-
Gals in stirring up discomfort, race
prejudice and class hatred in the
United States is the large number of
radical newspapers and other publica-
tions which are given wide circula-
ton The overthrow of the govern
ment is frankly urged in many of these
publications The editors of these
newspapers and the authors, of these
books have a subtle method of plac-
ing their propaganda before the read
ers; but the reader understands what
is meant.
These publications more than any
other one thing are responsible for
the spread of extreme doctrines in
this county. All efforts are made
,F
who viii be swayed by their teachings.
The subscriber TO a radical paper uses
IL not only for. his own information,
but also educate his fellow workers
and inocuIate them with the doc
trines of snarchism, communism and
radical socialism, thus enlisting their
service for the revolution.
In New York City alone there are
some twenty-five papers published in
German, Hungarian, Russian, Yiddish.
English and other languages that of
ficiaIIy represent themselves as the
organs of the Communist Party. Some
of the statements in foreign languages
Of these newspa pers, all of which are
read in the department OF Justice,
would be astounding to loyal American
readers.
For instance, from an editorial in the
Elore Kepes Folyoirat of March 16.
1919:
q. On the New Ides of March
let US. torn proletariats, all under
stand that our world IS but one-Slav-
eryt There is but one opponent
Capital! And our aim is one-To
build up in place of the land OF mis-
cry, in place of the world of slaves.
the free land of revolution"
The Novs- Mir. whose offices re-
Gently were raided by the department