Evening star., 1920-03-29
NO REDS IN FAMILY
Of NATIONS, .C|V|l
FEDERATION STAND
Organization Demands Thar
U. S. Refuse Recognition
to Soviet Russia.
Ry the Associated Press:

Ry the Associated Press:
NEW YORK. March sq.-The NJ
tienal Civic Federation, Of whit
Judse Alton p. Parker Is preside n,
hayins membership eff men an
women prominent In all FERNS Of pu-
lie and political endeaver. In stat
ment last night came cut strongly n
opposition te recognition Of ssYtt
ksssia. The statement; signed y
mera than three hundred persss
" hose HaInss arg nationally h..9ri
will be sent to President Wilson.
1t declares that tbs psspis vi tte
United States "eanHet esHsen. te g
init lnte 'hS family sf natioHs 81 i.
any eth-F way eeghtehsi-ss tn.' sy
ern.nent' ef .:olente $50 ,e.fa'
There must be Hs eemprem'se y
tween American democracy end ny
sian belshe~lsiH:''
Contrary te ideals,
The declaration leile~s III pnrti
I'VE betlsv- The. reeegnitier Of
sevlst Russia would te repudie.in
of all that euf national life has rp-
years and 81 Fl. she spiritpsl ias :
for which modern civilization Has
striveu for two thousand years.
Aiming to Destroy the buIwark,of
morality and social order. soviet M
cts have attempted to interdlct me
teaching of religion. d'sfrhnchisedih a. 9
clergy and made marriage rre
civil contract which may be br6en
by either party It's system and thn
chise destroy representative gown :
ment. which. since the Magma Chrta,
The world has cCme to regard astne
arst essential political factor oithe
modern state. Its program o,aks
every law Of economies and IN rae
tice destroys production.
The fundamental principle anpur-
rose Of the bolshevist propatnoa
abroad is world revolution. wtther
that propaganda Is carried on b offi-
cial soviet representatives. by .oliti-
cal parties which belong to their
communist international. or by1nde
pendent organizations that spport
sovietism because of its Temporary
ability to maintain it's power
"Bolshevism by all of its dcrees.
publications and acknowledge acts
has demonstrated that it is dstruc-
tive movement, depending forts sue
cess in Russia upon terrorism and
minority dictatorship. and in oreign
countries upon support and sy1pathE
obtained through propaganda. Zinno-
view himself. while presiden' the
Petrograd soviet, declared rat the
very existence of the soviet rgime is
a menace to all other governments.
Disloyalty and DisoFdr.
"Where government is mo, stable.
as in America. every elemer of dis
loyalty. disorder and discntent is
stimulated by this propagana Where
government is unstable. al IN GER
many. revolutionists are ubsidized
and aided, and an early soiet revo-
luton is confidently reckoed upon.
Even il only temporarily uccessful.
such an overturn which nigat be-
come an upheaval in all tntral Eu-
rope. would be world ca1nity. Civ
ilization must face and meet t''S
deadly challenge. ConcesSns OF
kind whatever can only erourag,
enemy.
with the recognition the soviet
regime the presence of ara AMBASSADOR
and consular agents enjging immu-
mites leach center intrigued.
the propaganda of the lnin-Trotsky
regime against civilizaon. already
working through so mar radical and
pseudo liberal organizaons and re-
Gently augmented by an endless
stream of inspired pres stories from
Moscow and PetrogradEould be fur
ther ramified and dangerously ex-
tended
'It is their declared ntention. first.
to undermine and theno gain control
of the organized lair unrest. the
stimulation of .strikeSf protest into
general political stTes, and then
into revolutionary PISS action for
the conquest of the ste.
More Dangerous ian Germany.
Thus we have in Ir pwn country.