The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-02-27
U. S. Department of Justice Urges
Americans to Guard Against
BoIsheviSm Menace.
CALLS RED PLANS CRIMINAL
Press, Church, Schools, Labor Unions
and Civic Bodies Called Upon 70
Teach True Purpose Of Boil
shevist Propaganda.

its fight to protect their homes, re
ligion and property from the spread
ing menace Of RosheNiSm. the United
States Department of Justice has is
sued warning against the insidious
propaganda of the Reds during the
new year. II reads
at would be extremely helpful to the
cause of good government, the main
tenance of law and order and the pres
ervation of peace and happiness in our
country If the people on this New
Years day would resolve to study, un
derStand and appreciate the so-called
Red movement They can counter
act it 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 insidious attacks
Red" Theories Criminal
'"The Red movement does not mean
an attitude of protest against alleged
defects in our present political and
economic organization OF society IT
does not represent the radicalsm Of
trine- namely, the introduction Of die
tatorships the world over by force and
violence. 1t is not II movement of lib
erty-loving persons, but a distinctly
criminal and dishonest movement
Lenine himself made the statement at
the Third Soviet Conference 'Amon.
one hundred so-callpd Bolshevists there
Is one real Bolshevik. thirty-nlne Grim
inals and sixty fools 1t advocates the
destruction Of all ownership in proper
~, the destruction of all religion and
belief in God. 1t is a movement or.
gained against Democracy and in IA
vor of the power of the few built by
force. Bolshevism. syndicalism, the
Soviet Government sabotage, etc. are
only names for old theories of violence
and criminality
Russian Labor Crushed
Though their adherents in this coun-
try are advocating and fomenting
strikes, Lenine and TrotZky forbid
strikes, and trade unions are being
broken up and completely subordinat ted
to the will of the few dema gngues in
control in Russia. This Bolshevist eX-
pertinent on the living body Of the
Russian people has not proven in any
sense of the word an erment In
Democracy. The Boshevist leaders
frankly repudiate democratic princi-
pies as we understand them. 1t has
been a gamble which meant for Rus
SR, and, indeed. for the whole of hui
manity, enormous losses in lives as
well as in material resources. The
Rolshevists have run up a colossal bill
ants will have to pay
"Reds" Menace America.
Having lived at the expense of the
Russian people for two years, these
spectators in human lives and other
peoples earnings are trying TO move
to new fields to the east and to the
west, hoping to take advantage of the
economic distress and confusion of
mind in which humanity finds Itself
after the terrific strain of five years
Of war
Its sympa thiZers in this country are
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Try own Liberty Bonds. These the
meas propose 10 take away 9,s3o,W
people IN the United States own farms
ann ''e"s'"H more own homes, which
fheN ""uld forfeit; lHn,oOo odd PEG
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posts IN our national banks, al which
they aim. There are hundreds of thou
sands OF churches and religious insti-
unions all OF which they would ah"l.
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working ana saving people VIII" own