Williams news., 1920-03-05
U. s. Department of Justice Urges Americans to Guard Against
 BoIshevism Menace.
CALLS RED PLANS CRIMINAL
Frees. Church. Schools. Labor Unions S and Civic Bodies Called Up pon to Teach True Purpose of Boi-
 shevist Propaganda.

its fight to protect their homes, re
 Hgion and property from the spread
 ing menace of Bblshevism, the United
 States Department of Justice has is-
 sued warning against the insidious
 propaganda of thet"Reds'' during the
 new year. It reads:
 "It 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 jon 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 it's purpose through the press, the church, labor unions, all of which are within the range of it's 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 radicalism of progress. It represents specific doc trine-namely, the introduction of die tatorships the world over by force and violence. It is not a movement of lib- erty-lOving persons, but a distinctly criminal and dishonest movement. Lenine himself made the statement at the Third Soviet Conference, Among one hundred So-called BolsheviSts there | is one real Bolshevik, thirty-nine crim- inals and sixty fools It advocates the destruction of all ownership in proper ty, the destruction of all religion and belief in God. It is a movement or ganized against Democracy and in fa- vor of the power of the few built by force. Bolshevism, syndfcalism, the Soviet Government, sabotage, etc, are only nam es 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 subordinated to the will of the few dema gogues 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 experiment in Democracy. The Bolshevist leaders frankly repqdiate democratic prfnci- pies as we understand them. It has been a gamble which meant for Rus sia, and, indeed, for the whole of hu- manity, enormous losses in lives as well as in material resources. The Bolshevists have run up a colossal bill which the Russian workmen and peas ants will have to pay.
 "Reds" Menace America.
 Having lived at the expense of the Russian people for two years, these speculators in human lives and other peoples earnings are trying to move to new fields to the east and to the; west, hoping to talk advantage of the economic distress and confusion of mind in which humanity finds itself after the terrific strain of five years of war.
 ''Its sympathizers in this country are composed chiefly of criminals, mis- taken idealists, social bigots and many unfortunate men and women suffering with varying forms of hyperesthesia. l They are enemies # the government, cf the church and of the home and ad- vecate principles which mean the aboli- l ton of ali three of these safeguards of ! civilization.
 WOQio f7oD Everypooy. . Twenty million people in this coun- try own Liberty Bonds. These the 1 Reds propose to take away; 9,S3OOOO | people in the United States own farms and 3,838, ,00O more own homes, which | they would forfeit; 100000 odd peo- pie have savings accounts in savings banks and 18,000,oO0 people have de- posits in our national banks, at which fh0vv civ 6 <1e II, sands of churches and religious insti- tutions, all of which they would abol- ish. In other words, 100000 hard and saving people who own property, love liberty and worship God are asked to abandon all the ideals of religion, liberty and governm lent, which are the outcome of the struggles of their fathers and their own develop ment, and to place themselves, their homes, their family and their religious faith in the keeping and their property under the domination of a small group of Lenines and Trotzkys.
 Protection Promised.
 '"This department, as far as existing laws allow, intends during the forth coming year to keep up an unflinching, persistent, aggressive warfare against my movement, no matter how cloaked or dissembled, having for its purpose either the promulgation of these ideas pr the excitation of sympathy for hose who spread them. The move nent will not be permitted to go far ,nough in this country to disturb our peace and well-being or create any -distruSt of the peoples government. It will fall away before he light of popular knowledge and