El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-31
.BOLSHEVIK MENACE THREATENS
To- ENGULF WORLD IN NEW WAR
Reds Flay Every Obstacle in Drive Toward Heart Of
Europe and on West; Means Regeneration Of Old
PFussian Ideal For France and Great Britain 1t Is
The Old Threat of 1914 Ten Times Magnified.


IITASHINGTON. D. C.. jan 51.-Tht
w more one touches the situation
at the national capital at the present
hour, the more one is struck with
astonishing Indifference to . inter
national problems, the enormous con-
centration upon domestic questions
and, beyond all else. the rather puerile
effort to discuss and view questions
which are essentially international
from a totally parochial point Of
view It is as II by common consent
all men in public office were seeking
to abolish by silence and by avoid
ance the great events and the great
deeds OF recent years and believed
that by such a course one could dis
pose Of the great problems. which
have resulted from recent world dis
turbances.
The most striking illustration Of
this tendency is found IN the attitude
toward bolshevism- We have in
Washington. as everywhere else In
the United States, at the present mo-
ment, discussion Of the socalled red
peril" One hears solemn discussions,
based upon the argument that the eX-
tension OF the policy OF deportation
to include q few thousands instead
OF a few hundreds Of alien anarchists
will presently remove the danger
which exists for the nation in the
holshevist disturbance in Russia
Holds No Interest
Conversely. not the smallest inter
est is manifested anywhere in the
rapid and still uninterrupted west
ward movement OF bOlshevism itself.
The fact that within year bolshev-
ism. that Trotzky and Lenine have
been able TO establish their control
over the larger part Of Russia, TO
dominate upwards OF lz5,0OO,00O OF
human beings. 10 destroy the armies
made un OF Russians, who have chal-
lenged their control TO break through
the Gordon Hnnitntire OF the Paris
conference, 70 reach the Baltic and
the Black seas. excites no comment
and no apprehension
while the discussion of the
ratification OF the treaty Of YER
EaiIles periodically lanEuishes
and recurs with renewed energy
there e. an ever Increasing CON
victiOn that the right policy for
America f. complete separation
from Europe.
Even the crusade against the reds
acter OF an effort TO reinforce our
withdrawal from Europe by the eX-
pulsion from America OF a certain
number Of undesirable Europeans
Washington would have you be-
fieve-and the country believes II
with unmistakable readiness-that
the world war is over. All through
the country one hears urEings that
the treaty OF Versailles be ratified
by the senate without reservations
or with reservations. neither circum-
stance seems much 70 signify. as the
last circumstances in the restoration
Of peace It seems to be a common
notion that the mere ratification Of
the peace document VIII in some mys-
-erious manner close this chapter OF
history and forcibly disarm the mill
Hons who from the gulf OF Finland
TO the Dalmatian coast and from the
Fistula to the Tigris. still stand In
arms.
VIII Not Affect Reds.
But patiently the ratification %
neace will not affect the bolshevists.
Even the sending home OF a certain
number Of reds cannot be more cal
culated to strike terror into the heart
Of Leline than vas the dispatch OF
Won Papen and his associates 20 Ger
many during the war, successful in
bringing the kaiser TO hear reason
We did not stop German intrigue in
America by our eXpul5iOus; We did
not even mitigate the evil. and the
reason was that the trouble was in
Germany. not America. and as long
as we were ready 20 lend eur strength
continued to menace US in ours. Our
experience with bolshevism will not
be different
In recent days the bolshevists have
reached the Baltic, the power OF re-
sistance OF the Let's and Lithuanians
is exhausted. and Poland and Ru-
manian alone Of the border states re-
main Poland has a large army. but
it has also 20 face the German men
ace for the allies have failed to give
Poland DanziE. and the title Of the
districts OF Silesia waits ad-
Indication by plebiscite-
Despite an Improvement in do
nestle condition. Poland Is in
capable Of maintaining an army i
Of $4,000 in the field long. with
ont allied subventiOns which are
not to he expected. and with this
army the single remaining bull
yvar< nEainsf the boIshevisfs viii
disappear.
AS for Rumania, she is ready and
willing 20 make peace with the boil
shevists. having been treated with
contempt by the western nations. and
for the present such q nea1e falls IN
with bolshevist necessities.
Il Il upon Poland that world at
tention must now be fixed But the
western nations. so TAR from rec
ognizing that Poland is the single
wall against the Russian red. are fol-
lowing their old policy OF procrasti-
nation. which. in the last war. sacri-
feed both Serbia end Rumania-
Important 20 Germany.
II Il OF utmost importance to Ger
position, not mainly or even primarily
her military station. but her economic
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