Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-31
OUR ANSWER TO THE REDS

when the people of the Brikedl
 States understand the red movement
 in this country and throughout the
 world the present menace to our gov-
 ernment and oar institutions will have
 passed. Until they understand the
 danger will persist in spite of the ef-
 forts of the department or justice to
 stamp 1t out, writes F. P. Garvan.
 assistant attorney general, in the In dependent.
 1t is the duty of every loyal citizen to study this movement and it's aims and 10 calculate the effects its triumph would have upon him, his family and his interests. It is the duty of every educator, every editor, every minister to tell again and again what this movement really means.
 It is a movement for world donin- alton in the interests of it's corrupted leaders in Moscow and their confed- crates in other countries Just as Germany went to war under such phrases as freedom of the seas" and "a place in the sun forgetting the rule of God in. its desire to possess other peoples property, so the reds
 have gone to war, calling for the die tatorship of the proletariat and Hall power to the workers" but bent upon l the same objects. The war just clos
 ed and the war just opend are alike, I in that both were started in the inter estg of the rulers and not of the peo- pies.
 The bolsheviks after more than two years of power in Russia still promise | the people peace, bread and land, but they have been unable to satisfy the actual needs Of the population ex- cept by wasteful use of previously ac-
 eumuiated stocks. Even the guaran-
 tees of their soviet constitution have l been suspended and the country is ruled by a military dictatorship of
 self appointed communist comnais- 1 Sionaries.
 Now from Russia the bolshevists l turn to the other nations of the world
 for they know very well. that without 1 new, fields for action they cannot long continue in power, even in Russia
 And in every country they find theus- lands ready to reach into the fire foi i their chestnuts.
 The American people must under stand that it is not the old time soaI l box orator we have always tolerated that we have to deal with today. It fl l a movement well financed and well or. ganized, for so rich a prize as tn, United States is worthy of large in. vestment and the most careful though in organization.
 During the war not much radios
 agitation was aimed against the gov ernment for the people would not tol | crate it, but with the. signing of th, armistice there came a relaxation O l vigilance, and they were. willing fo
 anyone, native or alien, to say wha i twas on his mind At the same tim l the department of justice was. to som
 I extent, disarmed, for the espionag l acts under which it was given powe fl to deal with the advocates of violenc
 against the government during tn
 conflict were purely war Legislation 1 inapplicable in times of peace.
 Agitators sprung up everywhere an, set to work. The year 1919 will be re membered as a year of strikes, man,
 of them fomented and seized upon b reTolutionaries to further their ends Radical newspapers, in English and Ii many foreign languages came int being by scores in our larger cities until now there are some 450 of va rious shade of radical views being cir eulated in this country. Many of thef
 have no advertising to speak of, indi eating that they are receiving fnone
 from outside sources to further thei propaganda.
 There were dozens of divisions ( : radicalism at the end of the war, eac : group holding different views, but no' ; there are only two: the anarchist and the communists The out t-and [ Tout anarchists are difficult to appre ], bend for they meet in secret and aF i without any records of organization t Frequently members of the variou ! societies are unknown to each othe l They are working for the destruetie 3 of all government and all law. but al
 few i'll number compared with the sec ond group-the communists.
 !. The backbone of one anarehistic 0. ganizatien, the Union of Russia
 Workers, was broken by the depart . ment of justice raids last Novenbs and many Of it's leaders deporte6 0 7 the transport ''Buford" This organ ? ization professed to believe il the so viet form of government and to l : working for it's establishment in til. country. In reality 1t was seeking tt establishment of soviets in the Unite States as a step toward no govern ment at ala step toward anarchy. The communist party and the con munist labor party, against which Il 2 present activities of the departmel : of justice are being directed, haA , grown by leaps and bounds since the z organization The communist par f was organized September 1 1919, wit an approximate membership of 5506
 Since that time it's membership h; doubled. It differs from the commul z ist labor party only in name. All tl | socialists, except comparative :. small number in the right wing, al q all other extremists, because the SUI ]. porters, if not actual members, of u s communist party. Recently there h | come to light evidence that the ts d eommunist parties were about to jo e hands in a desperate movement for t t overthrow of the government.
 et It requires only the reading of t !. communist party manifesto which IS