The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
SAYS ITS TIME ID SMASH BOLSHEV|KI
 IN THIS COUNTRY
Charles D. Hains, Former New York Congressman, Here Yesterday, Advocates Dr.
 ganizing at Once

the influence that now appear to be seeking the destruction of the old world is the Bible and Christianity, in the opinion of former Congressman Charles D. Haines of New York.
 Congressman Haines is spending a few days at the Tutwiler hotel, but expects to leave tomorrow for points further south. He is president of the National Council of American Patriots, which has it's headquarters in Boston, and which organization was formed for patriotic purposes. Some of the leading statesmen and business men of the United States are included in the membership of this organization, which Is nov strengthening it's forces to com bat the bolshevist influences which are penetrating this country
 'Fhe time has come when America must awake, when Americans must arise to their native duty, even as Paul Revere on his immortal ride called them from their midnight slumbers to leap to the common defense against a foreign invader" said Congressman Haines. Let no one feed himself on lies about. this We must repent and return to American principles, or in destructive chaos we shall see all that we call America snatched from us FOREIGN BORN
 "Thirteen million of our population | are foreign born; 2000, 600 immigrants are now waiting transportation to the United States. Congested cities of the cast are the hotbeds of anarchy primarily because immigrants flock to those centers.
 "The strength of the militant socialistic forces in the United States is placed at 100000, and the number with advanced socialistic tendencies is estimated to be S0,o0o,0o0.
 Think of it. and understand that the irreligious trend of the country is to break down the morals of the busi- ness man and to discard the faith of our fathers-60 per cent of the popula- tion is not even theoretically connected with any church.
 "Bolshevism is spreading in Europe and sweeping throughout Asia; it has spread across Siberia and is penetrat- ing China and Japan. The wave of un- rest extended into Afghanistan, Persia, Armenia and throughout many Eu- ropean states.
 f.There are a thousand socialistic. societies in the city of New York. The socialistic, l. W. w. and bolshevik movement is spreading throughout the country with the rapidity of prairie l fire. Most Americans have no com prehension how great the inner dan gers of the United States are. They 1 have not contemplated these dangers; | they have not dared to do so. They hare living in the foolish and super ficial contentment of voluntary blind ness They are repeating the course 1 they took in the first 30 months of the J war, resting in likeness and voluntary 1 blindness while Germany knocked out the foundations of human freedom and l civilization. Now Americans are per- hitting the same thing to happen again through the same habit. They | fear to face realities
 | THE PRICE
 ''The price they pay for retaining l that habit is immeasurable. All dem- ocracy has been risksd, and today is still jeopardized. what is our na- Itional status now and what are our dangers? First of them is that we are
 not a real nation. Not even the gigan- tic hammer of the greatest war man has ever known has been able to weld us into one We are 20 people mingled | in the, same continental space, but moi
 a knit unit. There is a cause for this 1 a profound cause. We have renegateS | to our Americanism; we have not ap- preciated it, and have all but lost It l That is the main origin of our past disasters and the source of the no less | serious future dangers which blacken
 our sky. We have thought that it was 1 enough to be formal republic to open our land to all peoples and issue the | call, Come in,' to hurl ourselves peil- mell after money, and to let the gFeai 1 privileges and principles of American 1 ism take care of themselves. We did l so; and. whenkin 1914 the great war
 burst into being, what country We
 had! What a people we were!
 | "The country was prosperous ane was so for many, reasons, and our peo- l pie became money mad and ravenous spenders of easy money-selfishness '! greed and profiteering passion. There
 were no evidences of economy and con- servation;- the morals of the people
 were breaking and standard of busl-
 ness integrity such as no honest man
 would have believed existed. We gave
 all attention to the material side oi life and nothing to the moral or spirit
 ual forces within us. There isSnoth- ling on earth that man needs so much today as religion.
 "The stability of the United States ! depends upon the moral condolences
 between men and men and men and
 God | HENRY WAllENSON
 'T believe with Henry Watterson,
 who said: Surely the future looks
 black enough, yet it holds a hope, a
 single hope. One. and one power only,
 can arrest the descent and save us-
 that is, the Christian religion. Dem
 ocracy is but side issue. The para
 mount issue underlying the issue of democracy is the religion of Christ; the
 bedrock of civilization. the source and
 resource of all that is worth having
 iii the world--that is, that gives prom ! ise in tRe world to come, not as an I abstraction, not as huddle of sects
 and factions, but as mighty force and principle of being. 1 The Word of God delivered by the gentle Nazarene upon the hillsides of Judea, sanctified by the cross of
 Calvary, has survived every assault
 It is now arrayel upon land and sea l turned loose for one last. final lstruggle.'
 Tn one of his last speeches. the late
 Theodore Roosevelt issued a. warning that if we are not all Americans we won't have any nation. If we don't l by wise preparedness in advance solve
 cur social and industrial problems, we will be ripped asunder from within.
 Yes, Americans are organizing
 America for Americans. All the great evils of the world are organized. Where
 organized evils and organized fgood come face to face.< there is but onf issue. Truth is mighty and shall pre- vail. But truth must he championed
 upheld with courage. fought for >ant made unceasngly potent
 THE ENEMY
 There are thousands of militant socialists. " WIS and bolsheviks who dehy Iscd aad ,ck at America