Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-01
TO DEPoRT 1000 REDS.
Attorney General Palmer Analyses
Real Aims of BoIshevists.


Washington, Jan. Following dis
closure that the department of JUS
tice is rounding up approximately g.
200 more bolshevists in various parts
sf the Ianntas for ~lepoxation to
Europe, Attorney General Palmer last
night urged the American people to
take a New Years resolution "to stu
dy. understand. and appreciate the
so-called Red movement"
The attorney general in his state
ment says his department has been
actively pursuing the Reds. This
activity resulted In a deportation Of
24s Reds on the Soviet ark" last
week and 1000 foreign agitators, the
department says. will be arrested
within the next two months.
This department, as far as exist
ing laws allow, intends during the
Forthcoming year to keep up per-
sistent, aggressive warfare against any
movement, no matter how cloaked or
either the PRONUNCIATION OF these ideas
or the excitauon Of sympathy for
those who spread them," said Mr..
Palmer.
This red movement will not be
permitted to go far enough In this
country to disturb our peace and we'll
being, or create any widespread dis
trust Of the peoples government, 1t
will fall away before the light of pop
ular knowledge and appreciation of it's
aims and purposes"
According to Mr.. Palmer the devo-
tees of bolshevism in the United
States "are composed chiefly Of GRIM
inals, mistaken idealists, social bigots.
and many unfortunate men and wo-
men, suffering with varying forms Of
hyperesthesta. They are enemies Of
the government, Of the church. and Of
the home, and advocate principles
which mean the abolition Of all three
Of those safeguards Of civilization"
The red movement does not mean an
attitude Of protest against alleged de-
fects in our present political and eco
nomic organisation of society. said the
attorney general.
TT does not represent tho radicalism
Of progress" he continued. TT rep
rescnts a specific doctrine. namely. the
introduction Of dictatorships tho world
over by force and violence. 1t is not
n movement Of liberty loving persons,
but distinctly criminal and dishonest
movement.
''Lenine himself made the statement
at the third soviet conference. Among
100 so.oalled bolsheviks there is ono
real bolshevik, thirty-nine criminals,
and sixty fools 1t advocates the de-
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tho destruction OF all religion and be-
lief in God. It Is movement organ
izcd against democracy and In favor Of
tho power Of the few built by force.
Bolshevisn, syndicalism. the soviet
government, sabotage etc., are only
new names for old theories Of violence
and criminality."
While bolshevists in this country are
fomenting strikes, Mr.. Palmer pointed
out, Lenine and Trotzky forbid strikes
and suppress labor unions, With the
soviet constitution suspended and the
"dictatorship OF the proletariat" re-
placed by q a"mllitary dictatorship Of
a subsidised and corrupt portion of tho
proletariat" the bolshevlst experiment
In Russia, no said. had been the an
tithesls Of democracy.
Having lived at the expense OF the
Russian people for two years" he
adds, "thoae speoulators In human
livcs and other peoples earnings are
trying to move to now fields, to the
east and 70 tho west, hoping to take
advantage ot tho economic distross
ana ccn3usion Of mind In which hu-