Evening star., 1920-01-01
WARFARE ON REDS
! IN j. s. TO GO ON,
!; Mr.. PALMER SAYS
All Organizations Urged to
/ Expose Purpose of
B0IshevistS.

"Unflinching, persistent warfare
has been declared against all enemies
of organized government during the
coming year, says Attorney General
Palmer in a statement outlining the
future policy of the Department OF
Justice in dealing with radicals.
No quarter is to be shown bolshe-
visits or other apostles of disorder,
described by Mr.. Palmer as Chiefly
criminals. mistaken ideahsts. social
bigots and unfortunates suffering
from various forms of hyperesthesia.
In addition to establishing the posi-
tion of his department on this issue.
the Attorney General asks the general
public to interest itself in the prob
lem. To counteract the red" move
ment he asks that it's purpose be ex-
posed through pulpit. press. schools.
patriotic organizations and labor
unions. "all of which are within the
range of it's insidious attacks" Boil
shevism is not movement of liberty
loving persons, but distinctly GRIM
1nal and dishonest scheme. said the
Attorney General He disclosed that
the government has been engaged in
tracing down motives. methods and
mannerisms of the element which has
been charged with the direct cause of
IS per cent of the unrest in this coun-
try. presentatives of the Depart
ment of Justice working with agents
of allied powers have gone into Rus
definite information of the plans of
those responsible for introducing to
the world the dictatorship of the pro-
1etariat.
Attorney Generals Statement.
The statement follows:
1T would be extremely helpful to
the cause of good government, the
maintenance of law and order and
the preservation of peace and happi-
ness in our country, if the people on
this New Year day would resolve to
study. understand and appreciate the
so-cal1ed red movement They can
counteract it most effectively by
teaching it's purpose through the
press. the church, the schools. pa
triotic organizations and labor unions.
all of which are within the range
of it's insidious attacks.
Represents Doctrine Of Violence.
"The red movement does not mean
an attitude of protest against alleged
defects in our present political and
economic organization of society. 1t
does not represent the radicalism of
progress. 1t represents a specific
doctrine, namely, the introduction of
relationships the world over by force
and violence. 1t is not a movement
of liberty-loving persons. but a dis
tinctly criminal and dishonest move
ment. Lenin himself made the state
ment at the third soviet conference:
Among 100 so-called bolsheviks there
Is one real bolshevik. thirty nine
criminals and sixty FOOLS It advo-
Gates the destruction Of all ownership
in property. the destruction of all re-
1igion and belief in God. 1t is a move
ment organized against democracy
built by force. Bolshevism, syndical-
ism. the soviet government. sabotage,
etc, are only new names for old
theories of violence and criminality
Two Year Chaos in Russia.
More than two years ago the fanat-
lcal doctrinaires of communism in
Russia took advantage of the situa-
tion that had developed in that suf-
fering country. The war had brought
the Russian people to a state of acute
economic distress. The first revolu-
tion. the democratic and national rev.
olution of March. 1917. had inevitably
caused much confusion of mind in the
masses of the people who had been
allowed to go hungry and ignorant
under the old regime of the czars.
AFTER more than two years the boil
shevists. who, under these conditions,
power. are still promising the work
men and peasants of Russia peace
bread and land but have been unable
10 satisfy or help them except through
the wasteful consumption of accumu-
lated stocks Even their so-caIlel
soviet constitution has been sus-
pended, and the country is ruled by
eelf-appointed communist commits
sionaries. The Dictatorship of the
proletariat' has degenerated into a
military dictatorship Of a subsidized
and corrupt portion Of the proleta-
riat.'
Lenin FOrbfds Striker.
Though their adherents in this
country are advocating and fomenting
strikes, Lenin and Trotsky forbid
strikes, and trade unions are being
broken up and completely subordi-
mated to the will of the few dema-
gogues in control
This bolshevist experiment 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 repudiate
democratic principles as we under
stand them. 1t has been a gamble
which meant for Russia, and, indeed.
for the whole Of humanity, enormous
losses In lives as well as in material
resources. The bolshevists have run
up colossal bill, which the Russian
workmen and peasants will have to
pay.
Having lived at the expense of the
Russian people for two years, these
spectators in human lives and other
peoples earnings are trying to move
10 new fields. to the east and to the
west. hoping to take advantage of the
economic distress and confusion of
mind in which humanity finds itself
after the terrific strain of five years
of war.