Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1921-01-03
ODE SPIRIT
OfAMERICA
d A I L Y
EDITORIAL
d G E S I
Exclusively for The Tribune by the
Consolidated Press Association
Today's Subject:
SLOWING THE DOOR TO "AMBAS-
SADOP" MARTENS.

When the secretary Of labor coufte-
ousiy but firmly showed the door TO
soviet Ambassador" Ludwig - \. +.
Martens. the only criticism voiced py the
press as a whole is that it took MN 80
long to do it. While approving the oruer
entirely, many writers object 60 tAe 'oh Oh
sid, ration Mr.. Martens has received and
fo what they regard rs granting MN
clean lii Of health on his personal ac-
tiyities. i few papers, however. donbt
thnt any good can be aceomplls icd ny
thr deportation.
The presence of Martens in fhe nited
States the Oklahoma City bklaAoman
dem declares. has been constant
menace to American institutions ~" ana
biz agc.ts have been dong thelr acst
to spread discomfort and undermine the
democratic form OF government Gnu
chow much harm he has done. adds tie
Springfield tOhiol News Dem. J. never
can bc adequately reckoned. The W
mmbia Is. c. Record lnem.i agrees
that Martens presence continues pos
five menace" fact which was popu-
lerly appreciated. however. long before
II was otfic ally admitted.
THAT Martens" the Record contin.,
nes. has no place in the scheme OF
things American ard that America mas
no Mace for the scheme Of things for
which Martens stands personally or Or
ficiaily long ago became fixed in the pub
liz mind The real America il way
If tn mixing about things. This state q
mind upon which depends the perma-
nency of America and its institutions,
must not be poisoned By contact with the
insidious doctrines If which Martens. II
we recognize him at his face value as
the accredited ambassador of soyietlsm
Is the pcrsonification. and TO whi"h ~ Is
clear that as an individual hc holds.
This country il not the only one, the
New York Times lind. DEM points out
TO suffer from the presence OF these
ostensible diplomatic agents OF the
Soviet government" They have carried
on their Revolutionary activities III
most of the important countries and
have been expelled in consequence.
They come il the guse Of friendly m
VOWS. but at once turn themselves into
revolutionaries and meters to crane, A
self-resDecting government cannot tot
crate such a course" Whatever att
tude we may choose to take in granting
to Russia THE sort of government the
Russians consider best suited to their
needs" the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch
Indt holds that we still have rlght
to say something about the activities
that government engages in on TINS Slde
Of the Atlantic" And d;sagreeing with
Secretary Wilson's findings as TO Mar
tens personal guilt in trying to Dr'hg
about the overthrow of the United states
government" the Ledger Dispatch CON
cludes that deportation is mud treat
ment to apply to him" The New YORK
Tribune (Rep) also asserts that Mar
tens, both by his activities and his asso-
Citations, has neglected no opportunities
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movements here, and that "the time to
have deported him was immediately fol-
| lowing his arrival.
1T has taken four years for Secre-
tary Wilson to draw mp his indictment
against the Soviet Ambassador says
the Buffalo News (Rep.l. a delay which
would Indicate that he has a powerful
| friend at court" Martens has thus en-
joyed Immunity" the P.ttsburg Gazette
! Times (Rep.l declares. while his dupes
have been punished for the vicious
| deeds which he instigated. The New
| York Mail lind. also finds il tray
esty Oh Justice that be has been "suf-
! fcred to remain here SO long ~ lux
urious comfort. while hundreds far less
morally reprehenslble were forced 10
| leave their families behind them and be
| Arked away into the chaos and suffering
| of Russian residence.
| But now that the country is to be
| freed of the dangerous presence OF the
small inoffensiye man with the elaborate
name" the New York Globe (lnd.l is
| far from sure that we gain anything by
| his going.
1.-THE facts in the case" is says. lay
| ing all dogma aside, are that Russia has
an established government which Mr..
| Marents has represented as well as he
was able, and which is probably passing
day by day further away from the doc
| trines which gave it birth. ...... The
British government, which is no more
| anxious than ours to be overthrown, has
offered the Soviets treaty of commerce,
| blandly overlooking the connection he
| tween Lenine and the Third Information
| ale. Ultimately we shall have to do
| the same, and then we may even miss
| Mr.. Martens"
The Johnstown pa Democrat
| Dem.), also suggests that evidently
John Bulls nerves are less jumpy than