The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-17
REDS SWARM 2. ID ]. s. WITH
 PROP PACANDA
BY UOL.. WINFIELD JONES

tation of many anarchists and reds by the department of justice in the past few months it was learned here to- day that the country is still swarming with these gentry. It is believed that scores of agents of the Lenine Rus sian government, well supplied with gold and persuasive arguments, are still at large in the United States and are actively engaged in the Soviet propaganda, principally in the large eastern and Pacific coast centers of population, and in the big industrial centers- in all sections of the country, The department of justice is keeping an eye open for these propagandists and is gathering them in day by day, but the department is handicapped from lack of large enough fund to be spent in running down the reds Also they are very difficult to find
 Officials of the department believe that in nearly every case of a strike in industrial centers that are thickly populated with foreign born people tue root of the trouble can be traced to the activities of the Lenine agents.
 Of course these people make a lot of trouble for the federal government and for local authorities where they start agitations and strikes, but as far as making progress toward over turning the American government and setting up the Soviet form in this country they are simply wasting their time. There are many reasons why red propaganda cannot get far in the United States. The principal reason Is simple-there does not exist in the United States today, and never has existed, the same abuses that caused the overthrow of the Romanoff dyn. asty in Russia. That, boiled down, is the cruX of the reason the red agi- tators are largely wasting their time in the United States. American labor the most intelligent and inde- pendent in the world, is not fooled by the spacious doctrines advanced by the reds, though it must be acknowl- edged that some of the red argu- ments for overthrow of the govern ment sound plausible, until put under the microscope of cold reason and good American common sense. A nation of home owners is never a na- ton of revolutionists, and that is an- other of the reasons why this country will never experience the horrors of a Soviet government Then, too, there are more than 100000 veterans now in the United States, and to a man they are patriotic to the core and bit ter foes of Bolshevism and all its works.
 In other parts of the world how ever, the Lenine red propaganda is making great progress. It is said to be making considerable headway in Mexico and even in Japan. In Ar menia, reports here are that the Mos COW agents are having considerable success in spreading their doctrines. Armenia, free from the Turks, and not yet thoroughly organized by the British, is well disposed to the Soviet agents, according to reports received in Washington. In India, also, the reds are active and are meeting with cordial reception from many natives who want to throw off the British yoke. It seems that the Soviet pro- paganda is directed specifically against the possessions of the British empire. In this policy Lenine shows that he is trying to work along the lines of least resistance, just as any good general, political as we'll as mili- tary, would try to operate in a great campaign. The British colonies. at least those inhabited by alien and sub ject races, are fertile field for red doctrine. This is only natural for the natives hate the British rule, no mat ter how just and paternal, and are willing to change to a Soviet or any other system if it will only free them from the protecting folds of the Brit ish flag
 It cannot be denied that the Mos COW propaganda, which now extends all over the civilized and even parts of the quasi-civilized world, is direct. ed by master minds-minds that are capable of grasping the greatest of in- ternational situations and that are backed by the resources of Russia, all of which have been taken by the state that is the Lenine administration owns and controls all the gold and na- tural resources of Russia, and these immense treasures are at the com mand of Lenine, not only to be used in waging war, but for the worldwide