Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-06-21
ACTIVITIES Of REDS
IN j. S. REVEALED
Correspondent Quotes Recent
Report Regarding Extent
of Seditious Teachings.
To the Editor Of The Star:

! To the Editor of The STAR
Not only are social customs in large
degree controlled by phrases, but we
| are to no inconsiderable extent Row
| erned by them. Consider the condi-
| tions which exist in this country to-
! day in regard to the incubation and
, dissemination of seditious teachings.
! poisoning the minds of the discon-
! tented and uninstructcd and openly
! intended to destroy OUT institutions.
A recent thorough investigation of the
facts by Wade H. Ellis, formerly at
torney general of Ohio3 enC. assistant
attorney general of the$United States,
; shows that the activities of the reds,
/ the l. W. W.. the bolsheviki and the
advanced socialists and communists
were never so great or so bold as at
: present. The overthrow OF all gov
eminent by violence is,openly adVo-
Gated. There are more than $50 daily,
| weekly or. monthly publications in
twenty-six different Languages cir
cu!ated in the United states which
urge direct action to destroy the gov
eminent. 1nfiammatorK pamphlets ap
from Russia are com ing here In
large numbers and beinE distributed
throughout the country and secret
| meetings are being held IN all the
! large cities, where revolution by
bloodshed is melted. -.-
People Taxed to Help ray.
Not only so. but as the law now
stands the people of the country are
taxed to help pay for the dissemina-
ton by the mails of the deadly poi
son. Read a single extract from
recent issue of the Communist, which
fairly represents them all:
You must organize in the shops
and use the strike against tne gov
eminent You must be prepared SO
that when the revolutionary CRISIS
comes you can turn general strike
against the government into an armed
uprising to overthrow the govern
ment."
protect it's citizens from such a dam
ger, citizens from whom 1t Is exact
ing enormous taxes? Nothing, so far
as we can learn. Certainly nothing
that has checked or is diminishing the
evil. Is it not the duty OF the gov
and they are ample-to protect itself
| and it's citizens from this growing
/ menace?
What is the reason for its inaction?
! So far as can be aScertalned, a phrase
"a phrase which has been distorted
| and twisted from it's original mean
: ing and purpose and made fetlch-
Free speech and tree press, ana
which is interpreted to mean that
any one may say or print anything
whatever without restriction or pun
! ishment unless and until active Vlo-
/ lence results 1t is as though board
| of health, aware the disease germs
were being spread about in its Juris-
diction. were to say I'VE can do noth-
ing until some one is proved to have
been infected and died Ana TINS d!
a time when it is universally agreed
that the most effective means of
amelioration and improvement in
every sphere of life is prevention.
Arrest Of Promoters Urged.
Every promoter of sedition should
| be arrested and Jailed and their vile
sheets suppressed. But, no! We must
maintain free speech and free press
! inviolate at any cost, until a revolu-
! ton breaks out and blood flows in
! the streets. and then, perhaps, we
may venture to try to put it down.
| There is another phrase which is
perverted to wrong and harm1u!
iuse in another direction. The gov
/ eminent is at loss where to turn to
! meet the enormous and, with the COM
ling bonus bill, increasing demands for
revenue with which to meet its en-
gagements and carry on its activities.
Lying neglected. not even mentioned.
are resources which could be made to
yield heavily. Tea and coffee are
luxuries, not necessaries, and a tax
on them would furnish a basis for
reciprocity with other countries, but
some one in an evil day invented the
phrase, "a free breakfast table," and
no party dare to tax tea or coffee in
the face of it. Why the breakfast
table should be free any more than
everything else that is taxed has
never been shown, but there stands
the phrase. and no one dares to butt
,up against it. Tea and coffee stand
really on the same footing as tobac-
CO as regards their availability for
taxation and the propriety of taxing
them ARCHIBALD HOPKINS.