, 1922-04-17

Mr.. Collins, who is q wild
spoke here under tho auspices of h
Knights OF Columbus as one Of the
speakers IN the campaign which the
organization has launched on radical
ism.
He said that the forces and agents
ments which the heckler had attrfb-
per under cover and warned against
the ends which they hoped 10 attain
Following his address here. Mr.. Col
Inns had an unique experience when
he followed his usual custom OF en-
EaEinE in open forum discussion of
his topic In support Of some points
that he maze during his address Mr..
ColIfis used the authority of one OF
Americas martyr presidentA-
During the open forum discussion
Mr.. Collins was addressed by a mem
her of tho audience who challenged
the right TO the speaker to attribute
this statement to Abraham Lincoln
and cited an suthorfty to Tefute the
views expressed in which b refuta-
ton also presumably enanated from
Lincoln.
Mr.. Collins challenged rhs heckier
to produce hin authority and was IN
formed that the book was at home.
Possibly withou parallel in Of
this kind Mr.. Collins provided a car
40 hat the man who had challenged
"a part of his address could secure tho
document which wound s~ubstantiate
the charge against h speaker.
The person who had challenged Mr.
Col. ms remarks returned with his
an hurfty and II was proven that h
statements made were not h state
attend the lecture while hs Illus
uted tc President lincoln.
Mr.. Collins has been engaged for
the past 20 years m a continuous
campaign against radicalism. lie is
n member in good standing OF the
international Brotherhood Of Electri-
cad workers t. which he was for eight
years international secretary. He
also served as EDITOR of h Electrical
Worker a publication devoted to the
trade. During the war he was an
industrial expert in the service OF the
rovernmen whose pep slogan, one OF
which is particularly well known here
Patriotism Encourages Production
were posted in industrial centers
from coast to coast.
AS director general of reconstruc-
ton and employment service under
the knights of Columbus he las
since the armistice put hundreds of
thousands OF soldiers and sailors into
worth while occupations.
In tho nti-Bolshevisp1 campaign
he is now conducting he makes a
specially of seeking cut places where
socialists are strongest and of offer
ing to answer rom the public plat
form any questions they may AK.
He has ADDRESSED millions OF people
and answered thousands of questions
Statiny. that hi was not an ala-mist
but rsrely came to awaken people
to fne danger OF h radical cancer
which is effecttng the entire system
Of the country, he sought the indul-
yence OF the crowd Of 400 or o
persons who braved the snosstorm to
of ndicalisn were working in Cas-
trated his charge
IT am amazed simctimes TO go into
some small western city and
nat it has already been infected and
that tho poison is spreading through
Il.
.arhere is no real difference be-
tween American socialism and Rus
sian b~olshevisrn- Bolsheyism is So
cialism in action.
Mr.. Collins said that h worst cen
ters of bolshevism In h country
were found in Detroit. Mich, Butte
Mont., Duluth, Mimi, and In New
york's East Side
Going deeply into his subject and
speaking in a rapid competent a
ner, Mr.. Collins ability to handle h
tonic was soon manifest n the hour
of address Mr. Collins spoke nearly
i, 900 words or enough to fnl sever
al pages of this paper. He spoke to
an appreciative and responsive audi
ence which though large was limited
because of the heavy snowfall
Mr.. Collins viii leave ;snfght for
Denver where he is scheduled to Ad-
dress some Colorado organization
which is waging a. fight against h
Non-rartisan league one Of the forms
of socialism he denounced.