The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-05-26

Wichita Kan. May 25-The output
of unsound radical propaganda IS one
of the most serious menaces in the
United States today. Thomas 3. NC
Adams. president of the Amer can
Bankers Association. declared in a
speech before the convention of the
Kansas State Bankers Association
here recently. He cited North Da-
kota, the stability of whose seal sys-
tenn has been seriously menaced. he
said, as an instance of the pern1clous
influence of radical doctrines.
lam afraLS there is more un-
sound props ganda going on in this
country t@day than we realize, NC
Adams said. I'VE have direct evil
dence of Bolshevism in North Dakota
We base seen that prosperous state,
threugh a propagandist appeal to the
farming element and through the
nationa liza ton of a number of indus
tries in the state turned over to a
group of persons that have ru1nously
Exploited the very people whom they
pretended to desire to help
1T is not surprising when such
propagan da produced movements
gain Roadway among the congested
and illiterate foreign classes in the
great cities, permeated as they are
with Old World ideas and antagon-
isms against autracies that have TOO
often misruIed them in the lands of
their nativity. But we may we'll take
alarm when We see the same sort or
thing prevailing among the sturdy
American farming element. ordi-
narily the most sane and substantial
group in our national life.
The State of North Dakota, which
was less than 100000 in debt at
the time Townley went there, finds
itself today over 100000 in debt,
and in the same period taxes of the
people there have been increased
1>1pre than threefold. Despite this eX-
ample and despite the way the good
common sense of the farmer of North
To- n
and cast out the administration that
had done this thing, we ST. see the
same movement, endeavoring to
fasten itself on Wisconsin. The
servative people of Wisconsin tear
that it may. under a slightly different
name, get the same hold on that
state wa Wa C "a A Al to to sleep.
I'VE cannot afford to go to sleep
and let such movements as TINS make
headway. Out of them grow menac-
ing attacks of the country's business
ana political life The dangers of
these attacks are increased by the
fact that they often find support IN
one phase or another by innuentlaI
people who are not themselves gen
eraIIy spea king, radical in their view
Thus If it serves the purpose of
radicalism to stir up discomfort
against the Federal Reserve system.
business ills that overlook the coun-
try they do not scruple to do So A
certain amount of respecta'oillty Is
given to their attack on the F'ederaI
Reserve System, because other men
than themselves on different grounds
are also assailing the system, not be-
cause they believe in a social up
heaval but simply because they dlner
in their banking theories or hnanclal
conceptions from those who have 50
well and so conservatively conducted
that great bulwark of Americas
financial safety.
Dangerous Doctrines Preached.
Again, radicalism will be found
prea chin. the dangerous doctrine OF
fiat money Eorce is lent to their ar
gument because there are others be-
sides themselves who are utterly OPP
posed to social radicaHsn1, but who
nevertheless hold unsound monetary
opinions and are advocating nat
N oney
There is too much tendency. par.
ticulaxly among the more, substantial
siaesas aksEha clataans end In :Sn4 kEsat