The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-20

of us"
Watching the Red Propaganda.
Washington has read with keen
eye and sharp intereEt the pro-
ceedlngs Of the convent lion of the
so-calied Workers party of America.
held IN New York city. Why the keen
eyed and sharpened interest? Here is
the answer: At the close of its con-
Ventlon the Workers party sent a
message to the Communist Interna
tionale at Moscow saying that the
structive work of building powerful
revolution in America"
These words were added to this
we go forward with new strength
and enthusiasm. Long live Commu-
nism and the International"
Washington knows something about
the work Of the agents of communism
In America, and 1t Is probable that
other cities of the country know 1t
just as well. Washington. however.
Is charged with the work through GER
tain official agencies, of checking ac-
tivities directed to the undermining
of the democratic institutions of this
country. Washington's interest must
necessarily therefore be active.
The blunt truth is that under camou-
fage of benevolence Russian agents
are working day by day in this coun-
try, and the wonder is if some of the
good men and women-they are mostly
women-who are working in behalf of
hn
tices of Lenln and Trotsky, know
what they are doing. Some of them
do know, and are doing what they are
with eyes open and with the definite
purpose of accomplishing that which
they have determined upon.
Agents of Communism.
A good many Americans who are
what they themselves like to call lib
eral have been in Russia and have
come back to tell their tales. Nearly
all of the prominent ones in the list
, of visitors, the ones who know how to
anoint their tongues with the per-
fumed charm of seductive argument,
were communists when they went to
Russia and communists when they
came back. Some of them are ora
torical, some of them are merely
| flowery. They would be harmless were
it not for the fact that the unoratori-
cal and unfiowery think that sounding
periods and posies of prose contain
irrefutable facts, and that If the world
is to be saved some American Lenin
and some American Trotsky must
save it.
Those who went to Russia and have
come back to talk their fellow Aneri-
can citizens into becoming commun-
| istic crusaders visited Lenin and
| Trotsky only, listened to their pro-
nouncements and looked on the pic
lures of conditions which were drawn
| to order.
There have been n few visitors to
Russia to return to America with the
true tale of things, but these visitors
| did not get their training in certain
social centers of the United States
where oratory of certain kind is
taught along with doctrines that de
struction is the only means to make
construction possible. Construction,
as 1t is taught in some of these social
centers is communism.
Danger in Many Clubs.
Something has been said before this
in Washington dispatches about what
one of the sane journals devoted to
the interests of American women has
quoted about interlocking directorates.
Virtually every organization, govern
mental or private, which is intended
to do something for the general vel
fare of the citizens of this country has
in 1t as members men and women who
believe that with communism estaD-
lished in the United States the woes of
the country can be whistled away.
Many of the men and women who
hold government or private welfare
organization jobs hold membership in
clubs composed of ordinary citizens
and citizenesses. They get on the
directing boards of these organiza-
tions and If they are active workers
they can do pretty much as they
choose, while the sleepy members
think that as long as somebody will
work all Is well. The result is that
propaganda becomes effective and con-
gress at times is led to believe that
tine various organizations which are
petitioning for this and that frantic
and fantastic thing represent the
thoughts of all the men and women
of the various communities.
This sort of thing goes on through
out the rest of the United States, hut
it is more deadly here in Washington,
because here its influence is immedi-
ately felt
AIaskans Are Great Readers.