San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-21
Voice of the Nations Press
Communist Program Here Spells Failure.

its members personally under surveil-
lance to guard against the commission
of overt acts" In doing this it also is
well, the Binghamton Press argues TO
remember 1.-THE party is child OF thu
political ambitions of Lenine," but "as
long as the scum Of foreign lands is
permitted to come here We might as
well make up our minds to be prepared
for all the trouble and annoyance it can
make" Until the stomachs Of Ameri-
cans are empty, and honest labor is i'm
possible, the Baltimore American sug-
gests "the Workers party might as well
save its breath. The man with a full
stomach is ungrateful for salvation and,
as a rule, rude to saviors." Sharp pro-
test is voiced, however, by the New
York Globe TO the demand of the Ameri-
can Defense Society that the party be
suppressed and also against any inter-
ference with the coming of the Russian
Soviet players. In the latter case the
She political ancestors of Lenine a hold
on the Russian popular imagination.
Globe feels that "such suppression gave
There should be no liberation Of it here
where our laws supposedly protect us
from extremists who believe in bloody
revolutions and extremists who believe
in the certain forms of tyranny which
have caused them" This view finds no
favor with the Providence Journal
which in turn insists sit is unbelievable
that any large proportion of American
workers will be caught by the chaff OF
the misnamed Workers party, but II
its dangerous propaganda is permitted
to continue unchallenged we will merely
invite trouble for ourselves in the end"
What the Plan Means.
"The central idea of the communistic
scheme" as the Springfield Union sees
il, ais to tumble success into a heap
so that failure can pick a living out
of the ruins" The party announce
mcnts, however, are interpreted by the
Hartford Courant as confession of
failure and it sarcastically suggests that
ION the whole a good time was had by
all at the convention. The capitalists
will tremble from henceforth unless they
are lost TO all sense of shame" Because
there was no interference with the con-
vcntion, and every one had a right to
say what he pleased is better, says
the New York World, "than raiding
Communist sessions in the Michigan
woods and failing men for membership
in the !. W. W. The guarantees of free
speech apply to the Workers party as
of the dying out of anti-Bolshevik hys-
terra when We begin to apply them"
While this is true it does not lessen the
responsibility of the government "to be
on guard the Wilkesbarre Record feels,
because "whiIe the organization may
not be great numerically it is in the
power of small minority to do much
mischief by constant activity. The gov
eminent is armed with the right to
imprison and deport. That right should
be exercised without hesitation when
the occasion demands it."
publicity will be fatal to its boring
in plans, the Albany Knickerbocker
Press is convinced but attention is call
ed to the fact that "this WORKERS. party
is the open and outward form of
secret and underground movement which
has for its purposes the destruction by
violence of American traditions, in
stitutions and society. Through fear its
members seek to preserve a mask Of le-
galty. But virtually all of them are as
active in the illegal and criminal So
ciety as in that which is allowed TO
come TO the pubic's attention. To be
warned against them is however, to be
armed"