The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1924-10-18
STATE CHAIRMAN
WARNS VOTERS Of
RADICAL MENACE


letin-Appeal, w. w. Sivright, chair
man of the Republican state central
committee. warns the Negro voters in
the Twin Cities and Minnesota of the
menace of Socialism and Communism
that has taken a firm hold in Farmer
Labor party.
Mr.. Sivright explains that there
are three members of the Farmer
Labor state central committee who
are avowed Communists. "In an ar
ticle in a recent issue of The Mime
sofa, a Minneapolis labor paper" he
says, three members of the central
committee are branded as Commun-
lists. They are William Mahoney,
pilot of the Third Party convention
in st. Paul last summer, which La
Toilette denounced, as radical as La
Toilette is, because of it's Communis-
tic ideas: John Braden of Minneap-
oils and I. G.. Scott, who is admitted
I. w. w. and manager of Floyd o.
sons campaign in Minneapolis.
BESIDES these admitted Commun-
lists, says Mr.. Sivright," there are
many out and out Socialists in the
party. Socialism is creed for op-
portunists and self-seekers who
haven't penny in the world, and the
Farmer-Labor is just another name
for Socialism.
"A few weeks ago 1 heard a talk
in Minneapolis by Victor Berger, So,
cialist candidate for Congress from
Milwaukee. He said that Socialists
had to recruit their ranks from the
younger men Of the generation. And
then he explained why this was nee
essary. a ........ .-.-.-,..s--.
"It seems that as soon as a Social
ist becomes a property owner and
pays taxes-that is, when he becomes
a stockholder in the United States
Government-the Socialist party los
es one of its followers.
when man owns property and
pays taxes he is not going to expert
ment with a lot of untried theories
like public ownership of railroads
and other public utilities--there is
too much chance of failure of the
plan and the taxpayer will be out the
money and not the men who try the
experiment.
Socialists and Farmer-Laborites
recruit their ranks from the ire
sponsible school boys who have not
yet learned by practical experience
that high sounding theory will not
work in practice.
"Then in the Farmer-Labor party
we find an element which is decidedly
communistic in it's leanings. They
believe in the Russian theory Of gov
ernment, in the Russian system, ev-
erybody owns everything and nobody
owns anything. They stand for re-
striction of everything and freedom
VI hOtuiuS.
"If the Farmer-Labor party comes
into power these communists will do
their best to make this country as
much like Russia as they can. We
will have a police system like the
Russian "Checkov." This police will
watch the movements of every pri-
vate citizen in the country and on the
least suspicion that a citizen is OF a
different party from the government
in power. he will be cast into prison.
Another thing that should be of
vital importance to the people of
Minnesota is the fact that these COM
munists are opposed to a church of
any kind; they are free thinkers and
atheists. In Russia the state does
not recognize church and all wor-
ship that the people do must be in
secret at the risk of being thrown
into Jail for it.
"If the people of Minnesota wish
to safeguard the sacred rights of
American citizenship they will vote
anything but the Farmer-Labor ticket
on November 4.