Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-13

| cruelties Of the Che-ka, the Soviet
police If anything there is less
liberty of thought in Russia now
than there was in the days of the
cars.
In making soaring attacks upon
/ these people l am not playing the
game of capitalist governments. L
am playing the game of revolution
airy truth. The Soviets, as consti-
tuted, are totally misrepresentation
Ct the deep human desires of the
Russian moujiks who, though UNI
educated in book learning, are fun
| damentally among the most capable
| people In the world, Anarchist
philosophy-the kind | tried to
preach in America-has always been
misrepresented in the press. In it's
essence it means the purest form of
| cooperation, where people are free
and where there is no state compul-
SION. That is the vision the Bolshe.
| Wiki have betrayed.
'You ask me about a statement )
made the other night at the banquet
| in my honor l said | had been
! approached regarding my possible
return to the United States, but that
| uClu Sdlu OIGG III Oil lIiCI IL / L e
| turned | would not return on any
| terms whatsoever. Don't misun ler-
stand. The government officially
made no such advances. But people
| did come to see me to feel out how
| felt about it.
If She Came Back to q. S.
IF | came back to America
would most certainly try to take up
my life where ] left it off. L would
write. l would talk. But there
would be some changes. Life and
actual experience have taught us
revolutionlsts something. You see
none of us had ever been in a real
| revolution.
| 1T took actual experience in Rus
STA to teach us what we had forgot.
ten-that it is easier to destroy, to
| tear down, than to build up. In
Russia the people tore down the old
monarchy. But they have not been
able to build up the new thing OF
| which they had a vision. The Boil.
| skeviki interviewed.
Il think, too, the people of the
| United States must be wiser than
| they were | was condemned for
| GenouncinG war as something wick
cd. l said nothing good came out
Of war. Well has it? Is the world
/ any better? Isn't it true that there
Is more hatred, more narrow nation
| alism than before the war? Are not
! the Ku klux Kan in America, the
Hitlerites in Germany, the Awaken
| ing Magyars in Hungary all the out
| groWths Of the war?
You ask me whether all these
! things make me a DeSSimiSt ODti-
-pessimist-they are words. No
enc can be entirely one or the other
in this world, any more than he can
be all saint or all sinner.
Regardless of how one feels, one
must go on battling for his ideals.
Eenoir. master OF modern French
painting. worked with crippled fling.
ers till he dropped. Beethoven, al
/ though deaf. composed divine melo-
dies he could never hear They had
ideas they had to give expression to
! So in a modest way it is with me.
am fighter. 1 have spent all my
! life fighting. l shall die fighting
| There can be none of this sit-by-the-
fire stuff for me.
And / believe If Iwere not inter-
/ fered with l could get a hearing
from the American people They
are fundamentally a kindly, a gen
erous people when they are not
stirred up by lying newspapers and
! raid patriots.
Let me give you two instances
! In 1919 many of us were deported
! by the government We were sent
away on government transport and
! guarded by American soldiers. Those