Evening star., 1925-12-13
Sees Hand of the Soviet in America
And in Near and Far Eastern Affairs

Q. Is this propaganda proving ef-
fective anywhere?
A. Yes, particularly In our colleges
and institutions of education. There
are many teachers today who are en-
gagged in teaching false and dangerous
doctrines to the youth of America. In
China the bolshevist movement draws
It's strength almost entirely from young
China from young men and
women who have not had any appre-
ciable experience with business or with
human nature. The teachers in our
schools who are teaching Communism
either consciously or unconsciously are
invariably men who have had no ex-
perience with life or business beyond
an academic perusal of books and
treaties. The successful social re-
former must first know a good deal
about human nature and the way the
present system works in detail from
some practical experience. Any one
who knows human nature from a
practical standpoint knows instinc-
lively the futility Of Communism as a
permanent scheme for a social order.
feel that the parlor bolsheviki in our
schools should be exposed.
Grounds for Apprehension.
@. Do you consider the Communist
movement in America so insignifica mt
that we need not be apprehensive
about It? .
A. No, I don't. l am not in favor
Of relaxing the immigration laws one
bit to let in any more Communists.
While the Communists are numerically
small at present they are growing.
The preaching of the revolutionary
overthrow of government should be
n yron n JinlQnna
encourages individual assassinations.
The assassin who murdered Mckinley
admitted that his mind had been in
famed by the fiery utterances of
Emma Goldman. We haven't such a
high level of intelligence in America
that we can trust to pernicious and
unsound philosophy defeating itself by
falling deafiy on intelligent ears. A
few germs in body do no harm. But
when they multiply up to a certain
point serious disease results. Why
wait for the multiplication?
A New Problem.
Q. Has violent radicalism been a
recent or long standing problem in the
United States?
A. The present Communist menace
In our country is wholly recent de-
velopment. Its inception was the boil
shevist coup d'etat in Russia In 1917.
From then on. worldw overthrow
Of existing governments. including g-par-
ticularly our own. was aimed at. From
time to time we have had outbreaks
Of violence in america, such as the
Haymarket riot and the reign of the
Molly McGuires in Pennsylvania. But
prior to the Soviet advent into power
we had no orga nized movement for the
violent overthrow of established gov.
ernment in this country. The Social
ist party. while advocating doctrines
not shared by any appreciable part of
the American people, never identified
itself with any program of violent
revolution. OF course under the ban
ners Of socialism stalked wild elements
who were natural anarchists. But the
problem that we are facing today and
which we will have to face in the fu-
ture owes it's existence to the capture
Of the Russian nation by the bolshe-
visits and the aid and succor that has
come from Russia to recruit and or
ganize on international Communist
party which shall work actively for
the day when the tocsin of violent
revolution will sound it's sinister ap-
peal with success in every country of
the civilized world.
Copyright. le25.D