The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-07-03
THE REAL "RED PERIL"

"The presence in the United States
of several hundred thousand subjects
and sympathizers of the Russian die
tatorship, with its avowed purpose of
overthrowing the American govern
ment by violence, is real peril"
writes George B. Lockwood in the Ma
tional Republic. "True it is scoffed at
by the uniformed, the Indifferent and
the f1ippant. Those who oppose the
growth Of this movement are attacked
and ridiculed by the tools and the
dupes of this gigantic conspiracy
against civilization, unlike anything
that has ever appeared before to
threaten the safety of religion, the
family and free government.
"But still greater peril is the aid
and comfort being given this sworn
enemy of civilization by American
big business, greedy for immediate
profits and careless of ultimate con-
sequences" continues the writer.
Hundreds of millions of American
dollars, the best American engineer
ing skill, American patents and Amer
lean efficiency methods are being
poured into Russia to arm the Mos
cow masters for an economic con-
quest of the world. The far-sighted
masters of international communism
confidently expect this attack will
serve as a barrage under cover of
which instruction and invasion will
complete the allotted task of bringing
all the world under the red banner of
bolshevism. In this they are right, if
this help be continued. ,
"Without investment, because prop
erty has been appropriated, and with
an unlimited quantity of serf labor,
as fully the absolute property of the
state, and with all revenues accruing
directly to the dictatorship, the Mos
cow masters have two chief objec-
tives in this development, first, the
filling of the Moscow war chest for the
maintenance of the biggest army in
the world and the furtherance Of its
conspiracy abroad through scores of
thousands of revolutionary agents for
armed instruction in all foreign coun-
tries; second, the use Of the agricul-
tural and industrial output of the
soviet system to flood the markets of
the world with commodities dumped, if
necessary, below the beggarly cost, to
produce unemployment in other coun-
tries and thus prepare the ground for
the seed of revolution.
"The activity of American interna-
tional capitalists and industrialists in
arming Russia for world economis con-
quest is only the climax of the general
movement in this quarter to reduce
the American farmer and wage Garner
to the economical level of the coolies,
peasants and poems of other lands, as
illustrated in the export of more than
two thousand industrial plants to the
cheap labor markets abroad during
the past few years, and the consequent
assault now being made by these in
ternational financiers and manufactur-
ers on tariff rates which will approx
mate the difference in labor costs at
home and abroad. It is of a piece with
the tremendous movement to involve
the United States in the political and
economical system of Europe and the
world generally at the sacrifice Of our
own prosperity, security, and standards
of living, in accordance with the
Third Article, the crux of the League
of Nations covenant, in favor OF the
removal of all trade barriers and the
creation of equality of economic OPP
portunity' among nations. If these in
dustrialists and financiers would look
beyond immediate profits they would
realize that their program means such
a degradation of the standards of Am
erican life that it would result in the
overthrow of our present system of
representative government and indi-
vidualism, and the substitution of a
socialist world dictatorship. 1t would
kill the goose that laid all their gol-
den eggs. But what is far more i'm
portant to patriotic Americans, it
would extirpate America"
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