The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-06

PIE nave entrusted the destiny
Of the nation. Entrenched
wealth and predatory power
have been so long unattached
and so carefully unchecked in
this country that anyone who
presumes to launch an attack or
administer a check must endure
the sort OF counter-attack of
which the cartoon referred to IL
fair sample.
To the Rescue, Comrades
/ read with interest the COM
munication lately addressed to
the editor of THE DEMOCRAT
by the entertaining Charles e.
Campbell, spokesman for the
Communist Party In waterbury.
1t is perfect example Of the
workings Of the Bolshevist mind.
1t contained the ancient gag
about the Soviet Union being the
only friend of peace in the
household of nations. AS already
pointed out in this column the
Communist idea of peace Is Sc
renity in the U. s. s. r. and the
start and continuation OF civil
war every other place on earth,
including especially the United
States. should have apologized
for calling attention to q fact
which every one familiar with
Communist philosophy realizes.
But what was particularly d.
verting in Comrade Campbelrs
letter was his reference to the
encouragement the Nazis in Ger
many would get from local ed
itorial to carry on their "reli-
gious persecution. Can this be
the dead voice Of Lenin pleading
for religious liberation? Is this
a Communist seeing nothing but
red as he reads of people being
killed because they persist in be-
lieving in God? Comrade Camp
bell Is apparently in blissful ig-
norance of the murder of Msgr.
Rudkiewicz, Of the slow torture
of Archbishop Cieplak and his
subsequent death, and Of the ex-
ecution of their fellow Catholic
priests when Lenin was in pow
err. He does not know of the
thousands of members of the
Russian Orthodox clergy who
were butchered in the merry
days when the Bolshevists first
tasted control? Did he ever
hear, perchance, of the hundreds
of Jewish rabbis who persisted
because they refused to renounce
the God of their fathers? What
of the Moslem priests who suf-
fered the same fate because of
their conviction that there Is no
God but Allah? What of the
thousands, literally, of religious
ministers of all creeds, and cults
and denominations who have
vanished in that hell of ghast-
illness, Soloviev Island, to suffer
a fate so terrible that even the
Bolshevist contempt for the
opinion Of the world will not
permit 1t to be disclosed? And
Comrade Campbell speaks Of re-
ligious persecution!!! 49,.
Reds and Pinks
Mr.. Campbell included In his
communication "a partial list"
of the people he imagines to be
prominent who sent protests to
our State Department condemn
ing its note to the Bolshevist
government. Partial they GER
tainly are but disinterested new
er. some of them like Haywood
Broun are denatured "Pinks".
or ear-Socialists. Others are
avowed Communists in thought
and political belief whether they
are paid-up members OF the
party or not. One to my own
personal knowledge, a so-called
educator. would be a Commun-
list II he dared. trouped with
him In Russia once and know
where his sympathies are and
where his interest Is directed
even IL Comrade Campbell does
not. The rest are just the rag
tag bob-tail camp followers of
the "liberap' movement whose
pre- eminent characteristic Is
their passion for hogging the
spotlight. But they are names
with which to fool the unthtnk-
ing public. Aside from setting
brother against brother, family
against family, and class against
class each and everyone armed
with q knife and an axe, the
Communist dotes on fooling the
people above everything else.
One weapon he should never
stoop to, however, Is the plea for
religious tolerance. 1t just isn't
in the book.
Socialism Applied
The fiiing of applications for
places on the coming elections
throughout the state shows that
out OF thirty-five senatorial dis
tricts the Socialist Party will
have tickets in thirty. Eleven
new towns and cities have been
invaded and the penetration Of
hitherto undisturbed areas 10 un-
der way. What the result will
be It Is impossible to tell until
the election returns are received.
It is doubtful whether there will
be any great increase In the
ranks OF the party as q political
group. In places where dissat-
isfaction RACES against both Re-
publican and Democratic parties