The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-16
DOWN" FIRST WORD IN VOCABULARY OF
 COMMUNISTS
Waterbury, Conn. Sept. 14, 1886,

Waterbury, Conn. Sept. 14, 1886,
 Editor, The Democrat:-
 In America today we have gov- ernment of the people, for the peo- pie, by the people. In other words the people rule. It is the firm con- viction of the National Union for Social Justice, that the surest way to kill the criticism, or opposition, of an insignificant group, or minor ity, is to give 1t full freedom of expression to ventilate its propo- ganda-leaving the good sense of the American people to place a correct value on 1t.
 When the great body of the peo- pie in this nation decide to adopt communism, their will shall be the law of the land: but 1t needs no clairvoyant vision to predict the day will never dawn on this heni- sphere, because communism is a noxious plant of foreign growth, adapted to the soil of Russia, with its dark and bloody system in ages past, of imperialism and despotism "a plan which cannot thrive in America, where the germs e its American origin were sown in con- stitutional methods and liberty.
 So on American soil communism is but a bastard product imported by ingrates who, instead of wor- shipping our flag, in gratitude to the Almighty, seek to repay asylum and sanctuary by poisoning its free soil with the bitterness, brutality, bigotry and ignorance which drove them as exiles and refugees from their country to our hospitable shores.
 As you observe the first word in the vocabulary of a communist is "down"-"Down with God and re- ligionl" Down with country and patriotismW Because 1t is e nega- tive you cannot define 1t. Com munism is the negative of God, of morality and of nationalism. It is Q fester of negatives. One might describe 1t as a maggot which feeds on the ulcers of civiliZa. ton. Wherever society has de- composed communism appears. When the bulwarks of religion break down the slimy thing grows fat on the doctrines of atheism. When rul- CTS become oppressors the followers of Marx and Lenin are multiplied on the open sores of tyranny. Where the greed of capitalism and mass production beget idleness and hum ger and discontent, the doctrine of down with private ownership" be- comes the doctrine of the laborer. Behold the maggot and upon what 1t feedsl No wonder 1t waxes fat in America. All about Us the oppres- sion of the poor almost on e par allel with that which oppressed the peasants of czaristic Russia.
 Men are not communists by fla- ture. It is an expedient policy to which in their ignorance they cling as they see no hope in their present civilization to remove the burdens which oppress them.
 Undoubtedly, one of the first doc- trines of communism Is political itl- ternationalism. The most loath- some after-birth of the World War has been the revival of this interna- tionalism which in its last analysis Is nothing more than universal class rule. On the one hand the Soviet desires to control the entire world by the military arm of an enslaved la- boring class. And on the part or certain captains of industry and H. nance there seems to Do q deter- imitation to rule the universe through the agency of wealth.
 If Russia established it's Third lfi- ternationale, conservative Europe kept step with 1t in the establish. ment of . League of Nations. IT Russia cluinsily renounced It's for" eign obligations, the League of Ma tons adroitly accomplished the same thing through It's establish ment of Q League Court which claims the authority to legislate TOT all It's members on matters of in1i1i- grafton, of tariff and of other affairi of international importance. This internationalisfn Is greater menace to our prosperity than is the type advocated by the Hoviets.
 My friends of the National union for Social Justice, this information. aiisna leads only to ono thing; V