The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-02
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
. AMERICAN LIBERALS"
= CONSIDER RUSSIA
. BROUGHT REACTION
. BONDAGE AND FORCE

Some American "liberals" are funny
birds.
In truth, they are not liberals at all.
They only think they are.
The very word liberal connotes free
dom from narrowness, bigotry or
bondage to authority or creed"
In the field of politics, it means Gin
clined to democratic or republican
ideas, as opposed to monarchical or
aristocratic," says the dictionary
Yet some liberals-indeed it is no
exaggeration to say many liberals
dote on the despotic regime of Soviet
Russia the very antithesis of liberalism.
This fact has long puzzled those
Of analytical turn of mind.
They, with the ability to see more
than the surface of things, know there
is nothing in common between the
true meaning of liberal and liberalism
and the bloody rule of Dictator Stain
and his simon-pure Communist party,
tiny in comparison with the huge total
Of the Russian population.
X x x
Consider Soviet Russia.
Liberals do not exist there, except
under cover.
If they break cover, they die. That
is the literal truth.
Stain and his crew, after the man.
ner of relationships from time i'm
memorial, fight all opposition.
In the last two years, the Stalinist
purge" has killed thousands.
Able men in all walks of life have
been the victims.
Heresy hunting is rife. Terror rules,
despite talk and gestures toward in
augration of democratic methods.
Russia, under Stain, is as much
dictatorship as Germany or Italy.
x x x
But the liberals s-many of them
praise Russia, condemn Germany and
Italy.
1t can be admitted that Germany
and Italy, now, are more menace to
democratic nations than Soviet Russia.
Only a few years ago this was not
the case. Russia, through Communist
organizations directly affiliated with
her own Communist rulers, sought to
foment revolution in every civilized
nation, including the United States.
Then came the rise of the Fascist
relationships, quite largely due to
fear aroused by Communist agitation.
The Reds brought not revolution,
but reaction.
Russia, sensing attack by the
Fascists, changed her tune and
began to profess love for the
democracies.
A "united front" was sought to
fight the Fascist and Nazi danger.
Policy, governed by self-interest,
dictated the Russian change of heart.
World revolution might again be the
Russian Communist aim if the Fascist
danger disappears.
The liberals-many of them-argue
the Russian dictatorship seeks to help
the masses.
That's what all the dictators say,
Fascist as well as Communist.
All are equally vociferous in their
assertion they seek only the masses
welfare.
But they all trample ruthlessly on
the masses to enforce their will. They
depend on naked, brutal force. Vio-
lence is their god.
Wherever there is unrestrained au-
thorty, there is tyranny.
The American Federation of Labor
knows the danger of dictatorship, of
any kind.
Hence the unremitting opposition of
American workers to Communist die
tatorship.
They realize if there are dictators,
there is bondage to authority or
creed" This creed may be either econ
omic or religious.
And where there is bondage, there
is force to maintain it.
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