The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-05
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
DEATH OF TROTSKY
. NO TEARS SHED
. DICTATORS LEAVE GHOSTS
. VALUES MAINTAINED

So many other writers have said
their say about the death of Leon
Trotsky that perhaps enough has been
said.
However, perhaps there is one more
woodland here it is.
Until there is positive proof to
the contrary, those who follow
such matters will believe that
Trotsky was murdered at the COM
mand of Boss Stalin's OGPU, the
soviet secret service which has
done to death so many enemies
Of the dictatorship.
Stalin's OGPU has committed mur-
ders in many foreign lands. There
have been OGPU murders in the
United States, in France and in Italy,
to name some of the scenes of po-
litical crime chargeable to Bolshevik
Russia.
The striking thing for Americans to
think about is this: If Stalin's secret
agents can murder Trotsky in Mexico,
they can murder his enemies in the
United States. And if Stalin's secret
machine can do it, so can Hitler's ma
chine.
x X X
We shed no tears over Trotsky. He
used the weapons that followed him
into exile and hunted him to death.
| He was THE international revolution
ist.
The main difference between Trot-
sky and Stain was the better political
trickster in Russia; he won while
Trotsky lost.
| So there is no reason for any
gnashing of teeth on that score.
| The point to the whole thing is
that there is an awesome and fear
some secret political police force,
commanded by one man, that does not
hesitate to reach to any point on earth
| to do to death enemies Of that one
man and his regime
New York, Chicago, Omaha and San
Francisco may be as we'll the scene
of crime for Stain as Mexico City or
Paris or Rome.
If Stain deems an enemy in the
United States sufficiently menacing-
as has been the case-the murder will
be ordered; and once murder is or
dered the order stands until the MUIR
der is DONE
X X X
There have been strong indications
in the past that Mussolini has used
HIS secret political police to visit ven
geance upon enemies in the United
States.
Neither Stain, nor Hitler, nor
Mussolini are at all soft hearted when
it comes to making way with oppon-
ents. All have ordered their blood
purges, their horrible holocausts Of
murder.
AS each of these dictators march
down the avenues of history they leave
in their wage retinue of ghosts, the
disemboweled spirits of those done to
death because, for one reason or an
other, they ran afoul of the dictator's
wishes.
Be this form of sadism, or the
result of peculiar political expedi-
ency that accompanies the institution
of dictatorship, the lesson is equally
clear.
There must come a time when, from
within or without, such murderous
government of man must cease.
No other form of government muir
ders so freely; no other form pursues
its victims into foreign lands and re-
CARDS one scene as good as another
for killing.
X X X
1t may we'll be said that the NOR
ality of capitalist nations is subject
to strange lapses and Inconsistencies.
But, be that as it may, there is
morality in capitalist, or democratic
nations.
Whatever may be it's inconsistencies,
there is a code that is dependable.
There are things that just are not
done-and IF done bring swift and
sure punishment.
There ARE values that are MAIN
tanned There is law that protects
against violence from the government.
That laws are broken does not change
the fact that the laws exist and that
infraction is punished.
The mad dog philosophy, the gangs
ster philosophy Ito dignity it over
much) is OUTLAWED by democracy,
forever.
Autocracy and democracy are more
incompatible than oil and water, than
fire and powder.
Some day, now or later, the issue
of survivorship will be drawn and it
MJTST PE METt CMW