Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1919 — BOLSHEVISM PERIL IN U.S. [ARTICLE]

BOLSHEVISM PERIL IN U.S.

Forces Must Be Used to Stamp Out Hideous Thing, Declares Isaac F. Marcosson. I FAILURE MEANS AN UPHEAVEL World Situation Graver Thau M Any Time Mince War Began, Thinks Writcr-lau-turer.

"After traveling acrons this country twice since last ’.wcemlier. and having visited thirty six stales, < see in America today threats of the same hideous horror from Bolshevism that faced Petrugiud iu 131 T» when I was there,” sa d Isaac t\ Marcosson, one of the foremost war correspondents of the Unit id States, who arrived la Indianapolis Thursday to give a lecture before the Contemporary Club in tho evening on "The War—And After.” "Frankly, .I am a pessimist," h« said. “The menace of Bolshevism in America is ao real that I am talking it everywhere. We must not be soft or compromising with it, but we must stamp it out with a flrm hand. There are in America today Russian Bolshevists and American Bolshevists masquerading under the name of the I. W. W« The I. W. W. has standardized anarchy and it ia reaching out to destroy the government of the United States. That is what we ara facing. If we don’t use force to stamp out this terrible thing, we will come to economic chaos." "I was in Seattle and lectured there the night the strike began. Not one of the big union labor organizations wanted the strike, but it came. The I. W. W. is getting the goat’ of union labor. One of the things we must do right away if we wish to avoid grave unrest is to work out some plan to get Jobs in advance for every American. soldier returning from Europe. Lack of Jobs and hunger promote unrest. "There has never been a time since the great war began that the world situation was as grave as ft is now. The European situation 18 as serious as it could possibly be. It is my firm conviction that the germane are behind the Bolshevist uprisings In Hungary and elsewn«re. The Germans are using the Bolshevists as the trump card at the peace conference for the purpose of getting better terms for themselves than they could get otherwise. "The only thing for the allies to do to meet the situation Is to strike and strike hard. The allies must kill the reptile and must take the most drastic kind of action to du It." Mr. Marcosson said the greatest imaginable mistake the allies can make is to compromise in any way with Bolshevism. In his opinion.

one of the worst blunders the allies have made Is to consent to send emissaries to confer with the Bolshevists. ’’There is no use trying to compromise with cutthroats, murderers and outlaws,” be said. Mr. Marcosson spoke from personal knowledge of the Bolshevists, as he was in Petrograd in 1917 and was the first newspaper correspondent to expose Lenine as a German agent. "I knew Kerensky extremely well when he was in charge of Russian affairs,” he said. “His big blunder was to placate, talk soft words and .hesitate to act against the Bolshevists when they were planning his destruction.” Mr. Marcosson said his great fear is that in America the great body of intelligent and law-abiding laborers will be coerced and intimidated by the Bolshevists and the I. W. W. He said he had denounced the J. W. W. in such a fashion that his life had been rreatened twvr.ty-nine times by that organization. In regard to the propos'd league of nations, Mr. Marcosson said n« man who had seen the war as be had seen it, could opp6se a league of nations. He believes ihat the peace of the world depends on the Anglo-Saxon races, and that the United States and England must work together for the prevention of wars in the future. He said he felt that a plan for a league of nations will he reached wkhoui danger to th*j sovereignty of the United States. “1 am a Republican,” he said, “but I want to say that if the Republican party takes a stand squarely against a league of nations, it will go down to defeat. I have been all over the United States very recently, and I know the feeling of our people.” Mr. Marcosson said he desired to pay a tribute to Lieutenant-Colonel Will H. Brown of Indianapolis, who was in command of the United States motor transport service at St. Nazaire, France, when he was there. "Colonel Brown did a remarkable job, and he can not receive too much praise for this efficient work on behalf of his country,’’ said Mr. Marcosson. —Indianapolis News.