Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1920 — AN INGRATE AND A BOLSHEVIK [ARTICLE]

AN INGRATE AND A BOLSHEVIK

In the federal court at Indianapolis Friday, Judge Anderson canceled the citizenship papers of Paul P. Glaser, a Gary lawyer, because of radical activities. Glaser confessed himself a Bolshevist and indicated admiration for the Red flag, although his understanding of the significance of both terms differed from that popularly held. His feeling toward the Bolshevist idea was elicited when he told the court that he would be willing to give up valuable land to the government should the country decide on a Red regime.

According to his testimony Glaser came to this country fourteen years ago with SSOO in his pockets. Since that time he has accumulated over $50,000. His property consists of a $30,000 home in Gary, a farm, in Wisconsin, value about $4,00'0, a farm in Mfhnesota worth $16,000 and 128 acres of oil land in Wyoming that he estimated might be worth S2OO an acre, but for which he was offered SI,OOO an acre by —e Standard Oil no more than a year ago. Thus in fourteen years in this land of political and economic tyranny he has amassed an independent fortune. To the system of industry and ggxernment that made this possible he prefers Bolshevism. As to conditions under that happy regime Colonel Edward W. Ryan, Red Cross commissioner, who has just returned from Russia, makes an illuminative report. Industry is nearing a standstill, houses are falling to pieces, the people are in rags, cities are indescribably filthy, transportation Js wholly inadequate, fuel can not be bought, death and starvation stalk abroad, blackness and despair are on all sides. The system that brought this about engages the sympathy of a man who has become wealthy in fourteen years in a democracy, who has never lacked for food, who is able to enjoy all the comforts and luxuries of » civilized life under an orderly government! In the humble opinion of the ordinary citizen, not Russia but the insane asylum is the proper destination for a man so endowed mentally.