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Meeting 25-Cent Labor
Yesterday the German mark's
gold value (in gold all American
commodities are priced) was 2.15
cents; the gold value of the French
franc was 7.20 cents, and of the Ital?
ian lira, 5 cents. Mark? thus have
less than one-tenth of their nominal
value, francs about one-third and
lire one-quarter.
The American worker for wages
may well seriously consider the sig?
nificance of those figures in view of
the San Francisco declaration for a
tariff for revenue only. Senator
Harding would fail in his responsi?
bility to the country if lie neglected
to emphasize the fact that the Amer?
ican job is in danger?that general
unemployment threatens through an
excessive growth of imports.
The wages of the German work?
man before the war were about half
of the wages of a like American
workman. Now he is paid in depre?
ciated marks, and although his nomi?
nal compensation is up three times
his actual wages are diminished two
thirds to three-fourths. The German
workman who got $1 a day gold in
the first half of 1914 now gets about
25 cents a day gold. A similar re
duct, on of wages, although not to
the same extent, has occurred in
France, Italy and Great Britain.
The workers of America can fig?
ure out for themselves what will be
the effects here when German fac?
tories, manned by 25-cents-a-day
workers, get fully under way and
the only bar to the entry of the goods
thy make is a tariff for revenue
only. They need not be told by any
newspaper what will probably hap?
pe;:. Already incoming goods are fill?
ing up the warehouses of American
p >rts. And there is merely a be?
ginning cf the movement.
Suspending Judgment
In view of the maze of contra?
dictory statements pouring forth
from Europe, Americans of sober
mind do well to walk warily until
they possess actual facts concerning
an exceedingly delicate situation?
facts sufficiently complete and suffi?
ciently enlightening to make possi?
ble a clear-sighted judgment.
How serious is the apparent di?
vergence between Great Britain and
France respecting the Bolshevik
Polish crisis it is impossible to say.
That every effort will be made to
avoid a severance in their Allied
policy may be taken for granted ; the
consequences of a break would be
grave be\ond the power of man now
to perceive. Americans, at any rate,
are bound to consider basic condi?
tions with care, and in a spirit of
calm common sense. What are they?
A delayed cable from Warsaw re?
ports Trotzky as asserting, only
three days ago, that Bolshevism is
more powerful than ever and that it
will spread to other countries. He
is supremely confident that "in a
year all Europe will be Bolshevik."
This from a fanatic who possesses
power and whose whole purpose in
life is to foment and direct revolu?
tions everywhere ? including the
United States; to bring on a world?
wide reign of terror, and to carry
civilization down in 'one grand
?smash. This self-avowed savage and
his followers, of course, cannot carry
out this program of universal chaos.
Somewhere, at some point in their
madness, they will be stopped. But
there have been an Attila, a Ma?
homet, a Ghengiz-Khan and a Wil?
helm II.
It is impossible to sit down and
reason quietly with a homicidal
maniac who grips a bloody cleaver?
or with ;MO,?00 of them, which is
the estimated strength of the Bol?
shevist forces now rushing on to
ravish and to lay Warsaw waste.
You cannot recognize their leaders
as representatives of a government
with which a civilized nation can
treat of peace or anything else;
They have given abundant evidence
that they have no intention of keep?
ing their word or of respecting the
validity of any documents they may
feel it expedient to sign.
For these reasons, and for the
further reason that Bolshevik pleni?
potentiaries are reported as already
in Berlin and in Vienna, to renew
diplomatic relations between Soviet
Russia and Central Europe?we are
loath to believe that the British gov
ernment will go far in treating with
L?nine and Trotzky. We have faith
that Lloyd George sees the truth as
plainly as any man in the world;
we also have faith that the British
democracy in the end will do as
much to defend civilization as any
other in the wor?d.
A Triumph of Progress
It is in anything but a party spirit
that the friends of suffrage witness
the approaching completion of their
hopes at Nashville. Unless all signs
fail Monday will see the ratification
by Tennessee of the Nineteenth
Amendment, and the requisite thirty
six states will be recorded in favor
of this, the greatest single grant of
the ballot in the history of civiliza?
tion.
Before such a consummation the
boasts of any party seem small in?
deed. There is glory enough for all,
but praise belongs chiefly to those
courageous women, pioneers and
captains and soldiers, who have
fought a good fight ardently and
faithfully, and who now see their
years of effort crowned in an hour
with complete and abiding success.
It is to such figures as Miss Anthony
and Mrs. Stanton that thought
turns. Theirs was the leadership
that gave the high note to the cam?
paign in behalf ?of women, that made
the fight for suffrage not selfish self
seeking, but ? generous will to
service.
The victory will be for the whole
country. As a matter of party pride
The Tribune would have been glad
to see the final vote come from a Re?
publican state. But there is a
larger significance in this vote from
a Southern Democratic state, and
The Tribune welcomes it as a happy
augury for the future. The vote
of women can work no magical re?
form. It can aid in the general
cause only as it brings the peculiar
ability and the moral strength of
women to bear upon the whole po?
litical scheme of things?in private
discussion, in the home quite as much
as at the ballot or in public assem?
bly. The will to make the most of
this new force for righteousness
must be at hand or it will caunt for
little. Therefore the example of
Tennessee signifies much.
It means that in good faith and in
good part the whole country, those
sections that have been opposed to
suffrage equally with those which
have favored it, accepts the change
now clearly at hand. The women of
America step into their new estate
by the overwhelming will of their
countrymen, under a grant of power
ungrudgingly and confidently made.
The triumph is for the spirit of all
progress, and the victors are the
future generations of America.
The Congressional Fusion
No one charges against the Demo?
cratic party any anti-American or
anti-p?triotic or fundamentally anti- j
democratic intent. No one makes
similar charges against the Repub?
lican party.
But as to the Socialist party it
is a matter of grave doubt of what
is its attitude. ? Many individual So?
cialists are good Americans, devoted
patriots and sound democrats, but
the organization as a whole is under
what must be regarded as just sus?
picion. It is not easy to reconcile
support of the class war doctrine of
Marx, which the Socialists uphold,
with Americanism, or patriotism or
belief in democracy. The gist of the
famous Marx manifesto was that the
workingmen of the world?and all
except a tiny minority are workers?
have no country. And lately the
Socialists have not made it clear that
they oppose government by a tyran?
nous minority.
So the fusion between Democrats
and Republicans in four Congres?
sional districts of New York is emi?
nently logical. In these districts the
issue is deeper than those which
separate the supporters of the San
Francisco and Chicago platforms.
And as there is danger if the pa?
triotic forces are divided the fusion
is not only logical, but sensible. No
one wishes to draw the line against ?
any political organization, but when
a political organization itself draws
a line and expresses sympathy for
ideas and action whose implications
are plain it is time for good citizens
to disregard secondary issues.
De3troy the Rat3
Were the city collecting an an-j
nual tax of $5.80 from each resident!
j to support the rat family an im
! mediate end to the extravagance j
; would.he demanded. Yet, according I
to Dr. Heisler, of the Rockefeller |
| Foundation, that is what it costs to
provide for the rat population.
Three and a half million nibblers
consume thirty-five million dailars'
worth oi-, food yearly in New York
City. How the doctor knows he
doesn't state, but he saya he does.
But there is more than a money
loss along the Gulf. Coast of the
United States, and in cities of South
America and Europe the bubonic
plague is taking toll of life.
Port authorities here and elsewhere
are taking every precaution to pre?
vent rats reaching shore from in?
coming ships, and the danger of an
epidemic of the plague in New York j
is remote, Dr. Heisler thinks, al- {
though the menace is always present ?
where rats abound. And if the plague
gets a foothold it can scarcely be
eradicated, as is shown in Liverpool
and San Francisco.
The extermination of rata i? fea
sible. The ?species can be made as
dead as the dodo. The expense
would be heavy, but it would prob?
ably be overbalanced by the saving.
In Porto Rico it is estimated that
they cost each person in food about
$11 annually. A town in Peru is to
be destroyed by fire to rid it of rats,
so bad has the bubonic plague be?
come because of them.
Equipment of docks and ships with
rat shields and replacement of
wooden waterfront buildings with
concrete Structures, as outlined by
Health Commissioner Copeland, are
of great importance. But absolute
destruction is needed. Great Britain's
new rats and mice act, which com?
pels occupants of land to keep their
premises' free, with a penalty of $25
for failure, would seem to be a better
plan than the bounty system some?
times used in this country. Bounties
carry the temptation to ma"ke rat
raising instead of rat extinction the
chief object. ?
The late Mayor Gaynor once made
the town smile by his letter to a
learned ratcatcher, but the rat ques?
tion is no longer a joke.
The Extra Session
In his statement explaining why
he is led to call the Legislature in
extra session Governor Smith men?
tions only the housing problem as
demanding consideration.
It was apparently the Governor's
original purpose to bring constitu?
tional amendments to the Legisla?
ture's attention. But he was com?
pelled to abandon this. There is a
constitutional provision which re?
quires a Legislature to act on a con?
stitutional amendment three months
before its submission to the elec?
torate. This requirement was for?
gotten until too late for action this
year.
As to the housing problem, the
Legislature has tussled with it twice
during the Governor's administra?
tion?once at the extra session a
year ago and later at the regular
session. Having solved it twice, it
is necessary to solve it again. The
joint'legislative committee which has
been wrestling with its difficulties
feels the need of strengthening the
legislation. There is more apprecia?
tion than there was of the fact that
what is needed is more houses, and
that to lynch landlords is not a good
way to encourage other landlords to
build. It is to be hoped that this
time a way will be found to some?
thing constructive.
But other subjects are likely to
come up at the session. The telephone
company has a new rate schedule
that may well be studied. More re?
ports come of traction companies
quitting. The laws of New York
with respect to state railway rates
are not in harmony with the orders
of the Interstate Commerce Commis?
sion with respect to interstate rates.
The 2.75 beer and wine bill has been
killed by the Supreme Court's de?
cision with respect to the universal?
ity of the Volstead act. The plan is
for the extra session to last only a
few days. It will be fortunate if it
is not snagged by extended contro?
versies.
Italy's Great Achievement
The courage with which Italy de?
termined to meet her obligations in
carrying her burden is shown by
recent figures of Italian revenue.
During the fiscal year 1919-'20
Italians have paid in taxes seven
and a quarter billion lire, surpass?
ing by two billion and a half the
amount expected and by nearly two
billion the payments of the preced?
ing year.
Italy is old, but in many ways
she is new and immature; she is
rich, but also she is poor. Her prin?
cipal capital is the character of her
people?their industry and their
honesty. The legend that the Latins
are unstable and indolent goes the
i way of other myths. Italy has
endured a strain we hope this coun?
try will never be called to meet?
for one reason because we might
break on it. All things considered,
Italy has fought a braver battle
; since the armistice than even she
fought before.
Ponzi and His Dupe3
While human nature remains hu?
man nature, men and women may be
found willing to risk money in
schemes which promise easy and
heavy winnings. A generation ago
i the. Keeley Motor appealed to ven?
turesome and speculative souls.
Much capital has been enlisted by
concerns claiming to extract gold
from sea water. Once an enterpris?
ing New Yorker sold shares in the
Brooklyn Bridge to newly arrived
immigrants. But these financial
bubbles were picayune when c?m
j pared with that which has burst in
Boston.
Until careful audit has been made
of Ponzi'-s books the number of the
credulous who gave him funds or the
total amount he received will not be
known. It is estimated, however,
that perhaps 40,000 persons placed
in his hands sums aggregating any?
where from $14,000,000 to $20,000,
000?and did so or? his unsupported
assurance of enormous profits.
Whether or not Ponzi believed in
his own Scheme, he seems to have
.experienced little difficulty in find?
ing plenty of people who did believe
in it.
Sympathy goes to these unfortu?
nates, tempered, of course, by
knowledge of the probability that if
Ponzi had not "touched" them some
one else would have. As for Ponzi,
it is to be hoped that he will be
given his just deserts. But will this
experience prevent other gullibles
from trusting suave talkers who de?
vise variants of the old familiar
gold-brick game? We fear not?not
while' so many would rather win
money than earn it, nor while it is
the steady practice of certain news?
papers and magazines to preach the
doctrine that practically all large
fortunes are the fruit of some ille?
gitimate scheme._
The Stadium Concerts
New York has cause for self-con?
gratulation in the success achieved
this summer by the open-air con?
certs in the Lewisohn Stadium. "For
the first time since the well remem?
bered days of Theodore Thomas and
Anton Seidl, New York has been
given the opportunity of hearing
open-air music of the first quality,
interpreted by an orchestra equal in
size and technical ability to that of
the great concert halls in winter."
This is the opinion of more than one
judicio?| friend of the stadium con?
certs. \
A largo company of men and
women, able as well as unselfish,
have worked hard. That their ef?
forts are^appreciated is proved by
the attendance, which has averaged
6,000 a night, on occasions running
up to 8,000, 9,000, even close to
10,000.
The concerts come to an end next
Friday evening, thus bringing to a
close a festival of music memorable
and admirable in every respect. In
view of difficulties successfully over?
come and of the complete succes.-i
from first to last, The Tribune begs
to add its own word of hearty con?
gratulation to words of like import
spoken by multitudes.
In the Ohio primaries the total
vote cast on the Democratic side was
approximately 125,000; on "the Re?
publican side approximately$75,000.
Yet with the division Chairman
White says he is highly gratified.
How small a Democratic vote did
he expect?
A Wilson Compromise
President Was Not Always Set
?Against Bolshevism
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I read with interest the edi?
torial in your issue of this morning,
commending President Wilson's atti?
tude toward the Bolshevist r?gime, as
expressed in the note to the Italian
Ambassador. In praising the Presi?
dent's present stand, have you forgot?
ten his position on the same matter in
the past?
When the central government under
Kolchak was established at Omsk, as?
surances of support were given by both
the French and British governments.
There was no doubt that the Allies
would recognize Kolchak; in the coup
d'?tat which gave birth to the Omsk
authority a battalion of British troops
played no small part. Every true Rus?
sian patriot looked to Kolchak as a
savior. Then came the famous com?
munication from Paris, stating that the
Allied Council could recognize no one
of the Russian factions, and propos?
ing that all the warring parties ar?
range an armistice and send repre?
sentatives to the "Isle of Dogs" to dis?
cuss matters in an amicable fashion.
This proposal was nothing less than a
recognition of, the Bolshevists as le?
gitimate belligerents; it was a. sug?
gestion that murderers and robbers be
accorded the same rights as honest
men. The decision of the Allied Coun?
cil was not framed to accord with the
desires of either France or England;
they both desired to recognize' Kol?
chak, for they saw in Omsk the nucleus
of a stable and orderly power.
There has never been any doubt as
to who was the author of the "Isle of
Dogs" plan; it bears too clearly upon
its face the stamp of impractical
idealism. After the Allies had repudi?
ated the original program, the United
States, as represented at Paris, was
so ill-advised as to persist in the ef?
fort to arrange a compromise between
Bolshevism and orderly authority.
In view of these facts, it is extremely
interesting to read President Wilson's
present characterization of the Bol
sheviki as an "inconsiilerable minor?
ity," who have "by force and cunning
seized the power and machinery of
government and have continued to use
them with savage oppression to main?
tain themselves in power."
One is compelled to ask: If Kolchak
had been recognized and supported by
the Allies in January, 1910, would Po?
land now be menaced by the Bolshe
viki, and who prevented the recogni?
tion of Kolchak? R. F. C.
New York, Aug. 12, 1020.
The Homeless Ones
(From The Pliilndr?iihia Inquirer)
The Committee of Forty-eight are still
political orphans. They would not amal?
gamate with the Farmer-Labor party at
Chicago, and now they are to reorganize
upon some as yet unexplained basis.
That in these circumstances they can
play any large part in the campaign is
not probable.
Earnest and sincere reformera as most
of them are, they find it difficult, as
such persons usually do, to work in har- j
mony with other people. As a party
they seem to have no purpose or oppor?
tunity. They are all dressed up, with no
place to go.
An Unhealthy City
(From Tlie Los Angeles Times)
The sale of lB.OOO barrels of whisky
in Chicago in a single day?for medic?
inal purposes ? would indicate that a
great deal of sickness is expected. The
government is also urged to raise the
limit on the number of prescriptions
which regular physicians may issue each
month.
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The Laugh in 1924
A Prediction of Democratic Success
After Four Years of Harding
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "This its not a cheerful year
to be a Democrat," states The Tribune
oditorially August 11, Implying pre?
sumably thnt it in a cheerful year to
b? a Republican?prophesying a vic?
tory for Senator Harding in the com?
ing elections. Does it ever Oi-cur to
the cheerful Republican that he who
laughs last laughs best?
Senator Harding will probably oc?
cupy the White House for the next
four years; then it \Vould seem that
the Republicans may experience such
a deluge that the cheer will haste to
the Democrats. This is not said in
any spirit of idle speculation, but
rather expresses an opinion which ap?
pears* well grounded.
The next few years, whether or not
the much talked of panic and accom?
panying hard times descend upon us,
are certain to be exceedingly trying
ones. Industrially we are in a state
bordering an upheaval of some kind
or other. Wo have only partly re?
covered from war conditions, and in?
dustry has not really commenced to
adjust itself on a peace-time basis?
not by a long way. Readjustment is
bound to bo slow?it cannot well be
otherwise?and extend well through
the coming four years. Many, many
conditions will have to be. changed,
and changes cannot take plnco with?
out hurting some and producing much
dissatisfaction. All those who imagine
they have been harmed in any way
and all those who have not benefited
from the changes a3 they thought
they should?and there will be mil?
lions who will not?will blame, rightly
oi- wrongly, the Administration. The
party in power, particularly the party
to whom the White House occupant
owes allegiance, will be blamed for
all the ills and fancied ills?be he a
Republican or a Democrat?and the
discontented ones will turn in 1924 to
the other party for relief.
Has not this been the case during
the past few years, and is it not al?
ways the case? We have had a Demo?
cratic President for four years, in four
of which he has been supported or em?
barrassed by a Republican Congress.
The dissatisfaction with the Adminis?
tration during these four years has
not been directed to the functioning
Congress, but to the President. The
head of a nation occupies an unen?
viable position when the nation is not
contented. This has been shown in?
numerable times, and it will be demon?
strated again during the coming Ad?
ministration?a prophecy with which
none can differ.
I make no claim to being either a
Democrat or a Republican, but if I
were a Democrat playing the political
game I would play to lose, with ex?
cellent chances of winning out in the
long run-laughing last and laughing
best. REGINALD TRAliTSCIIOLD.
Upper Montclair, N. J., Aug. 12, 1920.
Noise in a Suburb
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I quite agree with B. R.
Blanchard as regards unnecessary
noise in all the boroughs of our beau?
tiful city. This din, however, is not
confined to the congested districts of
the city; neither does the auto, bad as
it is, supply all the tumult.
Here, for example, in Woodhaven, a
purely suburban district, one gets it in
large doses. During church services!
last. Sunday the voice of the minister
could hardly be heard at times, due
to the inclosing of a porch with wire
cloth by a new family of aliens using
hammers incessantly. On the opposite
corner a baseball game was in prog?
ress, with all the cheers, jeers and un
Sabbath language included. It being
a warm morning, the windows of the
church were open, so that all the
racket got through.
In addition to these cases, autos
would speed by with sirens hooting,
and in one case a motorcycle went past
on the sidewalk, with horn blowing
and engine unmuffied.
When one adds to the above the con?
tinual noise of the trolley and "L" a
few blocks off, with their fiat wheels
and occasional shrieks of the electric
whistle, ever? a church service is not
immune from this army of selfish citi?
zens, whose motto, like Absalom'3,
seems to be "Me first."
But what are we going to do about
it? And tlie answer seems to be
"Nothing." H. H. ROBERTSON.
Woodhaven, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1020.
The Painful Question of Age
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter in Sunday's Tribune
signed "Voter" struck a responsive
chord. Many women are, no doubt,
deterred from voting because of the
necessity of proclaiming one's ago in
the presence of a group of interested
auditors. It is an exceedingly embar?
rassing situation and one that no wom?
an enjoys. I looked forward to the
privilege of voting with high anticipa?
tions it seemed a glorious thing to do.
But no more! All sentiment is lost
sight of in the disrgreeable features
attending the process. Only a stern
sense of duty will in the future drive
me to the polls, because 1 know that
every vote counts for my party. But
it seems a pity that conditions cannot
be made more favorablo.
A DISAPPOINTED VOTER.
New York, Aug. ?>, 1920.
What We Are Coming To
? From The I.os Angeles Times)
Government agents in Philadelphia
discovered a batch of home brewing by I
the mere fragrance in the air as they
passed the premises. We will develop a
race of prohibition agents with the
scent of a bloodhound who will go about
with their beaks in the air to catch the
faintest hint of the damnable hop or the
pernicious malt. The noses will be
trained to register all fraction above a
half of 1 per cent, and at 11 per cent
the sleuth will become as rigid as a
thoroughbred pointer.
An Abnormal Town
(from The Washington Post)
On the other hand, it will bo many
moons before Marion, Ohio returns to
normalcy.
THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE
CoovrlKht. 192), New York Tribune Inc.
We get kincja tired taking al? the dust in our little old two-cylinder bus?
But it's a pretty good wagon after all!
Unmoral Russia
Allies Cannot Afford to Quibble Over
a Basic Problem
Tq the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Such ideas as expressed in the
news columns of "The Star" and re?
printed in The Tribune, on Thursday,
August 12, do not represent. the
stable and constructive reasoning which
has always been uppermost in the
great minds of the. world. The time
has lcr.g since passed when the Rus?
sian situation was a political question;
it is now a question whether the Al?
lies will continue to be weak enough
not to support a moral condition. The
Soviet r?gime in Russia 13 not merely
au immoral government; it is an un?
moral government. It lias not merely
slipped a co^r in its usual high standard
platfoim, but its base from the very
bowels of the thing to where it comes
above ground is without a vein of
morality anywhere.
It is not only absurd but it is piti?
ful when a prominent personage comes
to front with the statement that "it
is purely and absolutely a question
for the Russian people." . He wants
the situation to just roll on and on
and on, for maybe thousands of years,
until the whole world is tired out;
he docs not stop to think that any
nation or rule suffering?and causing
every other nation to suffer? from im?
morality has never been allowed to
exist in that condition, but has been
led to the right before success came.
Nero is not ruling Rome to-day; and
the Louises are not kings in France.
The great World War was fought to
overthrow corruption not only in the
German m\n? but in the world. It
stopped before the job was done. I
am not ready to admit that it would
be wise to send troops to Poland; but,
when the unstable and unmoved Soviet
government sees a "thorn in the flesh"
practically within its own border, I do
believe, with all other broad-thinking,
constructive and God-fearing minds,
that the Christian peoples of the world ;
should give moral and economic as?
sistance to a group of sturdy, con?
scientious and loyal people who are
strong enough to take a stand for the
right.
Rome was immoral; it fell. France,
uiider the Louises, was corrupt; it fell.
Germany was unmoral; the world
turned out to defeat it. And now
Christian peoples are bending hack on
the principles which have been upheld j
with the best of their manho^od and
ate tottering on the brink of a well
of instability. There is only one thing
for a Christian nation to do, and Chris?
tianity cannot afford to quibble over
a question of unmorality.
J. G. HUDSON.
New Ycrk, Aug. 12, 1920.
Warfare on the Laatern Front
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Private advices ?state that the
President's views on Russia have re?
duced L?nine and Trotzky to tears.
How can.they carry on a war if they
are to be bombarded with words at the
same time ?
So they have rent their clothes and
put their heads in the ashpit. Ever
victorious America has conquered
again.
It only remains to make the Presi?
dent's views known to the other Rus?
sians, who haven't had L?nine and
Trotzky's advantages in an American
school and so can't read.
Ab L?nine refuses to lend his movie
house eystem ?or their instruction, a
movement is on foot to adopt other
means, and George Creel suggests that
if the Russian peasant be taugl.t Pel
manism at the same time as he's
taught'his letters, in about fifty years
the Russian people will not only read
but know by heart the President's
views.
The Poles have been asked by Wash?
ington not to irritate the Russian ?
peasant, who now will be occupied
with his ABC. A SEER.
New York, Aug. 12, 1920.
White Race Suicide
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On two cardinal occasions L?nine
has been a traitor not only to white
mankind but to ail mankind and to the
Socialism wlych he professes. The first
was when he made no effort to keep
the weary Russians in the war beside
the Allies, but capitalized for personal
power their inclination to quit. The
second is now, when to instigate a
world-wide proletariat revolution he is
inciting the colored races against the
white and creating a situation wherein,
if he succeeds, Germany will dominate
the white species.
??hlt L?nine, the so-called, and mis?
takenly called, man of acumen, never
saw, and would not change his death
riding course if he did see, is that if the
colored races win there will be no so
cialism and perhaps never again prog- I
rcss. This man is, then, either through !
blank brain blindness or stark stubborn- j
ness, or a wicked willingness to gamble ;
with world decay and death, a betrayer !
of the cause, Socialism, for which so i
many devoted but unthinking aposties ?
of that creed worship him.
And he has created a condition which |
imperatively calls on the late Allies, in- !
eluding us, to place an armed barrier ;
against his further military progress in
Europe and Asia. If, through the cow?
ardice, opacity or perfidv of the reigning
Allied politicians and ours, L?nine con?
quers Poland and sets Asia aflame
against Europe, the white race is lost.
It is not true, as some are hopelessly
saying now, that Europe cannot be res?
cued from Leninist Bolshevism except, by
rearming Germany against it and there- |
by delivering Europe and the worid to
the infamous Prussian Junkers, creators >
of the World War, thus utterly undoing '
that war. That attitude is craven sur- |
render. Those who urge it arc stone
blind to the redeeming social key. The
Allied working classes are this key. Buy >
back their absolute allegiance to the'
white race by an immediate social recon- i
struction, in which every one of their
grievances is removed. And inscribe on
the vault of heaven, in letters of fire,
for all men to read, that failure to do
this will be white race suicide.
MORRISON I. SWIFT.
Boston, Mass., Aug. 12, 1920.
The Only Difficulty
i From The Milwaukee Sentinel)
"I couldn't be anything else than a
great President after your greeting,"
Governor Cox told the Dayton folks j
after they had Fairbanks and Pickforded
him around the town. Of course, bar?
ring the election of Mr. Harding, in
which event Mr. Cox necessarily will
have to confine his greatness to some
other sphere of activity.
A Consistent Policy
(From The Kansas Citv Times)
Still, considering the War Depart?
ment's own unpreparedness record, per?
haps its sympathy for slackers is not
altogeUwc inconsistent.
No Partnership
A Plan for National Sjpport of &i
Russian Policy
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Secretary Colby's announcement
of American policy toward Russia de?
serves the careful attention of every
American. It is a comprehensive state?
ment of principle that should meet with
hearty approbation, and there can be lit?
tle doubt that, it will ranU. in the future
as marking an epoch in international re?
lations. Wrhen the Russian people hart
reasserted themselves and the new Rus?
sia emerges it is bound to form the basis
of a Russian-American solidarity which
will be the paramount influence in the
maintenance of world peace, and Rus?
sians in the future will point to it asan
act of true and substantial friendship OB
the part of America.
There is no point in it to which Amer?
icans cannot whole-heartedly subscribe,
for it makes no compromise with Bol?
shevism and looks forward to relation?
ships based upon the fundamentals of
civilized international intercourse. That
its effect in Europe will be profound il
certain. It warns Mr. Lloyd Gcor;:e of
the danger of basing a policy upott
temporary expediency. It strengthens
Millerand in maintaining his objection
to compromising with the Soviet govern?
ment. It gives the Italian ?government
courage to .strug^lo against the elements
of disruption at home. It will give
heart to the Poles to ?iszht on for the
maintenance of their independence.
It seems to me of the h."ii- s-t.impor
tanc that this declaration should not be
made the subject of partisan politic?,
It is a policy for the American peop!?
and not for any political party. The?
is always a temptation in the midst of s
political campaign to seek to make capi?
tal out of criticism of announcements
of this sort, but matters of big forei??n
policy of thi.5 character concern the
whole people and should not bt? made ?
subject of nar;ow partisanship. *r
would be wise, therefore, if the Repub?
lican party would acknowledge the
soundness and statesmanlike character
of Secretary Colby's announcement and
proffer cooperation, since there can be
no difference of opinion among patriotic
Americans as to America's position m
the matter. An attempt to belittle th?
importance of the announcement or to
pick flaws in it can only react harm
fully upon those who criticize, and
surely no loyal Republican will wish to
take the position of appearing to de?
fend the vicious Soviet government or
to plead for its r?cognition or for dea?
ings with it. JEROME I.AXDFIELB.
New York, Aug. 11, 1920.
Radical Logic
?From The Philadelphia r.ecordi
The British communists have met and
resolved that there shall be a communist
dictator of England in order to def"*1
the counter-revolution that mi?ht b?
expected to follow the success of their
movement. Mr. MacManus told the con?
vention that the establishment of com?
munism would justify any means em?
ployed to that end, and if blood *?*
shed it would not be due to tha &>a'
munists, but to those who resisted r>.??m.
"It was always the counter-revolution*
aries who were responsible for bloodshed?
since they stood in the way of revo.a
tion." Every murdered man, by t*'
same token, commits suicide becau?* "*
would not be killed if he did not bsnf
on to something that another *?"
wanted. ?*i