Show A 11 Declaration Timely DECLARATION against recognition of sovid A has recently been made signed by 50 I American citizens o of eminence in all walks of life a. a io ong g whom are arc Lyman Abbott Panics James M.- M. Beck ThomAR Thoma Thom Thom- a AR as W W. Bickett Joseph IT IL Choate Edmund Dwight Charles C W. W Yo Eliot Cardinal Gibbons John Hays s Ham Ham- Hammond mond Ogden L. L Mills fills Alton B. B Parker Reed Smoot Oscar S. S Straus Henry W. W Taft B. B Town Towne etc ete etc The Tile document declares their that recognition of soviet Russia 1 would be a n. repudiation ion of or all that our national life has lias represented for a hundred and fifty arS and of all the thc spiritual ideals for which modern years civilization Cl ian has striven en lor two years c Aiming to destroy the bulwarks of morality and social order says the UlC declaration iet tenets attempted attempted at at- tempted to interdict the teaching of religion dis disfranchised rm- rm the clergy and made marriage a n. mere civil contract contract con con- tract which ma may be broken by either cither party It Its Us system a and alid franchise destroy government which since the Magna Charta the world has come coma to regard a as ai the first essential political factor of ot the modern state Its program breaks every Cry law of economics and andin in practice destroys destros production That these representative Americans ns have deemed it necessary to place themselves on record against recognition lion tion of soviet so Russia demonstrates an anxiety and a possible fear lest men hi high h in the councils of the nation nation nation na na- na- na tion ma may be weak enough to yield to the tho shameless pleadings of ot Russian soviet sympathizers an and 1 avaricious avaricious avar avar- business firms and consent to such recognition Therefore they come out boldly against it Thc They are against concessions of an any kind whatsoever They prefer that civilization ci shall face and meet the thed d deadly challenge of Bolshevism now They regard the underground warfare which is being waged against the institutions of our country as an m enemy more dan dangerous danger danger- erO er- er O c ous s and with Avith objects more mOTO reaching far-reaching and tb than n was vas imperial German Germany with her ber hosts bosts of agents nt and spies Th They y therefore call upon the people of the United States acting through their government at Washington to declare now once and for all that they c cannot consent to admit into the family of nations or orin orin or orin in any In- In way countenance this government of oC violence I md and terror The Tho American people will be quick to respond to to this timely declaration on The hosts of disloyalty disorder dis I order and discontent in in this co country un LI ni led and s stimulated I jilted an and subsidized 1 by soviet propaganda arc are working work in ing for this recognition so that through h an ambassador and ana consular agents enjoying immunities the propaganda propaganda gan ganda a of the regime may be further ramified and dangerously exten extended e It is time for Uncle Sam to put his foot down There must be bo no compromise between American m democracy and nd Russian hol bolshevism he |