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Show PLOT AGAINST U. S. On the lid Is of the affirmation hy the supreme court of the sentence- imposed im-posed on ICufiio Dchs and others for seditious r.ondin't comes the revelation I y the suli''ilor gx-neral of the potofficc M'j.ni'tiiK'nt that an or'anix.ed undertaking, undertak-ing, narked ,y the I. W. W. and kindred .v.riot'nH, has been set on foot, having for its iiii'use the establishment in the I nUnl States of government by Soviets. At this Lime twelve newspapers are bc-ino; bc-ino; supported hy the I. W. W., according accord-ing to !he solicitor general, seven of which, are printed in J'orciyn languages. Mail rfi."d by tlte posl office authorities und'T the espionage act is declared to have disci used a concerted attempt to sprrad the doclrines of Bolshevism in the Tinted Stales. A pint discovered is a plot rendered vain, and the department of justice may be depended upon to deal with tho pro-I pro-I ononis of terrorism involved in this jirop.-iganda of violence and bloodshed, bin!.- he vNm has prostrated Russia and it is ::'i! pin !, lierniany, but it lias made doeidrdU- I '. i ! V progress elsewhere in Kunipe. In (ireat Britain the firm stand takoii liy the government suppressed the jropagauda when the striko np-cn np-cn al w as at its crest. France has escaped the contagion, but in the United State- il lias made disquieting advances, f'o.iitive outbreaks have not beeu noted, to be sure, and threatening situations have mimed down under prompt and efih-ieat measures. But the propaganda propa-ganda 'has been conducted under cover until if has gained adherents in unsuspected unsus-pected quarters. There is no teasou for fearing that the'.-n fety of American institutions will actually be imperiled by this species of T reason, but there is a possibility that, unh'-s i hecked, the propaganda will breed soviuus disturbances in industrial centers. ' t is significant that the appeal ap-peal for radicalism is directed chiefly to j hose of oar population who speak an ; alien language. Two measures, therefore, there-fore, svciu necessary. Que the imme- j diate suppression of foreign language i journals, which teach anti-American doctrines; doc-trines; the other, the deportation of alieu preachers of social unrest and the erect ion of more effective barriers ;i::aind the entry of their kind. |