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Show ISMBIOfflT AIDS RADIGALS i j Senator Poindexter Makes Sharp Attack in Speech ! in Cambridge. j CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 8. Senator , Poindexter of Washington, speaking before be-fore the Republican club of Cambridge tonight, declared that a dual attack was being made against the independence of the United States and charged President "Wilson with aiding the movement. "The independence of the United Slates is being attacked from two directions," direc-tions," .said the Washington senator. "One, the 'internationals of the proletariat, prole-tariat, represented by the I. AV. W. and radical Socialists, thu Bolshevists and the anii rehists, a ml the oilier a movement move-ment of certain elements of international bu ines.i and international pacifists. Strangely, each of these movements receives re-ceives support from the other. "In everv country in Kurope President Presi-dent Wilson has appealed to the Social-! Social-! ist ic element, and they, in return, have from every country in Kurope supported h'.s purpose.. The Socialist Labor party of Kngland, France and Italy have supported sup-ported every move lie lias made for an '.ntsrnatioual government of which he is to bo t he head. "likewise, the president and his administration." ad-ministration." the senator continued, "have reciprocally aided and encouraged the communists. "Like certain international business men, the communists rare nothing for the principle of nationality. Unlike them, however, they also care nothing lor the principle of property. Such a doctrine ts the worst foe of the workingman and is destructive of American institutions. Kneouragement It has received from the administration intensifies its menace. "The supreme issue and the supreme duty of Americans is to revive in its full vigor the spirit of American nationality na-tionality as we received it from the inspired in-spired fathers and leaders of the republic, repub-lic, and to defend against violence from below or the intrigue from above, individual indi-vidual security and national independence. inde-pendence. '' |