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Show THE CITIZEN 4 a character to the conference quite remote from that which has lead many to espouse the cause of progressivism. For instance. There was John Haynes Holmes, of New York, an admitted Socialist. During the war he was an opponent of all activities of this nation in connection with the prosecution of the war. He was listed as one of the forty who composed the Emergency Peace Federation Committee which assembled in New York in May, 1917. He is a member of the national committee of the American Liberties Union. He recently delivered an abusive attack on the American Legion during a lecture in New York, the one great foreing city of the United States. Gilbert E. Roe was invited. He is an attorney who has specialized in defending radical During the war he was most prominent in antigovernment agitation. Thorstein Veblen was also invited. He is author of the text book on Socialism entitled The Theory of the Leisure Class; and one of the signers of an appeal issued in 1918 for funds to defend the I. W. W. law-breaker- s. Jckson ..JJalston wasiheiBmHe i&jattorneyforthe-American-Feder- a- tion of Labor and one of twelve to sign the National Popular Government League report condemning the Department of Justice for its prosecution of Communists. Frank P. Walsh was present. He assisted the I. W. W. back in 1917-18- . Was one of the twelve signers of the National Popular Government League report condemning the Department of Justice for prosecuting Communists. Has been active as an advocate for the recognition of the Bolshevists of Russia. Has visited Russia and upon return published a series of articles praising the Bolshevist government. He is also a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Rev. Richard W. Hogue, an admited Socialist, was also invited. During the war he was one of the leaders in opposing war activities of the United States. Was chairman of one of the standing committees at the Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace held in New York in May, 1917. In a speech at that conference he declared: We are at war with our government in the announced motive and purpose of the countrys call to arms. Elizabeth Glendower Evans, one of the signers of the call for the Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace held in May, 1917, and principal financial supporter of the defense in the famous I. W. W. trial in Salem, Mass., was there. Judah L. Magness, chairman of the Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace held in May, 1917, and one of the organizing committee of the Peoples Council, was invited. Along with Morris Hillquit, the famed New York movements during the Socialist, he was one of the leaders in war period. He is listed at present as contributing editor to the Debs Mag- son, revolution, anarchy and open defiance of all law. Robert N. Baldwin, an avowed anarchist and a member of the I. W. W., is the chief director of this union. The Emergency Peace Federation Committee is a self constituted that met in New York, May 2, 1917. Morris Hillquit, noted Socialist, was the guiding spirit of the meeting. This committee, originally composed of forty members, was organized to all individuals and societies opposed to the activities of the United States during the war. The committee! advocated resistance to the government. The upshot of this meeting was thejt of: The Conference for Terms of Peace. organizaion Democracy and body was for the purpose of assembling all groups. This organization held a meeting May 30, 1917, when open defiance of die draft act and sedition was preached. The Peoples Council openly carried on anti-wa- r propaganda throughout the war period. The Joint Amnesty Committee of the Civil Liberties Union is devoted to the release of all those who were convicted of sedition or es-- com-mitte- e co-ordina- te This-latt- er anti-governme- pionage sivism! nt uringthewarrAndthisiscB6bLaF6llettesbrarid6f What next? THE PAPER DOLLAR PLAN. Simultaneously with the announced intention of the Harding administration to go to the ' rescue of Europe and to endeavor to bring belligerent France and exhausted Germany into juxtaposition on the reparations question, there has come to light a new and fanciful plan to pay off the internatioal debt to this country, now aggregating $11,329,281,229, in fiat money. This plan is advanced by one who signs himself Seelby in a rather lengthy article in the Financial Review of December 16. This plan which the author says is designed to piomote amity between nations, better trade conditions, justice and credit amity ranking first reduced to its lowest terms, seems to provide for the following : Machinery whereby the debtor nations governments will be able to defer, so far as they are concerned, making their actual payments till some future time, when their finances, their exchanges, and their national trade may be better able than now to withstand the effort. In the end the present foreign debt they owe will be converted into a smaller and easier internal debt. Yet, paradoxically, this country will receive payment forthwith. And we receive payment in U. S. gold funds. And, again, paraazine. doxically, no actual gold nor U. S. gold funds are actually paid to William H. Johnston, president of the International Machinists Union, us by the debtor nations. was also invited. He was a leading spirit in the late railway strike. Formerly Neither do they add new taxes to their already heavily taxed member of the Providence, R. I., Socialist party and Socialist party candidate peoples for the purpose of making the direct payments. for governor of Rhode Island in 1907 and again in 1908. Listed in the New The real payment, in large part, will be in 'merchandise, and York Call, August 28, 1922, as one of the lecturers on the regular staff of the trade will be stimulated thereby, yet that merchandise need not be, Socialistic Rand school. Member of the national committee of the Trade and probably will not be, dumped in the United States. It will be Union Committee for Russian Relief. Has been carrying on propaganda for distributed over the whole world. recognition of the Bolshevist government. Member of the Joint Amnesty And not a new paper franc, lire, kronen or pound note need be Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union. turned off the printing presses for at least twenty-fiv- e years. Any Timothy Healey, chairman of the Trade Union Committee for Russian need for additional national paper currency, to meet business needs, Relief, was among those invited. At the recent Cincinnati convention of the whether real or fancied, can be otherwise accommodated.A. F. of L. he led the fight on the floor for a resolution advocating the recBriefly, the debtor nations will pay us in paper dollars, called ognition of the Bolshevist government. Worked with Sidney Hillman, New commercial dollars, or if you care to call them so, London dollars, York socialist, to raise funds to carry on propaganda in behalf of the BolPrague dollars, Rome dollars, Paris dollars. The amount of this shevists in this country. money will be limited to these debt payments, exclusively. Robert M. Lovett, who is listed in New York call, August 28, 1922, as These dollars will not be legal tender money in the United one of the lecturers on the regular staff of the Socialistic Rand School, was States. It is not intended that they will circulate here at all. the directors of of the is He. Fund. Garland one present. will be legal tender money, in each respective emitter, They funds herein referred and Fund to this: mean Garland Organizations debtor nation, throughout all its dominions, for all payments, for a pot created to finance radical agitation in the United States. Among the all purposes whatsoever, public and private, at all times, taking full directors having charge of this fund are found Wiliam Z. Foster, Scott Nearrank with the national standard moneys. ing, Rober N. Baldwin, Judah L. Magness and Robert M. Lovett The London dollar, for instance, will be good wherever and for American Civil Liberties Union: An organization composed of Soare good. It will be another Britcialists and those even more radical, to finance and promote revolutionary whatever movements in the United States. One of the avowed purposes of this union ish coin, so to speak. It will rank alongside the Bank of England gold note, the Exchequer paper pound' inconvertible note, the gold is to furnish aid to radical organizations and individuals who are in legal difactivities. sovereign piece, the silver crown and shilling pieces, and other Britficulty as the result of their lawless activities and This aid is given under pretense that it is in defense of the liberty of speech. ish moneys. It will function concurrently with them. It is not intended, suggested, nor insinuated that the dollar In point of fact it does not hesitate to finance those who preach sedition, trea- Sacco-Venzet- ti anti-governme- nt - pounds-shillings-pen- anti-governme- nt ce |