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Show WHITHER AMERICA? England is face to face with the inevitable consequences of government in any country by compromise on fundamental prin-1 prin-1 ciples of government. J Under th pressure of socialists and their "liberal" allies and i sympathizes, the British government, through the "dole" system and other socialist expedients, has sought to allay the unrest created by elements which seek not primarily the improvement of the status of the workers under existing forms of government, but the breakdown break-down of the system of private property and th substitution of a socialist state. The red flag has been waving defiently m England for years. Every effort to prevent the organization of forces and of propaganda pro-paganda openly seeking the destruction of government has been met with the cry from "liberals" that this would interfere with "free speech." The British people have been told, as the American people are told, that to suppress agitation in favor of the violent overthrow of government would nly tend to increase the danger , of revolution. ' This temporizing, compromising policy has had its natural result re-sult in the penetration of the British labor movement under the i leadership of moderate, constitutional socialists by the more radical I communists. As in the United States, this agitation looking to the j proletarian revolution has had the sympathetic assistance of scores of organizations and movements under the camouflage of altruistic purposes. While the communists have been planning to overthrow 'the British government by violence, their camouflaged allies or 'secret sympathizers have sought to disarm the government; just as they are seeking to do in the United States. Now the British govern- mentmust fight for its very life. The way to meet revolutionary radicalism is not by feeding it, but by fighting it; not by compromising with and cartereing to it, I but by using the power of government to stop any campaign W-hich has as its announced objective the destruction of government by violence. In this country when it is proposed to suppress organized activity act-ivity which has as its announced aim to the violent overthrow of government; when it is proposed to search out and deport aliens who are here as agents of European radicalism to take the life of this nation if they can, the outcry goes up from "liberals," from many religious and educational leaders, from mushy sentmentalists of all sorts, that this is an interference with "civil liberty." At the same time the demand goes up the the government should divest itself of the means of protection against either foreign invasion or domestic insurrection. A Senator of the United States introduces a Constitutional amendment providing that if there be invasion in-vasion or insurrection, it shall be illegal to attack it. And the astounding as-tounding thing is that such proposals are sympathically received ! by influential groups at Washington and throughout the country. The people of this country must arouse themselves to the dan- j gers of this situation and find the means to prevent this republic from being brought face to face under conlenge of red radicalism j under conditions which will make certain vast loss of life and pro- ! perty. They should retire from puibls life not only the open sympathizers sym-pathizers with revolutionary radicalsim, but the secret sympathizers and the cowardly, time-serving politicians who compromise 1 with rather than boldly battle against the forces which seek to subvert ' and destroy the Ameerican republic. Knowing what was ahead in Great Britain Leon Trotzky, who planned the bolshevist revolution from the soil of America, wrote j a book, "'Whither England." He and his associates confidenlty be- Have that Ameerica, by the same process, will be brought to the ' same crisis. Can we learn anything from England's experience? j Whither America? i This is the biggest of all issues confronting the Ameerican peo ple. It must be met. The sooner it is met the better. |