FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17380, 31 January 1920, Page 1 (Supplement)

FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM.

> In the United States the American • Legion has become a considerable factor in ; the war against Anarchists and Bolshevists. Of this organisation a United States newspaper sayti :—National headquarter* have . been established in Indianapolis, and i thousands of posts are organising all over ; the country. They are the minute men ol i the republic. However spacious the hall in i which the members of the Legion assemble, | there is no room for anarchy. They give [ their allegiance to one flag and one ccunI try. Every member takes a pledge: [ To uphold and defend the Constitu--1 tion ot the United States of America; 5 to maintain law and order-, to tpster I and perpetuate a ICO-per-cenl.. Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the great war; to inculcate a sense of individual } obligation to the community, State, and v nation, to combat autocracy of both the , classes and the mastes; to make neat 1 the master of might; to promote peace 1 and goodwill on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to 1 consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness. 3 It is little wonder that the association , under that pledge of thousands of young 3 men whose valour is written indelibly on the f pages of history should be viewed with ? extreme ,alarm by the I.W.W. and by the r Bolshevist emissaries in the United States. I It is little wonder that they should ha 3 been the object of attack in the incipient * insurrection staged for Armistice Day. The s "extremists" have judged rightly thai f before American institutions can be over % thrown by violent means, before a clasi 1 autocracy can be ( established in America the American' Legion must/be destroyed.