? Can such a deliberative body as
this make that inquiry, and, finding the fact out, can it expel
that agency from this body before the poison has contaminated the
system?"

Mr. Littleton here took up the charge that the five Socialist
Assemblymen, before taking office, had placed their resignations in the
hands of their party leaders, or their local organizations, to be used
to withdraw them from office should they fail to carry out their party's
behest. He continued:

"What is the charge here? That these men, belonging to the
invisible empire of the Internationale, whose agents may be violent
or peaceable, according as the law allows, and according as they
may escape, are here acting as agents of Lenine and Trotzky, not to
establish a Soviet Republic under the rotten ruins of an infamous
democracy, but to establish a Soviet Republic on the ruins of a
Constitution to which every man is pledged by every ounce of his
blood and by that solemn vow which he registered in heaven when he
entered on the duties of his office.

"Mr. Chairman, before this investigation is over and before the
waves which have been stirred, the waves of public opinion, have
subsided, I make no threat, but I make a prediction, that this
country will understand that this so-called political party,
masquerading as a political party, is the agent and the
co-conspirator with the dark forces of this invisible empire whose
object is the forcible destruction of constitutional government in
America.

"I say this question, before it is over, will arouse this country.
It will not be a tempest in the teapot. It will be a question as to
whether they can hypocritically masquerade as a political party,
and strike hands with every agency of force and revolution, and
still make simple American people understand they are not sworn
enemies of their country and ready to overthrow it."

The power of the "invisible empire" established by Lenine and Trotzky
can be traced in the quotations in this book as a great dramatic energy
which has seized and dragged into its vortex one after another of the
radical organizations in the United States until none are now left out,
and some even of the comparatively conservative trades union bodies
appear to be trembling on the verge of peril. The evil fascination of
the blood-reign of Lenine and Trotz