nent question about the
revolutionary activities of the American Socialist Party:

"The 'American Socialist Party,' finds itself compelled, precisely
like Lenine, to pretend to be a peace-loving organization, loyally
accepting constitutional democracy and opposed to violence. Are we
to take it at its own word? Is it possible that a few pious phrases
offered on occasion can deceive the American people as to the
nature of a propaganda organization that is shouting from the
housetops in every corner of the country and every day of the year?

"The only imaginable reason why the public has paid any attention
is that there are two or three organizations more wholly given over
to violence, whereas the Socialist organization gives a share of
its attention to party politics. It was said until recently, 'Oh,
the anarchists are for violence, but the Socialists are for law and
order.' Last August it was found that a large part of the
Socialists were for immediate revolution. Then it was said that the
Communists are revolutionary, but the Socialists are for law and
order. The reasoning was that if the Left Wing was for immediate
revolution, then the Right Wing must be for law and order!"

Mr. Walling expresses an expert opinion, having been a prominent member
of Hillquit's party until this organization, at St. Louis in 1917,
began the openly lawless course which led to the conviction of a large
number of its leaders under the Espionage Law. Moreover, since January,
1920, when Mr. Walling recorded the above opinion, evidence has come to
light which shows he was exactly right in saying that the American
Socialist Party acted "precisely like Lenine" in pretending "to be a
peace-loving organization" because it found "itself compelled" to do so.

The tactics of Lenine, Trotzky and Zinovieff, the Bolshevist
"triumvirate" of Russia, and of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens and Morris
Hillquit in America, are so similar that the evidence brought by Lincoln
Eyre out of Russia perfectly interprets the "weasel words" of Martens
and Hillquit on the witness stand at Washington and Albany,
respectively. Hillquit, the connecting link, according to his testimony
at Albany, February 19, 1920, was born at Riga, Russia; came to America
a boy, like so many Russian immigrants; attended New York's public
schools; and under the protection of the Stars and Stripes, which he
would