ied in searching
every possible source of information. But, as a matter of fact, the
Judiciary Committee confined its investigation to evidence bearing
directly upon the political and governmental aspects of the case.

Had the Judiciary Committee wished to bring out what would most surely
and deeply shock the moral sense of the American people--the organized
propagation of immorality with which the five suspended Assemblymen were
linked--the facts given in this and the preceding chapter show that no
difficulty would have been found in digging up overwhelming evidence.
The preceding chapter shows the propagation of free-love doctrines
through all the publicity departments of the Socialist Party of America.
The present chapter shows that the "New York Call," the chief political
organ of the New York State branch of the Socialist Party of America,
with which the five suspended Assemblymen were most intimately linked,
has for years carried on an unclean and indecent propaganda to teach all
within its polluting reach to violate one of the laws of the State of
New York.

CHAPTER XXII

SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION AND "BORING IN"

The avowed enemies of our constitutional government have within recent
years met with stupendous success in persuading the credulous to rely on
their extravagant promises and to look forward to the golden era of
Socialism with the same bright hopes that little children do to the
candies and toys in kidnappers' homes.

If it be asked why the conspirators against our country, religion,
family and everything dear to us are so successful in their efforts to
undermine the foundations of a grand and glorious nation like our own,
the answer is that their astounding progress is due, first, to an
exceptional zeal in the propagation of their doctrines, and, secondly,
to the deceptive and specious arguments used for gaining recruits.

The extraordinary activity that has secured for the Socialists of the
United States by far the greater part of a million votes in several
presidential elections, and the acceptance of their revolutionary
doctrines by a much larger number of radicals, who for one reason or
another do not vote the Marxian ticket, is manifested under many
different aspects.

The Socialist Party of the United States in the early part of 1919
contained a little more than 100,000 dues-paying members, enrolled in
approximately 7,000 locals and branches. The members of these locals and
branch