The Red Conspiracy

d George Herron's dream of Socialist perfection. On page 28 of his booklet, "From Revolution to Revolution," we are told: "Perhaps we shall learn

ether as one man for one purpose, filling and cleansing the world with one glad revolutionary cry. When the peoples thus come, divine and omnipotent through co-operation, the raw materials of the world-life in their creative hands, no longer begging favors or reforms, no longer awed by the slave moralities or the slave relig

ted" in Russia, Hungary, Bavaria and Germany since Socialism came into power--and no better proof need be given than the way in which they have been shooting each other down and trying to oust each other from office. Though the Socialists were not supposed to know "the boundaries of nations, sects or factions," but were to "speak one voice and work together as one man for one purpose

a. "One glad revolutionary cry" was to go up from Socialists all over the world, but the cry is: "Workers in anti-Socialist countries, save us from our false, hypocritical, reactionary, murderous Marxian brethren!" Have the Socialist peoples the world over become truly "divine" by their attacks on God and all religions? Have they become "omnipotent" wherever they are in

ody of all the Russians or of all the Hungarians ever seemed to meet. The Socialists of Russia, Hungary and Bavaria were indeed "regnant in the consciousness of their common inheritance," provided, of course, that by inheritance, confiscated property is meant. Yet although "antagonism a

un administration of Hungary, the criminal Socialist crew of Bavaria, and, of course, the fiery Karl Liebknecht a

er the caption, "Socialist Government of Yuc

a, therefore a 'Call' reporter, meeting a Comrade who has recently returned from the tropic pen

a well-known American Socialist and business man, who has lived in Mexico several years. He came up to 'the States'

commercial system is so vicious,' he began, 'that I am not

that you had elected a complete Socialist administration in Yucatan; then, a few months since, we heard that it had not p

ing from a Socialist administration. Yucatan is still in the grip of the commercial interests, and the game is blocked at every move. As fast as the radicals devise some means of sto

Yucatan's principal product, is sold for export; he took over t

nd places it under the control of a political organization. And private capital already has secured control of that political organization, and graft and robbery are running riot. Government ownership of railroads has increased the cost of operation 100 per cent. The pay

y and commerce, and put the interests out of power?' demanded the repo

he is a real Socialist until he is put to the test of being a part of the government. The commercial interests offer him opportunities to make money; they give him and his family social advantages. He begins to see that capitalism has its good

t, and, as a consequence, it is probable that not very many copies are in circulation. The author of "The Red Conspiracy," however, has in h

cal Socialism in

d where no man owns a foot of land or the tools of production--trades

n; where gold rings are placed in the public mar

e-aged and old. A land where there is plenty of candy for the kiddies

es of capitalist misrule to the glories of

southern Mexico. Shades of Thomas Moore, Edward Bellamy and William

t that name. The capitalist press has not told much about him--for obvious reasons. He is putting i

l under cultivation. The population (on a rough estimate, without the advantages of a scientific census) is from three to four millions. The inhabit

t has the co-operative system been placed on its present basis.

wledge of their slavery and the realization of their heritage--and took what belonged to them. The only messag

possess that which is not his--Zapata would lead his army into some rich valley and simply dispossess the wealthy 'owners.' Then the peons on the land would be given the use of

eld another convention in some other fertile valley and benevolently ass

show this only in strange towns. It is his passport for whatever he needs for food, clothin

apata's land. Why should there be on a free earth? If a man wanted ten pairs of sandals or shoes he could have them, but why would he want them? He can always go--in Zapata's country--to any store and get a pair when he needs one. So with all other provisions. In practice,

spying emissaries of capitalism. But when one is given permission to visit the country, his route is marked out and listed

e found in any line of manual

three weeks to enjoy their country. For the first time in history the workers have a country that is really theirs. Workers? Yes, for all are workers. There are no landlords or '

ceive no wages, just what they need to live on, and every man, woman and child gets that. The m

om ranch to ranch wherever help is needed.

day. The refinery still is in operation fourteen hours daily. There are seven shifts of workers. All told, there are 25,000 employees of that refinery. All are happy and have al

n 90,000 square miles of this planet and the mills and mines are run to manufacture products for use only. When goods are needed anywhere, the trains haul them. Occas

milar useful purposes. There is no liquor sold. This is not the result of any decree or

evements make the genii of Alladin's lamp look pretty small and cheap. In three years every worker has been united into one industrial union; all titles to land and ownersh

e in the leaders who are supposed to be honest and worthy of leading them into the Marxian Paradise. This is the way

the

inches, in "The Call," the Socialist

here is the follo

olt in Morelos, he and his Indian followers took brief possession of the capital. For nine years he ravaged southern Mexico, co-operating for a time in 1914 with Villa. He was the most implacable enemy of peaceful reconstruction through several regimes. Poor, uneducated, primitive but ma

nnection with an article by Jack Nev

Zapata removes Mexico's most ruthless destruction

ivilization and played his huge joke on 100,000 confiding workers, Gene

apata 'gave' his half-savage followers the land only to commandeer all crops--here the peon is for th

le of Neville's under the title, "Mexican Peons Rejoice in First T

in them--to have a glass. It was the open sesame. They chattered like children. Present

ata from leadership because he had refused to divide the loot with them. They told me of Zapata's former army of 30,0

entury ago made a successful stand against the Spaniards, a train was

ca, coming back to his diocese under the concilia

z Neira and talked with the workmen in the f

and sang whi

ill, formerly worth more than $1,000,000, was a shell filled with debris. We rode to anot

and serenaded us. We rode down the Inter-Oceanic railway and viewed the right of way, strewn wi

where Zapatistas had ruthlessly executed more than thre

ibed so beautifully in the "International Socialist Review." The more "talented" and "progressive" "evolutionists" near the shore of Lake Michigan have many a year's hard work to perform before they can sufficiently develop

he foolish attempt has already been a dreadful one. How much greater it will be, as time goes on, nobody knows. The Socialists of America have hailed Russian Bolshevism as true Socialism; but, no doubt, as the evil consequences of Lenine's Red rule become more widely known and more

ng, which indeed offers it the only possible hope of even a passable economic success, is the barren, heartless, unspiritual, materialistic tyranny of machine-like "industrialism" which the I. W. W. represents. In the two chapters immediately following, VIII and IX, the reader wil

upon Russia's groaning millions for the sake of an experiment which leads to nothing but the pagan barbarism of I. W. W.'ism. Is it worth while? Even if at last

d tyrannous dictatorship as has been established, under which the reluctant and disorganized proletariat can be forced back to work, w

of forcing Russian labor to toil under literal military conscription. If they do this, they may succeed-

annot find peace among themselves. Why should there be peace as long as any manhood is left in Russia to lift up

d quoted elsewhere in this book, Lenine declares that Socialism cannot endure in a world half Socialistic and half Capitalistic, so that his wretched Russian