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CIVIIIZATIOI

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REMBERT GILMAN SMITH

Box 2123

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Copyright 1948 by Rembert Gilman Smith

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In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published The

Communis'l Manifesto. Its chief contention was that the work-

ers, by which they meant the farmers and the laborers in mines,

and factories, were underpaid by the capitalists, who controll-

ed, they charged, all existing governments.

The Manifesto was a challenge to the workers, the men
under the banner of "The Hammer and The Sickle", to destroy
these governments, and to build in their place a system in the

power of the proletariat. Their charge that the workers were

underpaid was well founded, if exaggerated. Its aim to put all

power in the hands of two 'special glasses was not democratic,
as it proposed the slavery of many millions, not industrial nor
agricultural workers. It sought the creation of governments of

oligarchs, headed by a few absolute and ruthless rulers.

This document proved dynamic, and from it came the era

of Communistic Revolution, now wide-spread over the planet,
and moving with increasing power. Its leaders have been

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, who have many active converts in many
nations, who seek to set up governments like that at Moscow.

Some years ago, Herbert G. Wells uttered the prophecy

that Europe might soon suffer from a return of conditions like

those in tie Dark Ages. For this, he was judged by many as
being akin to Cassandra or leremiah; but developments in the

last three decades prove that he was no more of an hysterical

pessimist, crying "Wolves, wolves!" when none such were

hungrily howling, than was the Trojan seeress, or the Hebrew

prophet. They sought to warn their ungrateful fellow citizens,

and were persecuted for disturbing the peace. Those they

tried to warn stretdhed out, like Gulliver on the sands of an im-

agined safety, went to sleep, and awoke only when the cords

of cruelty brought the blood and the bondage.

Modem Leninistic and Marxist Lilliputians hove so bound
the 180,000,000 human beings in Russia; and their plottings,

plannings, and steadily augmented activities now imperil not
not only the other nations of the Eastern Hemisphere, but also

those of the Western Hemisphere. Marplots of Moscow envis-

ion and seek to effectuate the extension of communistic rev-

olution throughout the world, and an ensuing proletarian en-

slavement of all peoples. i

Their success will mean for mankind a fate more dreadful

than that suffered by the generations of Europe which lived

during the Dark Ages. Though civilization was sorely wound-

ed then, feebly groped, fell prostrate, and painfully gasped for

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breath, it did not die. Should communism triumph it will

slaughter civilization, and bury it deep in an unmarked grave.

All the world is menaced now by the Marxist terror. If it gains

and uses the power it covets, there will be an era far worse than

that of the Dark Ages in Europe. At what destructions does it

aim?

I

Communism aims at the destruction of the ownership of
property by individuals, and by corporations which have been

given some of the rights of persons. This property, the com-

munists intend to subject to the absolute control of dictators

and commissars supposed to represent alone the proletariat, or

the workers. They believe the statement of Proudhon "Private

property is theft". They claim that property now controlled
by individuals and by corporations, has been stolen by them

from all people, and its return to all the people would not be

confiscation, but restoration.

They seem to be strangely blind to the fact that the sub-

jection of property to the control of dictators, who represent
only the workers or the proletariat, would be a new type of
class control of property, and it would involve the ruthless des-

truction of the property rights of all persons not in the prolet-

ariat. While they claim to desire the obliteration of all lines by

which classes ore now separated, they propose to draw a
sharp line through society, on one side of which will be the

workers, or the proletariat, and on the other side all other

citizens whom they call the bourgeois, and the bourgeoisie.
This would be the theft of property of one class, by the other

class, and the ownership of it by that class. Their avowed plan

is to kill, or to liquidate all of the present owners of small, or of

large property, whenever they resist in words or acts, their

efforts thus to expropriate the prooerties which they now own,
under the existing laws of all civilized nations.

One of the important beginnings and foundations of civ-

ilization was the institution of private property. When all the
property was owned by the tribe, or the clan, or the nation,

civilization scarcely existed. It really began when some in-
dividual stopped wandering, began to cultivate land, on which

he "planted a vine and fig tree", and built him a house for the

shelter of his family. This house became his castle, and in it he

was a sovereign. One of the early writers on English Law so
declared, and he said, thcrt, into such a castle, not even the

king should come, unless the owner thereof willingly opened

the door.

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The desire to acquire property by industry and frugality is
one oi the indispensable, psychological foundations of civiliza-

tion. It is also a necessary stimulation to work of every kind,
in the absence of which the resources of energy necessary for

economic welfare and progress will be dangerously reduced.
It cannot be denied that the inordinate desire to gain property

has done a great deal of damage in human society, and laws
hdve been enacted for its proper restraint. At the same time,

the desire to acquire property is not essentially evil, and its

destruction, or undue restraint will result in calamitous impov-

erishment.

The sex appetite, when not restrained, results in fornica-
tion and adultery, but its eradication would result in disobed-

ience to God's command to men and women, that they multiply
and replenish the earth. If the desire to acquire property

should ever be destroyed by the communists, or, if they were to

succeed in seriously reducing its power in human life, they
would create a generation of economic eunuchs, and material

progress would be made impossible. By their magic wands,
the Marxians seek to change men into economic mules v/ithout

pride of ancestry, or hope of posterity. For the God given

inner motive, for the acquisition of property, they oropose to

substitute external coercion by dictato'~s and. commissars. Such

coercion may be temporarily effective, but it will be an evanes-
cent substitute for the great power found in the natural desire

in the nature of man to acquire property. William fames, the
great American psychologist taught that every human being

has a material Me which is his body, and that he has the desire
to enlarge his material Me by the acquiring of clothes, food, a
house, and other property. This desire, and the possibility of

its satisfaction, are the necessary fountains of individual in-

dustry, ingenuity, and frugality. The destruction, or the undue

restraint of this desire, will certainly result in a ghastly reduc-

tion of human energy and in a cruel mutilation of normal

human nature. Economic civilization would not survive under

such conditions.

II

The communists aim at the destruction of the family. Re-

alizing that, the husband and father, the wife and mother are

moved to work to gain property for the welfare of their children,

the communists seek to destroy the family, which is the first

economic unit in society. They know also 1ihat the dissolution

of the family into the individual persons in it would greatly de-

crease the power of resistance to +heir program. The gratitude

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of the children to their parents, and of other members of the

family to each other, because of the benefits they recieve in

food, clothing, home, land, money mokes families centers of
power. If this gratitude can be made impossible by the procur-
ing of these material necessities and values from some central

agency such as dictators, commissars, comrades, or bureau-

crats, the existence of the family will be imperiled. Commun-

ists consider that the affections which bind together the mem-

bers of families are enemies to the welfare of society as a

whole. It cannot be denied that families can become selfish

and powerful and inflict injuries on those outside the family.

The remedy for these evils is not the destruction of the family,

but in its restraint by the proper lows.

The communists have sadistic scorn for the sentiments,

which have glorified the home. They regard them as nothing

but bourgeois emotional tricks by which to maintain the eco-

nomic status. The love of parents for children, or children for

parents, are objects of their ribaldry and ridicule. They seek

to destroy the affections of child for parent, so that all children

will be like the twelve year old boy who testified in a Russian
court against his father. When someone asked him if he did
not have any sense of duty to his fafcer, he replied. "I do not.

1 am a Leninist youth." A Leninist youth admits no obligations
of affection for father, mother, brother or sister.

If the communists succeed, the spiritual glory of domestic

life, will be completely destroyed, and no romances based

upon it will be written ever again. How tragically debased
would human life be if they should succeed in their efforts to

destroy the family! Many times civilization has been saved by

forces which have originated in strong and pure home life.

When the state has degenerated, or the church become apos-

tate, strong men and women have come forth from good

homes to bring deliverance through their courage and strength.

If the home be destroyed, where will the leaders of the future,

equal to such emergencies, come from? If the foundation, con-

sisting of the family be destroyed where will the answer be

found to the question, "What shall the righteous do?"

The bolshevists regard marriage as a biological mechan-

ism for the production of children, and they will change and

mutilate it to promote the purposes of the proletarian state.

There will be houses in which the bodies of human beings

will be sheltered from heat and cold, but there will be no

homes.

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Ill

Communism will so coerce teachers as to destroy the best
values of education. Commissars over schools, colleges and
universities will reduce them to the ignoble estate of pliant
agencies for the perpetuation of the ponderous, proletarian

state. Communism will train the youth in its schools, but it
will not educate them. They will be trained to accept blindly
all the Marxian myths, and to obey unquestioningiy all the
commands of the communist dicators and oligarchs. The
school has been regarded as a social agency of equal impor-
tance with the state, the pedagogue, the peer of the politician,

the scholar the equal of the statesman. Communism will ruth-
lessly sabotage such conceptions, and the teacher will be
tolerated only' if he agrees to be metamorphosed into a tool

of proletarian tyranny. Pedagogues will be but Charlie Mc-

Carthy's on the knees of bolshevist Bergens. What they say
will not bring merriment to the people, but miseries in steadily

mounting volume. Enslaved education will transmit its bondage

to the youth.

The result of education thus enslaved will certainly be

the degradation of art and of literature. Arbitrary control over

artists and writers will be used by communists rulers to re-

strain the small freedom that may survive in the minds of the
few who may escape the evil effects of bolshevized schools,
colleges, and universities.

IV

Communism will destroy art and literature. The constitu-
tion of the Soviet Writer's Union contains the following, as the

proper aim of writers:

"The creation of works of high artistic significance, satur-

ated with the heroic struggle of the international proletariat,

with the grandeur of the victory of socialism, and reflecting

the great wisdom and heroism of the Communist Party . . . The

creation of the great age of Socialism".

If tyrants had forced Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare,

Goethe, Victor Hugo, Tolstoi, Dickens as to what subjects they

must write about, and w?hat they must write about them, and

they had yielded to them willingly or unwillingly, the

masterpieces they have left as an imperishable inheritance

for posterity, would never have been written. Communistic

tyrants will, doubtless, be unable to enslave literary genius-

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but they will do great damage in the effort, as they strop "the
pilgrims of eternity" to their Procrustean beds, after mutilating

them. Bolshevism purposes to rape the human mind.

V

Communism seeks to destroy religion. Karl Marx asserted
it to be "the opium of the people" which would prevent the

inter-class war. He regarded it as a device of the powerful and

the rich, by which the weak and the poor are doped, so that
they do not resist oppression. And as dope fiends are not fit
for inter-class war services, he taught his disciples that they

must free the proletariat from the prostrating poppy, religion,

before they wlould enlist as soldiers in the war against the

capitalists.

No student of history will deny that organized religion has

at times been sadly lacking in humanitarian sympathy, and has

been the ally of the strong, rather than the shepherd of the

weak. The light that was in it has at times become darkness,

and great has been the darkness. Evil ecclesiastics rank high

among the fiends of history. Nevertheless, even organized

religion has been, on the whole, helpful to humanity in the

matter of material and temporal welfare. Church leaders have

done a notable part in the age long w^ar on wont, disease,

ignorance, and tyranny. Organized religion has been pro-

fitable for this world, if there be no other. It is profitable for

this life and that which is to come. The destruction of it means

a fatal wound to civilization itself.

Marx and his true disciples are particularly hostile to the

doctrine that there is another life, and they insist that the belief

in it has been one of the chief obstacles to the fairer distribu-

tion of goods. The poor will not rise against oppression, they

say, because religion, teaches them, that they may soon find
welfare in the other life, and so they do not greatly core if they

ore poor: They sing:

"A tent or a cottage, why should I care.
They're building a palace for me over there".

They insist that as long as the people believe what the

preacher says about heaven, they will give little heed to the

urgings to revolution of the walking delegates.

The communists are bitterly hostile to the religious doctrine,

that injuries and injustices suffered by the poor at the hands

of the rich, should ever be forgiven. The poor must hate the

rich. The war for which they hope and plan must be imple-

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mented by this hatred. For it, they can conceive no substitute.
It is easy to understand the hostility of the communists to
religion when their program depends on a belief in the reality
of this life onJy, and in the basic, indispensable value of inter-
class hatred as the implement for revolution. If these assump-

tions be well founded, the conclusion follows that communism
must destroy religion, as its primary task.

The religions which have sprung up in the soil of the
Holy Scriptures have not been opiates. Mathew Arnold well
wrote that they are "a literature of moral energy". Wherever

they are read and faithfully preached, the powers of men are
increased, and they go out to greater activities and achieve-

ments than were before passible to them. Nor is it true that

they weaken the forces for social justice, through the doctrine
of the future life. Jesus' story of Dives and Lazarus, his account

of the repentance and conversion of Zacchaeus, his parable of
the Good Samaritan, and his description of the Last Judg-
ment, in which those who had not ministered to their needy
fellowmen, will be condemned to eternal death, and other

similar social teachings of the Man of Galilee have done
more to better the material conditions of human beings, than
all the theorizings of socialistic or communistic philosophers,

and all the activities of agitators, who seek to stir men to hatred

of their fellows, and to violent revolution. The religion of Jesus

Christ is no opiate, but a stimulant to justice and to unselfish

ministries, a tonic which kills the malarious germs of covetous-

ness and cruelty, which weaken and agonize the body of

society.

The refusal of many to obey Jesus Christ as to their duties
to their fellowmen results in many hardships among men, not
to be charged to religion, but to resistance of it.

Communism rebels against the commands of God as pro-

claimed by organized religion, and proceeds to deny that God

is "The fool hath said in his heart, "There is no God," but the

communist cries out his atheism aggressively and arrogantly.

He is an utter materialist, believing that matter is eternal, or

that it made itself. He considers man but on evanescent product

of a mysterious, irrational, evolutionary process. The only

welfare possible to him is physical comfort and luxury. For

these, he fights fiercely, not only the forces of nature and the

lower animals, but also his fellowmen, just as swine push and

bite each other in order to get to the swdll trough.

Should the communists succeed in their efforts to destroy

religion, what would be the results to civilization? Let us

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imagine the structures of religion from Saint Peter's Cathedral in

home lo [he last tiny chapel built on some remote mountain
top, burnea or changed imo stores, iactories, or arsenals: All

ol the choirs and congregations siienced, never again to sing
the psalms, hymns, chants, and oratorios, of the ages: All

saciaments forbiaden: All preachers, missionaries, sisters of

charity, rabbis, priests, bishops, cardinals, popes, languishing

in Siberia, or liquidated: All hope dead that saints, scholars

and shepherds of the people will come from the homes of the

pious, as in the centuries gone: All words of hope and faith

over the bodies of the dead, forbidden!

Communism designs such devastations. If it suceeds, man-
kind will be without God and without hope in the world. In-
stant race suicide would be a relief.

The Christian religion does offer comfort to men, to which

the communists object on the ground it causes them to endure

oppressions. When communists, or others have done their best
to improve the conditions of human life, they will be unable
to destroy sorrow and grief, which make men yearn for the
ministry of religion. There is solace from no other source.

Jesus said to his disciples, "In this world, ye have tribulation^,

but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

While Marx was a bitter enemy of religion, he really

sought to found a system with many elements of religion in it,
though his materalism prevents the inclusion of his cult in

the category of religion as hitherto defined, an essential part

of which is belief in God, or gods, and in a future life. His

system is a secular shadow of religion as hitherto known. It

was said of Harriett Martineau
—

"There is no God, and Harriett

Mortineau is his prophet," and it may be said of Marx
—

"There

is no religion, and Karl Marx is its founder." In place of future

life, he proposes a social status in which the material welfare

of men will be improved above that ever known; in place of

God, he places the proletariat, who will rule through dictators;

instead of the wrath of God, punishing impenitent sinners in

hell, he substitutes the wrath of the proletariat, liquidating all

who resist the decrees of the dictators; in place of an ever-

lasting heaven of spiritual bliss, he proposes a society in which

physical welfare will steadily improve, through the reign of the

proletariat. The reward which he promises the votaries of his

religion is a measurable betterment in their material welfare,

and the hope that their posterUy will have endlessly improving

enviroments. If the coral at the bottom of the sea, were exhorted

by some submarine, soviet savior, to be obedient in order to

get more comfort himself, and in order that his distant decend-

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arits might rise above the sea in a coral reef, or island, this

exhortation would be like that of Marx and Lenin to their fol-

loweis. how heggarly a substitute is this for the hope of
personal, eternal life to the good and the faithful, lighted by
the great religions! True religion has promise both for this life,

and for that which is to come.

VI

Com-munists seek to destroy morality. Lenin wrote, "Lies,

deceits, and treacheries, to the bourgeoisie to capitalists, and
their governments, all are justified in the sacred cause of the

social revolution".

W. Z. Foster, leading communist of the LFnited States of
America, says:

"We communists are unscrupulous in our choice of weap-
ons. We allow no considerations of legality, religion, patriot-
ism, honor, duty, etc., to stand in our way to the adoption of
effective weapons. We propose to develop, and we are dev-
eloping, regardless of capitalist conceptions of legality, fair-

ness, right, etc., a greater power, with which to wrest from

them their industries."

"The London Morning Post" declared:

"The outrages committed by the Red Bandits (communists)

in several provinces of China during the past few years,"

states an eye-witness missionary, "are without equal in any

age or people, barbarous as they may have been. 'All the
horrible, most horrible particulars that could be told about

this' soys an officer of the regular army writing from Kinan in

Kiangsi, 'Would never give a complete idea of the reality:

bodies flayed, hearts torn out, insides scattered about, victims

burned alive ... not to mention the atrocities against the wo-

men. There are not enough words, not words strong enough

to stigmatize these infamies!"'

VII

Communists seek to destroy existing governments. Their

theorists assert that government was a device by w'hich the

strong and the rich shackled the weak and the poor. They

regard the governments of modern times as bourgeois bul-

warks. Parliaments, congresses, presidents, kings, courts, law-

yers, judges, sheriffs, policemen, armies, navies, they consider-

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ed barbed wire entanglements built by the capitalists to keep
the pioietoriat from ascending from the depths of wcmt to the

aeiectadle mountains of plenty. They have no respect for the

conception of law. Recently, it was asserted by a widely read
communistic author that laws are nothing but the expressions

of prejudices, and that precedents are of harmful influence, and

should be utterly ignored. In recent labor struggles, agitators

have defiantly disobeyed the orders of judges, and have

plainly said to their followers that the rule of courts must be

ended. Others have openly demanded governments of man
and not of laws. The will of Stalin is the highest law known in

Russia.

Every great modern government now feels the impact of
communism, as it seeks to bring on revolutions and dictator-

ships of the proletariat. The communists seek to destroy pat-

riotism and nationalism. Ihe ideal that employers and em-

ployees, the rich and the poor, laborers and proffessional men,

may be fused together in one country, by a common love for
it, is anathema to the communists. They seek to make the

workers in every nation class conscious, and bitterly hostile

to all other classes. They declare that the laborer in the United

States should love the laborer in Russia, or France, but that he

should hate his neighbor in whose factory or mine he works.

Communists boast of being advocates of international peace,

but they do all in their power to bring on excessive hatred be-

tween classes, and civil wars in every capitalistic nation.

Wars between nations are bad enough, but civil wars are much

worse. Marxian marplots are now at work in every great

nation in the effort speedily to bring on inter-class wars, rev-

olutions, and the rulership of the proletariat around the planet.

Governments everywhere are endangered. Byron well wrote,

"It takes a thousand years to build a state; an hour may lay

it in the dust."

They are making progress in the United States, the wealth-

iest modern nation, concerning which they have declared:

"We ore proceeding in America just as we are in Europe

and throughout the world. We communists and socialists will
haul down the dirty American rag and fly our own red flag

over the White House. We are boring from within the labor
unions. We are penetrating pacifistic organizations, organiz-
ing students' clubs, and plantng our workers in the culture

clubs of women. We are organizing to fight the Boy Scouts,
the rotten breeding place of patriotism. We will infiltrate into
the American Army and Navy and stamp the men with our

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cause. Don t think we can't do it! We will drive them like
sheep before us. We will put into your Legislatures, into Con-
gress, into the Senate, those who will do our work for us. Think
these things over. Get America ready for its fall.”

Their aim as to the United States is their aim as to Italy,
Germany, France, Great Britian, Spain, and the other non-
communist nations of the world, and the methods so plainly
set forth for use in America, they are beginning in other nations.

In 19:0, before the Third International, Voroshiloff, Soviet Com-
missar for War said:

"The Five-year Plan is only a part of our military prepared-

ness plan. Our 'farm collectivization' and our creation of 'grain

factories' through our compulsory mobilization of farm workers

is to insure supplies for our Red Army when we move upon

Europe, and to prevent the appearance of a discontented peas-

antry behind our lines in the coming war which is now not far

off.” He said also: "We must never cease in extending our

military preparedness, so as to be able to enter the European

situation in defense of our comrades whenever the revolution

breaks out elsewhere."

The ultimate aim of communism is the destruction of all

governments, that is anarchy, but their immediate aim is to des-

troy the bourgeois government, and to erect provisionally the

rulership of the workers through a small number of commissars

with a dictator over them. Karl Marx and Frederick Engles

wrote:

"In depicting the most general phases of the development

of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war,

raging within existing society, up to the point where that war

breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent over-

throw of the bourgeoisie, lays the foundation of the sway of the

proletariat.” Communists seek to deceive the uninformed and

the unwary by talking much of democracy, but what they seek

to set up is not "government of the people, by the people, for

the people,” but government of the autocrat, by the bureaucrat,

for the proletariat. Such a government has been approximated

in Russia, and fosef Stalin, and the Third International, whose

capital is Moscow, plans, plots, and works to annihilate all

other governments and to Russianize, politically and econom-

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ically, the whole world. However grandiose such an ambition

may seem to many sceptics, it is cherished with fanatical sin-

cerity, and nothing possible to communism, will be left undone

to attain the conquest to which it aspires. The bolshevists seek

to pull down, and cast in the dust of oblivion, the flags of all

nations, and to replace them with the Hammer and the Sickle,

the symbols of the cruel absolutism of the men of the forge and

of the field. Shall soviet slavery cover the earth?

"The time will come, "writes Olgin, "when demoralization

will be on the surface and a growfing revolution underneath;

thus the morale of the Army will be undermined. The first

foundation of society will be shaken. There will be insurrec-

tion: The Army will be irresolute. Panic will rule the rulers; a

general revolution will begin... The workers will stop working;

many of them will sack the arsenals in order to arm them-

selves; many will arm themselves beforehand. Battles in

the streets will become frequent. Led by the Communist Party,

the workers will organize revolutionary Committees to direct

the revolution. Battles will take place in the principal cities.

Barriers will be erected and defended. The battles of the

workers will have decisive influence on the soldiers. Army

groups will begin to join the revolutionary combatants, there

will be fraternization between workers and soldiers, workers

and sailors. The movement amongst soldiers and sailors will

spread. Capitalism will lose its most powerful weapon, the

Army. The police will continue to fight regularly but will soon

be reduced to silence and be obliged to take flight, pursued by

the united revolutionary forces of workers and soldiers. Rev-

olution will be victorious. The armed workmen, soldiers and

sailors will occupy the principal Government buildings, invade

the places of residences of the President and members of the

Cabinet and will declare the cld form of government abolished,

establishing their own government, the government of workers

and peasants."

The threat of communism is being met by the intensifica-

tion of the nationalistic spirit, or patriotism, in the endangered

countries. Back fires have been lighted, and they have advanc-

ed in some nations already to meet the advancing flames of

bolshevistic anarchy. They seek to halt the holocaust which

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marches toward the people from every part of the horizon.

Communism seeks to consume the precious values of nation-
alism, or of patriotism, in the hot flames of inter-class hatred

and war. It has met, and is meeting stout resistance, the
strength of which should be increased to the limit. Patriots

everywhere must sternly declare as to the invading bolshe-

vists, "They shall not pass."

If private property, the family, the school, art, literature,

religion morality, government, fall to the earth, beneath the

barrage of bolshevism, civilization will be crushed, killed, and

buried beneath the dust and debris.

Communism is the monster of -this age. If it conquers,

mankind will, suffer woes more bitter by far than those of Troy

and Carthage. Good men are studying, praying, and fighting

to kill it.

The writer has attempted to draw a vivid word picture of

Communism, in the effort to arouse and alarm each reader to

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outthor, Rembert Gilman Smith, Box 2123, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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BISHO P'S HOUSE
a04 ANTBLOPC BTRCCT

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS

April 8, 1939,

Rev. Rembert Gilman Smith, D.D.,

Box 2123,

Tulsa
,
Oklahoma

.

My dear Doctor Smith:

I read your booklet entitled

"Communism versus Civilization," The enclosed check

for $25.00 and list of addresses evidence my com-

^ment. Whatever copies of 500 are not required to

'take care of the list and postage, you may send to

my address.

You have treated the subject

splendidly. You deserve unstinted praise for the

clarity and general manner of handling same. I hope

your efforts will do a world of good. It is deplor-

able to find that even clergy are indifferent to

the menace; and also professional men seem to think

that it is all a flash in a pan.

i—
ho^o^Corpus Christ!

^ Bishop B, B, Ledvina, D.D, ,LXi,D,^



BISHOP’S HOUSE
«a«B SWISS AVENUE

DALLAS B,TCXAS

Dr. Rembert Gilman Smith,

Box 2123,

Tulsa, Oklahoma. July 15, 194^.

Dear Doctor Smith,

Please permit me to thank you for your pamphlet Communism

versus Civilization, a perusal of which gives rise to'
the following comments \^ich I now proceed to state. The

pamphlet effetively exposes the myriad myths of communist
philosophy and propaganda. It proves false the basic tenets

of Marxist communism regarding private property, the family,

education, the arts, religion, morality, and political science.

Both the attempts and reuults of Communists to undermine and

destroy these fundaments of rational civilization are aptly

described. Your stirring indictment should arouse the lethargic

and the obtuse who calmly claim that " it can’t happen here.”

I am enclosing a check for | 25.00 to assist you in

disseminating this literature.

^ith every best wish and kindest regards, I remain,

Very sincerely yours.

JPL: cm