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The Red Conspiracy examines the ideologies of Socialism, Bolshevism, Communism, and I.W.W.'ism to argue against their adoption in the United States. The author asserts that these radical programs pose a threat to the nation's constitutional government and warns that they would ultimately increase the suffering of the American working class.

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CHAPTER VI

"An Open Letter to 'The Appeal.' "*March* 19, 1919. "Editor Appeal to Reason, "Girard, Kans.: "Sir.--In the issue of the 'Appeal to Reason,' March 15, 1919, you publish an appeal for $30,000 CASH, for an alleged 'Amnesty and Construction Fight.' "You give yourself credit for having 'won' the first skirmish in the amnesty fight and on the basis of this unfounded claim, you justify your appeal for $30,000 CASH. To make your appeal seem legitimate, you use such names as Eugene V. Debs, Kate Richards O'Hare, Rose Pastor Stokes and refer to 'many of our comrades.' I happen to be one of those who is facing a prison sentence and if you have included me in 'many of the comrades,' I want you to strike my name from your list. I loathe to be a 'comrade' of yours. You and your paper helped to create a hatred against the Socialist Party and you wilfully and maliciously lied about the National Executive Committee when it refused to follow a course that would put more of our members in prison. In other words, you and your paper must bear a part of the responsibility for the prosecution and persecution of the Socialists and it is rank hypocrisy for you to prate about your fight for amnesty. "Others may speak for themselves, but I scorn any effort that you make in my behalf. A thousand times would I rather spend the rest of my life behind prison bars than to have one word from you whom I hold responsible for the persecutions of which my colleagues and I are victims. "I look upon your appeal for $30,000 CASH, in the name of 'Amnesty,' as a sinister method of filling your own coffers. "You have lied to us and about us and betrayed us in the past and I resent your hypocritical prattle about amnesty. "Yours without respect, "Adolph Germer, "*National Secretary, Socialist Party*."
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