I pulled out one of my many old books that I long ago read and taught me the signposts of what was warned of and is now occurring. These excerpts are from my 1st edition, (very rare now) published in 1920 called "Americanism Versus Bolshevism" by former Seattle mayor Ole Hanson. Interestingly, he describes in the book how the communists landed in Seattle early on in the 20th century (during his time there) and built a bulwark. Quite apropos reading, I found again, in light of what is happening now in Seattle. . . .
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"The American bolshevists . . . fired wheat fields when our army needed wheat, put dead rats and mice in canned food, spiked logs in order to destroy machinery and fellow workmen, set forest fires, placed emery dust in machinery, burned down mills and logging camps, killed vineyards, and did every other damnable and cowardly thing, always taking care that their own life and liberty were safe.
Their real and avowed purpose is the overthrow of all order and government and the making of our country an experimental station for the purpose of trying out the blind vagaries and nightmares of the intellectual pismires and spittoon philosophers who would then be come the autocrats in control of all things.
The anarchist was courageous; he risked his life to take a life. The nihilist was a man, despite his crimes of violence; but the bolshevist is a sneak and a coward per se, made so by the absorption of a propaganda which teaches violence of every description, advocates sabotage in the darkness, always everywhere saying: "Do this deed. Terrorize the majority, but take care of your worthless hide!" Morally debauching every member by the teachings of cowardice and hate, the propagandists have used the ignorant and the mattoid and the moron for their foul purposes.
A government which will not defend itself cannot stand. We have had enough of weakness, conciliation and pandering. . . . I am tired of reading rhetorical, finely spun, hypocritical, far-fetched excuses for bolshevism, communism . . . nauseated by the sickly sentimentality of those who would conciliate, pander and encourage all who would destory our Government. . . ."
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