Excerpt from The Enemy Within Our Gates: Bolshevism's Assault Upon American Government The incident referred to aroused, we are glad to say, a storm of popular and congressional indignation. Almost im mediately the matter was made the sub ject of strong denunciation in the Sen ate, and a searching investigation by a special committee was ordered. In the course of the debate, Senator Thomas, of Colorado, gave the American people plain and solemn warning of the dan ger that besets them. Unless the peo ple of this country, said he, the plain, law-abiding, middle-class people, real ize, and realize very soon, the fact that there is a conspiracy, usually secret butfrequently open, working for the over throw of the Government of the United States and to erect upon its ruins a so-called government of murderers, anarchists, thieves, and criminals, with here and there some honest but deluded individual among them, the avalanche may be upon them in the near future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.