The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-28
The JUDAS or NATIONS

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Russia is today the Judas of the ma
tions. No other government in this
war, not even that of Germany, has
touched such depths OF moral degra-
dation as Russia has reached under
the rule of the Balsheyiki.
The armistice with Germany which
Lenine and Trotzky have made in the
name of Russia is not merely a cow
ardly desertion of former allies. 1t is
not merely surrender to Prussian-
ism. 1t is studied and calculated act
of treachery at which even Machia-
veIli would have hesitated, for it in
wolves a denial of every article of
faith and honor which holds, society
together.
That the armistice was prepared in
Berlin is obvious from the most cas-
ual reading of the text Framed for
| the purpose of achieving a lasting and
, honorable peace" 1t permits the Ger
man government to withdraw all the
! troops from the eastern front that itI
! desires and concentrate them in
/ France. To make sure that no ques-
ton can be raised as to the right Of
Germany to make such transfers, the
Narmistice specifically provides THAI
neither side is to make operative any
/ nf he
/ Black Sea front until January 1, ex-
/ cept those begun before the armistice
was signed AS the agreement was
held up to enable Germany to begin
/ a general movement of troops from
! the east to the west, the effect os this
armistice is to release all the elfecllyeI
German forces in the east against the
British, French, American and Italian
! forces in the west. Maximalist social
! ism in Russia has thus made itself the
active friend. supporter and ally of
the military autocracy in Germany.
and revolution that was once al
hope of humanity has been turned
into a shameless conspiracy against
democracy fighting for it's life
| Trotzly boasts in an interview with
the Petrograd correspondent Of the
! Paris Matin that 1--WE are the sole mas
tiers of Russia, and we will do with
her what we will For the time be- |
ing this is unquestionably true, and |
what the Bolsheviki are trying to do |
with Russia is to destroy both society |
and civilization. AS William English |
Wallng explained the Bolshevh pro-
gram in a letter printed in Sundays |
Times. mot immediate peace but inn
mediate civil war is its object. Hence
thes Lenines and the Trotzkys hasten
to make peace with the kaiser in the
belief that it will be a means to full
Ffillment of their eanatical campaign to
reduce Russia to anarchy preparatory
to reducing the world to anarchy
1t is possible. of course, that the |
Lenines and the Trotzkys are as crazy
as they seem and that they actually |
believe that nations can be governed
by lunatics for lunatics But event
madmen usually have some method in
their madness. and the policies adopt
ed by the Bolsheyiki regime in Russia
are susceptible to much. simpler ex-
PLANTATION than that of insanity. These
men were taken to Russia by Germany
and they are doing Germany's work t
1t is the dirtiest work that anybody
has done in the war, and men who are
capable of doing it so well are capable
of understanding the degradation of
their conduct.
Russia has been given over to hu-I
man vermin, and the democracies that
are battling against Prussian militar-
ism must make the best of it. They
at least know the worst. All the dam
age that can be done has been done.
There need be- no talk of hostile meas
ures on the part of the alliese against
the present Russian government. for
that is out of the. question now. There
is nothing to do but wait and see how
the Russian people finally solve their
own problem. But one fact should
be made clear to them. Under it's Boil /
sheyiki rulers Russia is an ourcast ma
ton. unfit for honest, self-respecting
nations to associate with, and it must
be treated as such.-World.