East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-28
BY w. G.. SHEPARD.

| Omitted Press staff Correspondent J
PETROGRAD, August 29.-(By
| Mail. What is a bolshevill?
AS a general thing. he is an un-
married man, with no home of his
/ own, no responsibilities, no children
or family. He has no personal af-
| fairs of his own to look out for,
wherefore he sets out to regulate the
world.
In any of the good sized towns Of
the United States you can see boil
sheviks They usually have flowing
ties, wear their hair long, do not
shave over much and spend their
time showing how wrong things are
| in the world A woman bolshevik
at all.
1 have seen them in studios In
Washington square and in Easements
In London. have always consider
ed it a thrilling thing to know an
anarchist of the bolshevik type; they
are generally considered picturesque
even If they are smelly.
But, lying on the pavements of the
Lotenie the other day, with bolshev-
TX machine guns pouring a rain Of
bullets down the canyon of the build
ings, killing helpless men, women and
children, my former opinions as to
the bolsheviks was abruptly changed
Opinions of bolsheviks are pictur-
esque, when they are only opinions
When they are translated into deeds
they are deadly.
Women BcIsheViks, Too.
There were women bolsheviks in
that massacre on the Letenie. The
,ast thing 1 saw before 1 threw my
elf to the sidewalk, was a bob-hair-
ed woman, standing in an automobile
beside a machine gun which rested
it's muzzle on the folded top. 1t was
leading the parade OF Kroostad sail
ors who fully armed were march
ing toward the duma building; she
'tood erect like a goddess of mad
ness with q wild light in her eyes
Half a mile down the street, even as
was looking at her. I heard three
shots. They were the signal for the
massacre.
The shots ran up along the line OF
parade, like fire along a fuse. / saw
movement of persons in the auto
mobile. l did not see what became
of the woman but suddenly, from the
machine gun beside which she had
stood, a drum fire of death was pour
ed into the crowds.
Here was all the wild talk 1 ever
had heard among the anarchists of
London. New York and Chicago
come true: translated into a massa-
ere. / was seeing bolsheviks at their
best; they were showing us all they
ed away in their black minds
through the times of peace: all the
beliefs they had cultivated in their
conferences around coffee tables or
1eer stems; all that they had gained
rom the wild and sometimes contra
band books that anarchists write
and read; all these things were be-
ing spoken now by these guns that
were killing us Outstanding folks in
the street. The brotherly love that
anarchists say one day viii rule the
world, If anarchism prevails, was to-
.ally lacking.
Have Strange Beliefs.
These bolsheviks of Russia-and
hey include the bolsheriks of other
,ountries-have strange beliefs. They
want the war to end because. they
ay, the war is interfering with the
brotherhood of men. That is just
the sort of doctrine the Germans
want to have preached just now,
through the earth. The Germans,
Who seem to exist in great but subtle
strength in Russia, have used the
bolsheviks to such an extent that it
is impossible. in Petrograd these /