Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-29

lies, as just war for a great cause,
and urged the Russian soldiers to do
their duty bravely even under the
guidance of the old regime, Lenne
took an opposite view and preached in
his paper "Social- Democrat" that
Russia must be defeated for the sake
of her own and the worlds progress.
While Lenine was preaching the ne
cessity of Russia's defeat in Switzer-
land, his friend, Leon Trotsky, was
editing a paper, "Nashe Slovo" (Our
Word), in Paris, and sitting behind
the French lines preached that France
in this war, was nothing worthy of
fighting for.
These gentlemen. the evil force in
Russia's life for the past fourteen
years, axS now temporarily in power,
and dare to speak in the name of the
country which is so paralyzed by the
misfortunes of the last years that she
cannot speak for herself. Lenine. who
openly preached the necessity of Rus
sia's defeat, who came to Russia from
Switzerland, thru Germany-the Ger
mans were glad to land him in Russia
Immediately after the revolution, un-
derstanding that his presence is equal
to German army operating in Rus
sia's midst-this Lenine now poses as
the Premier of Russia!" Lenine and
Trotsky, as the Government of Rus
sia," would be a good theme for a
musical comedy, if only the "mania
grandiosa' of these gentlemen would
not cost Russian and her allies prob
ably, hundreds of thousands of addi-
tional lives.
Tyranny Worse Than Ever.
Nicholas Lenine and his following is
only shadow of Nicholas Romanoff
and his regime. The tyranny re-es-
tablished in Russia by the new Mich
olas III is probably worse than the re
cent tyranny of Nicholas H. While
proclaiming that they revolted against
the "tyrannic regime Of Kerensky,
the Bolsheviki, themselves, have es-
tablished a tyranny unknown even un-
der the cars government. They
have suppressed the liberal and, par
TALLY, the Socialist press. They have
arrested the most prominent and re
spected liberal and revolutionary lead
ers-amOng the latter, such men as
BourtZev and Plechanov-they have
dissolved municipal councils in Petro-
grad, Moscow, Nisini- Novgorod and
other cities-the municipal councils
which were elected by the entire pop
ulation of the cities. according to the
new law of universal suffrage. Even
the cars government respected the
principle of parliamentary immunity,
and althO many of the members of the
first duma and the members of the
Social-Democratic faction of the sec
ond duma were arrested by the gov
ernment, they We're arrested after the
dumas had been legitimately dissolved.
When the cZar's government dared to
arrest and try five Socialist members
of the fourth duma, while the duma
was still sitting, there was cry of
Indignation in the country and bitter
feeling against the government even
among the conservative elements.
The Bolsheviki are free from any
kind of Sentimental prejudice" They
have adopted the German motto
" Might is Right" They dare to de-
clare, with unprecedented cynicism,
that the Constituent Assembly.
realization of the sacred hope
of generations of Russian revo-
lutionists who have died for it
in prison cells, in fortresses and
in the tundras Of Siberia, that the
Constituent Assembly will be illegal
if the majority prove to be against
the Bolsheviki. They know that the
majority of the Assembly will assur-
fact that they have used. during the
elections, every means to terrorize the
Russian citizens and to falsify their
will. They know that the unfortu-
nate country, prostrated by the three
and half years of bleeding and by
the terrible crimes committed against
her, will never surrender to the Boil
sheviki program, and will fight them
thru her legitimate representative in
the Constituent Assembly. Therefore,
they prevent the meetings of the as
sembly by armed force, and have al
ready arrested such prominent mem
bers as Prince Dolgorukov, F. Kokosh-
kin and A. Shingarev.
Beginning of the End.
While | am debating this state
ment, a cable from Petrograd an
nounces that in addition to the great
against the Bolshevil1i
which has already started in Ukraina,
Siberia and the Cossack regions,
spreading thruout the region of Vol
gain addition to this movement,
there is already an actual revolt
against the Bolsheviki in their main
in Petrograd itself. This
is the beginning of the end of the Boil
sheviki tyranny.
Bolshevikism was the most danger
Gus disease of the Russian revolution,
the disease which brought newborn
ruin. There is every reason to believe
that this disease will soon be over,
and then, | am sure, the Russian de-
mocracy, with the Constituent As
sembly convoked and with a stable
democratic government established,
will begin a new page of her life, par
as much as she can, to-
gether with the Allies in the great
struggle for liberty and democracy.
EXTRA LARGE SIZE.