The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-01

planned wholly on the ground of the per
sonal compatibility of Lenine and Trot
ky, since it crops up spontaneous,
from day to day in public meetings tina
are evidently not directly controlled b,
these worthless.
The leaning toward Germany, or thu
repulsion from the Anglo Saxon world
exists quite apart from the Lenine in
terest, and it is not a mere fancy to at
tribute it in considerable degree to thu
evident infatuation of the whole class Of
Petrograd extremists with the teach
ings of Karl Marx. Bolshevikism is il
fact a return of the Russian radicals
after long plunge into nihilism and the
purely destructive ideas of Bakunin, and
! into the primitive Christianity of Tol
stoi, to Marxism, with its fundamental
doctrine that the proletaria, the unprop.
! ertied or day wage laboring class can
never emancipate itself save by breaking
down all classes or social elements eX-
cept itself, 1t is needless to say that the
determination of Lenine and Trotzky
and their followers to give no voice at all
in the government which they have I'M
dertaken to set up to the bourgeois" or
to own, little land, is Marxism pure
and simple. There was in the theory of
Marx no room for the admission of any
power except that of the proletariat.
The Petrograd mob cannot understand
political or social economy, but it can
understand this idea-that none but it
self shall have any power. Marx divided
mankind into capitalists and workers,
into exploiters and exploited, Anyone
who possesses and uses property, and
who hires another to help him retain or
increase it, is a capitalist, and conse-
quently an enemy. In America and Eng
land, all classes in one way or another
seek to acquire property. 1t is with them
instinct as well as principle. If they do
possess property, they are content to
work for another until they are able to
put something aside, and they are will
ing to suppose that the other thus serves
them, and is no enemy. The word pro
letarat' is unknown with us. Instead of
"class warfare" we have an unconquer-
able tendency to get all of us, into the
same class. The protection of property,
as well as of the person, is principle
of our social structure. We are at the
opposite pole of thought from the Marx
ian Bolsheviki. Therefore we are to
them anathema.
But Marx was German, and in Ger
many his ideas have made rather more
progress than anywhere else. In spite of
the kaiser and the junkers and the null
titude of fat profteers in peace and in
war of the Prussian state system, the
German world is full of socialism, of
Marxism, and by this evident fact the
Petrograd mob is impelled to sort of |
leaning upon Germany and Germans |
The leaders of the Bolsheviki have de- |
rived their ideas from Germany. These |
IDEAS to be sure, do not prevail outside
If their circle. The average Russian Is a !
peasant, and the peasant wants his own |
The Bolshevikl are a minority. just now |
hey are uppermost at Petrograd, and |
he dissolution of the whole previously |
Existing system of society has left no
me who has yet succeeded in controlling
hem. The ideas, as well as their leaders,
we're made in Germany. The stamp
therefore, appears, quite logically, ION the
}olsheviki mob.-Boston Transcript.