Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-12
ing the products Of the Watertown packing plant. If We
insist on paying the Armour-Swift price for meats, why not
pay it to our home people?
III MIND

huSSla, setting 1OrLn 0 SucclnctfY what we belleNe TO be the
prevailing opinion in America, that we absorb it in its en-
tirety in the paragraphs that follow:
To most sane people the operations of the Bolshevik mind
are 50 obscure as to be virtually ncomprehensible. We can
all understand the aims the Russian Reds profess, but it is their.
principle of conduct that defeat us. How to reconcile their.
subservence to German autocracy with their truculenc to.
ward everything else is the difficult thing. OF course Fear ex
plains much. Ienine and Trotzky are genuinely afraid of
the Germans, who are in a position to do what they please with
he representatives OF the Soviet government, whereas the al
lied nations are not; and even if they were. they have never
manifested the same determination to interfere with the in
ternaI affairs of Russia that the Germans have shown.
There IS also another aspect of the matter that may eN-
plain much. Lenine and Trotzky must know by this time that
they have failed; that their audaclous attempt to make the
whole world over III a night has broken. down. Under those
circumstances they may very likely prefer a reaction toward
despotism rather than toward democracy. The internal weak
ness of despotism they know; and they may fairly hope that it
would take very little more of it to bring about a second and
more enduring proletarian revolution. Democracy, free and
constitutional government, would be a harder nut for them to
crack; if the whole world could have a fair taste of that, it
would have small patience with the hatreds and extravagalsces
that the BoIsheyiki preach, or the cruelty and bloodsled that
they practice.
Moreover, the Bolsheviki are 50 saturated with class con
seriousness and class hostility that they cannot conceive Il a
state III which classes are only component parts OF a Whole,
each fumctioniug according to its special aptitude and capacity.
They actually believe that one class must rule the others, and
seem to prefer a society in which an aristocracy frankly gov
erns, as IN Germany, to one i'll which a sincere effort is made
Ito harmonic the interests and equalize the political influence
OF the different elements Of the population. The frs, type Of
state they can understand, and in it they can carry on the kind
of class war in which they delight; the other by its very exist
SucS - u telildl u Gc Validity OIL dl& hell UQeOflGS alu all
their arguments.
1t behooves US to do our best to understand the Bolslevik
mind, for it exists in all countries today, although nowhere
save in Russia has it found the rank soil of ignorance and in
justice in which it has its perfect growth. The leaders of the
Industrial Workers Of the World who were convicted in Clica-
go the other day for obstructing the nationi in its conduct of the
war have it, in the degree that it is ~possibleef for it to attain in
our own country. Like the men who have brought such hui
Initiation on Russia, they deny any allegiance to tile naticn.
They demand, and it they were strong enough they would bring
about, the instant destruction OF our social systen-our poll
i t1cal organizations, our right OF DrODerty. and Drolablv. foo.
our religion; and they would not scrupIe much more than the
Bolsheviki over the mere details of piIage and murder flat
would accompany such an overturn.
The peculiar fault of this kind Of mind is not viciousness
Of purpose. We believe that the communistic socialist is I'M
practical, and that his system, If persisted III, would in no great
time resolve civilization into its original clements; but he does
not intend to harm the human race. On the contrary, he
thinks himself an agent Of eternal justice and the possessor Of
q secret that viii transform our society into one IN which hon.
esy, industry and capacity are universal. But he is a fanatic
deceived BY specloas arguments and misled by . purely senti
mental view Of human society. He is unable to observe ae
curately Or to reason cody; he is utterly without that inlis
pensable attribute OF the truly sane mlnd--patience, and lie il
SO obsessed by the urgency OF his cause that lie will stick a
nothing, however wicked, to forward it.
It IS not fairto the reasonable Socialists to confuse then
with the Bosheviki, for such men know we'll enough that tim
y q necessary element IL all great social changes. FeudaIisn
did not pass IN d twevemontl, and capitalistie industrialisn
will not do So, either. II is the peculiar vice Of the Bolsheyn
mind that it cannot make OF accept so obvious All observation
Whenever it sees i chance it will tly as it did III Russia to tea
everything down at once, and II vii. ~ ~ helpless as It is i
Russia to build up anything onatle# ruins. The difficult wear
I 1Adc alSM IuiioN tMe ~ VII SApOSe y great many uiStapi
and irritable brains To the infection of Rolsfevikism. We mus
recognize the peril and set ourselves to meet il, not alone All
not chiefly 81 repression, but bg awakening our people to Iii
true character Of the danger, and ~ making up our minds &
labor patiently for such i degree Of pubic and social .iiustic
as Shall deprive tile agitatoi oftle means by which lie exists.
The DeadUood Telegram is fortunaiein the sort 81 eduo
Ilt has He iszclief lnake-np man, editorinschiaff, felagaaf
Iedlfor, city editor, alnotyp operator, all combined IN one an
lthessalle person Until The paper can secure 3 party to 81
lerate the typesotting machine, tile editor III dsuaonstratin
lssabilitysho dostAe trick himself.