The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-01-05


regime?
Poor pen~i. oF P..--;- I--:sod 70
Hatred Against All Others.
under the old cZarist regime. the mass
of the peasants. with little or no ed
ucat'on, kept in sIbjugation by the
ministry, the military and the priests.
had the most primitive ideas about the
fupnction of government. They were
easily inflamed by pictures of a Utopia
which could not possibly be realized.
They were easily led to a passionate
hatred of not onUly the rich but of
common men and women who had &C
cumulated small homes and home
steads by their labor.
All that Bolshevism accomplished,
however. was to bring on a state OF
anarchy and wholesale destruction and
murder. Promised social reform in
Droprietorship of land and in inCR.s-
ry have resulted only in the de-
struction of factories and business
and in the failure to cultivate vast
caches of land which formerly pro-
luced the food upon which Russia
lived.
Factories were burned by mobs led
by Bolsheviks. And even where land
was divided among the mob it was
Of farm tools and machinery.
Men who knew how to run factories
to produce goods were either murder
ed or forced to conceal themselves
The peasants, who had owned their
farms before the revolution, produced
only enough food last summer to sat
isfy their own needs, because they
knew the Bolsheviki would confiscate
their crops or pay for it in money
that is a mere joke. After a year
of unrestricted Bolshevism the Rus
sian country people can get no ma
terial for clothing and shoes, no man
ufactured goods of any kind. while in
the cities the people cry in agony
for food.
How Russia Was Turned Into Vast
Shan,bes by BoIsheviki.
The leaders of the Bolshtviks have
blamed this condition of affairs upon
the sabotage of the bourGeoisic"
middle cIass). Thus the passion of
the disappointed mob was turned
away from their new rulers and upon
those unable to defend themselves.
Only one class was safe and that
was composed of the lowest and worst
elements o fsociety. There was dang
er in = clean collar or a decent APP
pearance. Safety lay in being dirty
and unkempt. l am not referring
merely to the danger to the so-called
upper class. the mobiles, the rich land
owners. the higher government Off
Gals under the old regime. the army
and navy officers. They we're either
compelled to fee or hide or face death.
They were beyond the pale of the
law, which meant that anyone could
kill them with impunity under the
preteXt that they were dangerous to
the ruling powers or that they were
ter-revolutiOnaries. Russia was
thus turned into a vast SHAMELESS
But there was even as great danger
to the so-called "Bourgeoise'' or mid
die class-the professors, the skilled
mechanics. the small merchants and
shop keepers. the small land-owning
farmers, anybody who had a little
property. They were at the mercy OF
any hoodlum or criminal Who CHANGED
to be in control Of th- '~-~-
Arbitrary arrests became the order
of the day, otiIoWeu - $500
ecutions, we'll as the official ones
which occurred with appalling regu-
larity and frequency. In the Crime. in
the Caucasus, in the territory OF the
Don Cossacks, at Moscow and other
places in the first class handed over
to the mob were the former officers
anu tIlS 4AlI6IAAeo SIllSltt NOiIl prs IL
the learned professions and public Of
fcers.
At Odessa all the officers, partiCu-
larly those OF the fleet wehe hunted
down. dragged to the water front and
thrown into the sea, first having had
weights fastened to their feet SO they
could not swim.
Forest of Swaying Bodies in the
Depths of Odessa Harbor.
After the Germans took Odessa and
restored some sembIance OF order, a
woman whose two sons, former Rus
sian naval officers. had been thus
drowned, desired to have their bodies
recovered so she could give them
Christian burial She hired two divers
to 60 to the bottom of the harbor.
one came up with his hair turned gray
from what he found. The other came
up, a mailman, constantly muttering:
This is how they are swaying."
: At ROstOv on the Don, the Bolshe-
Wiki shot all the students at the high
school because some of the students
had Joined Korn lows forces. The
mothers of some of the boys tried to
save them and were shot down too.
Those, who Survived. published Il
p!tiful protest in the newspapers. For
doing this, the editors were forced
to suspend publication.
At Kiev. Bolshevik patrols paced
up and down the street and shot peo-