The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-27
DEFENDING YOUR SONS MURDERER.

Probably half of the American casualties can
be laid to the door of Comrades" Lenine and
Trotzky. Official revelations made by the gov
+ eminent of the United States have proved be-
yond any reasonable doubt that the Bolshevist
leaders plotted with Germany and were in Ger
man pay, and they were responsible for the
breakdown. Of the Russian army and the conse-
., quent release OF more than a million Germans
g for service on the western front These mil
lion Germans prolonged the war for a year and
10 them can be ascrfbed most of the American
casualties.
Yet hero in Fargo we have newspaper that
Is daily defending the Russian Bolshevists, and
doing It openly and braZenly, while our wound
cd men are returning. In fact 1t is difficult af-
ter reading the issues of Christmas day and the
day following, TO tell whether the Fargo Courier
/ News is the official organ OF the Nonpartisan
league OF the Russian Bolshevik
Under the plea of telling the truth" about
ussa It is diligently gathering every scrap OF
nnisnforunation that reflects any credit on the
Bolsheviki government and playing 1t up" 10 the
exclusion Of other press reports from Russia
Read what Gertrude Atherton cables to the
Msw York Times from London:
f.s Revolution is a vr1Ilent and excessively
contagious germ. There is something very
fnflarnine to the Imagination in the annihila-
ton of all law and the qualification of
every base impulse Europe has been civil
ICED for great many centuries If, the Ger
moment she may find herself in the Dark
Ages and only those of murderous proclivi-
ssties will have a chance to survive.
Others may expect the fate of the Russian
gentleman with whom Lord Northcliffe had
"a conversation yesterday just before j saw
him. The Russian was an old friend and be
fore the war had entertained him at his
estate in Russia. The BoIshevik suddenly
descended upon his unprotected family, put
= out the eyes of the women slit their tongues
broke their knees. and then buried them alive.
This orgy induced such pleasurable sensa-
man escaped.
Yet there are good citizens here in Fargo and
North Dakota who read and help support news
paper that pleads the of these murderers.
The world is threatened with the contagion of
the moral collapse of Russia and Germany. From
the Rhine eastward Europe is a vast turmoil Of
anarchy. There IS government that has
any assurance of permanence. 1t is a wholesale
moral breakdown as much political break
down Men have given full sway to all their
worst passions. Each considers he is a law
unto himself and the strongest rob, pillage,
rape and murder almost at will. There is no
freedom, democracy. not even food or clothes
or personal safety.
Sane Americans view this condition aghast,
while the noisy VIOLENT radicals work feverishly
to bring about the same conditions in America,
hoping to profit from the breakdown of society
here. Meanwhile shallow -pated "Tntelectuals"
frate their shibboleths of Industrial freedom"
and smugly thlnk they are proving thelr ihoe-
pendence of thought" by champoning the cause
Of cut threats and dynamiters. Other timid
souls talk of compromise"
Mere Nonpartisan league doctrines becom-
ing too mild for the little gang Of carpet baggers
that controls North Dakota They demand
stronger drink than that. On with the Soviets
and the Red Guard! Seize the farms, and the
stores and the banks!
in. the chaos that will follow, the leaders will
find opportunity to crafty all their desires be-
fore sanity returns to the nation.