Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-14
The Greater Conflict. Or The
Bolsheviki vs.. Abraham Lincoln
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These conditions existing in our own
country we must not be surprised at
the u~ndercurrents of unrest all about
us.
HoIsheviki Defined.
The Bolsheviki are Of the same
type. George Keenan,, writing to q
critic replied only a few weeks ago, 4
made the acquaintance in Siberia OF
many men OF your ~tBolsheyiki) type.
1 did not doubt in most cases either
their sincerity or their zeal; but / had
every possible reason for doubling
their intellectual sanity, their knowl-
edge of history, and their ability to
think straight concerning the social
and political problems of life.n
Trotzky. the present leader of Rus
STA. was for several a a resident
of the East-side district in New YorK
city. He was at the very center of
the extreme anarchistic.group of Rus.
slams. He frequently visited the fam
Gus Church Of All Nations in New
York where the open forum gave him
and his fellow-countrymen the oppor-
tunity for discussion SO dear to Rus
sian hearts. A woman had on one oc.
casion just concluded an address in
which she told OF the Bolsheviki in
Russia, that they were demanding OF
the people that if any man had two
pair of shoes, he must give one pair
away, and the same with all his gar
ments. The Bolsheviki ~applauded
most heartily. The woman inquired,
Have you who applauded more than
N, noir Of Chnoc $ pi. Onn or1itE pf
clothes? If you have, please rise and
we will take your names, SO we may
supply the needs of the poor A de.
pressing silence followed. No BolsLe.
Wiki arose to accept her proposition.
One authority says this of them: THE
Bolsheviki owning nothing give free
ly of what does not belong to them
Trotzky has declared, .Our business
is to support the working classes and
keep up.a social revolution until ii
spreads all over the world, Roger
Lewis describes three groups among
the Bolsheviki: First, German paid
agitators and propagandists whose
sole purpose is to reduce Russia to
complete anarchy; second, fanatics
escaped criminals, released prisoners
(political) and expatriated Russians
WIUHl pUlltICdla ICE OdS
to the country. These the sense OF
accumulated wrongs for half a cen.
fury has driven into a frenzy of anar-
chistic revolt. Third, the largest
class, a tremndous body of ignorant
workingmen and soldiers. who have
been taught by their leaders that free.
dom is debauch of idieness and that
liberty will give them tyranny oye1
- : Ia - a. q orr That iS fnS co " &fhc
wooden shoe will be on the other fel
lows foot from o on!
GIaring Contradictions.
Edward Price Bell, writing from
Petrograd to the Chicago News, is oi
the opinion that Nearly all Russian
socialists have gone through a German
socialist school, and i German per
,sonal serfs without knowing 1t. Rus
sian socialists having received theil
education abroad always shut them
selves up in their private rooms II
lodgings in the various countries 81
western Europe, never coming into
contact with the actual affairs Of those
countries. They spend days and nights
in endless discussions. They have nc
solid knowledge OF the foreign Ian
guages they are supposed to speak
They do not have the patience TO base
their political theories upon scientific
knowledge. Deprived Of practica'
education in political institutions
which were prohibited in Russia, they
ultimately return a theoretical force
and nothing else But MI. Bell goes
ON to say that Whoever has studied
the Bolshevikcr admits that Boil
shevism runs more squarely counter
to Hohenzollefnisn than does any
other political philosophy extart.'
Olga, III 1.-THE Soul OF the Russian
Revolution insists that 1T is Tht
awakening OF great nationSto sell
consciousness, shaken to- fts yer,
foundations. On the other hand
Rhetta ChiIde Dorr. az Aemrican so
ciaIist. returned from Russia, writes
III her book. INSIDE the Russian ReyO
luton. Z that it is her conviction tha1
the world will have to wait awhile
before it can establish any cooper
alive millennium or before it can safely
hand over the work Of government
to the man iii the street But, wheth
er&or no We like ut the q in tn
street may insist ontaking over tn
business Of government, and intha
case we are face to face with q fac
and not theory. a
The Bolsheyikiis not typicalsof ths
best revolutionary elements IN Russia
George keenan, insists that not on
az the great constructive revolution
lists stand today Wtths9Trotzky azs
Ixenine that onth0 contrary the.
are b the most part in exile. sssysss
ncnrdinp rs recent 3petrOgrad dis