Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-06-20
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sional and business men utilizing the
services of a clerk, bookkeeper, or ste
nographer.
| (b). All persons receiving interest
on borrowed money or bonds, rent
| from real estate or personal property,
and dividends from stock of any kind.
| (c). All traders, merchants, and
dealers, even though they do not en-
] ploy another person in the conduct o.
their business.
(d). All preachers, priests, janitors,
and employees of all churches and re
| ligious bodies.
1t is apparent with the millions OF
persons falling into these several
classes, disfranchiscd and deprived of
all right to participate in the affairs
of government, accompanied of all
1 immediate enfranchisement of all
/ aliens who do not fall within these
prohibited classes, and the opening Of
the doors OF all prisons and peniten-
| taries, and domination of the GRIM
/ inal and most undesirable alien ele-
| ments of the country would be COM
paratively easy matter. To simplify
| the question of this control, however,
| the substantial rural portion of the
population would be further sup
| pressed and restricted, and under the
| rev olutionary formula the voting pow
| er Of the cities would be five times as
L H.. 80 h, mi inc
| the ratio of the representation in cit
les being l to every $4,000 Of the popu-
| lation, while that of the rural districts
| would be only to every 125,000 of the
population. In the United States the
rural population under the 1910 GEN.
sus was considerably in excess of the
urban. We must also remember that
the application of the formula would
include the disarming Of all Gisfran-
chised classes and the arming to the
teeth of these criminal and alien ele-
ments.
CD 1t would result in the confisca-
tion of the government thus constituted
of the land of the United States in
Guiding 6,S61,5O2 farms, of which 6s.1
per cent, or 3,94S,772 farms, arc owned
in fee by the farmers who cultivate
them and represent the labor and toll
Of lifetime. On the farms Of the
United States there are improvements
machinery, and live stock to the value
of $i0,991, $4,000, [census of 1901 all
of which would oe confiscated with the
land. The confiscation program would
include the more than 275,000 manu-
featuring establishments, including the
So, 790, $50 900 of invested capital much
of which is owned by the small inves
.or whose livelihood depends upon the
success of the respective enterprises.
The confiscation would also include
203, 432 church edifices. Forests aggre-
eating 555,000,000 acres would be seized
by the government and an annual pro-
duct of $l,375, 100000 would come un-
der the control of the dictatorship.
Dwellings to the number of 17,S05,S45,
of which $685. .675 are owned in fee, with
5,9S4,249 entirely free from debt. would
be confiscated and the owners dispos
sessed at the pleasure of the govern
ment.
(4) Although clamoring loudly for
free and unrestricted press the rev.
olutionary program would require the
seizure and confiscation of the 22.-
$50 newspapers and periodicals in the
United States, together with all me-
chanical equipment necessary for their
publication, and a control and owner
ship of the public press by the gov
eminent.
(5.) Complete control of all banking
institutions and their assets Is an es-
sential part of the revolutionary pro-
gram, and the 31,492 banks in II
United States would be taken over by
the government and the savings OF
millions, including 11,397,553 deposi-
tors drawing interest on accounts in
savings banks, and consequently be-
longing to the so-called bourgeois OF
capitalistic class. jeopardied.
CO. One of the most appalling and
far-reaching consequences of an ap-
plication OF Bolshevism in the United
States would lie found in the confis-
cation of liquidation of it's life in
surance companies. There is 20 per
cent more life insurance in force in
this county than in all the rest Of the
world, and nine-tenths OF it is mutual
| insurance. Almost 50,000000 life in
linn rl
| $50 .OOO, 100000 of insurance, the sub
stantial protection of the women and
children of the nation, would be rem
| dered valueless.
| 7) The atheism that permeates the
whole Russian dictatorship is clearly
| reflected in the activities of their revo-
lutionary confreres in the United
| States, and IN their publications they
| have denounced our religion and our
God as lies" This gives added sig
nificance to the revolutionary attitude
| toward the Christian church and the
| Christian religion. The prohibition OF
| religious schools and the teachings or
studying OF religion. except in private
| would ncceSSllate the aDOlltlOn Oh l5t,-
759 Sunday schools in the United
States and a great number of semi
naries, colleges, and universities; 49,
| 935. $50 Sunday school scholars would
be deprived and prevented from en-
| joying the institution that has became
an important part of their lives and is
one of the great moral influences of
the nation. Catholic schools. colleges.
and semnaries to the number OF 6,6Sl
would be suppressed. Church prop
erty of the value of S1,676,6OO,5S2
would he confiscated and 41,926,S54
| Census of 19l6) members OF 227,iS7
| church organizations would be sub
| iectcd to the domination of an atheist
| dictatorship.
| Notwithstanding the fact that every
champion and defender of Bolshevism
| that testified before your committee
| unequivocally admitted that the Boil