Arizona republican., 1919-01-24
The Food of Bolshevism

The statement of Senator Lenroot in the debate on the S1o0OOOOOO relief that the bomp and monv attending the presidents European visit was doing much to feed bolshevism as food could do to prevent it, referts erroneous conception of boshe- vsm We do not think that it can be vitaly affected either by a royal display by priyation The former perhaps rtates those of democratic tendencies some what and the latter doubt invites a change, any change But neither greatly accelerate the move mont of what we know boshevsm which, after all, purports nothing but unrestrained democracy in which every man shall do he pleases-be gov ernment within himself.
 The leaders of bolshevism, it is true practice tyranny The rank and file of the bolshevists have been guilty of the oppression of weaker factions. In thc present stage the movement force is employed, md among the bolshevists, among auocrats, might makes right
 It would make no difference how well fed the bo shevst leaders might be- they would be bolshevists still and in the face of the purest and most ideal democracy, divested of all pomp and circumstance, they would yet be bolshevsts The view of Mir. Len root it therefore appears, is not very broad
 Bolshevism, though it's name is recent is not of recent origin It had it's beginning more, how much longer We do not know, than hundred years ago It hundred and one years ago that the move ment gained name from Turganev's novel, in which
 
 Bolshevsm, it is true, is nihilism, but it is related to it and descended from it that we have wondered within the last year and half that the relationship exploited by writers upon against bolshevism. In all that time dQ not recall a single reference to nihilism
 Though the government of Russia, from it's origin, was despotic and times oppressive nihism did not have it's rise from suffering among the masses, thing that lent much force and fire to the French revolution Inured to privations the Russian masses were as accomplishing the cattle in the fields.
 Nhilism was the product of thinkers. or rather, of persons who thought they thought, We have them with us today, groups of them, thinkers who think inadequately or one-sidedy. Nihism fed largely from the students of the universities More have arisen not only in Russia, but in the United States (and, we may add the United States has ever been second to Russia in this respect) among half baked college students than in any other corner of the national life. They think they know what they groping after. Some of them, too many of them, Keep sroping through life, but the great body of American university men later develop into sane citizens There is something in the English univer- cities well as in the German universities that dis courages this sort of thing, that usually emerge from them without purposes of overturning the world.
 Nihism was not directed primarily against the SONelulutnL Ol iNuSSid, put IL WenI ueepeT-d3dlnSL society which all government rests. The govern ment made the mistake of exercising cruelty in it's campaign against nhilism, and there naturally rcprisals that assassination and other crimes popularity associated with nihsm.
 The thing politically aimed at by the abler of the nihilists self-government and local autonomy They eventually secured large of the latter for. notwithstanding impressions of Russia under the empire, there was perhaps, other civilized country where there little interference by the central in the local affairs of the people. There was, though interference at times sudden and bloody. The temper of the imperial government of all despotic governments, uncertain
 It this wel-prepared seed-bed from which holshevism has sprung. It not in oppression Ghough there at times oppression), it not in starvation in hatred of royalty It in neglect by a despotic government, amounting to an almost total lack of interest in the affairs of muntes, except when they called upon by the tax gatherer or the recruiting officer
 The bolshevist leaders not likely interested in the attentions showered upon the president in Europe in the progress of the s1OOOO 900 relief bill in congress-
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