White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-30

duce serious rioting In Petrograd or
Moscow. Lenine's government sane
toned the distribution of just enough
food to take the edge of the temper
of the crowd.
Reign Of Terror.
All the while an army of 100000
men 1.-THE Red Guard) committed acts
OF terrorism In an effort to maintain
boisheyik supremacy and prevent q
counter-revolution. The army was
built around 10000 to 10000 Lettish
s~harpshoOters and 5000 Chinese mer-
cenaries who were the only faithful
elements in these troops. The re-
mainder of the 100000 members In the
Red Guard were admittedly sick of the
whole business and only prevented
from returning to their homes by the
knowledge that once out of the army
three meals a day would become a
thing of the past.
To half of the army food was the
only thing demanded of the govern
ment. The remaining 80 per cent-the
Older Nv not content with
promises and food, but also demanded
some money. So Lenine and Trotzky
allowed these soldiers 4 wage of 600
rubles monthly.
This Red Guard was the force with
which the all-Russlan committee
against revolution prevented any other
party coming into power. There were
u nAltffaat nraYno oil tAll tIas xrx~~
anxious to grab the reins of govern
ment. but the Red Guard, acting on
orders OF the all-Russian committee.
wreaked bloody vengeance on any
clique that e~ndeavored to make itself
heard.
When the peace conference proposed
calling a meeting Of delegates Of all
Russian parties to be held on Princes
island In the sea OF Marmora, near
Constantinople. 1t was definitely known
in Paris that the great body of the
Russian public was sick and tired of
bolsheyik rule. and that the interior
Of Lenine's soviet system OF govern
ment had started to crumble. II was
a condition of the Princes island meet
Ing that military enterprises of the
bolsheyiki should be stopped. II was
the Idea of the American section OF the
peace conference TO encourage a truce
between the clashIng Russian elements
for the sake of Russia's people.
Turn to Germany.
Lenine had a vision Of the hand
UsrtfInO nm tho npnlI-af thn InKpnfa1 af
his autocracy-when Germany broke
diplomatic relations with Petrograd.
But Trotzky. partner In most of Lee
mines plans. put forward a scheme of
~perpetuating the Russian rule Of ter
ror. Trotzky saw In a German revolu-
ton and acceptance of bolshevik rule
enrichment of the %boishevik inner cir
Gle. Germany had a fairly prosperous
merchant class whose property I'M
der bolshevism would go largely to
bolsheyik leaders. Eventually, Trot-
zky saw a bolshevik world-and pow
er and gold for the firm Of Lenine,
Trotzky x Co, specialists in the ruinn.
tion of nations. Trotzky. with his plan.
won oye Lenine, just after the Ger
mans severed connection with the so
yiets.
While hundreds died daily in Petro-
grad from hunger and from bullets of
the Red Guard, the Moscow presses
were busy printing the leaflets that
portrayed bolshevism as the remedy
for all political evils of modern times.
down With the Old Civilization"
was the slogan of the Moscow and
Petrograd followers of Lenine and
Trotzky. This cry was the natural de-
velopment of bolshevik government,
which officially proclaimed on January
10. 1918. private possession of the
land is abolished forever and the en-
tire agricultural area is to be dis
tributed between the working people
free of payment
"All banks are henceforth property
OF the state.
"a Red army Of workmen and peas
ants Is to be formed to maintain or
der. All loans to the cars govern
ment by the bo%urgeoisie merchants.
bankers and professional menu are
to be cancelled"
These regulations. given out as off
cial pr~oclamations In Petrograd. were
but the beginning of the bloody bolshe-
vik regime.
Truth May Never Be known.
It was the start of v a year of
terror for Russia. No n will know
until years have passed. perhaps never.
what toll In dead bolshevik rule
brought. No human mind can measure
the misery brought to noncombatants.
While the Red Guard controlled Rus
sia and which delegates we're invited
to the Princes island convention by the
peace conference to thrash out a sound
program for a new Russia-allied and
Amesican groups In Paris, especially
the American Red Cross. were plan
ming relief expeditions to start the
moment access could be gained into
Russia.