Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-13
BANKRUPT BobheUism.
n IS interesting DuL IN no way SURPRISING
to learn that the Bolshevist forces are

to learn that the Bolshevist forces are
~ seeking an armstice from Admiral
KoIchak who represents what seem to be the
beginnings of decent and stable government
in the new Russia. "Armistice" they call it,
but in reality it will be surrender. Having
supped full of horrors and reached their
limits in deceit and extortion, the outlaws
are ready to give up. For months their
clutch has been weakening. Such military
resources as they had have dW1ndled and
dwarfed until now they appear to be little
more than a band of such tatterdemalions as
Falstaff mustered along the road to Coventry
williams marching wide betwixt the legs,
as if they had gives on" Furthermore, the
Bolshevist printing press which was wont TO
turn out currency" by millions and billions,
has fallen into universal disrepute; the
scraps of paper no longer will buy food or
other needments. Thus reduced to bandit s
army and beggar's treasury, Lenine, Trot-
zky and Company await foreclosure.
This was predestined by the very nature
of their regime Not even in Russia is it pos
sible to fool all the people all the time, nor to
keep the despotism of vicious minority for
ever manacled upon the great rank and file.
Lenine himself laid his finger on the fatal
weakness of his adventure when he boastfully
declared: "Just as one hundred and fifty
thousand lordly landowners under CZarism
dominated the one hundred and thirty million
of Russian peasants, so two hundred thou
sand members of the Bolshevist party are i'm
posing their proetarian will upon the mass"
That is to say, for the rule of lordllngs there
was substituted a rule of looters. Bolshev-
ism, truly described as 1.-The Glass Idea run
mad" had no more regard for the majority
of the people than had Czarism; was not a
whit more democratic, and lacked even a pre-
tense to decency and honor. 1t would be I'M
Just, and in the long run impossible, for two
hundred thousand of the BEST people in a
nation to rule one hundred and thirty million
others, save to the extent that wise counsel
and good example can rule. What a criminal
farce, then, was to be expected when this
minority of the WORST essayed to rule one
hundred and thirty million others!
Unschooled and misgoverned as they have
been for so long an age, the Russian masses
cannot be expected to bear efficiently the sud
den responsibilities of citizenship without
honest and able leaders. 1t remains to be
seen whether the figures now emerging from
the weIter-Admiral Kolchak and his asso-
ciates-are of that character and capacity.
It would seem, however, that a group of truly
patriotic and constructive-minded men should
succeed in rallying enough strength to set up
and maintain Government whose superior
ity to any that Russia has known in the last
two years would commend it to the majority s
support. Especially will this be probable if
the new Government receives Allied and
American recognition and is thus assured of
economic backing. Nothing, indeed, is likely
at this juncture to go so far in tranquilizing
and stabiIiZng Russia as effectual work on
her great economic problems. To rehabilitate
the railroads, re-establish the factories and
mills, reopen the mines and restore agricul-
ture! to a productive basis, would eliminate
many of the stubbornnest difficulties with
which the forces Of law and order will have
to contend. Danish unemployment and hun
ger, and Bolshevsm will have lost it's first
and last friends.