New Britain herald., 1919-04-03
Wilson Or Lenine?
(NeW | ork World.)

The war, in it's last phase, became 8
 conflict between the political princi-
 ples represented by Wilson and the
 political principles represented by
 the Kaiser. The presidents nrinci
 ples eventually triumphed.
 Peace has become an issue between
 the political principles represented bv
 Wilson and the political principles
 represented by Lenine. Will the
 presidents principles again triumph,
 or will the victory, if it is won, come
 100 late to save Europe from the un-
 restrained forces of Bolshevism?
 The Wilson principles were eagerly
 accepted by the great majority of
 European peoples, not because they
 were defined by the president of the
 United States but because they gave
 expression to the aims and objects
 Of an embattled democracy. The is-
 sues of the war as he expressed them,
 were democratic issues; terms of
 peace were democratic terms. Other
 wise and oNersop phisticated persons
 who could not realize that the old
 regime had been shot to shreds often
 pretended that they could not under
 stand the meaning of the presidents
 propositions, but the ordinary man
 had no such difficulty. They were plain enough to him.
 When the Paris, peace conference met, there was oVerWh eImne pCpu- ! lar support for the Wilson terms. 1 Nhlle the conference has been in ses- l sion his support has been weaken l lhe' not because the terms were too oefnocfauc but because of the grow 1 Ing belief of radicals that there was ] little disposition on the part of the governments represented to carry these terms into effect. While diplo- macy has been playig the ancient game of imperialism and reaction.
 HolsheNism has swept steadily for ward 1t IS stronger in Europe than ever before and and it gains in power with every new measure of obstruc- rlon in the Paris conference
 The vital question now is not Whether Europe is to be autocratic or democratic but whether it is to De democratic or EoiShevist Rol- sheElsm, after all, is merely new 1orlh or autocracy in which the pro- letar1at 1s substituted for the aristou- racy that has gone under. 1t is cla SIS 1 government In a. different form and
 Tn a st1il more insidious form
 IT IS atready certain from the march Of events that there will be a League or Nations. IC it is not Will | sons league it will be l.enine's league Lenine's league is making rapid nrog- 1 ress. It already includes Russia ] and Hungary. It is making enor- i nous gains in Bohemia, in Roumanta ! and in Poland. It has been tempor- l ( rily defeated iT Germany by the use l of machine guns, but the issue is not , settled. peacA in Paris that lis appoints the great mass of European people by giving them no hope of a world in which adequate safeguards 1 have been taken 10 prevent the 1 tragedy of another war will form the 1 basis of a BolsheNist propaganda be- 1 yond the widest dreams of Lcnine 1 and Trotzky three months ago
 1 Every attempt to discredit the 1 president plays into their hands. 1 Every attempt 10 disregard the four l teen propositions which were accepted 1 by all the belligGrents as the basis of 1 peace is so much new grist to the ! Bolshevist mill. These are the ob- 1 Vious and unmista kable facts of the 1 Paris deadlock. While diplomacy
 halts and haggles. Bolshevism acts.