The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-04
By J. G. Phelps stokes.]

paign against Bolshevism.)
 The Bolsheviki in 1917 were but a wing of the Social Democratic Party in Russia. Availing of subsidies fur nlshed their leaders by the German government, they took into their employ sufficient well trained Lettish mercenaries, paid them wages great ly In excess of the customary rates, and with this as a nucleus formed a strong proletarian guard which dis persed the Constituent Assembly at the point of the bayonet, seized the government buildings and arseAAls In Petrograd and Moscow, armed a host of destitute workmen and soldiers, and soon had all north Central Russia in the control of their armed forces.
 Explaining the overthrow of the Constituent Assembly, the New York Bolsheviki say in a recent leafet The Assembly convened at Petro- grad on January 18th, 1918. The Bolshevik had only a minority, the majority being Menshevili and bour- geois. The Constituent Assembly was forcibly dispersed because 1t re- fused to pass a declaration submit ted to 1t by the Central Executive Committee of the Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates. In other words, the unarmed Constituent Assembly might function as governing body only if 1t obeyed the will of an arm ed minority.
 German Subsidies.
 Of the subsidies placed at the dis posal of the Bolsheviki by the Ger man government much evidence has been published by the American government. Commencing in Octo- Der, 1914, when the German Imperial Bank told its confidential agents to honor certain drafts of Zinovieff, the close friend of Lenine and subse- quently president of the Petrograd Soviet, the Imperial Bank, and oth- CTS acting with it, placed large sums from time to time at the disposal of the Bolshevik leaders. Eighty-two thousand francs were placed at the disposal of Katz (alias Kamkoff) in Stockholm, on June IS, 1917; three hundred fifteen thousand marks at the disposal of Lenine at Kronstadt on June IS, 1917; one hundred eigh- ty thousand marks at the disposal of Lenine in Stockholm on July 14, 1917; 400, 900 crowns at the disposal of "Comrade Sonia" September ?, 1917; two hundred seven thousand marks at the disposal of Lenine in kronsEadt on September 12, 1917. and large but unspecified sums at the disposal of Trotsky at Stockholm on September q, 1917, 'in favor. of the enterprise (for which) the lawyer has purchased the arms and organiz- ed their transport
 Similarly 50,000,000 rubIes of gold were placed at the disposal of "the peoples commissars" on January s, 1918. Ito recover the cost of the keep of the Red Guard and agitators in the country Similarly general order No. 743S of the German I'm perial Bank: dated March 2, 1917, had directed "the representatives of all German banks in Sweden to honor the properly countersigned drafts of Lenine, Zinovieff 'Kameneff, Trotsky, Kalontai and other Bolshe- vik leaders, accounts fer whom," the order read, have been opened in ac- cordance with our order No 2754 in the agencies of private German busi- nesses in Sweden, Norway and Switzerland" It was with refer ence to these and other financial transactions of like kind that the Information Bureau of the German General Staff at Berlin wrote tc Trotsky on January 1T, 1918: The section has received exact informa- tion that the leaders of the Socialist , Party now ruling in Russia " are in correspondence with Messrs Scheidemann and Parvus Gin Ger many) regarding the destruction o1 the traces of the business relations of the party with the Imperial Gov ernment"
 What of It?"
 Of course there are some Bolshe. wiki who profess disbelief that theil leaders have used German govern. ment money in furtherance of theii aims; but on the other hand many of them have said, What of 1t? Why shouldn't we use the money ot l the German capitalist government tc
 
 We'll make a Russian revolution first with German money, and then vel make a German revolution with Rus sian money! Why not?"
 Lenine, the Bolshevik premier early in 1917, called vigorously upor his associates to repudiate the Socia Democratic name of their party, a: being wholly inappropriate, and tt adopt instead the name "Communis 1 Party" as more correctly represent | ing their views and intentions "The term Social Democracy" he wrote in an address to his followers in June 1917, lis scientifically wrong. :" | Democracy Is only form of author 1 ity. We Mardsts arc opposed to ev cry form of authority" He noted, 0 course, that authority was temper arily being exercised by the Bolsne wiki themselves, but he particular. insisted In the address quoted, tha the kind of authority temporarily re sorted to by them was mot the kint of authority represented by demo cratic, bourgeois, parliamentary re public" which he spurned. but tn kind represented by the Paris Com mune of 1871" Lenine rejoices tha the Bo!sheviki repudiate democracy and urges them to disregard tn views, opinions and feelings of al persons except those who subscrib to the Bolshevik doctrines
 Not Democratic.
 Time and again Lenine's follower have broken up proletarian gather ings where views opposed to their were in the ascendant, justs as the broke up the Constituent Assembly Neither the Central Soviet nor tn Local Soviets are constituted in de