The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-07
What Bolsheyism Means.

mas employed TO reduce RUSSIA 10
state of terrorism and anarchy have
not been known with any degree Of
precision or defniteness outside of
that unfortunate land. To every ap-
parently authoritative statement OF
conditions there has come n protest
and denial, not infrequently from our
own parlor Bolsheviki, and plea for
a just trial of great governmental
experiment" A recent organ of Boil
shevist propaganda said that the re-
ports of cruelty and bloodshed coming
out Of Russia were the work Of the
capitalists and bourgeois, that 1t was
uncomfortable that men of LENINE's
and TRoTzKY's high character would
countenance such acts, and that the
Soviet Government of Moscow was
the worlds most benign and civiliz-
ing influence"
In clearing up for the outside world
Russia itself needs no enlighten-
ment-any misconception that 1t may
have got regarding Bolshevism from
its advocates, United States Consul
JOHN A. EMERY performs a valuable
service. Mr.. EMBRY was stationed
at Omsk, the capital of the Kolchak
Government, and he had an opportu-
nifty Of studying the Bolshevist rule
in the territories of western Siberia
and eastern Russia, which had been
recaptured by Admiral KoLcHAK's
forces. His story, a story of hor-
rors, of murder, rapine, theft and ar
son perpetrated with wanton and ter
rorizing cruelty, is dearly and specifi-
cally told-only its advocates of the
parlor brand handle Bolshevism with
kid gloves-and largely supplemented
by positive proof of atrocities.
As an example of the introduction
of the rule of LENINE and TRoTzKY
he cites the occupation Of Ufa from
November, 1918, to March, 1919. At
ter looting the town. the Bolsheviki
organized a government at the head of
which they placed their most cruel
leader with power to put to death
without the formality Of trial any
man, woman or child suspected of
being opposed to Bolshevism. 1mme-
diatcly all who had held office were
arrested and brought before the com
mittee. Mr.. EMERY says:
The Judges, the Aldermen, the
Councilmen and other leading citi-
zens-that is, those who had not been
able 70 escape-and all Of those who
were known to be against Bolshevism
or were suspected of being against
It were taken into the public square
and executed. In every instance tho
condemned were denied any trial"
The same method was pursued at
Ossa, a city of 10000, where more
than 1000 persons were murdered; at
Kurgan, q town of $4,000, where 1900
citizens were killed at single whole
sale execution, and at Bugulma,
smaller than either Of the others,
where 1900 persons were murdered,
land no man knows how many more
were subjected to cruelties and out
RACES, beside which execution, even
In the Bolshevist manner of doing
things, would be merclful."
Mr.. EMERY cited number Of indi-
vidual cases of a man killed as q spy
because In his pocket was found the
plan Of his farm, Of women forced to
witness the flashing and execution OF
men of their families, Of persons held
as hostages thrown into the river to
drown, of women and girls murdered
because they were suspected Of anti
Bolshevism. At Ufa the Bolsheviki
lined up the boys Of the high school
and questioned them as to their sym
pathies. All who were not killed were
put to work Of the most mental kind
the larger boys against whom there
was a suspicion that they might be
anti Bolshevist, and therefore soor
eligible for service under Admiral
KoLcHAK, were taken out and shot
to DEATH"
Mr.. EMERY gives one vivid picture
of Bolshevist rule. On his arrival al
Ufa he was attracted by crowd OF
people journeying toward patch OF
woods. These were. he said, friends
and relatives of persons who had dis
appeared during the LENINE and
TRoTzKY control:
1.-THE SHOWS which had covered the
ground during the winter had begun
to melt. and melting disclosed the
secret OF the disappearance of scores
of innocent people. among them wo-
men and girls. the latter OF tender
years. The Bolsheviki had taken
these people from their homes and
then driven them into the woods and
murdered them"
OF this story, horrible as it is