Republican farmer., 1919-05-16
IF CHINA}TURNS
 B0LSHEVIST
BY LOVAT RAISER.

lies now make up their minds to stamp out Bolshcvism.) If China could turn Boxer twenty years ago, may she not turn Bolshe- vist today? That is the question which thoughtful people are asking themselves.
 The other day Sir George Buchan- an. formerly British Ambassador at Petrograd, said with absolute truth that Lenin, the Tsar without crown, hoped to retain himself in China.
 Lenin is really doing so already. He depends upon two forces for his safety and authority. One force consists of Let's from the Baltic provinces, who serve Abdul Hamid.
 The other force consists Of low grade Chinese. who are estimated to number 25,0O0.
 Though for obvious reasons there is so far no steady stream of Chinese recruits towards Moscow, yet m an are believed to be Altering through from China. Bolshevist agents well supplied with funds are said to be at work on Chinese territory.
 The spirit of Asia is instinct with rebellion. Just now there is a rift between the Chinese of the North and south, the outcome of ancient dissensions Yet the Chinese have their delegates in Paris, charged with a clear mission. They ask that the territory seized by Germany at Kaichau shall be restored to them, and they are right. Never was claim better justified.
 A cardinal defect of the Pairs Conference is that it ignores the in terests and the aspiration of one third of the human race.
 The population of the globe is reckoned at 1,5OO millions. Of this total, 300 millions or more are Chinese, a homogeneous nation: and over 200 millions are Mohamme dans temporarily divided, but indissolubly knit together by the ties of religion
 If the Conference leaves China s just claims unsatisf1ed. it will SOW seed which may bear bitter fruit.
 In any case, I am inclined to be- Iieve that the danger of the virus of Bolshevism infecting China is a real one. I fear it for this simple reason-that the leaders of the Red League know their own minds. and the leaders of the Paris League do not.
 It is so incredible that the spirit of BoIshevism might run like whirlwind through the Chinese, whose interests have been disregard ed by the Western World for a hundred years?
 wonder how many of those who read these words know Budapest IT five years go you had stood on the heights of the old town of Buda, and looked across the Danube at the wonderful panorama of Pest, spread out before you, would you nave conceived it possible that Bol- sheviSm would ever have been en- throned there?
 Yet what happened last week in Budapest is far stranger thing than the appearance of BolsheV1sm in China would be,
 Humorous and Divided Councils.
 BoIshevism is eating its way west ward into Europe and eastward into Asia. because it's course is directed bv a single man with great. though perverted, intellectual qualities, ana iron will, and an implacable and ruthless spirit. and a vision which, if distorted, is nevertheless steadily directed to one supreme end.
 When you have made alletao1n for the exhaustion and apathy or the human soil in which BolsheVlsm thriyes when you have talked by the yard about hunger, you still get hack to the fact that the growth of Bolshevism is chiefly due to the diabolically clever control of Lenin.
 He has had no match on the AL lied side, because in regard to Bol- sbevism the councils of the Allies have always been timorous and div ided.
 When you have made allowance
 In this country we have never rightly grappled with the evil thlns. We find reputable newspapers and apparently sane politicians still re- ferrinE to Bolshevism in terms or yelled approval. Its horrors are ig- nored. it's subversive tendencies dis counted.
 I opened one sheet last week and found this reading: "Lenin the Peacemaker" Such a phrase, sure Iv. indicates dementia. The only peace which Bolshevism brings is the peace of the grave.
 Ienfn's aim is the complete de- struction of civilization. Russia IS his footstool. He knows full well that he must disseminate his deadly doc trines outside Russia until all Europe is A welter of anarchy, or perish And instead of perishing he is in process of succeeding
 
 symptom. I think we shall be wise TO take the situation there at its face value, and deal with it promptly Happily, this view now appears to prevail at Paris.
 Hungary's perversion to Bolshevism may be due to mixed motives. It/may be true that the Magyar nobles resent the contraction of the boundaries Of their country, that the peoples are dulled and resentful, that many cross influences are at work. We have to deal with the facts as we find them.
 The situation Is that the policy of the "sanitary cordon'' has temporarily broken down. We were to have had a belt of States stretching across Europe which would have shielded the western nations from Bolshevism For myself, I have never quite un- derstood how Poland could stand be- tween the Bolshevists-on one side and the enraged Germans on the other.
 But that is a minor matter now. The l'sanitar~ cordon" no longer ex- ists because organized 'Bolshevism has appeared in it's rear.
 The Allies are, it is understood, to