The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
MAILING WANTS RUSS STATEMENT
 TO BE PUBLISHED

prepared for the League for National Unity and made public William English Walling, Socialist author, says that the method of clear ing up the entire situation with re- gard to the truth of the Bolshevist propaganda is to publish the state ments of the Bolshevists themselves which they do not deny. This he proceeds to do, quoting Maxim Cor ky, Trotzky, Lenine, and others, in- cluding German Socialists. The ar ticle concludes with defense of the documents recently made public by the Committee on Public Informa ton, which Mir. Mailing says are as firmly established as the Declaration of Independence.
 Tn America the Russian Bolshevik are represented as being Democrats; in Russia, Lenine and his followers lose no occasion to repudiate democ- racy, both in word and deed," MT. WalIing says. Our quotation will show that the very basis of Bolshev- ism consists in the repudiation of democracy.
 "In America the Bolsheviki are represented as having given land to a landless peasantry; in Russia the Bolsheviki attribute nearly all of their troubles to the fact that there has been very little land (not in peasant hands before the revolution) to give-a fact which will also be demonstrated later by quotation from the Bolsheviki themselves.
 Tn America the Bolsheviki are represented as being pacihsts; Lenine and Trotzky have neglected no op- portunity to denounce bourgeois pa cifism and to assert that they are in favor of a holy war against any and all -Bolshevist governments wher- ever such a war has a chance of suc- | cess.
 "In America the Bolsheviki are 1 liberty; in Russia the Bolsheviki ab- solutely repudiate such regard -for personal liberty as being a bourgeois doctrine and practice.
 Tn America Lenine Is represented as being 100 per cent. Socialist; in Russia Lenine presents himself as be- ing 100 per cent. anti-Socialist; that is, a communist opposed to the Soc ialist International"
 MT. Mailing quotes the following definition of the new dictatorship made by Lenine and published in i'"The New International" an Ameri- can Bolshevtst publication: Just as i150OO lordly landowners under Car ism dominated the 130, 100000 of Russian peasants, so 200,000 mem bers of the Bolshevist party are i'm posing their proletarian will on the mass, but this time in the interest o1 the latter"
 'ssNikolai Lenine is the Kaiser, the shevist movement,' Mf.~ ~wa9ff wa9f,tfhee tfhe Bo& His doctrines and ukases are abso lute. No instance is on record whert his doctrine or authority has beer 4 impugned. In his works Lenine de fends not only a dictatorship of thu proletartat movement with one ma1 at the top. Gorky's description O Lenine, therefore, becomes extreme ly important. We see him from tn, point of view of the great Russian Bolshevist writer as a sort of Calvi1 or Loyola, a fanatic, a man who i willing to put his theories into effec regardless of the cost in human If, and regardless of the opposition O the overwhelming majority of tn, popuation."
 Here is Gorky's description 0 Lenine as quoted by MT. WalIing:
 "Lenine is one of the most re
 narkable men of the Socialist Inter
 national He is very intelligent
 and possesses all the qualities of
 chief. including the absolute mora Indifference which is often necessary
 fer such a part. On occasions h,
 does not lack a certain sentimental
 ism, but at the same time, he has nc
 pity for the mass of the people. Ant
 he believes that he has the right tc
 make this terrible experiment on tn,
 Russian people. Weary of the wa
 and very unhappy, this people hal
 already paid for Lenine's experi
 ence' with thousands and thousand
 of lives. It will still cost it tens O
 thousands more. But this atrociou
 tragedy never makes Lenine hesitate
 for he is the slave of dogma, and hi
 partisans are his slaves.
 'Lenine does not know the peo
 pie. But he does know from hi
 books - how to arouse the masse
 and how to excite their worst in stincts. The working classes are tt
 Lentne what minerals are to tn,
 metallurgist. Can a Socialist-N Ma tional state be made of this mineral Indeed no, and Lenine doubts it. Bu why not try? What does Lenine risl
 hn ott
 Nothing much"
 Gorky gives it as his opinion tha
 the Soviets are undermining and de
 stroying the working class of Russia
 Referring to the decrees of tn, "Government of Peoples Commis : sioners," Gorky asserts they are n, more than newspaper feuilletons
 written in water For the perioC . of the revolution, up to the time 0 , writing, said Gorky. 10000 lynching
 were accounted for with theft an, robbery increasing every day. MT. Walling quotes the words o Oskar Tokol, formerly Socialist Prim Minister of Finland, who said that, il ) comparison with the entire popula
 ton "only small minority support
 the government, and, what is worse
 to the supporters of the governmen are rallying all the hooligans, rob , bers, and others to whom this perio of confusion promises a good chanc y of individual action
 d Defending the Bolshevist docu | nients issued by the Creel Commit '. tee, MT Walling declared that he wa z personally acquainted with one of tn