Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-08-21

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| capitalism, lhey nave three OASIS pr'h
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| sta'eli secohu' an iiuuStrleS are ma
| uonaiized' third' the only way TO make
! such ABRUPT changes Is with the machine-
| gun req terror.
AS soon as the BolsheVists came into
| controi IN Russia they TOOK over all
| sources OF power The banks and safety
vaults were natlonalized. Nobody was
! allowed to keep any private property
boarded up and the upper classes were
| intimidated until they gave up their for
|
Killed without mercy. The Red army in
mis- campaign was largely ofieered by
| Germans. The Boshevik followers took
what they wanted, without compensa-
| ton
the Bolshevists had tremendous
hatred for the man who worked with
his brains, because 1t seemed that he
got more than the one who worked
| with ms hands. So the brain workers
were turned out; the workmen took
charge or the factories and started to
run them and share the profits. The
results were Encouragement failure
TO get raw material. tie-ups in trans
portation and resultant losses to the
factories
According to Mr.. Dennis, 80 per cent
or the Russian industries did not func-
tlon AFTER being taken over by the
bolsheVists ana Lenine soon came to
see that MS plan was railing. and that
ne needed brains to run his industries.
lie was ready to oHer almost any
amount OF money Tor the brains of the
upper classes. but at the same time
declared that as soon as the workmen
learned to run the Industries. the
brains which had been brought in to
teach them would be kicked out.
There were hundreds of executives
n onrpNf, ,, tNl,
mad ruiz power to go to any town, ar
rest people, try them for being anti
Bolshevik and have them executed,
without appeal. Such government
was never democracy, and was never
intended to be. It is simply an au-
tocracN OF those VINO nave the armed
force TO control Many OF the people
In Russia are calling for constitu
tionaI assembly but they cannot get
H. because the Bolshevists are in power
ana so sure that they are right, that
they claim that the means used to
keep the people from getting what
the BolsheVists think is not good for
them Justities the end.
1t is probable, thinks Mr. Dennis,
that Lenine and Trotsky are sincere In
thinking that they are setting up a
heaven on earth because they are Ideal
lstlcs' Lenine TOOK the kaisers money,
IL is true. out while serving him. he
ana the Kaiser were trying to outwit
each other' ana l'enine has Won for
,bolshevism is now spreading through
germany
IN the Closing section OF his ad-
uress' Mr' DENNIS TOOK up the prob
iems or the United states in regard TO
the threat OF Bolshevism. He said
that PAID speakers are now travelling
throush ms country preaching the
aoctr'he OF hoisheVism, ana that Lenine
nao ooas.eo tnat tne american kepuo =
nc would soon rail-. But Mr.. Dennis
,hinks that the American people are
opposed to Bolshevism and so to auto
cracy, whether 1t be an autocracy of
the rich or an autocracy OF the poor.
But. said Mr.. Dennis. mo country