The sun., 1919-04-24
The Bolsheyik Terror Already
Crumblins.

Bolshevism, by the Testimony now
coming from all Bolshevik quarters,
IL so bad a thing that it soon kills
itself. Its ambitions are rapacious,
Its passions are murderous, but its
follies and excuses are suicidal.
In Russia, where it seemed to -four
ish for the moment most vigorously.
where it might have builded itself
into a formidable power If it had been
sounder in principle and saner in
practice, Bolshevism collapses under
pressure as easily as it falls else
where. Its mob armies are crushed
by a few trained soldiers. Its mock
governments are contemptuously
kicked over by level headed and cou-
rageous groups which themselves
might have embraced Bolshevism if
they had found anything good or seen
anything permanent in it.
In the rest of Europe, where the
Bolshevlk movement has been only a
feeble and quite ludicrous imitation
of the Russian terror, the thing grow
els or dies even before it gets upon
Its feet.
1t now becomes more and more evil
dent not only that the German Boil
shevism was more of myth than
fact but that some of the conspicuous
world leaders must have exploited the
DOGGY without great deal of sim
certify. Our own Mr. WILSON has
implored us to give him free license
to, do what he would with our SOW
ereignty. our independence, our po-
1itical rights. our national and indi-
vidual possessions so as to enable him
to save the world from this monster
Of Bolehevism. He even went fur
ther. He intimated that If the Amer
lean people did not let him make a
sacrifice of them on the altar Of Boil
shevism, so to speak, we ourselves.
with all other civilization, must be
submerged by the terror.
1t is possible of course that Mr..
WILSON may have been in such a
Ject that he really thought he thought
the whole world was threatened by
this all but invincible monster: but
1t Is difficult TO conceive that his in
tellect. as cold as ice, and his per-
spicacity. as sharp as the edge of
razor. could fail to comprehend that
Bolshevism in western Europe was
more of a lurid vision than hard
fact. II is impossible to believe that
he could have completely fooled him
self about thing which never did
fool, never gravely concerned, as we
can see now, the sturdy Germans. the
who without much fuss but with
prompt effectiveness have stamped out
the flames as often as they have burst
forth Under their feet.
1t is worth while to check up In
detail some of the events which mark
the subsistence of both the wild and
the mild Bolshevik waves.
There are the official reports of the
safe arrival at Warsaw of the Polish
troops under General HALLER. When
the demand was made by Marshal
FoCH at the conference at Spa that
these. soldiers should be transported
declared that there were no railway
facilities and that on account of 1.-THE
disturbed conditions of the country
such journey could he undertaken
only at the peril of rioting and VIC
: lent disorders" The crossing of Ger
many by the Poles, however, is thus
briefly reported: ''The railway trip
across Germany was made without
incident"
A feature of the news coming out
OF Germany which is so marked ms to
be significant is the absence of any
mention Of the activity of the Sparta
Gus group, which was to transplant
10 Berlin and all the large Industrial
centres Of Germany the red reign of
terror" from Moscow. The Spartacus
outbreak seems to have exhausted
itself after it's one effort, and to-day
: 1t Is beginning to be a question among
his followers whether LIEBKNEcHT
was so much martyr TO his idealis-
tic doctrines as victim OF an over
done effort TO impress fine outside
world that Germany was In the t!ljes
Of national dissolution.
That the turning over Of Hungary
was a political trick of KARoLYI is
now accepted as fact. The con-
frmed report that the Soviet head,
RELA KUN, and his Government were
overthrown a couple Of days ago was
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