Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-07

~ ABIGAIL rule in Russia has often been
X pictured as red anarchy; and so it was
in one of its phases. But that was
merely the prologue to as rigid and cruel
despotism as any Hohenzollern could have
wished. Lenine winked at violence, indeed
instigated it, because he knew that violence
would beget tyranny. The reign of which
he and his bristling brethren dreamed was to
be that of the proletariat. Their object was,
not to do away with classes and class con-
seriousness, but to draw the lines more strln-
gently by bringing all other classes under the
heel of a characterization minority. There
was to be a millennium of 1.-The workmen,
but they took care to make their definition
narrow enough to exclude all wo-kmen who
did not fit into soviet theories and schemes.
The result, of course, was oligarchy of the
rankest Species and the wrecking of Russia.
1t is this aspect of the stuation-thls pc
travail and redoubled enslavement OF those
who looked to Bolshevism for golden miracles
that impresses obseryant travellers lately N
Russia. Thus New York World cor
respondent, Mr.. Arno Dosch-Fluerot, whose
long acquaintance with the MuscoVlte empire
makes him particularly competent Judge OIL
present conditions there, writes OF recent
tour of his through that country: "Wher-
ever [ have been | have found that the Dol
shevki left behind them industrial ruin l
do not mean to present picture OF wrecked
fla ctories dirt and debris. That is rather the
picture of the anarchy on which the Bolshe-
Wiki rode into power. Bolshevism Gtself)
is the exact opposite, a highly bureaucratic,
strictly policed state of affairs. the imposing
of doctrine demanding implicit obedience
to the word from Moscow. The more sue
cessful it has been, the drier, the more un-
oil rnin ic of
order but of too much order"
A fatal error in communist theories OF So
ciety is that in their leveling and Jumping
process they would destroy or devitalze
human individuality, and SO rob life of one
of it's keenest urges and richest gifts. In
stead of the State being made for man, man
was made for the State. according to their
notion They and Prussian autocracy lead to
virtually the same end. They are equally
tyrannOus, equally materialistic. Both are
deadly foes of the human spirit. Neither
can stand the test of humanity's great needs
and great aspirations. Lenine and his crew
fancied that by abasing the burgeois or mid
die class, they would exalt the proletariat;
that by taking away the goods Of the Well-to
do, they would solve the problems Of the in
digent; that by putting all men on the same
economic footing, they would answer the
grim riddles that beset life. But they have
failed in even the simplest and most super
fetal part of their task.
They have failed to satisfy even the stom-
achs, much less the minds and souls, of their
clamoring disciples The industrial paradise
which they were to construct turns out to be
an industrial junk heap. The proletariat has
all the money, but 'the money has no value"
the Worlds correspondent relates. The
'Workmen' were given control of the factor
les, but, rather unfortunately for all concern
ed, the factories ceased to function and pro-
duce. Certain "workmen' who did not like
the way the Bolshevik leaders were doing
and who met to demonstrate, were flung into
prison, charged with trying to start a
counter revolution. From their cells they
declared: I'VE protest against the cruel OPP
preston exercised against the working class
which seeing itself on the edge of an abyss
IS trying to find a way to safety and deliver
ance fors Russia and the working Masses
Yet it was in the name of the working
masses" that Lenines faction proceeded, first
with red terrorism and then with coolly or
dered tyranny. 1t was in the name of "the
to1lers" that they fomented class hate and set
up rule OF communism backed by bayonets
Moreover the bitterest denouncers of Boil
sheV1sms latter stages were from the ranks
OF those who had been its most ardent
pioneers. eve declare before the workers of
RUSSIA and of the civilized world" runs the
statement of group of disillusioned Iaborers
That the Bolshevik Government has BETRAYED
the high ideals of the proletariat revolution of
OCTOBER 1917, and has deceived the Russian
VI helh anu peasants. We protest against
the restraints imposed upon workers
ana against the attempts to take away their
rights freedom of the press, freedom off as
semb1y and inviolablity of person" And
from another group comes this heart-wrung
oeclaratlon: Our life has become intoler-
aoIe; the factories are closed; our children
are dying of famine. Instead of bread. thew
give bullets" - 'A10'
such are the fruits of that destructive and
i!aterlahstlc radicalism which takes
a 5l names in divers lands, being
known in Russia as Bolsheyism II
rams 1t always fails, industrially. SOCIALLY
ana IN every respect because there is M
spirit OF Justice and wisdom in it's schemes
out only coveteousness and a certain sha11ow
cunning. Liberty" Equality and ON
oustrlal Freedom" were catch-words ro11ino
gHoly enough from the tongues off the rms
sian demagogues, but the upshot of their re-
SINE is slavery, degradation, and Industrial
ehaos' This ever has been and ever viii hn
tne penalty of those who follow leadershjn
wnlcn appeals to hatred and greed instead
OF fair play and service. ''''''"u
some people refuse to be optimists avian
"hen they are told the Influenza is NO 1onoar
a serious menace - " 06el