The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-15
BoLSHEvISTS.


That's the question one hears every
where. Government officials, from
President Wilson and Vice President
Marshall down, have insisted that it
must be stamped out of America.
That this is no idle threat is evil
denced by the actual work of depOr-
tation of undesirable aliens. Com
! missioner of immigration Caminettl
says that 5000 of these are to be
shipped back to Europe at once. 1t
appears likely, from official informa-
| ton, that this will be but the be-
ginning of cleanup in the interest
of America for Americans.
But what does Bolshevism mean?
Why it is so bitterly attacked and
so little explained? And when the
iexplanation is finally made, 1t is the
Russian Bolshevist theory that is
handed out to us by red-eyed agita-
tors OF the anarchist type, who being
unable to furnish sensible opinions
about the American form of govern
ment, are never relied upon by intel
ligent people as authorities on the af-
fairs of countries as far removed as
Russia. Bolshevism, generally
speaking, is an European evil, that
represents discomfort, and is factor
that breeds wars. We will not at
tempt to analyze European Bolshev-
ism here. But there is an easy ans
wer to the question: What is Boil
shevism in America, and the people
Of this country should hasten to &C
quaint themselves as to the meaning
Of this strange doctrine.
Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, has
done a good service by inserting in
the Congressional Record the aims of
Bolshevists in the United States as
proclaimed by their leaders in this
country. The statements should be
made into an official document and
circulated everywhere. The publica-
ton from which the material is col
lected, is called "Hunger-The Inter
national Revolution" This publica-
ton purports to stand for lot Of
things that no intelligent person
wants, and it promises that 1.-The
shams of the present system may be
presented and subjected to analysis. "
1t is printed in Minneapolis, a city in
which there is no hunger" but al
most every paragraph glares with
the lie that all people who work are
hungry" and oppressed by the CAPT.
| taliStic class.
American Bolshevism is an insidi-
GUS and rabid form of class hatred;
| It is anarchism under new name
that seeks responsibility by attach
| ing itself to European "isms." 1t is
Socialism with the brains picked out.
1t is not much difference from the
III. w. W.-only if such a thing be
possible. it has less sense. 1t is a
thing that should be understood
thoroughly in the United States, be-
cause it needs only to be understood
to become an outlaw among intelli-
gent and respectable people OF every
class.
The documents which Senator Mel
son has produced weave together the
most unchristianlike, debased theo-
ries, that could be collected. The
whole underlying purpose is to Gre
ate clamor and build up class hatred.
Government is nothing, except to be
destroyed. Not even a substitute is
offered. The whole doctrine is un-
true to anything that can be classed
&C modern civilization. 1t is very
doubtful whether Bolshevism in the
United States is up to the standards
of Russia, or Germany. 1t is Euro
peanism in the days of the French
Revolution. This Bolshevism Is
nothing that need be feared In the
United States. 1t needs to be un-
derstood. The light would destroy
lit. The people may be trusted to
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