South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-19

ing to the return of lost provinces and the quest
of
The little Corscan the corporal of the fuller
les, the Great Napoleon was the most expert Of
all the Moseses in history. when it came to lead
ing his people out of revolutions and by setting
up different mark for them to shoot at,-reunit-
ing them in common cause.
WHILE all Christendom might rejoice to see
w Lenine and Trotzky go. anyway to suit
their choice it might still be that Russian Bona
Parte taking their place. and particularly if pur-
suing the other Napoleon's methods would not
be especially gratifying to the world of today.
Bolshevik expansion is among the things that
is worrying mankind everywhere. and as Napol-
con never exactly junked the ideals and purposes
of Danton and RobespieTe-except to their
methods-so the Russian Bonaparte might cling
to the bolshevik idea and to soviet.
In fact, France never did get settled down to
semblance of republican sanity until the third
republic. after the overthrow of Napoleon iii. and
the Franco-Prussian Var.-a little sideshow back
in the seventies in which French intrigue played
pretty as contemplate part did Bis
MARKHAM force and astuteness.
Indeed. may it not be that the Russo-Napol-
comic invasions already vogue9 We read
of the bolsheviki knocking at the doors of newly
formed republics of the Balkans ugo- Slavia,
Czecho-Slovakia, the new Rumania. Hun
gary new Bulgaria. Greece; even rendering his
assistance to d Annunzio at Fiume. Poland has
it to deal with the most perPlexing Of its prob
lens
Threats trinkle across the brine, every now and
then, even from Paris treaty and League of Ma
tons opponents there, that the danger of the boil
shevik is becoming omnous; that there again aP-
70 he Epk AyheYe hefNy
it and Germany, and that unless the allies get
their peace enforcing machinery in operation
pretty soon; we'll may have to hight another
world war; maybe with new alignments more en-
barrassing than were the recent ones.
Further than that. we hear of discouragng
rumblings that have followed the cables over
from England. and we know little something Of
the l. w. W.,-the American for bolshevki,-
uprisings in Winnipeg. Seattle. and may
add from very close range, that OF Gary.
Perhaps this new Russo-Napoleonic method of
warfare is just that much of an improvement over
the old Franco-Napo methods; even as the
implements of the late seemed quite an i'm
Provement those of previous wars.
Germany began early her use of poisoned
gas; and that is quite what the bolshevik propa-
ganda and intrigue, overspreading the world
and America in particular,-just amounts to;
poisoned gas of the most poisonous sort
undermining insidious. deadly.
VI
4 RE you aware of the fact that of sxty-two
n important strikes now on in the United
States only eight are sanctioned by the official
organizations of unionism in America? They
as much outlaw strikes" as-a revolt against
authority aboard a warship is mutiny
And you need to get the significance of it. 1t
takes US back to the outbreak of the revolution in
Russia then as II was conducted under kerensky,
while the bolshevik. by these same sinister
methods were worm-eatng their way and under
mining the first efforts.
The soviets in Russia are incorporation:
not even an evolution When the Gar was cast
out and Kerensky came to the FORE the Russian
parliament consisted of the duma and the council,
the latter by appointment from the monarch.
The duma was elective-but by votes limited
and circu1nscribed as to give the OF the
people but slight representation
Similarly back in the provinces. and in the
cities for purposes of local government, there
were the municipal councils and the zemstvos.
and the first move of kerensky, practically,
to plan a larger representation IN what he
wont to term a forthcoming constituent assembly
and the local soviets
1t was thus that the councils of workmen the
councils of soldiers and councils of peasants
organized seeking to take IN body-calcu-
lating to make the new government democratic
as possible even at the time of the formation of
what the young premier chose to call, the re-
juvenation The bourgeses also had their coun-
cils-but no more
These councils were to handle local affairs
operatively and send delegates to the constituent
assembly which was TO make laws for All-Russia.
including the framing of constitution.
How like Vergniaud and the Girondes in
France were this man Kerensky and his socialist
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