Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1919-01-23
THE GROWING MENACE

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Activities of the bolsheviki and grow
ing with alarming rapidly. The anar-
chistic movement, which had its inceB-
ton in Russia, is fast speaking to the
four corners of the earth, and is gather
ing such momentum as to imperil entire
nations in which little or no unrest
among the population had hitherto been
recorded.
The recent bolshevik outbreak in the
Argentine Republic, as well as pro
nounced tendencies in our own country
sian element, constitute alarming evi-
dence of the purpose Of these ultra
socialists to overrun the world and to
destroy all semblance of private owner
ship of property. A government, not
by thoe qualified to govern but rule
through force of terrorism by the ILL |
terate element Of the people, is that
advocated by the bolshevists whose OPP
eratiohs in Russia have resulted in that
land becomisg a pitiable domais, populat-
eb by starving wretches and overrun by
bloodthristy vandals who would have
startled ever the most brutal warrior of
the dark ages
That the American people will
yield to a reign of terrorism such as has
been thrust upon unfortunate Russia
is quite unlikely. The Russians, for
centuries an oppressed and largely un-
educated people, were, with the over
thrown of the Romanoff dynasty, sud
denly possessed with freedom of which t
they previously had never so much as c
dreamt. Ignorant, even of the first S
principles of republican government, a
their conception of state rule was to "
obey precisely and with never ques- n
tion why, the commands of authority fl
These plebeian millions easily fell prey a
to the radicals, who, they were told, i,
were their deliverers from the iron hand
Of the tsar. Radicalsm grew by leaps u,
tended to Germany, France, South :,
America, and to the United States. T..
Singular enough is the fact that b,
lmong the bolshevik in Russia are rabid w
ocialists from the United States I'M in
bile to successfully float their anarchis- sii
ic schemes in Anne RIGA, they traversed th
he seas tc more fertile soil, 50 10 sicak q
nd in Russia found, in ignorance and eli,
overly, material on which they could 70
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Russia destroyed, newer and wider WI
elds again are sought by the bolshe pr
isits, and they have resumed activities its
the United States. And why Here pr,
icy have found, with suspension of
ar industries and consequent discharge ere
masses of workers who during the lef
ar had drawn enormous wages, splen- of
d field for their propaganda SUI
Among discharged war industry en- wo
Dyes, no longer receiving fat pay hen
ecks weekly, have the boshevik mo
orked to advantage, for with this suf
ass, suddenly deprived of that which vid
cir previous employment afforded con
n the seed of dissension be easily sup
wn, and encounter no difficulty in its
rminating and growing into a full the
ed bolshevi, even in so short Il still
ne as over night. pre-
Coupled with the shutdown Of war VIII,
nts, is the discharge of hundreds Of nev
usands of soldiers from the Ameri I
/ army. Many penniless and without TAX
s, the soldiers, altogether human, 1t y
sently find themselves in need of to
d and other necessities, and without NOR
IDS whereby such can be procured. ston
the aid of. those in want in the large day
es, have rushed the bolshevi who, each
piled with an abundance of funds war