The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-05-21
BoIsHEvIsN

II seems that the whole world is
considering the matter of govern
ment The cataclysm into which we
have all been thrust by war is re-
garded everywhere as the period for
readjustment of human wrongs. Ma
tions and peoples who have endured
oppression are striking the shackles
of their forms of government from
the body polite. But will the new
order of things bring better condi-
tions for the people? We are led
to wonder when considering the fate
OF Russia.
Here is a nation which has gone
from one extreme to another in gov
eminent. Subjects of wrong and
oppression for a thousand years,
they have turned to the widest
forms of socialism and anarchy. The
sacred institutions OF life, fostered
and protected by all forms OF gov
eminent, have been torn down, and
in their places have been erected the
standards of beasts. That our read
ers may understand what Bolshevism
means in its application to the hui
man family we are privileged to pro-
duce some of the edicts and laws set
up for the new Russia by Lenine,
the apostle of force and the new or
der which he is advocating. They
destroy the home, the very sanctu-
airy OF order and liberty around
which cluster all the sacred things
of life. These excerpts we're read
from official government orders of
Russia before the Senate Committee,
considering the subject, by repre-
sentative of the Department of Jus
tice, sent to Russia to investigate
conditions. Some OF them are as
follows:
A decree issued by the Soviet of
the City of Vladimir follows: Vladi-
mir is the capital of the province of
the same name, rs miles from Mos
COW.
ANY girl having reached her
eighteenth year and not having mar
ried is obliged, subject to the most
severe penalty. to register at the
Bureau of Free Love of the Commits
sariat of Surveillance.
Having registered at the Bureau
of Free Love, she has the right to
choose from among the men be-
tween the ages of 10 and so CO.
habitant husband.
Remarkably The consent OF
the man in the said choice is un-
necessary. CD The man on whom
such a choice falls has no right to
make any protest whatsoever against
the infringement.
THE right to chose from a num-
Der of girls who have reached their
eighteenth year is also given to men.
"The opportunity to choose hus-
band or wife is to be presented once
a month.
"The Bureau of Free Love is au-
tonomous
Men between the ages of 10 and
so have the right to choose from
among the registered women, even
without the consent of the latter, in
the interests of the State.
children who are the issue of
these unions are to become the prop
erty of the State"
The decree states further that it
has been based on the excellent ex-
ample of similar DEGREES already is
sued at Luga, Kolpin, etc"
similar project of provisional
rights in connection with the social
ization of women in the City of
HVelnsk and vicinity has been
published in the Local Gazette of the
Workers and Soldiers Deputies. Mr..
simmons said
At that the Bolshevists of Vladi
mir, Luga, Kolpin, Hvelinsk, etc.
are conservatives as compared with
those of the City of Saratov. Sara
toy is the tenth largest city in all
Russia, with population of 217,-
600
Mr.. simmons read a decree dated
March 5, 1918, issued by the Anar-
chist Soviet, which was charged by
Lenine and Trotzy with the govern
ment of the City of Saratov. The
official translation of the decree
reads
This decree is proclaimed by the
Free Association of Anarchists in the
town of Saratov. In compliance with
the decision of the Soviet of Peas
ants and Soldiers and Workmen's
Deputies of Kronstadt, the abolition
of the private possession of wo-
men.
Motives.
Social inequalities and legitimate
marriage having been "A condition in