The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-12-23
BOLSHE:VISM
MAY SPREAD
OVER WORLD
Red Armies in Position to
Over-run European Coun
tries Unless Checked.
BY A. J. SACK.

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ny A. J. SACK.
The international Importance of tho
Russian problem lis daily becoming
clearer ia Europe as well as III the
United States. With regard to the prob
lem or Bolshevism in Russia, this coun-
try Is going through an evolution SIM
liar to that which IT passed through
with regard to the problem &c German
militarism. After almost three years of
neutrality. this country finally came to
understand that Prussian militarism rep-
resented a menace to the entire world.
and that unless the democratic nations
BY their united efforts destroyed it, il
would destroy the present democratic
civilization.
PEACE CAN NEVER COME.
1t becomes clear that peace can never
come. neither To Europe nor the world.
with Russia disintegrated and starved
And unless peace comes and comes soon.
. new war VIII inevitably come, prob
ably more severe and disastrous than
the Great War we have Just come
through IL Bolshevism succeeds il
Russia and the anti-Bolshevlst armies
fail ia their mission and the Red army
almost half million strong is released
from the interior Russian fronts, it viii
turn into dust the new se-caIled buffer
states. including Poland. ana viii over
rum Germany and Austria, whore tia
ground for Bolshcvism IS sufficiently
prepared BY the still continued economic
degradation. 1t win Cow further in tile
European direction. on the one hand
and ia the Asiatc direction GA the
other and no one can predict where il
will stop.
THE NEXT WAR.
The new war til which Bolshevism VIII
take the offensive part similar d that
Of German miiitarism in the last war
may spell a definite crisis for modern
democratic civilization. AS Russia's ea-
pcrience has shown. Bolshevism. while
possessing an enormous destructive
power does not display. to any degree
constructive ability. Russia's starvation
ts due not to the so-cailcd allied block
AIDE, as the BoIsheviki ana parior-Bol-
shevild insist, but TO the criminal in-
efficiency eff the Bolshevist regime and
70 the civil war they brought upon Rus
STA in their endeavor to replace the au-
tocracy of the old regime rs i new. and
even more tyranntc. autocracv. Under
normal conditions Russia would BE able
not only IL feed herself. but rs feed
other countries as well.
DESTRUCTION IN WAKE.
Everywhere where BoIsh eTism
marches i leaves behind dead cities
destroyed Villages. iucessant murder and
Starvation i5oisheNiSin has destroyed
Russia and threatens 10 destroy the
world Bolshevisr overturcs for peace
represent an endeav0r, on the one hand
~ gam 2 breathing space. as Lenine
ONCE put ~ ana oh me olher, lo legal-
~ the eenters ST their propaganda and
1heiF supporters ln the countries which
boisheNislh plans Y" conquer Bolshe-
Nl3m anu modern democracy can no
mere stay logether than name ana water
n boisheNisn rules russia i Will rule
the world IS the world would destroy
i9olsheNism 'lt must destroy II lmme-
4la1t.g I'd lAaSs'a-
oAs1 TO RUSSIA
ms illustrates sufficiently tie inter-
national Importance or the RUSSIAN
pFepleln- Russia was and rs doing more
lhitn her snare Tor democratic elylliza-
tiQil- Were It not for Russia. German
miiitarism would have overrun Europe
~ lalf-l5. and BolsheNlsm in 19ll-lS
The Russian armies, sacrificing not less
imam "tVeo,Wep IN dead stood ON tue bat
ile-lines Tor over three years. and dId
more than their share to save THE aliiea
cause. Later, when part III Russia. rum
down by the bloody sacrifices. succumhed
to the disease of Bolshevism. tine Rus
sian problem ats their own ana 81 be
their struggle Cor civilization by build
ing MP anti-Eolsherist armies. l.y estab-
fishing fronts and hy keeping tho Bol-
els