The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-02
THE PRINCIPLES
OF B0LSHEVSM|
The Senate Committee Gives
Them in Report of an
Investigation
WOULD CONFISCATE
NEARLY EVERYTHING
Land, Factories, Livestock and All
Wealth Would Be Taken From Their
Ownerg-Would Have Court Convic-
lions Without Trial.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-The salient
features which constitute the program of
Bolshevism as it exists today in Russia
and is presented to the rest of the world
as panacea for all ills, according to a
report ON Bolshevism by a subcommittee
Of the senate, may be summarized as fol-
lows:
a. The reputation of democracy and
the establishment of dictatorship.
- The confiscation of all land and
the improvements thereon.
60 The confscation of all forests and
| natural resources.
a. The conGscation of all livestock
and all agricultural implements.
| TO- The confscation of all bank and
| banking institutions and the establish
ment of state monopoly of the banking
business
CO. The confscation of all factories,
mines, and industrial institutions and the
delivery of the control and operation
thereof to the employees therein.
| % The contiscation of all churches
! and all church property, real and person
al.
80 The coniscation of all newspapers
and periodicals and all mechanical fa-
cTlities and machinery used in the publ
cation thereof.
o. The seizure and confscation of all
public meeting places and assembly halls.
(l01 The confiscation of all transporta-
ton and communication systems.
(ll) The confscation of the entire
estate Of all descendants.
(l2.) The monopolzing by the state of
all advertisements Of every nature, wheth-
er newspapers, periodicals, hand bills, or
programs.
Q3D The reputation OF all debts
/ against the government, and all obliga,
tons due the non-Bolshevist elements oil
the population.
(l4J The establishment of universal
compulsory military service regardless oil
religious scruples and conscientious OBJ
iections.
(15) The establishment of universal
compulsory labor
(16) The abolition of the Sunday schoo
and all other schools and institution.
that teach religion
az The absolute separation Of church
es and schools.
: (lS) The establishment, through mar
riage and divorce laws, of a method 70
i the legalization of prostitution, when tn
e same is engaged in by consent of tn
parties.
tl9) The refusal to recognize the exist
" ence of God in its governmental and ju
n dicial proceedings.
(2O) The comforting OF the rights o
k citizenship on aliens without regard t
{ length or residence or intelligence
! (2l) The arming of all so-called "to
/ ers, and the disarming of all person
that had succeeded in acquiring property
: (22) The discrimination in favor O
: residents of cities and against resident
"a Of the rural districts through giving res
y dents of cities five times as much votin
3 power az is accorded to residents of ri
raj districts in such elections as are pei
ge mitted.
: (23.) The disfranchisement of all pei
;. I sons employing any other person in cor
V nection with their business
. (24) The disfranchisement of all pei
Y sons receiving rent, interest, or dividend.
n t25) The disfranchisement of all mel
tc chants, traders and commercial agents
(26) The disfranchsement of a
d. oriests, clergymen, or employees of church
$ and religious bodies.
k (27) The denial of the existence G
my inalienable rights in the indivdua
u citizen.
(2S.) The establishment of judicig
ID ystem exercising autocratic power, cor
rictlng persons and imposing penalties i
" heir absence. and without opportunity
)e heard, and even adopting the deaf
II penalty for numerous crimes and mis-
II lemeanors.
: (29) The Inauguration of reign {
- ear, terrorism, and violence.
> This is the program that the revolt,
ionary elements and the so-caled pa
= or Bolshevik" would have this countr
ccept as a substitute for the governmer
If the United States, which recogniz,
that "all men are created equal" ar
that life, liberty and the pursuit of ha
oiness' are the inalienable rights of