Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-05-15
THE AWAKENING BEAR
IS STILL ALIVE AND
DANGEROUS, But WEAK

nized art, and as a state institution
suatains it even through wal and fam
inc, is the best denial of the charge
that bolshevism would wipe out every
class but hand workers..
Fact No. 8: Great financial interests
are getting concessions in Russia from
the bolshevist government, and certain
British interests are playing both ends
against the middle by securing conces-
sfons in disputed territory from both
governments; from the. ~bolshevists
under one corporate name. from the
anti bolshevists under another.
Fact No. 8: The b~olshevists want
immediate a with the world, and
are willing to make terms. Every OBJ
server coming out Of Russia brings this
news. The -b%olshevists declare
that Lenine and Trotzky are on their
last legs and must save. themselves by
foreign recognition. and further de-
clare that If the allies will only hold
out until summer the bolshevist gov
rnmen will be overcome by it's ex-
terror nemi and its interior oppo-
nents. Others coming out maintain
that Lenine and Irotzky have finally
! pulled their government together. to
a point where it will junction. anu
that the bolshevist leaders believe II
they can have peace with the world
the example of a communist govern
ment f%uIctioning in an orderly man
ner will do more to spread bolshevism
over the world than any other kind of
propaganda.
No Standardization"
Now these nine undisputed facts,
with their contradictory explanations
may be supplemented with certain
facts which are more or less in dispute,
but the disputes of the facts indicate
that they are somewhat the result of
viewpoint. Here is one: The bolshe-
visits claim that. they have abolished
prostitution. Their enemies fatty
contradict this. declaring that a general
era OF loose sex morality has taken the
place of commercialized vice, and that
Famine has helped.N No ono now pre-
tends that the story shout the nation:
a''x,n0 OF women has any basis ia fact.
a story for instance that tho wives and
daughters Of the middle class people
were held in q certain public building
IN Moscow for immoral purposes 10
met by the fact that this buildinn 10 4
ehitdrsn's hospital. The boishsvists
seern 70 have established q national
wives and snothsrs' day. as-a fsts day,
n in March had 4 grand cslebration
IN Moscow in honor Of the marriage
rsiation. Here is another matter in
dispute. The breakdown OF the bof-
shevist theory that factories would run
without Huperintendence 10 evidenced
by the fact that all observers declare
That now the blOshevists are employ
Ing the former foreTIen and superin-
tendents and owners of many factories
TO Keep them going. and that certain
other concerns making necessary ma
chinery have beer. operating through
out the revolution, including the ter
ror. under private Ownership md man
agement with the consent OF the local.
soviet The local. soviet, 1t must be
remembered, has great power, and IL 1t
desires to recognize private ownership
and private management the general
scheme Of creation In Russia is pow
erlcss against q local self government.
Hence the presence In Russia OF GER
tain operating factories under private
ownership. which have fed and pro-
visloned their men, got their " coal
and are turning out productions; hence
also the explanation Of the fact that
supcrintendents at fabulous salaries
are actually running a few shops IN
some parts Of soviet Russia, under
soviet control.
The b~olshevists contend that they are
employing moro printers and keeping
more printing presses going than were
employed and occupied under the old
regime This Is denied by their ene-
mics. who reply that the printing pres.
SEES are employed issuing propaganda
In the form Of school text books and
other bolshevist literature and that