Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-04-18

nature and psychology Of this great
wsr-engsndered mznis.)
In this land Of one flag. one
wife. one country. there is no room
for Bolshsylsm or its red flag" says
Arthur Capper. The guns Of the
Huns have shaken authority tbs
world over. and in Europe a sort OF
shell-shock madness Is coming over
the hordes Of homeless people, need
ing only further lack Of food and
clothing to plunge them into the eK-
cesses Of Bolsheyism. A great and
hopeless discomfort, which sees no
end to the wars miseries, Is seizing
others. Everything, apparently, II
ripe in Europe for a red-flag cpl
demic and Europe may become the
same sort OF a Bolsheyik madhouse
that Russia Is. But let's hope not.
News from various quarters OF
our own country shows the same
poison at work. The government
has unearthed a widespread Bolshey-
visit plot with the !. w. w. behind
II and supported by more than a
dozen English and foreign language
publications In as many American
cities. II is the mental FLU" OF the
war, and It Is attacking all coun-
tries.
"Bolsheyism and autocracy are one
and the home. Both make might
right. The red-flaggists are no more
democratic than the military des-
pots. They are even less democratic.
Cars and kaisers rule by military
power and oppressive laws. Red-flag-
glsts by riot and murder, and vir-
tuaTly no laws. This Is about the
only difference between them.
"Autocracy consists Of a kaiser
class that plays the game according
TO certain rules. The Bolsheyists
are dominated by lawless groups led
by the biggest ruffian OF the bunch.
"The BolsheyIsts virtually have no
rules because they begin by abolish.
ing all forms OF ownership and by
doing away with home life. Children
are taken away from those who be-
get them. This lowers the marriage
standard below that OF the beasts Of
the field. for they care for their
young.
Under Bolshevism. anyone may
help himself to whatever his neigh
Dor happens to have at the moment,
II he is able to take II away from
him. II he cannot do that, he can
frame up story on him or put up
Ia Job on him, and the boss Red, or
the boss group, will have the neigh
Dor executed, II the falsifier stands
with the leaders. Then he can help
himself to his neighbors goods, or
take his neighbor's wife or daugh-
ter. as the case may be, II the red
flag leaders do not choose to them
selves.
"Fugitives reaching Switzerland
from Moscow report the population
OF that great Russian city dying OF
starvation, rottlng in prisons and be-
Ing decimated by executions. Fear
and famine have brought on an ep.-
demic OF insanity and lunatics and
manlacs OF all kinds stalk raving
thru the streets.
The horrors and the nightmare OF
Russia's reign OF terror-history'
most frighful orgy of blood and
ruln--testlfy to the logical result of
Bolshevism. II Is the same kind of
class rule that kaisers have, only
much worse because 1t knows no
law, nobody's life nor belongings be-
Ing safe day or night. 1t Is civlliza-
tlon gradually reverting to savagery.
Because OF the present disturbed
mental state Of the world, psycholo-
glsts, the scientists who study the
action OF the mind, are warning the
people OF all countries against Boil
shevism They say mental crazes,
like germ diseases. attack the body
and are Catching, and that Bolshe-
vIsm Is mental disease.
"At any rate, the Bolshevism craze
Is spreading alarmlngly In Europe.
The best antidote for II In America
is American common sense. We
should use It against the Bolshevik
propaganda lust as we take precau.
tlons against influenza and small
pox."
Recently member of The Journ-
al staff received from a Lieutenant, n
Western boy, stationed at Khaba-
roysk, Siberia, copy of proclama.
tlon posted by the Russian anarch-
ist group No American woman can
read II without shudder of horror,