The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-29
Reactionary Spirit Shown at
Sob" Minor Meeting.
Small Audience Enthusiastic
Over Praise of BOlshevism.
ALLIES BITTERLY DENOUNCED
Reporter-Lecturer Predicted
Uprising in United States.
He Says Truth About Russia Is
Being Withheld.

That the spirit of industrial revolu-
ton" is appearing right here in To-
peka, IS in other parts of the nation
was shown conclusively Saturday night
when Bob" Minor delivered his lee
ture on Bolshevism at the city audi
torium.
Minor is a radical of the real red
type and very forceful speaker. His
audience was smalI-not more than
800 persons being in the big auditor
1um-but it was earnest. enthusiastic.
And 1t was in their enthusiastic re-
Spouse to Minors most radical state
ments that this audience disclosed its
readiness for an industrial revolution.
Applause for Confiscation.
Almost every utterance of the
speaker, belaboring capital and boost
ing labor, brought applause; but the
most Vociferous outbreaks followed
the two most sensational assertions of
the reporterlecturer. When he said
that the political age is passing and
that the old idea of democracy is
changing from government of the
people, for the people and by the peo-
pie" to government "of industry. by
industry and for industry" Minor was
roundly applauded.
Only one. other statement of his
seemed to meet with more approval
than this. In the course of his talk
| he got around to the point of showing
now the United States is going Bolshe-
vik. He referred to the Plumb plan
for railroads as an indication. And in
referring to this plan he criticized it
as FAULTY in that it proposes to issue
ponds to pay the present owners of
the railroads for their property. With
out saying it directly, he let his audi
ence know in no uncertain words that
ne thought much better plan would
be to consfiscate the roads outright
and 1t was following this that the Wig
orous handclapping was followed by
Vociferous cheering.
Agrees With "BHl" White.
There was much in Minors lecture
70 parallel the writings of William
Allen White, of Emporia. Like White
he said that England is coming more
/ completely under the idea of soviet
| government than Russia And like
White, he gave the lie to the state
ment that the Russian Bolshevists ma
| tionalized their women
The women of Russia are on abso-
| iutely the same equality with the men
| with one single exception" he said
| This exception is that when a woman
| Is ABOUT to become mother, she is
| allowed to quit work three months
| before the birth of her child, receives
1 a pension from the government and
Is assured the proper kind of food"
| Denounced Allies.
The speaker bitterly denounced the
distorted newspaper dispatches about
conditions in Russia, and also the
allied governments and their diplo-
| mats. He asserted that the British
| censors refuse to allow anything but
false and distorted dispatches to come
to the outside world. He accused
Ambassador Francis of deliberately
lying about conditions and accused the
| reactionaries of going to any lengths
| necessary to get correspondents to
| send stories to their newspapers to
| turn the world against the Bolshevists
And he accused capitalism inside and
outside of Russia of enforcing the
blockade, of starving women and chill
| dren. of numbering thousands and of
| Keeping the true facts from the world
| because, he says. capitalism must
| crush the masses in Russia or come to
ruin. and must keep the world from
knowing how successful the great ex-
| pertinent of the Russians has become
| In referring to the "Red Terror" of
which the American reading public
has heard so much, Minor asserted
| that only 1000 persons were killed in
it. while in the white Terror" about
which nothing has been said, $4,000
| have already been murdered. He ex-
| planned that the Red Terror" is the
action the Bolshevik government has
been forced to take in order to keep
| intriguers from undermining it and
said that the white Terror" is the
war the reactionaries and the capital
lists have waged to overthrow the in
| dustrial rule of the people and has
been largely supported by the money
| of the allies.
| Predicts Showdown Here.
In thinly yelled phrases the former
| Philadelphia Public Ledger corre-
spondent predicted a show down" in
| the United States between capital and
| labor and asserted that it will begin
with the Mooney strike on the Sth of
next month. He asserted that the
Bolshevik government of Lenine is the
most stable in Europe. predicting that
| the italian government will be "in the
| mud in three weeks and stating that
/ France is almost in Mysteries over the
! fear of a revolution. Not once did he
! refer to the big steel strike or to the
dissatisfaction existing among railroad
employees
The inference is left by Minors
press agents that he is touring the
country because the Philadelphia Pub
| lie Ledger would not publish his ac-
counts Of happenings in Russia as he
wrote them. Many who object to his
| extreme radicalism undoubtedly be-
| lieve he is a paid agent of the BoIshe-
| visits while others are of the opinion
| that he is touring the country mainly
because he can make more money out
| of his lectures than he could make
! working as reporter on a newspaper.
| But there is no doubt about the i'm
| his Red Brothers" say he should be
| is given to President Wilson and SEN
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