Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
i~urun Freedom
Department
by Our Regular Correspondent
e,y Our Regular Correspondent

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CLUB HOLDS MEETING
'The Bolshevik Government in Rus
STA" was the subject under discussion
at the last meeting of the Catholic
Woman's club. Mrs. P. P. Kelly read
q splendid paper on this subject She
said in part:
History has taught us that mans
political concepts may be roughly dl-
vided into two classes, liberalism and
autocracy, but bolshevism is neither
Of these. Nor is it socialism, anarch-
ism, or syndicalism. Many from these
have joined bolshevism, where they
find resemblance but not identity. It's
central feature is proletarianism. 1t
would reorganize life upon the basis of
class-control of the working class, and
level all social classes into one. This
doctrine is the foe to democracy. Boil
economic as we'll as political; politics
would be merged into the economic
system. In consequence, the state, as
it exists today, would perish. The
nearest American counterpart would
be the |. w. w. They (the bolshev-
iSCs) aim to create an impossible
Utopia, through a riot of bloOdshed
ana horror. In no other country but
impractical and morbid Russia could
such an idea have had it's birth. 1t is
no reproach to the bolshevists, but
rather a compliment, to accuse them
oil putting ignorant men in control 1t
is q mistake to think that all the Jews
are in favor of bolshevism. Ninety
five per cent of all the Jews are bitter
ly opposed to it, One authority says
almost all the bolshevik leaders are
people who have returned from Amer
lea, and they have been joined by
criminals liberated from Siberia, and
also from prisons in Moscow, Petro-
grad and other places.
These are then the leaders in boil
sheVism. All are ex-convicts of some
calibre. The destruction of industry
resulting from this system has been
great. The fate of the workingman
Mho refused to follow the red flag was
death. The bolshevists shot them
down by the thousands in frequent
masacres. No ones life could be con-
sidered safe Such are the methods
Ivy which TrotZky and Lenine have at
tempted to found their socialistic state
and such are the precepts Of the boil
shevists' gospel they would see
preached in this and other countries.
The whole bolshevist rule, so far, has
been a reign of terror. The peasants
of Russia would welcome any demo-
cratic government which would re-
lease them from the horrors of civil
war The bolshevists have robbed, i'm
prisoned and murdered British sub,
jects without hesitation. The Rus
SLAMS are religious people, but, not
content with stripping the Russian
church of it's property. the bolshevists,
i'll many cases, prevented their serv-
ices being held and drove them with
gun and bayonet from their places Of
Orship. A recent communication
from the vatican protesting against
the torture and murder of Catholic
priests and nuns and the robbery Of
Catholic churches, was met by sar-
castle refusal from the bolshevists.
The greatest enemy bolshevism has
today is hunger. Before the revolu-
lion Petrograd had 100000 people;
today it has less than 100000 All
food is rationed and the rations are
exceedingly small.
Picture some nation of the middle
ages, thousands of it's people illiterate,
others narrOw-minded and fanatical,
rlarred by ideas and influences
brought from outside; ideas and infiu-
ences, however, which did not exist at
that time, and you have a picture Of
Russia as she is today. Whether she
Will come forth from the darkness Of
antiquity and take her place among
the nations Of the world, is question
which can be answered only by the flu
ture.
The musical program for the after
noon was opened by a pretty piano
solo by little Margaret Kelley. This
was followed by other solos and duets,
and the program closed by a chorus
song given by seven girls. Election
Of officers also took place which re-
suited as follows:
President-Mrs. A. w. Mclzl.
Vice-president-Mr j. Thieman.
Treasurer-Mrs. Frank Plummer.
Secretary M. j. Griffin.
adjournment then took place to
meet again on October g
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