The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-07

 masses shall rise in their majesty and strength and at last, take their his toric place in the revolutionary army of the workers of the world"
 Does Democracy Realize?
 "The hour of democracy is at hand" we are told! The Bolshevik idea of democracy puts on a level with 1unatics and common criminals all those who employ wase-earners for profit, or who live on an "un- earned income" All such are denied the power to elect or be elected. Tho village Blacksmith who employs a man to help him, the village painter or carpenter who employs a tourney man, the shopkeepers who employs an assistant, the housewife who em- ploys a. servant, or charwoman; anybody in fact who employs any,
 body else Is at once ruled out from all the elementary liberties which are the foundation of what we have hitherto called democracy.
 Does our British democracy realize this as a fact? This is liberty ac- ! cording to the Daily Herald, Bob Will l Hams and Go.
 Those others again who have saved l a little money and invested it in | stocks or shares or placed 1t on mort gage will be in receipt of "unearned | income" They, too must submit to | having their savings confiscated, and. | if Russian methods are copied will consider themselves lucky if they are not put against Q wall and shot for | having committed the crime of thrift. It is all very well for our politicians | to say that the English character is so different from that of the Russian | and that such horrors would never | be tolerated in our country The bald | fact remains that here in Hyde Park | I heard these individuals openly pra-J- | ing the Russian Bolsheytk.
 | One joviai gentleman to whom '
 listened, in singing the praises of
 Lenine remarked that the latter ore | ferred to see his enemies dead" and 1 then added genia1ly that he himself | would not be too kind towards any | who got up against him." This pleas- | antry was received with cheers from
 the crowd. What does it all mean? 1 Is it that the British workers who | applaud these sentiments refuse to | believe the reports which are coming | to hand daily with regard to the | practices of the Russian revolution | aries. or is it that they are willing to
 see such scenes enacted in England
 in order to attain their ends? Which
 ever of these two alternatives may De correct, the one thing necessary is i that all who believe in democracy and liberty should realize what Is | meant by those two expressions. We are constantly being told that the world has to be made safe for democracy, but judging from some or the doctrines-now being preached 1t seems equally necessary to make 1 democracy safe for the world
 1 MT. Mclean of Glasgow, informed | us recently that the machinery for forming the Soviets in Scotland Wales, and Ireland was now practi- cally complete, but these Sov1ets rep resent neither democracy or liberty. | Democracy. is not confined to those who work with their hands, and lib erty is not established by allowing one class alone to rule over all others and by absolutely denying what we have hitherto been taught to regard d
 as the liberty of the subject
 Tie Russian Infamies.
 It is interesting to notice how our i Bolsheviks are becoming more ana more unable to deny the evidence Of ] the Russian atrocities. A widely cir
 culated Ieaflet in my possession sta .cs
 that all these stories are capitalist
 fabrioations, and thaS only three
 hxndred people, mostly crimln- 1 aIs have been executed in Russia. l Today I see the Daily Herald is very
 unset at the Government White Pa per, containing SS spaces of Bolshe- 1 yik atrocities. It says that even i though most of the evidence is sec | ond-hand and much of it anonymous,
 they do not question that 1t is all | very largely true.
 | We'll, we are getting on. They are
 evidently very annoyed at this indis-
 erect publication at this particular | this White Pa 1 uer to the notice of all, and I hope 1t will be widely quoted from in our
 press.
 Yesterday I met a gentleman whose wife comes from the Baltic Provinces
 of Russia He told me she had just | received a letter describing the mur- der of a group of her relations. Men
 and women were taken out on the ice. stripped stark naked, and then l beaten to death with cudgels- The | doings of Lenin's Chinese mercana-
 ries-Lenin who prefers his enemies l dead' and whose praises are sung In l the Daily Herald and' in praises are | sung in the other of Hyde Park, can
 be read in the Government report | All this is what our revolutionaries l are apparently prepared to see in
 this country in order to bring about | their half baked program for reform
 ing the world. I need hardly remark that all ! forms of religion under the Soviets are at once destroyed. On the early l days of the Revolution Almighty God | was ~abolished'' by resolution-a pro- ceedtng which, of course, settled the | matter.
 In Hungary the priests, nuns, and l monks are classed with the criminals and lunatics alongside of those who have saved money or employ labor. | And so the campaign proceeds, and
 "the gospel of discontNlt' continues to be preached. So also are our class es being stirred to play the German | game We have won the war. but
 have not yet won the peace. Lenin | sees. that he has created in Russia
 so impossible a situation that his
 only chance of success lies ln creat-
 ing a similar state of affairs else-
 where.
 The Germans have been beaten in
 war, and want above all other things
 to evade the terms of peace. Indus ] %-o,h1e 1foro will weaken ,nE If