The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-17
Experts Say
America Will Not
Go Bolshevik
Rv c. D. GROAT

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PARIS (By MaiD--That bolshev-
ism will never take any firm hold in
the United States is the statement of
American authorities here who know
economic and sociological conditions
both here and in the United States.
They based their conclusions large
ly on the fact that bolshevism has
hourished most extensively where the
class distinctions are the greatest
where the gulf between the rich and
the poor is the widest. In this con-
nection, they pointed out that Russia
was the first nation to fall victim to
the excuses of bolshevism. There
the gap between the rich and the
poor was the greatest.
Bolshevism does not surprise the
men who have studied it. They point
out that every great war in Europe
has been followed by more or less
violent reaction. Once it developed
into struggle for political liberty;
now it develops into a struggle for
more equitable distribution of the
wealth of nations.
Americans here who have been
keeping their finger on the pulse of
Europe believe that the pendulum
will swing back to more nearly nor
nal state There has been much tilk
that Germany would dissolve into
bolshevism. This may or may not be
true. Some people coming out of
Grmany say they doubt it. The
French have recently been circulat-
ing what purports to be speech of
Brockdorff Rantzau declaring that
there is no menace of bolshevism in
Germany, but declaring that the
threat will be held over the heads of
the allies in the hope of securing a
better peace than would otherwise be
the case.
Then there are predictions that
France will stir into revolution when
she finds that she must pay higher
taxes than Germany because Ger
many is not to be forced to pay the
whole cost of the war, as the politi-
clans originally said she would. But
American experts have told the
United Press that they believe there
is more prospect of industrial unrest
and perhaps real bolshevism---in
England than in France.
As for the United States, they say
that there are less chances of boil
shevism than anywhere else They
believe that America has prosperity
ahead as soon as war conditions are
rcadjusted, and they say that there is
comparatively little class distinction,
Some Of the experts admit that
boshevism has been overpainted.
One high American official declared :
81 don't believe there has been any
more violence in Russia under boil
shevism than there was before. You
remember the thousands in the Sibe-
rian prisons under the Gar; and you
recall how many were slaughtered in
that regime. Well, there probably
aren't any more killed now. The
trouble is that bolshevism is simply
new form of autocracy. 1t seeks
to impose the reverse of the former
system"
None of the Americans thing that
food is a cure all for bolshevism, but
these experts do believe that food
will help. They point out that it has
worked will so far in Austria, that it
had tendency to keep down violence
in Hungary, and that now advices are
coming in, proving that Russia is
thinking more sanely under the spur
Of hunger
"If these people could have food
they would become more normal,
said one expert. "They realize that
bolshevism is an extreme which is
impractical.
The experts do agree that new
industrial and economic era is upor
the world