Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-05
BOLSHEVISTS ADD
TO TERRORS; KILL
THOSE OF CLERGY

London Correspondence of the
Associated Press. Murders of
clergymen constitute the latest
feature of Bolshevik terror in Rus
STA, says Prof. Peter Strive. a dis
tinguished economist, who has es-
capped from Russia and arrived in
England after hiding from the
Bolsheviki for months i'll Moscow.
and after a long Journey on foot
to reach safety in Finland. He
was compelled to disguise himself
to escape death at the hands Of
the adherents of Lenine and Trotz-
ky. Prof. Strive was representa-
tive from Petrograd in the second
Duma and a member of the assem-
bly, convoked by Alexander F.
Kerensky.
Altogether ten bishops had been
shot and priests murdered, and the
dean of kaZan cathedral and his
two sons were drowned in the
Neva by the Red soldiers" said
Prof. Strive. Near KotIas all the
monks in one monastery were shot
to death. Prof Kartasheff, minis
ter of religion in Kerensky's gov
eminent, who has escaped into
Finland, says that the present per-
secution of the church in Petro-
grad is only comparable with the
persecution of the early Christians.
I'm Moscow all the shootings
take place at night, but in Petro-
grad the victims of the Bolsheviki
are shot in the afternoon in the
courtyard of the headquarters of
the executive commissions and. in
order to drown the noise. it is
usual to start up the engines of
motor cars which are waiting in
the vicinity
AT the beginning of the Bolshe
vik movement ] publicly expressed
the opinion that not even a Ger
man would hold converse with a
Bolsheyik. AS a Russian constitu-
tionalist it is completely lnexplica-
Bile to me how any allied govern
ment can contemplate discussion
of any sort, in any circumstan or
at any place. with anyone who calls
himself a Bolshevik
Those who imagine that there
can be any pact between The forces
of civilization and Bolshevism, h ave
no conception of the real state of
affairs in Russia The most mod
crate form of restoration of order
and liberty in Russia woLld make
the existence of BolsheviSm impos-
sible. Bolshevism is complete tyr
amy, which is absolutely incom-
patible with any form of ordered
liberty and constitutional govern
ment. 1t is entirely false to say
that Bolshevism is a popular form
of government. If TrotZky would
walk a verst through Moscow he
would be killed. No car lived in
greater terror of his subjects than
the chiefs of the Bolshevik govern
ment. There was more law and
the Bolsheviki
1T is untrue that the armed
forces of the Bolsheviki can offer
any serious resistance to organized
and well-armed pressure. and the
failure of the Bolsheviki in Estho-
mia. where they yielded before
small but compact forces, is much
more characteristic of their real
nature than the successes they
gained in the north and east
against the driblets which were put
in action there.
ITO represent the Bolsheyiki as
being strong is not only false but
very dangerous, because it creates
the very impression that the Boil
sheviki desire to create. They aim
at world revolution, and to create
a false impression of their power
is to further their aims. Civiliza-
ton must not shrink from the
problem; it can be dealt with east
" if it is graSped firmly