Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-06-24
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction In
Europe Follow the Great
World War?
BOLSHEWST SEEDS OF POISON
Avowed Object of the Leaders Of the
Movement Is to Stir Up Hatred
of Law and Order Every
where
Article XXVIl!.
BY FRANK COMERFORD.

Oily OIL the IDcEdtlOQ OL the
bat Of one country. It is the program
of the liberation Of the proletariat Of
jail countries; it is the program Of
international revolution. The over
throw Of imperialist governments by
means Of armed revolt is the road to
1.-THE international dictatorship of the
working class" In these words Blu
Echarin, accredited and recognized boil
lshevik propaganda, set forth the OBJ
ject Of the communists at Moscow in
i1918
Lenine, in the same year, in Petro-
tgrad, declared that the chief task
which we set ouselves at the very
beginning Of the war was to turn the
imperialistic war into a civil war;
His aim was to force upon Russia
communism, and to summon the dis
,contented of the world to rise ia rev.
lOlution against their governments. All
textsting governments were vile, lenine
isaid, and they must be overthrewn
Political action, parliamentary meth
iOds,o peaceful voting, were worse than
useless. They were inventions of the
tdevil, Capitalism. Force must be
fused; the workers must arm them
SELVES and fight; the world could not
come to the light of freedom and
justice except through blood. lie
nine was for the great "red baptism"
ut alone could cleanse the world and
make 1t a decent place in which to
live. He wrote the aim and object
ne L0Ic ;x14n h. Of
tuition when he defined the funda-
tmental problem as being the "victory
iOf socialism in all lands" He bla-
!Zoned the war cry on the coat of arms
lof the bolshevik government in these
words: workers of the World,
Unite"
The bolshevik government has been
insistent and persistent in it's prop
uganda, collecting and pointing out the
causes for discomfort in other lands.
1t has been a propaganda of hate. 1t
has scattered, broadcast, poison seeds
lin the soil of unrest. 1t has played
Ito class feeling. 1t has appealed to
the lowest and worst in men. 1t has
written and spoken of the "Great War
las the enterprise Of capital. It has
charged up the terrible shedding of
blood to capitalistic Imperialism. 1t
has listed the ill-effects of the war and
charged them not to the war, but to
Capitalism. 1t has pointed to the
ipOverty and the disorganization of the
world directly caused by the war,
land attributed all of these unhappy
results of four year struggle with
iautocracy, not to the war but to the
System of so-called Bourgeois Govern
Iment" It has multiplied, magnified
land intensified unrest. 1t hopes to
{bring about a great world foment
(which will destroy all government
except the government of the proleta-
iriat, the soviet plan. It's propaganda
has caused many of the people of the
world to think that they are still fight
ing the regimes Of the cZars, and that
Ireactionary governments everywhere
are conspiring to bring about their
downfall and re-establish the reign
and rule of deSpots in Russia. 1t does
not make conspicuous the fact that the
GEAR is dead and that his regime has
.{passed forever.
Lenine Without liberation.
Lenine decries anyone and every
lone who does not accept his gospel of
world revolution. He is particularly
bitter towards socialists who are op-
posed to his program. Writing of
'the military program of the proletar-
lat revolution" he concludes his ar
ticle in the November "Class Struggle
for 1919: whoever, in view of this
-Ilast war, is not willing to carry out
this demand, let him be good enough
TO refrain from uttering large words
about the international revolutionary
democracy, about the social revolution
and about the war against wars"
OF those who have dared to de-
tnounce militarism and demand disarm-
ament Lenine has written:
what will the proletariat women do
ITO prevent this? Merely denounce all
wars and militarism? Merely demand
disarmament? Never shall the women
of an oppressed and revolutionary
class resign themselves to so despic-
able role. On the contrary, they
will say to their sons: You will soon
he grown up You win have a gun.
Take 1t and learn how to use it-not
i'm order to fight your brothers, as is
the practice in this war of plumber.
but in order to fight the bourgeois of
your Gown" country; in order to put
ian end to misery and wars, not by
means of "kind Wishes" but by over
throwing and disarming the bour-
igeoisie.'"
The third international" was called
together to organize the movement
against the peace of the world. 1t
imet at Moscow from March to March
g, 1919; it adopted a manifesto"
which was signed by Lenine and
Trotzky, the leading spirits of the con-
Eress Of the communist international.