The Washington times., 1920-07-25
Today
A Book About Bolshevism.
mead II Both Ways.
4 Fearful World Power7
Or Dawn of Better Days.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.

copyright. isieJ
Head William English Walling's
book '-'SoVietism,' published by
4. =. Dutton 4 Co.
Two hundred and fifty million
ignorant peasants, led by highly
intelligent, sincere fanatics. make
3 up, what the world calls Russian
Bolshevism, and that Bolshevism at
this moment menaces Europe.
1t will be despised and laughed
AT In the beginning. European dip
iomats and our corporation lawyers
SAID, Send money and weapons to
the reactionaries and they will
soon settle the wild-eyed Lenin and
Irotzky, the Jewish sewing ma
chine operator from New York's
East Side" They forgot that
Trotzky and Lenin had been think
ing and planning for years.
The money and weapons were
sent from this country and from
the allied nations.
Today, using the weapons thus
sent, the despised Lenin and
Trotzky have conquered all their
enemies with extraordinary ease.
The Czarist reactionaries, financed
by this republic, France and Eng
land, have been driven out of exc
cuted. Bolshevism has swept
aside the armies Of Poland. Alone,
Germany now stands between Boil
shevlsm and the strip Of old-fash-
Toned civilization on the western
edge Of Europe. Just how anxious
Germany will be to protect that
western edge the men that wrote
the Versailles treaty can guess.
What is the power welded by
Lenin, the wild man out Of the
North, and Trotzky, who advises
him, as Mohammed, great conquer
or, was advised and directed by an
other Jew, that wrote his Koran
for him?
1t is the most dangerous power
on earth. Ignorant masses, made
bitter and credulous by centuries
OF slavery, have had the land and
Its wealth given to them, have been
told that they can keep what they
have by fighting for it.
The Swedish peasants that
Charles XII took through Poland
against Russia fought like demons.
Twelve thousand against a hun
dred Thousand, because each man
owned his land at home. A wise
king before Charles had given
Land to the peasants and made
them invincible. The French to-
morrow would fight again with the
courage and ferocity of Verdun,
because six million Frenchmen
own the land of France. Fl.
Working for Bolshevism Lenin
has desire for land, hatred of the
/ ancient system, and the self-con-
fidence of absolute ignorance. The
pessimistic believe that "in a few
weeks" Bolshevism is to rule the
world, because the proletdriat, or,
exploited classes" in other lands
will rise, form soviets which are
governing, besides made up Of
workmen, and take all power,
wealth and pleasure from those
now possessing them.
If this were all theory, it need
not interest you, or the govern
ments of this earth.
But it is not 80 per cent theory
and l per cent practice, but just
the other way around. Bolshevist
armies are winning every battle,
and half million men are enroll
ed in the red army which has
marched from one victory to an
other.
Those men believe that they are
fighting for themselves, for a
world in which all will be happy
and prosperous, regardless of in
dividual merit-all except a few
wicked ones that are rich now.
That red army marches, thinks,
feels and fights as did the Moham-
medan armies that, but for one
battle won by Charles the Ham,
mer, would now own and control
the whole of Europe.
Bolshevism is ruled by Lenin,
a powerful Muscovite mind, ADLER
by far than any that ever fought
under Mohammed's sacred banner.
The ablest Russian generals have
turned from Czarism to Bolshevism
and lead the red army. 1t fights
with modern weapons and methods,
from poison gas to flying machines.
The peasant fighters come from a
hundred thousand villages, each
able to provide food for its own
men.
Now Lloyd George commands
England to ask Russia for an
armistice, a breathing spell, offer
ing trade with the world in return.
Lenin sends an answer that
France calls "insolent and imper-
tinent" and still Lloyd George per-
sists in friendly effort. Wise man,
he knows that the one civilized
weapon against fanatic fury, is
prosperity. "Make them rich and
they will fight each other for the
spoils instead of fighting u.s." is
usually sound reasoning, but it
may not work with Bolshevism, for
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