The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01

the constituent assembly. OF
their breach OF faith is found In the
bolshevik birth certificate, the first
proclamation of the bolshevik govern
ment.
Second. they commanded the peas
ants TO seize the land, and by so DOING
they gave sanction to dishonesty.
Third, they sent democratic methods
and machinery TO the scrap pile and
built the soviet machine, a plan of gov.
eminent which robbed the people of
all say in their own affairs.
Fourth, they founded their govern
ment on force, the right of might.
Fifth, they delivered the power to
a class of ofliceholders.
Sixth, they disseminated ~unjustly
against the poor peasants"
Seventh, they DISTINGUISHED good
Russian men and women, whose only
fault was that they were thrifty and
Industrious.
Eighth, they destroyed freedom of
speech and of the press.
Ninth, they stand for revolution and
bibohb liiStNtu VI poiiliSui aNtaoh ahN
evolution.
Tenth, last but Of greatest moment,
the boishevlk government built its ma
tional house on the dangerous founda-
ton of minority rule. one evidence
of the minority rule in bolshevik Rus
STA is found in the 1919 registration
of voters In Moscow and P~etrograd.
IL Is estimated that Moscow has a
population OF almost a million n a
half, yet out Of this great number only
1900 voters registered. P~etrograd,
with a population of between 100000
and 100000, registered a little less
than 5000 voters. These two cities
are admitted TO be the strongholds OF
bolshevism. The registration figures
show that about one per cent of the
people of Moscow and Petrograd are
sufficiently attached to bolshevism to
register.
Thought Not Destroyed.
Bolshevism snuffed out the light I'm
Russia when it killed freedom. 1t did
not destroy thought 1t merely drove
IL into the darkness. 1t has not con-
quered the manhood and womanhood
of Russia 1t has but disarmed them.
Somewhere l have heard or read
that tolerance is a quality Of freedom;
that intolerance Is n symptom of des
potism. Maybe l am thinking OF the
Greek conception, the idea Of Plato.
Surely, tolerance is no part Of the Dol.
shauiIy Ia an IattAp aIaraCCaA
TO the workers of Europe and America.
dated January u, 1919, Lenine wrote
"Now, no conscientious working man
and no sincere socialist can fail &c
see what shameful treason against so
cialism was perpetrated by those who
in line with the m~ensheviks of Russia.
with the S~cheidemanns and Suede
kums Of Germany, with the Renaudels
Of France, and yanderveldes OF Bel
GUM, with the Hendersons and Webs
In England, and with Gompers and Co
in America, supported their bour.
geoisie in the war Of 1914-191S."
Another paragraph from Lenlne'f
letter:
cjuC W SluC Will tiIcSC GOWdIuty
pennywise monger who are stuffed
with the prejudices Of bourgeois de-
mocracy, side by side with these 50.
cfalists, who yesterday defended
their imperalistic governments, and
who today confine themselves ia
platonic protest. against military In
%tervention In Russia side by side
with them, we see in the allied cOun
tries an increase I'm the number Of
those who have chosen the communist
road" '
Comrade Lenine attacks Samuei
Gompers, the president of the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor. aud the la.
Dor movement Of America, for loyalty
to our country In the hour of her
greatest trial. Lenine brands every
soldier and sailor who offered his life
to stop the kaiser and his Prussias
machine In the mad effort to conquer
the world. a supporter OF the bour
geOisie. Lenine assails and condemns
the manhood OF the world that an.
swered the "help" cry Of Belgium
when Prussia was raping and murder.
ing Belgium In the front yard of Eu-
rope. What would have happened to
Russia II these brave men whom
Lenine now assaiis had not offered
themselves? Russia would have been
dashed to the kaiser's Chariot, Christ
chained to a Krupp gun.
The first of all the b~olsheviks will
not go down In history as-"Lenins
the Tolerant"