The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-02-07
Whole World in Grave Danger
Through Advancing Tide
of B0ISheviSm.
NOW FLUSHED WITH. VICTORY
Practically All Of Asia Is Open to the
Propaganda, and Result May Be
BIoodiest Chapter in Worlds
History.

Inc cOllapSe OI Tug huSSIdn hilloi'i
forces under General Kolchak in 81
IBERIA and the retreat of General Deni-
kines army from the Moscow front
are regarded in every capital in Eu-
rope and in Washington as constitut-
Ing a threat of possible invasion Of
Europe, certain penetration by the
bolsheviki in Asia and menace to the
peace Of the entire world.
Even Prince Michael Cantacuzene,
husband Of granddaughter of Presi-
dent Grant, who has just arrived in
the United States, while hopeful that
the Russian natiopal forces may still
save themselves, confesses that their
plight is desperate unless allied aid
reaches them. 'They have no shoes.
no clothes, very little ammunition and
very little food. If the allies wish to
stop the spread of bolshevism through
out the world they must come to the
rescue Of Kolehak and Denikine."
This is the belief of man who is
fresh from Siberia and d,who is optimis-
tic enough to advance the opinion that
IL bolshevism can be kept isolated in
Russia it will wear itself out by its
own excesses. ..
On the High Tide Of Victory.
The word "if" makes all the differ
ence in the world. But the fact is that
bolshevism is now riding on the high
tide Of victory and there does not seem
one chance in a million that it will be
confined to Russia. Nearly all of Asia
is now open to its propaganda. The
defeat Of the forces Of General Deni-
kline opens the door between Moscow
and the Black sea. The connecting
military link between the former Kol-
ohak and Denikine lines has been OBJ
liberated and nothing remains to pre-
vent the agents Of the bolshevists from
moving toward Armenia, Persia, A.
ghanistan and India. Agents of the
Russian reds have already stirred up
considerable trouble among the hill
tribes on the northern confines Of India
and British troops are now engaged in
sappressing uprisings.
As for Siberia. the red propaganda
10 moving eastward rapidly. It has
become - serious menace to China
md Japan that the government zef
Japan is takinE steps: to halt the ~
vance Of the reds before II reaches ~
very threshold Of Manchuria and the
taand empire its4lf. y, uss =
Among the ignorant maaees both Of
China and India there Il, great opposs
tpnity for the bolshevikIe, to spread
their doctrines, and il these countries
embrace the propaganda, the sequel
will be written in the bloodiest chap
ter in history.
But it is not against Asia merely
that the bolshevists are plotting. An
invasion Of Europe is among their
plans. All recent developments indi-
cate that it Is the program Of the
reds to bring military pressure to bear
against the Baltic provinces, Poland
and the new nations which the Yer
sajlles conference has been erecting in
central Europe and that the soviet
military machine will this year be
hurled against that front.
No Peace With BoIshevism.
It is idle nay, it is criminal to talk
Of peace while bolshevism remains in
Russia, ever threatening to spread it's
accursed cult throughout the world.
Treaties Of peace may be drawn up at
Versa files and signed at Paris, as the
treaty with Germany was the other
day. but such treaties have no more
effect on bolshevism than the passing
of sedition bill by the senate. Bol-
shevism must be suppressed if the
world is to know peace. And bolshe-
vism must be ended II the world is
not to become bolshevik. Between 1t
and the principles Of government in
other lands there is an irrepressible
conflict and one or other of these op-
posing forces must perish.
A few years ago in the United States
communism was regarded as "joke."
Is it "joke" today? Two years ago
bolshevism in Russia was regarded as
a passing mania. But it has not passed.
It is in Russia still and 1t threatens to
overflow it's confines and plunge the
world into another bath Of blood.