Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-01-20
THE BOLSHEVIK CRUSADE.

THE BOLSilENIK CRUSADE.
The success of holshevist arms
has caused alarm in Europe, and it
may we'll arouse concern in the
United States. Bolshevism is a di-
rect challenge to our form of gov
eminent, wherein each citizen has
an equal right to express his views
with every other citizen. The boil
shevist purposes to establish what
Lenine terms an economic govern
ment' in which no one except ac-
tive producers will have a voice. 1t
would bar the teacher, the preach
er, the doctor and the lawyer and
all others not engaged directly in
productive industry. In this Coun-
try, it would be a government con-
trolled entirely by farmers, miners
and mine operators, railroad en-
ployes and railroad operators car
penters and bricklayers and con-
tractors who employ them, fisher
men and the men directly engaged
in the fishing business, cowboys and
sheep herders and the men who
direct the ranches, manufacturers
who engage actively in the manage
ment of the factories and the en-
ployes.
The mere citizen, whatever his
services to the public or whatever
his intelligence and patriotism, can
have no voice in a bolshevist gov
ernment unless he is actively en-
gagged in productive work of the
material sort.
The Russian, like the German,
only more so, will fight for his
master. True, he will revolt against
a master, as did the German four
centuries ago. But when his revo-
luton succeeds it is only a change
of masters. That is what the Rus
sian is doing today, fighting for a
master, who, according to all re-
ports, is more thoroughly master
than were the czars.
The Russian, for any master. has
always been a tenacious fighter.
And whenever his leadership and
equipment have corresponded TO
his quality as a fighter, he has ex-
hibited military capacity second TO
very few.
As a matter Of fact, Russia has
never developed. with perhaps one
exception, a military genius of the
first order, and she never has been
able TO support even her merito-
rious commanders, such as the
Grand Duke Nicholas, with an ade-
quate organization.
II is not surprising, therefore,
that the Russian at the service of
the bolshevik dictator, Lenine, is
proving himself the same fOrmida-
ble fighter that he was in the Tur-
kish wars, in the Crimea, against
Napoleon, against Frederick the
Great, against Charles Of Sweden.
With any sort of organization back
Of him, the Russian soldier is to
be respected for his quality as well
as for his numbers.
But despite these facts, there is
no danger that the bolshevist
armies can sweep over the rest Of
Europe. as did the French armies
of the first republic, which was di-
rected and inspired by a military
genius comparable to Napoleon
himself. Carnot. indeed, originated
what the Corsican developed and
may be regarded as the father of
modern warfare as waged by
Moltke and Ludendorff as well as
by Napoleon and Foch.
The fanatacism of the French re-
publican armies was of an intelli-
gent sort. But however intelligent
Lenine, Trotzky and their col
leagues are, whatever fanaticism
the bolshevist armies have is that
of the horde. Mohammedan or
Mongolv-the fanaticism of ignor-
ant and superstitious peasants
whose primitive passions are to be
gratified by pillage and massacre.
But the menace of bolshevism
has assumed different form. It
is sending out missionaries to other
countries to make, through insid-
ious propaganda, converts of the
ignorant in Great Britain, France,
Italy. and the United States. We
are Just now deporting some of the
more active Of these, when they are
y aliens. We have no law that ade-
quately deals with those who are
citizens by birth or who have be-
come naturalized.
The bolshevists are doing on a
great scale what Germany at
tempted in every nation before the
Z war came. The German propagan-
da had to be crushed by a great
war, and II is possible that bolshe-
visit propaganda will have to be
stamped out by force of arms.
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