The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-06-04
REVOLUTION IS THE
AIM OF APPLIED
SOCIALISM
ORIGIN AND GROWTH AND PIJR.
POSE OF |. w. W.. BOLSHE.
VISM AND COMMUNISM IS
REVEALED.



shevist leader, Lenine, who in calling
the Congress of the Communist To-
ternationale, said:
"The destruction Of state author
ity is the aim which all Socialist
have set for themselves, Marx in
cluded and at the head: without tn
realization of this aim true demo
cratism, that is equality and liberty
cannot be realized"
The entire civilized world gaze
with awe and wonder when "Bolshc.
viSm" raised its ugly head in Rus.
sia. In it was great mystery, ant
everybody was asking "What is Bol-
shevism ?" The word struck terro.
to millions and it soon became O.
cepted as meaning terrorism, blood
shed, cruelty and the destruction of
morality and religion.
When it became generally under
stood that the Bolsheviki were merc-
ly the majority of the Socialist Pa.
tY in RuSsia-and according to Leu
inc himself it is ''the Applied Social
ism of Maryland that it was close
ly allied with Socialism in the Unit
ed States and in other countries, the
United States named a committee tc
investigate Bolshevism. Report If
this committee of the L. S. Senare
sums up the program of Bolshevis,1 n
(Aplied Socialism), as it exists ir
Russia and is presented to the rest
of the world as a panacea for al
economic and social ills, in twenty
nine salient features, as follows:
/. The reputation of democracy
and the establishment of a dictator.
ship.
2. The confscation of all land anc
the improvements thereon.
g. The confscation of all forests
and natural resources.
f. The confscation of all live
stock and agricultural implements.
s. The confiscation of all bank
and banking institutions and the es
tablishment Of a state monopoly or
the banking business.
g. The confscation of all factor
les. mills. mines and industrial insti
tutions and the delivery of the contro
and operation thereof to the em.
ployes therein.
7. The confscation of all church
es, and all church property, real an
personal.
s. Confiscating of all newspapers
and periodicals and all mechanical
facilities and machinery used in TIE
publication thereof.
g. The seizure and confscation O
all public meeting places and assemb
ly halls.
10. The confscation of all trans
portation and communication sys
TENS.
II. The confscation of the entir
estate Of all decedents.
10. The monopolizing by the sta,
Of all advertisements of every M
ture, whether in newspapers. period
icals, handbills, or programs.
13. The reputation of all debt
against the government and all OBJ
cations due the non Bolshevik ele
ments of the population.
II. The establishment of universe
compulsory military service regard
less Of religious scruples and consc
cntious objections.
Is. The establishment of universe
compulsory labor
16. The abolition of Sunda,
School and all other schools and in
stitutions that teach religion.
II. The absolute separation O
churches and schools.
1S. The establishment. throuc
marriage and divorce laws, of
method for the legalzation of pros
titution, when the same is engage,
in by the consent of the parties.
~. The refusal to recognize tn
existence of God in its government
and judicial proceedings.
90 The comforting of the right
Of citizenship on aliens with out re
gard to length of residence or intelli
cence.
81 The arming Of so-called "toil
ors" and the disarming of all person
that had succeeded in acquiring prop
crty.
%. The discrimination in favor o
residents of cities and against resi
dents of rural districts through Civ
ing residents of cities five times a
much voting power rs is accorded t