Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-23
DIR. COLDER TALKS
ON "BOLSHEv|sH"
Gives Very Interesting Discussion of
What Lenin Is Trying to Bring
About in Russia

Sunday evening Mr.. j. Sotola rem
dered a violin solo which was en-
Enthusiastically encored.
DIR. F. A. Colder who was in Rus
STA when the revolution broke out
and had an opportunity to study its
leaders and their plans at close
range, gave a very interesting and
instructive discussion of Bolshevism.
He said that when socialism was
introduced in Russia the peasants
did not take kindly to it's doctrines.
After working with them for sew
eral years one faction of the social
! lists decided that 1t was useless to
try to convert the peasants and or
ganized the Social Democratic La
! Dor party. At the congress of this
party held in London in 1903 another
split developed. The faction led by
Lenin had a majority of the dele
gates and were called Bolsheviki.
which means majority With
other socialists they explain the orr
gin of class warfare about as fol-
lows:
" In the beginning all men were
economically equal, the worlds re-
sources were shared by all alike, and
there were no rich and no poor.
+ Tharn nan,a tip,a howauar mhan
a few greedy men appropriated for
themselves part of the public
wealth and said. This is ours, this
is our private property BY this
act they deprived the rest of man
kind OF the enjoyment of the wealth
which they had appropriated TOR
themselves and brought on poverty
Humanity became divided into rich
and poor property holders and non
property holders, employers and en-
bourgeoisie and proletariate. With
the riches at their disposal, the
bourgeoisie used the church, the
state, the press and the schools to
perpetuate the present system.
Armies were employed to crush any
opposition to the system. Notwith-
standing the use of all of these agen-
cies, the proletariat has gradually
gained in strength and are now de-
n ~ h.,
returned to the public, to be used for
the benefit of all.
THE Bolsheyists differ from the
more conservative socialists as to
the methods to be used to make the
bourgeoisie restore this public prop
erty. The conservative element ia
yor gradual process, through le-
gally constituted authorities, while
Bolsheyists demand direct action
through revolution.
They plan to accomplish their pur-
pose through force and propaganda.
The propaganda is aimed to create
discomfort and thereby bring about
Il state of anarchy, which will enable
the creators of the anarchy to
sieze the reins OF government
by force. Having secured this
power. their program is to de-
stroy the existing institutions, in
Guiding private ownership of prop
erty. the church, the schools. the
press, and every capitalstic agency.
ize violence in the interest of the
toilers and compel the fulfillment
of their will. The organ through
which this violence is to be carried
on is the Soviet. which is a class
government, by and for the prole-
tariat.
According to the Bolsheviki the
real proletariat is the city work
man. 1t is quality and not quantity
that counts. Before the war the
industrial class in Russia constitut-
ed only about Is per cent of the
total population and not all of these
favored radical legislation. But it
was in the name of this handful that
Lenin and Trotski seized the govern
ment and in its name are carrying
on the government. This is not the
rule of the majority and Lenin does
not pretend that it Is He contends
that the majority of the people do
not know what is good for them
and. therefore. the enlightened mi
nority must look after their in
terests"
The Bolsheyiki hold that bour-
geois is one who owns the instru-
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