The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-07-29

! the constituent assembly. Evidence oi
their breach OF faith Is found IN m,
bolshevik birth certificate. The first
proclamation of the bolshavik govern.
ment.
Second. they commanded the peas.
ants TO seize the land. and by so doing
they gave sanction 10 dishonesty.
Third. they sent democratic methods
and machinery 10 the scrap pile and
built the soviet machine, 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 officeholders.
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
blood. instead of political action and
evolution.
Tenth. last but of greatest moment,
the bolshevik 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 Petrograd
1t is estimated that Moscow has a
population of almost million and a
half, yet out of this great number only
1900 voters registered. Petrograd,
with a population of between 100000
and 10000. registered a little less
than $4,000 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 In
Russia when II killed freedom. II did
not destroy thought; II merely drove
It into the darkness. II has not con-
quered the manhood and womanhoOd
OF Russia; II has but dlsarmed them.
Somewhere / have heard or read
that tolerance is quality of freedom;
that intolerance Is symptom Of des-
potism. Maybe l am thinking OF the
Greek conception. the idea of Plato
Surely, tolerance is no part of the boil
shevik program. In letter addressed
to the workers of Europe and America,
dated January 81, 1919. Lenine wrote:
Now, no conscientious working man
and no sincere socialist can fail to
see what shameful treason against so
cialism was perpetrated by those who,
in line with the mensheviks of Russia,
with the Scheidemanns and Suede
kums of Germany. with the Renaudels
of France, and Vanderveldes of Bel
GUM, with the Hendersons and Webs
in England, anu with Gompers and Co.
In America, supported their bour-
geoisie in the war of 1914-191S."
Another paragraph from Lenine's
letter:
"Side by side with these cowardly
pennywise mongers who are stuffed
with the prejudlces OF bourgeois de-
mocracy, side by side with these So
cialists, who yesterday defended
their imperalistic governments. and
who today confine themselves TO
platonic protest against military In
PREVENTION In Russia. side by side
with them. we see In the allied coun-
tries an Increase in the number Of
those who have chosen the communist
road"
Comrade Lenine attacks Samuel
Gompers. the president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, and 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 Prussian
machine in the mad effort to conquer
the world. supporter of the bour-
geOise. Lenine assalls 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 IL these brave men whom
Lenlne now assails had not offered
Russia would have been
dashed to the kaiser's chariot, Christ
chained to a Krupp gun.
The first of all the bolsheviks Will
not 20 down In history as--"Lenine
the Tolerant"
Copyright. 1920. western Newspaper Union)