The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-04-08
Enttnrtal Dtgrst
An Independent Analysis OF Leading Cur.
rent Events rs Rejected in the PaD.
lie Press Of the Country
Bol,hevist Threat in Germany.

Germany's difficult struggle to stabilize
herself after the Kapp revolt has caused wide
spread fear that the reds" might triumph,
and thus extend the influence of Lenine west
ward to the French frontier. Such an event
might entail reputation of the Versailles
treaty by Germany and possibly renewal OF
war on grand scale.
'"The danger to civilization which would
follow triumph Of bolshevism in Germany,
says the Portland Oregonia lind. Rep, must
be suuarely faced by America as well as
Europe" for
THAT catastrophe would spread an unbro-
ken food of bolshevism over the vast area from
the Pacific ocean to the Rhine, and it would
eat away the defenses Of the countries on each
SIDE especially of France, Britain and Spain
Their morale already weakened by red ag1ta-
ton among their working people and by war
WEAKNESS and exhaustion, they may not be
able to unite their people for new war which.
if begun. could not stop short of the subju-
CATION of red Russia. If they should be over
come, the red flag would wave defiance at
America across the Atlantic
Thus, thinks the same paper. the fruits
Of victory are being wasted for there is little
to choose between a pan-German and pam
bolshevist Europe" The Memphis News-Scim-
itar Qnd) agrees with this; soviet anarchy"
it says, sis what the nations have most reason
to fear today. Compared with that, Hohen-
zollerns and Prussian imperialists are nothing
but DOGGY" and the Charleston News and
Courier DEM believes that current events
in Germany may well be the prelude to the
extension of sovietism over Germany as well
as Russia
with Russia as a great reservoir, a COM
munistic Germany could survive indefinitely"
declares the Brooklyn Eagle lind DEM,
which goes on to say:
What this means cannot be ignored. 1t
means, in the first place, that the victory over
ern civilization. 1t means that the treaty of
Versailles may be as dead as the treaty of Ber-
lin or the treaty of Vienna. 1t means that
the world is facing an issue more serious than
that of the war. 1t means that Europe is con-
fronted with a combination of destructive
forces as dangerous those of Prussan mill
tarism at moment when there is apparently
no power capable of opposing them
The Spokane Spokesman Review Qnd.
Rep believes that with vigor and good judg-
ment' the existing government "can suppress
the communist uprising and even turn it to
profitable account" but that there is evidence
of weakness in its surrender to the strikers
terms" and the Philadelphia North American
tProg) agrees with Macmillan Harden that
the world must prepare itself to deal with a
modified soviet government in Germany" Har-
den continues:
Factory soviets are going to dictate the
national policy through their central commit
tee. The workers find themselves able to die
tate to the government through the general
strike. Their committee can dominate any
| government. 1t is not democracy, but democ-
racy had its chance and Aost it. Germany is
going to have modified proletaran dictator
ship.
| Furthermore, the North American holds
that "bolshevism, far from being irreconcilable
! with German thought. is derived from that
very source The Louisville Post (Ind) adds
that German socialism of the Karl Marx type
while it has frequently been explained as
meaning so nething different from the dicta
| torship of the proletariat' as practced by
Lenine and Trotzky.' really leads to the same
conclusion. Where once real Karl Mar,
socialism is tried, it is certain that there mus
be either reaction to individualsm or al
evolution to bolshevism. Yet the Post be-
lieves the Germans will not daily long with
either socialism or bolshevism. The,
want results. When they see that bolshevisn
only makes for hunger, disease and misery
they will wash their hands of it,