The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-02-06

persons receiving rent, interest or div
idends.
(25) The disfranchisement of al
merchants, traders and commercial
agents.
(26) The disfranchisement of al
priests, clergymen or employees O.
churches and religious bodies.
(27) The denial of the existence O.
any inalienable rights in the individual
citizen.
(28) The establishment of a Judi
cial system exercising autocratic pow,
er, convicting persons and imposing
penalties in their absence, and with
out opportunity to be heard, and ever
adopting the death penalty for nu.
merous crimes and misdemeanors.
(29) The Inauguration of a reigr
of fear, terrorism and violence.
Unavoidable Consequences of Bolshe.
vism Summarized.
With a view, therefore, of concrete.
ly illustrating just what this new So
cial order would accomplish if trans
planted into the political, educational
Industrial and religious life of the
United States attention is invited to
the following unavoidable conseuuen-
ces:
1. The application of force and vio-
lence, the shedding of blood and the
destruction of life and property, the
common incidents of all revolutions,
and all this to destroy a democratic
form of government, under which the
majority a secure just the kind of
government that it desires. The adj
vocacy of revolutionary methods is an
admission, therefore, that minority
rather than majority rule is the goal
sought to be attained.
2. To make possible the control of
the minority as the dictators of the
majority, the disfranchisement of mil
lions of substantial, patriotic citizens
who would fall in the so-called bour-
geoise or ~capitalistic class. This would
deprive of the right to participate in
affairs of government
(a) A million farmers, merchants
and manufacturers, both large and
small, employing persons in the con-
duct of their business, and all pro-
fessional and business men utilizing
the services of a clerk, bookkeeper or
stenographer.
To- All persons receiving interest
on borrowed money or bonds, rent
from real estate or personal property,
and dividends from stock of any kind.
(c) All traders, merchants and deal
ers, even though they do not employ
another person in the conduct of their
business.
(d) All preachers, priests, janitors
and employees of all churches and re-
ligious bodies.
Domination by Military Autocraey Is
Contemplated.
1t is apparent with the millions of
persons. falling into these several clas-
ses, disfranchised and deprived of all
right to participate in the affairs of
government, accompanied with the i'm
mediate enfranchisement of all aliens
who do not fall within these prohibit
ed classes, and the opening of the
doors of all prisons and penitentiaries,
the domination Of the criminal and
most undesirable alien elements of the
country would be a comparatively easy
matter. To simplify the question of
this control, however, the substantial
rural portion of the population would
be further suppressed and restricted.
and under the revolutionary formula
the voting power of the cities would
be five times as great as that of the
rural communities, the ratio of rep
resentation in cities being 1 to every
$4,000 of the population, while that
of the rural districts would be only
l to every $4,000 of the population.
In the United States the rural popu-
lation under the 1910 census was con-
siderably in excess of the urban. We
must also remember that the appli-
cation of the formula would include
disarming of all disfranchised clas-
SEES and the arming to the teeth of
these criminal and alien elements.