Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-07-01

uent Is Important. out because Ii Illus
trateS the difference between bolsbeviI
theory and practice. | am not crit
cising Lenine's good sense in promptll
abandoning the foolish theory h,
wrote in the constitution am tryint
to emphasize the foolishness and i'm
practicability of the theory
5oIsheVik Breach of Faith.
So in the very beginning OF the ex,
pertinent called bolshevism. its leaders
broke their promise and treacherously
struck down the peoples convention.
the constituent assembly. Evidence of
their breach of faith Is found In the
bolshevik birth certificate, the first
proclamation of the bolshevik govern
ment
Second, they commanded the peas
ants to seize the land, and by so doing
they gave sanction to dishonesty.
Third, they sent democratic methods
and machinery TO the scrap pile and
built the soviet machine, q plan OF gov
ernment 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 otticeholders.
Sixth they Disseminated unjustly
against the poor peasants"
Seventh they disfranchised 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, lastsbut of greatest moment
/ the bolshevik government built its ma
tfonal house on the dangerous founda-
tion of minority rule. One evidence |
of the minority rule In bolsheyik Rus
sia Is found In the 1919 registration
of voters in Moscow and Petrograd. |
1T Is estimated that Moscow has
population of almost a million and
half, yet out of this great number only /
-13,6O0 voters registered. Petrograd.
with a population of between 600 000
and 10000. registered little less
than $1,000 voters These two cities
Mrc adnA.stsd u De rne strongiIoius of II
boisheyism The registration figures
people of Moscow and Petrograd are
sufficiently attached to bolsheyism 10
register.
Thought Not Destroyed.
BOlsheyism snuffed out the light in
Russia when it killed freedom. 1t did
not destroy thought: it merely drove
it into the darkness 1t has not con-
quered the manhood and womanhood
Of Russia; it has but disarmed them. I
Somewhere | have heard or read {
that tolerance is a quality of freedom
that intolerance is a symptom of des-
potism. Maybe / am thinking Of the
Greek conception, the idea Of Plato. t
Surely, tolerance is no part of the boil
;hevik program. In letter addressed
% the workers of Europe and America, Q
lated January q, 1919, Lenine wrote: s
Now, no conscientious working man n
Ind no sincere socialist can fail to :
Zee what shameful treason against So >
'ialism was perpetrated by those who, c
n line with the mensheviks of Russia, [
With the Scheidemanns and Suede
,ums of Germany, with the RenaudelS y
f France, and Vanderyeldes OF Bel tt
ium, with the Hendersons and Webs j.
a England, and with GomperS and Co.
I America. supported their Dour-
eoisie in the war of 1914-191s." al
Another paragraph from Lenine's ia
.tter: i,
side by side with these cowardly
mongers who are stuffed III
18th the prejudices Of bourgeois de- III
ocracy, side by side with these So th
alists, who yesterday defended
heir imperalistic governments, and eN
no today confine themselves to to
atonic protest against military in O.
rvention in Russia side by side
ith them, we see In the allied coun ie
les an increase In the number of oy
lose who have chosen the communist br
ad"
Cor,,aaa Ian,na o++ooLs Sam,,a, W;
Dmpers, the president Of the Amer mi
an Federation of Labor, and the la tn
n movement Of America, for loyalty 9.
our country In the hour of her
eatest trial. Lenine brands every al
ldier and sailor who offered his life lik
stop the kaiser and his Prussian of
achine In the mad effort to conquer
e world. supporter of the bour-
oisie. Lenine assails and condemns an
e manhood of the world that an K;
'ered the help" cry Of Belgium
len Prussia was raplng and murder
: Belgium In the front yard of Eu.
pc. What would have happened to
Issia If these brave men whom
nine now assails had not offered
smselves2 Russia would have been moi
he'd to the kaiser's chariot, Christ da,
aimed to Krupp gun.
The first of all the bolsheviks will
! go down In history as-"Lenine tu
, Tolerant" the
pyright. 1890. Western Newspaper Unien)
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