The progress-itemizer., 1920-08-13

the constituent assembly. Evidence oi
their breach OF faith 10 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 metho0f
and machinery to the scrap pile and
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 he power to
class of officeholders.
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. 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
Is found in the 1919 registration
= <oters in Moscow and Petrograd.
II is estimated that Moscow has
half. yet out of this great number only
1900 voters registered. Petrograd,
with a population of between 100000
and 100000, 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 it killed freedom. 1t did
not destroy thought; 1t merely drove
1t into the darkness. 1t has not con-
quered the manhood and womanhood
of Russia: 1t has but disarmed them.
Somewhere I have heard or read
that tolerance Is a quality Of freedom;
that intolerance is a symptom of des-
potism. Maybe l am thinking of the
Greek conception. the idea of Plato.
Surely. tolerance is no pnrt OF the boi'
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.
n 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. and with Gonpers and Co.
In America. supported their bour-
geoisie in the war of 19141918."
Another paragraph from Lenine's
letter:
"Sde by side with these cowardly
pennywise mongers who are stuffed
with the prejudices Of bourgeois de-
mocracy, side by side with these So
cialists, who yesterday defended
their imperalistic governments, and
who today confins themselves ito
pIa~shfc protest AGAINST military In
tervqntion In Russia side by side
with them. we see In the allied COUP
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
greatest trial. Lenne 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 hour
geoisie Lenine assails and condemns
tie 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 If these brave men whom
Lenine now assals had not offered
themselves? Russia would have been
ashed to the kaiser's chariot, Christ
chained to Krupp gun.
The first of all the hOlsheviks with
not go down in history as-"Lenine
the Tolerant"
Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaper Uniona