The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-04-15
ANOTHER VIEW ON THE
MENACE OF BOL SHEVlSm


If we believe the newspapers
course, ninety-nine out of every hun
dred good Americans do-you picture
the Bolshevists as conquering horde
of plunderers, after the fashion OF
the Huns of Tamerlane and Gengnis
Khan A terrible thing it is for the
modern world to have such an invad-
ing horde come sweeping over Asia!
The truth about the matter has
been very simply stated by Col Rus
tum Bek, a former officer of the Rus
sian army, and now the military ex-
pert of Soviet Russia We quote from
an interview in the New York Call;
and see how very different it all
seems, when you come out from the
poison gas clouds of the propagand
of world capitalism.
"While the press spreads this hys-
terra, the real propaganda of Soviet
Russia marches triumphantly, with
out soldiers or cannon, to the con-
quest of Asia, through the gateways
of Armenia, Persia, India, and China.
"And this irresistible propaganda
is very simple. 1t is the declaration
by Red Russia that the government OF
workmen and peasants has cancelled
and annulled each and all of those
treaties imposed by force upon neigh
boring peoples by the former Cars
And these cancellations are not to be
effected through the tedious trickery
of diplomatic intercourse. They have
been effected already, the Soviet gov
enment saying to the peoples of Al
ghanistan, Persia, and China: Come
and take what was always yours, and
take with it the railroads or other
improvements which your stolen
lands now contain
Clearly there is no propaganda to
compare with this. For every cara
van is filled with visitors or mer-
chants from Russia whose tongues
wag in every city and village of Asia
with the marvellous tale: Russia is
giving back all that the Cars took
of Russia are true friends of all Mus
sulmans! Soviet Russia pays in gold
for all she buys! There are no more
bestial officials in that land to beat
and rob us. Russia has been resur-
rected! There is new land wTerc
justice and truth stand above all else
an every chai-harei (tea house) the
tale is repeated, in every bazaar, and
In all the highways of Asia men re-
peat il to themselves and to strangers.
For since Asia first came in contact
with the West this STORY of justice
and truth among white men has never
been told in the bazaars. It is so
strange and welcome, the people hear
it and are happy.
That is why Persia, Afghan, and
Mongol have taken up arms to stand
guard over Soviet Russia against the
Imperialism of England or Japan
For centuries Great Britain has
striven with gold and by the most in
tolerable oppresson of the Asiatfc
races to create buffer states that
would perpetuate her enslavement OF
Mussulman and Hindu in Asia. And
now, in one year. by applying the
golden rule of honesty toward all
peoples, Soviet Russia has created
volunteer frontier guard of races who
stand in arms to protect her against
England.
'The Bolsheviki have been painted
as the foes of religion and Of every.
sacred thing. Yet in this Bolshevism
the pious Mohammedan finds shell
ter which is denied him by Western
Europe. His Koran, his habits and
his traditions are so respected by the
new Russian state that in tens OF
millions he is joining the Bolshevik.
Can it be that love, justice, and
tolerance amongst and between races
is understood and cherished only In
Asia? Is it the warlike, Christian
peoples of the West who are too un-
civilized to make peace with Soviet
Russia?" q