Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-06-12
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Follow the Great
World War;
ANALYSIS OF SOVIET RULE
Cold Reasoning Easily Proves Fallaey
on Which the Idea Is Based
Demagogism It's Foundation
Stone.
Article XXI.
BY FRANK coMERFoRD.

representative government Is fail
ure He has insisted that The demo-
cratic form Of government Is de-
bauched and destroyed by the political
machine; that political corruption We
toes the will OF the people. If Lenine
IS right IN this conclusion, then the
Dolsheyfk government In Russia offers
just from three to five times as much
chance for political corruption as our
own form Of government. II II Is dan
ger0us for the American people to
entrust their business TO an agent
whom they directly elect and who is
directly responsible to them, how
much more dangerous must 1t be TO
turn over the public business to II
men appointed by a central executive
committee. the members of which
have been appointed by an All-Russian
congress. which Al-Russian congress
Is elected by soviets for whom the
people did not voter Applying this
plan TO our own government our con-
gress would be elected by the state
cities then this congress SO elected
would pick an executive committee Of
200, and this committee would elect
II commissioners to whom would be
given the supreme power Of the state,
both legislative and executive power,
the right to make laws. and the au-
thority to enforce the laws.
Democracy or Autocracy7
All down through history two the
Dries Of government have been at war.
One Is that the majority shall rule
the other, that the minority shall rule
The people struggling for freedom
have battled for the former; the few
seeking special privileges have fought
for the latter. The first Is democrat
&C., the second autocratic. No cOmpro-
mise is possible there is no middle
ground. These two antagonistic ideas
have nothing in common; like parallel
lines. they can never meet, In their
nature they are separate and apart
The government Of the late kaiser OF
Germany the government Of Nicholas,
the aut0crat Of Russia, were founded
Ou the idea that the minority shall
rule. History shows that minority
rule has always enslaved the major
sly. The rule of a minority over
majority means slavery for the many.
u is human nature. The principle
always works the same result If It
* political meeting and the minor
lty runs II, the result is a machine
and Il boss. When II is a nation. YOU
have bureaucracy and a dictator, de
irving his power not from the consent
Vt the governed. but from the bay
Dnets of the army. There may ne room
for honest differences Of opuion be
tween honest men on many questions
hut there is not any room for differ
ence of opinion among honest free
men on the proposition that minority
rule Is menace.
In Article III Of the bolshe,fk con
etitution We find incuntroyertible evil
dence that the government OF soviet
Russia is built ON the tyrunts stone.
minority rule Section % reads:
The All-RuSsion congress is COM
posed of representatives Of city sow
cts in the ratio Of one delegate for
every 250o0 voters. ana of represent
atives of the Soviets of the provinces in
the ratio of one delegate for every
$4,000 inhabitants"
Discrimination Against Peasants.
No explanation is given for baslOe
the representation in congress from
the cities on the number OF voters.
while the representation in congress
from the provinces is based on the
uumGer Of inhabitants. The words are
not synonyms, voter is nm iuhabit-
ant of certain age and possessing GER
tain qualifications An inhabltant is
anyone who lives in the province. re-.
gardIeSs of axe OF qualifications. II
the word uAabIJau. is given the same
meaning th0t the word voter is given
then lt is apparent that the conNrinl.
tion Uniustiy diSeruuIuates against
the poor peo>uut" As they have had
h''f tAat ttA I'' N.tft.N sri lNft~~IH 90
iipo>S.ble 60 give Jhe official con~trrr
uou OF ,sssr two words. II the word
iahah.mpi means any maa woman o.,
cad hvn- u THE province. thc dis
elimination against the poor peas
ANTS just ass Obvious. although Il
does CeG 40 30 tAe >a;ae lcu-ih. 4.
na illustration. II we READ This Inn
par,aat provision OF the constitution
giving 10 Che word juhueaut the sam,
meaulHs as we give tn ghp word voter
jheu We see that the voters of m,
cry ha}c one congressman tnr ever,
-'~io while Che poor peasants
have enc congressman Tor every 10
o'p II Ne con>true the WORD .ata
80 meaa the qualified legal voter. an,
'se word iahahi,qnt 10 mean any bu
"an uelu1 living in the provinces. wi
harn THAT the people of the city aev
one congressman for every e5oa
voters, While the people Of thu prov
mee> have one Conere>>m for ever
500" VOTERS. reach This eS,fmat