The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-02-19
SOCIALISM UNMASKED
70 YEARS OLD
Bolshevism Originated by Marx and
Engels in 1847

exclaims: 'Look out for the bolshe-
vik devil or ne viii catch you, unless
you follow me-" Or words to that
effect.
Some people think that league of
nations will somehow in some way ar
rest the growth of bolshevism. 1t
won't.
President Wilson said that $780,
100000 worth of food would do the
job, but neither $1OO,0OO,O0O nor ten
times that amount will stop the
growth of bolshevism by a single
hour.
Bolshevism is no new thing, though
it has a new name: 1t began its ap-
peal to the world way back in 1847
and the men who made it were Karl
Marx and Frederic Engels. They did
it through the publication of "The
Communist Manifesto" a booklet, by
the way, that for so years has been
circulated in Russia and all other
great nations.
Provisions of the Manifesto
This famous publication advocated
the forcible overthrow of all existing
forms of government. 1t promulgat-
ed sort of platform for the COM
munists all over the world from which
I quote the following:
1. Abolition of property in
land and application of all rents
of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or
graduated income tax
8. Abolition of all right Of in
heritance.
4. Confscation of the prop
erty of all emigrants and rebels.
(This means that any citizen who
wanted to flee from the land
pirates would have any other
property confscated.)
5. Capitalization of credit in
the hands of the state by means
of a national bank with state
capital and an exclusive monop-
oily.
6. Capitalization of the
means of communication and
transport in the hands of the
state.
The other planks relate to the state
establishment of factories, agricultur
al and industrial armies; equal Iiabil
ity of all to labor; for free trade, etc.
etc. And it demands the abolition o.
all class distinctions; denounces tht
church as in league with the enemie.
of the proletariat.
Abolition of the Family
1t declares that capital and capital
lists "are their own grave diggers." 1
further declares for the abolition Of
the family" And declares that the
present family is based on capital anc
private gain, and with the coming o.
the proletarian revolution the chou.
geois family will disappear"
It declares that the working elias.
will wrest by degrees, all capit..
from the bourgeoisie; to cenrtalize al
instruments of production in til
hands of the state, i. e., of the pro
letariat organized as the ruling class. ;
And it ends with this statement:
"The Communists disdain to
conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their
ends can be attained only by the
forcible overthrow of all existing
social conditions. Let the ruling
class tremble at a communistic
revolution. The proletarians have
nothing to lose but their chains
They have world to win. Work
ingmen of all countries unite"
have quoted thus at length merely
to show that the Russian bolsheviEi
movement is using the identical Ian
guage in thousands of speeches and
documents, that Marx and Engels
used in 1847.
Later we find Engels the co-worl,e-
with Marx saying in his book, ''Th2
Working Class of England this:
''The proletarians, driven 10
despair, will seize the torch =
the vengeance of the people will
come down with wrath OF
which the rage of 1898 gives no
true idea. The war of the poor
against the rich will be the blood
lest ever waged. 1t is too late
for peaceful solution. The classes
are divided more and more
sharply, the spirit of resistance
penetrates the workers, the bit
terness intensifes, the guerilla
skirmishes become concentrated
in more important battles, and
soon slight impulse will set the
avalanche in motion. Then, in
deed, will the war cry resound,
War to the palaces, peace to the
cottages but then it will be too
late for the rich to beware"
Preaching Same Doctrine Today
This is the kind of language Lenin,
and Trotzky, "Big Bill' Haywood
Kaplan and all of the rest are preach