New Mexico state record., 1920-07-02

the constituent assembly. Evidence OF
their breach of faith is found in the
bOlshevik birth certificate. the firsl
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
ant machinery to the scrap pile and
built the soviet machine. a 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 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-
tion of minority rule. One evidence
of the minority rule In bolshevik Rus
sia is found in the 1919 registration
of voters in Moscow and Petrograd.
1t is estimated that Moscow has
population of almost q million and
half. yet out of this great number only
1900 voters registered. Petrograd.
with a population of between 100000
and 10000. registered a little less
than $1,000 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 snuifed out the light in
Russia when it killed freedom. 1t did
not destroy thought; 1t merely drove
it into the darkness. Ii has not con-
quered the manhood and womanhOod
of Russia; it has but disarmed them.
Somewhere l 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 part of the boil
shevik program. In a 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,
in line with the mensheviks of Russia.
with the Schedeinanns and Suede
kums of Germany. with the Renaudcls
of France. and Vanderyeldes of Bel
GUM, with the Hendersons and Webs
in England, and with Gompers and Co.
in America. supported their bour.
geoisie in the war of 19l4-19lS."
Another paragraph from Lenine's
letter:
"Side by side with these cowardly
mongers who are stuffed
with the prejudices of bourgeois de-
mocacy. side by side with these So
cialists. who yesterday defended
their imperalistic governments. and
who today cOnfine themselves to
platonic protest against military IN
In Russia side by side
with them. we see In the allied coun.
tries an increase In the number OF
those who have chosen the communist
road"
COmrade Lenfne attacks Samuel !
Gompers. the president Of the Amer
lean Federation OF Labor. and the la
Dor movement of America. for loyalty |
10 our country In the hour Of her |
greatest trial. Lenine brands every |
soldier and sailor who offered his life |
to stop the kaiser and his Prussian
in the mad effort to conquer |
The world. a supporter OF the hour |
yeoisie. Lenine assails and condemns
The manhood of the world that an.
swered the help" cry Of Belgium
when Prussia was rapng and murder
ng Belgium In the front yard of Eu-
'ope. What would have happened to
Russia II these brave men whom
Lenine now assails had not offered
Russia would have been
ashed to the kaisers chariot, Christ
,hained to Krupp gun.
The first OF all the bolsheviks will
rot 20 down In history as-"Lenine
he Tolerant"
Copyright. 1920. Western Newspaper Union,
Urges Trial Of Hindenburo.