New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-06-11
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Follow the Great
World War;
ANALYSIS OF SOVIET RULE
Cold Reasoning Easily Proves FaIIacy
on Which the Idea 10 Based
O~emagooism Its Foundation
Stone.
Article XXI.
BY FRANZ

Lenine has frequently observed thai
representative government is a 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
b~olshevik government in Russia offers
just from three to five times as much
chance for political corruption as Our
own form Of government. If it IS dam
gerous 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 II 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 All-Russlan congress
Is elected by soviets for whom the
people did not vote? Applying this
plan to our W government, our con-
gress would be elected by the state
legislatures and the aldermen OF the
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 Autoeraey3
All down through history two the
cries 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
ic, the second au%tocratic. No compro-
mise Is possible; there is no middle
ground. These two a~ntagonistic ideas
have nothing in common /; like parallel
lines. they a meet. In their
they are separate and apart.
government Of the late kaiser of
the government of Nicholas,
the autOcrat of Russia, were founded
on the idea that the minority shall
rule. History shows that minority
has always enslaved the major
lty. The rule Of a minority over a
majority means slavery for the many.
is human nature. The principle |
works the same result. II II
Is a political meeting and the minor
Ity runs 1t, the result is a machine
and a boss. When 1t is a nation, you
a bureaucracy and a dictator, de-
irving his power not from the consent
Of the governed, but from the bay
)nets of the army. There may be room
'or honest differences OF opinion be-
honest men on many questions, |
)ut there is not any room for differ.
snce Of opinion among honest free
men on the proposition that minority
'ule is a menac
In Article III Of the bolshevik CON
we find incontrovertible evil
that the government Of soviet
Russia is built on the tyrant's stone,
minority rule. Section % reads:
"The All-Russian congress is com
,osed Of representatives OF city sow
It's In the ratio Of delegate for
very $4,000 voters, and of represent
.tives of the soviets of the provinces in
he ratio of one delegate for every
25,0O0 inhabitants"
Discrimination Against Peasants.
No explanation Is given for basing
he representation in congress from
he cities on the number of voters,
lille the representation in congress
rom the provinces Is based on the
umber of inhabitants. The words are
ct synonyms, a voter is an inhabit-
mt Of certain age and possessing GER
ain qualifications. An inhabitant is
nyOne who lives In the province, re-
of age or qualifications. II
word inhabitant is given the same
that the word voter is given,
on unjustly discriminates against
he poor peasant" As they have had
0 general elections in Russia, II Is
npossible TO give the official construc-
Of these two words. IL the word
Ihabitant any man, woman or
hid living in the province. the dis s
against the poor peas /,
nts" is just as obvious, although 1t !
pes not go to the same length. As
D Illustration. IL we read this i'm
,rtant provision Of the constitution
wing to the word Inhabitant the same
Gaming as We give to the word voter.
Ien we see that the voters of the
ty have n congressman for every
1000. while the poor peasants"
i've one congressman for every 49, ,
0. II we construe the word voter
mean the qualified legal voter, and /,
word inhabitant to mean any hu- 4,
an being living in the provinces. we
arm that the people Of the city have (,
congressman for every 5000 I
while the people Of the prov
ces have one congressman for every |
500 voters. I reach this estimate
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