The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-06-10
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Follow the Great
World WaT?
ANALYSIS OF SOVIET RULE
Cold Reasoning Easily Proves FalIsey
on Which the Idea Is Based
Demagogism Its Foundation
Stone.
Article XXI.
By FRANK coMERFORD.


Lenne has frequently observed that
representative government is a fail
urp. 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
bolsheyik government in Russia offers
Us, 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 10
/ cntrust their business TO an agent
whom they directly elect and who is
/ directly responsible to them how
much more dangerous must 1t be 10
| turn over the public business TO II
men appointed by central executive
! committee, the members Of which
| have been appointed by an All-Russian
congress. which All-Russian congress
is elected by sOyiets for whom the
people did not voter Applying this
/ Ilibll W. bNl wv II E'N'l llliI' ~ 'hA WI
gress would be elected by the state
legislatures and the aldermen Of the
cities. then this congress 50 elected
would pick an executive committee OF
300 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 Nutooracy?
All down through history two the
cries of government have been at war.
one fl that the majority shall rule
the other that the minority shall rule.
The people struggling for freedom
have hatled for the former; the few
seeking special privileges have fought
for the latter. The first is Democrat
ic The second autocratic. No compro-
mise is possible; there Is mo- middle
ground These two antagoniStic ideas
have nothing In common; like parallel
lines, they can never meet, in their
nature they nre separate and apart.
The government of the late kaiser Of
Germany, the government Of Nicholas,
the autoorat Of Russia, were founded
on the idea that the minority shall
rule. History shows that minority
rule has always ensayed the major
Ity The rule Of a minority over
majority means slavery for the many,
II is human nature, The principle
always works the same result If II
is a political meeting and the minor
Ity runs It, the result Is Il machine
and boss When it is a nation, you
have bureaucracy and a dictator, de-
irving his power not from the consent
Of the governed, but from the bay
onets Of the army. There may be room
for honest differences of opinion be-
tween honest men on many questions,
but there is not any room for differ
cnce Of opinion among honest free
men on the proposition that minority
rule is menace.
In Article Ill of the bolshevik con
sttutiOH we find incOntroyertble evil
danca that tha Government of soviet
Dng.i, is HMM ., tho tvront,e etona
minority ruIa section o. roads.
"The All-RuSsian congress IL com
P'''i W. ''P' ''' " wy '''
10 - - Wv, "''o " VIZ, '''''' Ao'
49, -,,'''' '''','' ""u ~ 'sp' So,
n.y. y, Wv ''' '''' -, Wv p'o''''''' ~
~. '"''" " "'' u'''7"'' w e''''
'-'''''' '''''''''''''''
Dissemination Against Peasant2'
No explanation Is given for basing
the representation in congress from
the cities on the number Of voters.
while the representation in congress
from the provinces is based on the
number of inhabitants The words are
no, synonyms, voter IS un nhabu-
amt of certain age and possessing GER
tain qualifications, An iuhabitant is
anyone who lives in the province, re-.
surdlcSS of age or qualifications. II
the word inhabitant is given the same
meaning that the word voter is given
chen il is apparent that the cOnsllu.
tlon uulustly discriminate, against
the poor peasant" As they have had
NO general elections In RUSSIA. il ls