The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-08-20
BOLSHEvISM FLAYED
"Most Flagrantly Undemocratic If Not
Anti-democratie Symptoms"

| Williamstown, Mass, Aug. 20 4
characterization of bolshevlsm as thu
most fagrantly undemocratic if not
anti democratic symptom of our age,
was made by Count Poul Teleki, former
premier of Hungary, in lecture at tht
institute of Politics at Williams col
| lege to-day He described from his
own experience the rise and fall of boil
| shevism in Hungary, which he said "is
the only country where you are able
to examine the effects of bolshevism on
| the spot
Bolshevism ultimately collapsed in
his country, Count Teleki said, because
of its inability to organize production.
Its immediate defeat, however, he at
tributed to "the passive dcgged resis-
tance of the Hungarian peasant farm
ers, who refused to give the bolshevists
food"
1T may be asked" he said, "how the
revolution came and how we broke
down and how we fell so deep that
bolshevism became possible in Hun
gary. My answer and that of a wit
ness who is at this moment far from
politics is that the first revolution was
already made and directed from the
background by man who disguised
even under the name of one of the
greatest aristocratic families of Hun
gary but who was an eccentric-Count
karolyi.
But the first revolution was at its
outbreak disguised under national
flags and national flowers and looked
TO everybody like a national move
ment for freedom. The real situation
was recognized in a week, but it was
too late.
The particular interest in the study
of bolshvism in Hungary lies in the
tact that Hungary is so far the only
country where you are able to examine
the effects of bolshevism on the spot
THE essence of the reforms prom
ised by the bolshevists lay in the
promise of high wages and little work
But since production broke down most
there was hardly any worl;
to speak of. Since, furthermore, the
difference in wages paid for work was
slightly higher than the wages paid |
to the unemployed Budapest soon be-
came a town of loafers.
From the point of view of the work |
ing class the bolsheyist leaders seem
to have made a fatal blunder by sep
arating this class from the body of the |
nation as a whole and by establish. |
ing class government bound TO create
a reaction at the very time when un-
consequences of the war
and the general trend of events seemed
10 assure the workers of a gradual
of their legitimate wishes
BY means of peaceful and legal reyolu-
ion
Yet violence was the method of
procedure followed in bringing about
he new millennium Of the proletariat
Terror indeed was the only means TO
orce bolsheyism on country where
hree -fourths of the population derived
heir living from agriculture and where
n spite of socialist agitation of many
'ears the respect for private property
lad nowhere cast as deep roots as
mong the farming elements.
And yet is it not a remarkable
act that bolshevism should have brok.
n out only in agricultural countries
his more than anything seems to in.
icate that bolshevism is a foreign
roduct transplanted by a determined ]
nd unscrupulous minority against the
'ishes of the majority OF the popula
ion. Bolshevism indeed is the most
agrant undemocratic if not anti !
symptom OF our age.
when bolshevism broke down there I
anne of course a reaction. 4 reaction 7
eed not be something bad. The word {
Dunds undemocratic, but l do not |
now of anything so undemocratic as I
The reaction against boil. c
hevism is democracy" a