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their breach Of faith Is found IN the
bOlshevik birth certificate. the first
proclamation Of the bolshevik govern
Iment.
Second, they commanded the peas
ants to seize the land. and by SO doing
they gave sanction to dishonesty.
Third they sent democratic methods
and machinery to the scrap pile and
built the soviet machine, plan of gov
eminent 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 nnjustly
against the poor peasants
Seventh, they disfranchised good
Russian men and women, whose only
fault was that they We're 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-
ton of minority rule. One evidence
of the minority rule in bolsheyik Rus
STA is found in the 1919 registration
of voters in Moscow and Fetrograd.
1t is estimated that Moscow has
population of almost a million and a
half, yet out of this great number only
1860 voters registered. Petrograd,
with a population of between 6OO,OOO
and 100000, registered little less
than $4,000 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.
ROlshevism snuffed out the light In
RUSSIA when it killed freedom. 1t did
not destroy thought; ii merely drove
IL INTO tDe udi 1t mas NV W.
oucrcd the manhood and W0manhood
of Russia it has but disarmed them.
Somewhere l have heard or read
that tolerance is quality of freedom;
that intolerance is a symptom of des-
potism Maybe | am thinking of the
Greek conception, the idea of Plato.
Surely. tolerance is no part Of the Dol
shevik program. In letter addressed
! to the workers of Europe and America,
dated January u, 1919, Lenine wrote:
"Now, no conscientious working imam
and no sincere socialist can fail TO
see what shameful treason against So
| cialism was perpetrated by those who,
| in line with the menshevks of Russia
with the ScheidemannS and Suede
| kums of Germany, with the RenaudelS
| of France, and Vanderveldes 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 1914-191S.'
| Another paragraph from Lenines
| letter:
| "Side by side with these cowardly
J pennywise mongers who are stuffed
with the prejudices Of bourgeois de-
| mocracy, side by side with these so
| cialists. who yesterday defended
| their imperalistic governments, anu
| who today confine themselves to
| platonic protest against military in
| tervention 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"
| Conlrade Lenine attacks Samuel
| Gompers, the president Of the Amer
| lean Federation of Labor, and the Ia
| bor movement of America, for loyalty
| TO our country in the hour OF het
| greatest trial. Lenine brands every
| soldier and sailor who offered his life
to stop the kaiser and his Prussian
| machine in the mad effort to conquer
| tho world. supporter of the bour
| geoise. Lenine assails and condemns
the manhood of the world that an
swered the ''help' cry of Belgium
when Prussia was raping and murder
ing Belgium in the front yard of Eu
rope. What would have happened tf
Russia if these brave men whom
I.enine now assails had not Offered
themselves? Russia would have beer
Ioshed TO the kaiser's chariot Chris
chained to Krupp gun.
The first of all the bOlsheviks VII
not go down in history as-"Lenin'
| the Tolerant"