Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-05-05
Shall! Chaos or Reconstruction In
Europe Follow the Great
World War?
BOLSHEVIST SEEDS OF POISON
Avowed Object of the Leaders of the
Movement Is to Stir Up Hatred
of Law and Order Every
where.
Article XVIII.
BY FRANK CoMERFoRD.


'The program of the communist
party (bolsheviks) is the program not
only of the liberation of the proletar-
lat of one country. 1t is the program
of the liberation of the proletariat of
all countries; it is the program of
international revolution. The over
throw of imperaliSt governments by
means of armed revolt is the road to
the international dictatorship of the
working class" In these words Blu
charm. accredited and recognized boil
Shevik propaganda. set forth the OBJ
1913.
Lenine, in the same year in Petro-
grad. declared that the chief task
which we set 0uselves at the very
beginning of the war was to turn the
imperialistic war into civil war;
His aim was to force upon Russia
Communism, and TO summon the dis
cOntented of the world to rise in rev
olution against their governments. All
existing governments were vile, lenine
said, and they must be overthrow,
Political action, parliamentary meth
DDS, peaceful voting were worse than
useless. They were inventions of the
devil, Capitalism. Force must be
used; the workers must arm them
selves and fight; the world could not
come to the light of freedom and
Justice except through blood lie
nine was for the great "red baptism
1t alone could cleanse the world and
make it a decent place in which to
live. He wrote the aim and object
of bolshevism into the soviet consti-
tuition when he defined the funda-
mental problem as being the VICTORY
Of socialism in all lands" He bla-
zoned the war cry on the coat Of arms
of the b0lshevik government in these
words: "Workers of the World,
Unite"
The bOlshevik government has been
insstent and persistent in its prop
Uganda, collecting and pointing out the
causes for discomfort in other lands.
It has been propaganda of hate. It
has scattered broadcast, poison seeds
In the soil of unrest. It has played
to class feeling. 1t has appealed to
the lowest and worst in men. 1t has
written and spoken of the "Great War"
as the enterprise of capital. It has
charged up the terrible shedding of
blood to capitalistic Imperialism. It
has listed the ill-effects Of the war and
charged them not to the war, but TO
Capitalism. 1t has pointed to the
poverty and the disorganiZatiOn of the
world. directly caused by the war,
and attributed all of these unhappy
results of four year struggle with
autocracy, not to the war but to the
system of so-called Bourgeois Govern
ment" 1t has multiplied, magnified
and intensified unrest. 1t hopes to
bring about a great world foment
which will destroy all government
except the government of the proleta-
riat, the soviet plan. It's propaganda
has caused many of the people Of the
world to think that they are still fight
ing the regimes of the cZars, and that
reactiOnary governments everywhere
are conspiring to bring about their
downfall and re-establish the reign
and rule Of despots in Russia. 1t does
not make conspicuous the fact that the
czar is dead and that his regime has
passed forever.