Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-15
Comparcd With n, b,

tuS power ana SuppreSS1NX the Exploit
ers and coming close to the problem
Of management.
Compared With N. D.
II YOU Will read the Soviet Rspub-
tic and It's Problems. by Lenin now
sure o. are not reading a chapter.
of North Dakota history. The speak
er then quoted q number of sentences
among them were the following:
I'm order to continue further the
naturalization Of the banks into cen
ters of social bookkeeping under SOC
ialism. we must first of"an b sue
c@essful in Increasing the number Of
branches of the Peoples bank In at
tracing deposits In making It easier
for the public to deposit and withdraw
money In getting rid OF the waiting
lines in discovering and executing
the grafters and crooks. etc. This
next quotation l give you for what It
is worth. but It cannot be said to be.
true ia u state. I'VE are also ex-
treynely backward in the collection az
taxes in general and OF wealth and
income taxes in particular Then
there seems to b. a certain class at
7tached to these reforms in govern
meft. let me quote further: No pro-
found and popular movement in his
tory ever escaped paying, . price to
the scrum-the inexperienced inno-
vators are preyed upon by ad%venturers
n crooks. boosters and s%houters;
there, will be stupid confusion. unnec-
essary hustle, individual leaders will
undertake twenty tasks at once, &C
complishing none Of them"
A Rude Awakening
IF the Russian people dreamed
that e liberties would come when
the rule Of the czar was ended, they
had a rude awakening. The following
while brutal. is a frank statement
from Lenin: We must learn. 10 com
bine the stormy democracy Of the
meeting overfowing With fresh energy
breaking all restraint, the democracy
OF the toiling masses with iron dis.
cipline during work with absolute
The Soviet director, during work We
are not surprised to find the state
ment h a IL is necessary to blow up
as many old institutions as POSSIBLE;
nor this sentence, Socialist democracy
which will mean the beginning Of the
end of the state On the confsca-
ton Of land the speaker quoted Lenin
as follows: The bourgeoiste under
stands perfectly we'll that It is i'm
possible to abolish private ownership
Of land In Russia, and still more
without compensation. without a Giant
economic revolution, without placing
the banks under public control, With
out Naturalization Of the trusts, with
out a series Of the merciIess measures
AGAINST capital and the following:
We need the regular march Of the
iron battalions Of the proletariat,'
When we consider that 1,572,71s
persons have been executed by the
Soviet government since October,
l9l7, n $4,000 were peasants, we
understand what. was meant by the
iron battalions. While the merchants,
bankers ard professional men were
shot, the 1aborer and farmers were
ing to Paul Miiukov, formerly min
lister Of affairs Of the provisional gov
eminent of Russia. the position Of
the laborer. was not an enviable one,
He says, Labor Is militarized now,
n no workman has freedom to
choose his place Of wOrk or his oc-
cupation. He must go wherever lie
is sent BY the central authorities, and
he has to work as much as he is or
dered: The eight hour day which was
introduced by the Russian revolution
does not exist any more as a legal
statute. The workman Is obliged to
work for ten, eleven or twelve hours
a day, also Saturday. If he does not
do enough work, as he is now(rated by
PACCC WIN, u0 IuuSC Work SUNDAYS,
1t fs still worse with the class Of Rus
sian farmers those, farmers which
are the great majority OF the Rus
sian people, IS per cent OF thu total
population. The Bolshevik program
DEGREES that land must not be given
to individual peasants.
Agents Here
Representatives OF this soviet gov
eminent which has ~conflscated prop
erty. destroyed liberty and legalized
murder r in this country, There
never was a time when we needed
more calm counsel and deliberate
Judgment. You will recall that events
which seem mighty small in the be.
ginning can involve a world in war
A shot was fired in the closing DAYS
In July. 1914, the Arch Duke Ferdin.
and and his consort fell before the
assassin's aim and nations sprung al
each others Threats. Now We hav.
1~S0,000,o00 people covering about one.