The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-22
LLOYD GEORGE
PREDICTS REVOLT
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war. their faces are as faces Of lions
and their feet are swift as the roes
upon the mountains-not beautiful to
the honorable gentlemen at this mo-
ment."
There you have the whole attitude
of the Fascist in this historical deed
Of the greatest modern example of
the typeSOliver Cromwell-described
sympathetically by the greatest ex-
ponent and advocate of the doctrine
Thomas Carlyle.
More Starts in Russia
The present movement started not
in Italy, but in Russia The first
great Fascist of today is not Musso-
Ini, but LIenin. He was the first to
substitute force for popular election
in a democratic state. BOlshevism
was not a revolt against Czarism and
Russian grand dukes. It was revO-
luton aimed at the overthrow Of an
other revolution, which had already
overthrown the ancient regime. Rus
STA was a republic, the Car was a
prisoner, the last surviving grand
duke was in exile, the land Of Russia
had been confscated and distributed
among the peasants before Lenin took
- hand in the government. He re-
belled against the new parliamentary
regime OF which Kerensky, the Social
list, was chief. He grew contemptu-
Gus of the Volgas of rhetoric which
flowed from the first Russian revolu-
ton. Endless talk which never froze,
but which was nevertheless not navi-
gable.
But Lenin had just as great a con-
tempt for the will of the people as
Mussolini He, therefore, enrolled his
followers into an army which swept
away the newly created parliamentary
system and substituted for it a Crom-
wellian regime, based on organized
force
Soviet System is Farce
The soviet system of election is a
farce. No man who is opposed to Boil
shevism has a chance of appearing at
the central assembly. Lenin does not
attempt to conceal his opinion that
the people are not fit to govern. He
does not believe in democracy and he
strangled democratic experiment ere
it has left its cradle.
Bolshevism is not a gigantic plum
dering of prOpertied classes for the
benefit of the impecunious proletariat.
That is not an exhaustive, even if It
is an accurate definition Of it's doc
trines. 1t is all that but 1t is much
more. It teaches the proletariat to
sacrifice everything for the Bolshevik
state and It's adherents readily sacri-
fee life. comfort, liberty, at the be-
hest of the soviet leaders. All the
nniscalculations with regard to Boil
shevism have come from the failure
to recognize this dominant factor in
Its composition. 1t is the spirit that
inmates fascism in Italy, and as
long as it continues, Bolshevism will
rule Russia and fascism will govern
Italy.
But they are both fatal to demo-
cratic government Lenin and Mus
solini alike despise parliamentarism.
The Bolshevik attitude toward demo
cratic Institutions is stated unquIvo-
cally by Trotsk in his famous reply
to Kautsky, the champion Of demo-
cratic socialism,:
THE path Of Socialist ideas. which
is visible through all deviations and
even betrayais, foresnadows no other
outcome but this: To throw democ-
racy aside and replace 1t by the
mechanism Of the proletariat at the
moment when the latter is strong
enough to carry out such a task
Methods Are Alike
Hi
although the objects of Bolshevism
and fascism are different, their
methods have much in common A
recent election, based on universal
suffrage, gave him thirty-six follow
ers in a parliament of 400 members.
Under the parliamentary system. he
hardly counted as a force. He was far
from being the choice Of the de-
mocracy. He then struck a Crom-
wellian attitude and INDUCED in Crom-
wellian phraseology.
But for the sacrifice of his followers
in the great war, Italy would have
been the vassal Of the central powers.
Their valor preserved Italian liberties,
their voices must therefore be par
amount in determining how the Italy
they had preserved should be gov
.erned. They could not any longer
hermit the country for which they
y adj fought and for which six hundred
thousand of their comrades had lost
their lives to be misgoverned by a
succession of feeble and incompetent
administrations II the old-established
political machines were too skilfully
handled to enable fascism to secure
Q majority IN parliaruent an much