Evening star., 1925-05-19

armed, drilled and fed an army eo,ar
IN number to the peak of the Ameri.
can army during the world war-an
army OF 5000 900. He was sunren,a
IN command of that great force.
II is not surprising that the radicals
VINO had been opposed by Lenin and
Irotsky, because these men had be
come practical" feared Trotsky's
power. If the great commander bur
hodoed ne might order the arrest of
every civilian official in Russia and
in a night become supreme dictator
Hence the triumvirate, controlling the
central executive committee of 40 an
tlclpated his possible seizure of power
by deposins him from the head of the
army. AS private citizen he well
knew his danger, and so he fed to
the Caucasus. There he proceeded 10
write books, and the triumvirate dis
covered that he was threatening with
pen mightier than his sword. What
conspiracies he might be developing
in his Gave of Abdullum" no one
could know. He was too far away
from the espionage of Moscow; he was
invited to return
Napoleon returned from Elba: Trot-
SKY returns from the Caucasus. In
both cases the returning hero was ac-
claimed as the idol of the masses, and
his martyrdom enhanced his power
There are observers who esteem
Trotsky, who had created out of con-
fusion and chaos an army of 5.00G,-
600, the greater military genius of the
two.
Today the SovietS maintain an army
of 100000, and there is no agitation
toward disarmament.
To undertake such agitation in Rus
sia would bring the speaker to the
firing squad before night.
In Madison Square Garden, New
York, three weeks ago 5000 "Ameri-
cans" denounced our Government and
proclaimed the coming revolution,
while our police protected their
right of free speech" for no arrests
can be made for treason until the
overt act" On the same day, in
Chicago, there was a patriotic meet
ing, into which some 800 socialists
penetrated for the purpose Of breaking
it up. They started a disturbance
which resulted in fighting, until the
police interfered and closed the pa
triotic meeting. This was in strict
accord with the bolshevist tactics-to
take advantage Of the laws of the
country to start unrest and further
the coming of 'the revolution"
X X X \.
According to bolshevistic doctrine.
separate nations no longer should be
recognized; all mankind belongs to one
Of the two classes-employer and en-
ployed. All trouble arises out of that
division, therefore the bolshevik pur-
pose to abolish the employer class and
rule the world through the workers"
alone. All religion is to be abolished,
because they would not acknowledge
a diety as a power higher than the
will of the proletariat. All family ties
are to be wiped out. Even now it is
unlawful for either Il man or woman
to be divorced more than three times
year or 80 times in a lifetime. Chill
dren are property of the state, and if
a mother dare manifest maternal love
of her child when she visits the state
institution holding and training it she
may be penaliZed and forbidden to
come.
This is brief summing up of con-
ditions as set forth in Trotsky's own
book, Problems of Life" written
while in exile last year. He writes:
"The first destructive period is still
far from being over in the life of the
family. In an article on
the subject have read that the dis
integration of the family in the work
ing class was represented as a case
of bourgeois influence on the prole-
tariat.' 1t is not so simple as this.
The root of the question lies deeper
and is more complicated. The influ-
ence of the bourgeois past and the
bourgeois present is there, but the
main process consists in a painful evo-
luton of the proletarian family itself,
an evolution leading up to a crisis,
and we are witnessing now the first
chaotic stages OF the process"