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Show THE CITIZEN ICTORIOUS es LY a few weks ago Lenine pro- claimed to the world that the pur-o-f Bolshevism was to destroy the first of Great jialistic imperialism in and then of the United States-ow of t o: the amount of good faith in his An; o offers regarding Poland, t it be true that he plans it hardly can be true he is willing to stop short in his uest of Poland. At the very least ill not be satisfied until Poland hindered powerless as an ally, of world-conques- to crush (Hand beyond chance of recovery or 'sAblish a soviet republic in alliance either of two ways k'fwitb Russia. leaf-Bolshevis- has achieved extraordi-ifnsrsuccess in its military enteres. It is a success reminiscent of military prowess of the French Solution after the battle of Valmy y - which marked the dividing line el f he- tween a weak, timid and vacillating policy and a policy of triumphant aggression. V:! It may be that back of Bolshevism isfthe same fhtal weakness that was back of the French revolution a reliance on the mind of the mob rather than on the intellect of the nation. Be- i f i fore he was beheaded it was explained vi the greatest of chemists, Lavoisier, that the republic had no need of Isis. No doubt British imperialists, who I; ' their empire menaced by this new Jiwer, are eager to think that back of the serried ranks of the Slav soldiery jr. there is nothing but the impetus of the ;mob mind and that when the muni-,- ; tions which the Bolshevists inher- v : tted from the czars regime are soviet Russia will not have to f the intellect or the organization J carry on the business that includes almost all other businesses the busi ness of war. We hear fantastic stories and yet they may be true that the Bolshe- i vists are putting landowners to death in Poland and that a white collar is sufficient evidence that its wearer is r borgeoise and, therefore, worthy of death. If we can accept these stories as indicative of the mind of Soviet Russia we are safe in predicting a collapse; but it is not improbable that Soviet Russia, during its period of foreign conquests, will build up a sub- a stantial economic structure at home and will be able to maintain its . worldwide dominion as much by intellect, system, discipline and economic Wealth as by military prowess. In fact modern warfare cannot be main-tuluc- d long without genius and econ omic power back of it. It is curious to note that Lenine, while boasting that he will crush imperialism, has launched Soviet Russia (Upon a career of imperialism without Parallel. It will not be a capitalistic Im perialism, but rather a proletarian imperialism. If. we are to Judge it by what it is in Russia it will be the vcae ex-yhaust- '.tf : : ; most intolerable tyranny the world has seen. ItB despotism will be worse than anything the British imperialism has been guilty of in its Jndian massacres or in its coercion of Ireland. . that threat we can better s ed in barbarism It appears that we are1 to witness a death struggle of two Imperialisms the capitalistic imperialism of the British empire, as Lenine designates it, and the proletarian imperialism of Russia. Soviet Russia has conquered Poland, has ousted the British from Persia and is progressing through to the borders of India. It seems to be attempting the task that destroyed Germany the establish ment of a land route from the Atlantic to the Indian ocean. It is Berlin to Bagdad over again. Already the soviet lines extend from the Baltic to India and they are reaching out through Armenia and Mesopotamia toward the Persian Gulf. Lenine is hoping that soon Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, due to allied feebleness, will fall into his hands and that ultimately he will be able to establish a capital of Bolshevism in Constantinople with the aid of the Moslem world. Meantime Great Britain is unable to wage war against Russia. Seemingly her gigantic navy, on which she relied to make the League of Nations an effective war power, is useless against a power, which, for the present, does not seem to need warships. Soviet Russia controls half of Europe and a great part of Asia without the help of naval power except for a tew gunboats in the Caspian sea. Great Britain can dominate the Baltic and the Black sea without difficulty, but it seems that such mastery will be of little avail except as a method of suplying munitions and enforcing a more or less ineffective blockade. Af-ganist- an Thus Great Britain and Russia two imperialisms--arpitted together in a struggle that recalls the recent struggle between German imperialism and what we were pleased to call democracy In the ancient world we have the parallel of Rome and Carthage. "Brittanica est delenda, is the cry of Lenine, who hopes that when he has broken the British empire he will be able to establish his dictatorsip of the proletariat throughout the world. The parallel which is the closest is that which reveals to us Lenine and his despotism carrying out the plans of the kaiser and his Junkers. Lenine, apparently, is seeking to conquer the world. Like the kaiser he boasts of a Kultur which the world needs. It is not German Kultur although a vast element of that is mixed in but the kultur of communism. And this kultur is to be established by military conquest Even the plan of campaign is the same a land power is to be established from the Atlantic to the Indian ocean and to the Pacific. At first it is not to have the aid of a navy, but when Its power is firmly established it will try to build a navy and e By F. P. Gallagher sweep Great Britain from the seven seas. All this and more, we may well believe, is in the brain of Lenine czar and autocrat of all the Russias. Great Britain, meantime, is cutting her own throat. Everywhere her subject peoples are rising against hdr. The revolution in Ireland which ' the kaiser relied on is now in operation, so much so that Great Britain must keep 75,000 soldiers in the island and set in motion a policy of coercion which is sure to require an even larger army for its successful enforcement In India, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and elsewhere, the peoples are in revolt against British rule and are only awaiting an opportunity to join hands with the Bolsheviki. Whether Great Britain can find a safer policy than the one she is pursuing is, of course, debatable. One i3 inclined to think that conciliation in Ireland might result in a permanent entente between the English and Irish pejople and permit Great Britain to use not only the 75,000 soldiers now in mobilized in Ireland, but an even vaster army of English and Irish But the question arises troops. whether an empire can maintain itself by any other power than coercion. Does not the history of all empires teach us that they exist only so long as they rule by naval and military power? The British empire is less than 200 years old. Rome was able to maintain its empire for 700 years, and always by might. It has been the theory of strategists, euch as our own Admiral Mahan, that mastery of the sea is necessary to the maintenance of empire. These strategists argue that no empire can maintain its integrity long without a dominant navy. Germany held the opposite view and was conquered by the combined power of the British and American navies. Once again, apparently, the theory is to be tested. Unless Soviet Russia can be diverted from its purpose of conquering the world a land power will once again attempt to crush a sea power in a struggle to master the world. The only other alternatives are that Soviet Russia will abandon its plans or that Bolshevism will triumph, not by military might, but by (Continued on Page 11.) Call For Republican Primaries in Salt Lake County Pursuant to the official calls of the Republican state committee and the congressional committee of the Second congressional district of the state of Utah, respectively, Republican primaries will be held in all of the districts of Salt Lake county on the 20th day of August, 1920, between 8 and 9 oclock p. m., for the purpose of electing delegates to the Republican state convention, to be held in the Salt Lake theatre, at Salt Lake City, Utah, August 26, 1920, at 10 oclock a. m., for the nomination of candidates for United States Senator, four Presidential Electors, Governor, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor, and Superintendent of Public Instruction; and for the purpose of electing delegates to the Republican Congressional Convention of the said Second congressional district, to be held at the Newhouse hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 27, 1920, at 10 oclock a. m., for the nomination of a candidate for congress from the Second congressional district of the state of Utah. Pursuant to the basis of representation adopted by said Republican state committee, the several districts of Salt Lake county are entitled to the following number of delegates for each of said conventions, to-wi- t: Districts Nos. delegates each. Districts Nos. 1, 7, 8, 16, 17, 83, 113, 114, 116, 142, 187, 2 3, three 11, 13, 21, 22, 26, 30, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 115, 117, 137, 141, 158, 186, 189, 190, two delegates each. . Districts Nos. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 40, 41, 54, 60, 61, 62, 85, 103, 104, 110, 112, 126, 127, 128, 131, 132, 133, 136, 138, 143, 146, 149, 150, 156, 157, 159, 166, 167, 168, 171, 172, 176, 177, .178, 180, 192, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, one delegate each. Districts Nos. one-ha- lf vote each. 134, 147, 148, 160, 169, 179, one delegate with Each district shall determine whether the same or different delegates shall serve at both said conventions. Dated this 10th day of August, 1920. CHARLES M. MORRIS, Chairman Republican County Committee. (Paid Advertisement) |