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Show SELLING RUSSIA. Tn a truly democratic spirit Trotzky threatens to murder all who oppose him. .Describing the executions and arrests now in progress as a "mild terror, ? ' he declares that if his opponents op-ponents continue to insist upon asserting assert-ing their rights he will set up guillotines guillo-tines and eut off their heads. Trotsky was maddened by the fact that, the peasant? ' congress had denounced de-nounced the arrest of the members of the constituent assembly. In the recent re-cent elections the Bolsheviki were defeated, de-feated, despite the f rightfulness they introduced to intimidate the voters. Without a majority the Bolshevik i could not continue iu power if thev permitted the constituent assemblv to establish a government of the people. Therefore. Leninc and Trotzky had certain cer-tain niembeis of the assemblv-arrested, presumably enough of them to give the rods a majority. But Trotzky will not stop at arrests to attain his object. ob-ject. He will simply suppress the assembly as-sembly altogether if he cannot con- j trol it. Meantime the reds have arraoed an j armistice with the Germans, AusNo-Hunuariaus, AusNo-Hunuariaus, Bulgarians and Turks. By the terms the enemy can remove amor am-or all of their forces to other fronts. The agreement to this effect, while camouflaged, is not obscure. It reads: : Both sides signing the agreement bind thems' Jves until January 1, UU'v not to carry out military transfers on the front from the Baltic to the Black .-ea, except such transfers as were already al-ready begun up to the moment of signing sign-ing this agreement. " The Germans can merely say that any trnn.ifer.i they may make were be- ' gun prior to the si gni ng of t lie agre-niwit. agre-niwit. And if that is insufficient for their purposes t hey can say tlie agreement agree-ment is ' ' a mere scrap of paper, ' ' or they can simply remain silent and the ! Bobdieviki will not even whisper a pro'.'t. Peace negotiations are already under I way and will be concluded as rapidly ! as possi ble, fur Pen ine and Trot.ky are determined to sell Russia as quick -My as possible to the Germans. After-! After-! wards they will try to maintain them-i them-i selves in power so as to prevent the Russian people from repudiating the betrayal. |