Gunnison Valley News | 1919-07-04 | Page 4 | The Parlor Bolshevik

The Parlor Bolshevik. A parlor bolshevik at a tea in Greenwich Green-wich village shrilled : "Our army of occupation is tyrannical tyran-nical and unjust. All the other political po-litical parties are permitted to hold meetings and canvass for votes, but the Spartacists are rigorously forbidden forbid-den to push their cause in any way." "Quite light, too," said Novelist Theodore Dreiser. "Why?" shrieked the parlor bolshevik. bolshe-vik. "Why is It right to squelch the Spartacist movement In this manner?" "Because," said Novelist Dreiser, "the Spartacists are putting .too much ruction in reconstruction."