Show BOLSHEVISM I Bolshevism is declared red to be e autocracy autocracy autocracy au au- au- au turned upside down The Tho world is menaced by this new tyranny tyran tyran- ny and it is up to America to put It down William T. T Ellis ElUs on a world tour for the New York Herald and Saly Lake Tribune on July 1 sent this most interesting article from Egypt This clear air of Egypt helps one oneto oneto oneto to see straight and far The pyra pyra- are a position of advantage from which to view the present world turmoil turmon especially as at the present Egypt Itself Is somewhat of ofa a microcosm One truth as an observer here sweeps the horizon It is that hat the present after the war struggle Is not ot between autocracy and Bolshevism Bolshevism Bolshevism ism but between democracy and Bol Bol- Autocracy has had its death blow Anybody intimately familiar familial with World orld conditions knows that thab the war warnot warnot warnot not only broke by weight eIght of or liberty's Ubert's new made might and human human human hu hu- man valor but It also released spiritual spiritual spiritual spirit spirit- ual and political forces which doomed doom doom- ed the old order of class supremacy By no means all the forms and manifestations of or autocracy have I. I been abolished as yet that cannot be done overnight Nevertheless Inthe in inthe inthe the slang of America autocracy Is Isa a dead one The eye of faith Is scarcely needed needed to perceive that the thing Pharaoh and the Caesars and the barons and the lords and the kaisers and czars have represented is henceforth to be described In the past tense Scarcely Ig la this sup supreme reme victory of organized humanity s secured cured ere we find democracy fighting for tor Its life Ufe against a queer inversion of called Bolshevism Most 1 Americans AmerIcanA do not know what at Bolshevism is I Iwas Iwas Iwas was present at Its birth In Russia and I saw It come to its fullest strength there Knowing what I know from personal experience I do donot donot donot not hesitate to say that Bolshevism is merely aristocracy turned upside down It Is as utterly a class rule as czarIsm ever was The Tho only difference difference differ fIer ence is that it is autocracy by the bottom instead of tho the top There is not a single offense of Russian czarism from czarism from ostentatious personal display to ruthless Ironhanded iron ironhanded ironhanded handed persecution of those who differ differ dif dif- fer with it ft from espionage to expropriation expropriation of property from Irresponsible Irresponsible irresponsible sible use of ot power to executions without without without with with- out trial from black betrayal of country to cruel exploitation of the ignorant peasantry peasantry that that t has not been committed in more flagrant agrant degree degree degree de de- de- de gree by the Bolshevik is not improved ed merely by putting the bottom where the top used to be and the top where the bottom used to tp be of whatever sort Is the very soul of autocracy Class consciousness consciousness' consciousness consciousness' consciousness consciousness' conscious conscious- ness' ness is sure to bring woe to the class conscious and and their children even as asIt asit asit it did to the Russian aristocrats Like the pleasures of or sin which the Good Book tells us are arc only for a season the triumphs of class Ism are for the few and not long for tor them Bolshevism has been temporarily good for and Bolshevism's inner circle but It tt has been bud bad for tor everybody else elso in Russia from the murdered czar crar to tho the most Insignificant insignificant insignificant cant baby that has starved to death while tugging at the empty breasts of ofa a dead mother As a bloody autocracy Itself and as asa asa asa a new form torm of government Bolshevism Bolshevism Bolshevism ism rides full tull tilt and bent on death against democracy It denies the right of the people all the people to manage their own affairs Personal liberty is the last thing it permits Good will among men it ft would chuck Into tho the same sarno hole where It has thrown religion and tried to throw family life Bolshevism does not believe behove be be- hove lieve in neighborliness on the contrary contrary contrary con con- it thrives by suspicion and hatred So far from giving everyman every everyman everyman man a chance to stand on his merits It foredooms all who have won their way to education and prosperity That all men are arc equal before the law lawis is n a theory discarded by these those apostles I of class war As for patriotism that is a cardinal cardinal cardinal cardi cardi- nal offense In Inthe in the eyes of the Bol Dol- Doli i she He Is an internationalist by which which he means that lie lle puts class above e country He is a Bolshevist first a Russian or an American not at all Love of the nation he spurns and spits upon as a defect detect of oC the bourgeois character No flags mean anything to him until they have been saturated in blood and have bave become red What his forefathers did for country's sake he considers stupidity or worse on their part He does not sing My Iy Country he does not believe in a Sweet land landof landof of ot Liberty he does not Love thy rocks and ana rills Thy woods and hills hUls His heart never thrills with rapture over America he would throw every sign and symbol and anti evidence of or Americanism Into the abyss along with the d discarded Our fathers fathers' God The soldier and sailor so long as they stand for tor a flag fing and a aland aland aland land are as odious as the to this conscious class-conscious autocrat I have havo been in Russia and now I Iam Iam Iam am across her old bor border er in the Near East What I saw there and what I see here convince me that the days day's struggle is for the preservation of democracy not merely for America but also for the whole earth The question which every sensible American Ameri Amerl can will sooner or later laler have to answer answer answer an an- Is this Do I believe in democracy democracy democracy de de- and America or do I believe in class Ism Am I for for Cor a government of the people and by the people and for tor the people or am I the autocracy of Ignorance ignorance igno- igno rance and special privilege and hatred hatred hatred ha ha- tred Of course we know what the answer an an- ver s will wUl be out here beside the sluggish Nile looking across the sands and the centuries an AmerIcan American American Ameri AmerI- can is surer of his country than even I those who are In America Our own land and will be Eav saved c from Bolshevists Bolshevism evis I and for tor dem democracy cr CY l nut But ut will she also also also al al- so Incarnate and herald for tho the help of oC all the tho world which has but an infants infant's grip upon self-government self the real character and qualities of democracy so that in the hour of crumbling there may inay remain one sure rock of shelter one clear light in a universal darkness America helped save savo liberty on the fields of oC France now she must bear the brunt of saving democracy In all the world from autocracy's worst In Incarnation incarnation incarnation in- in carnation which Is 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