Show THE CREEPING pestilence just two months ago president wilson for formales malls announced the signing of the armistice and the approach of the world pence the war he said thus comes to an end the words were accurate so far na as they went germany had ben iad and civilization freed from the of prussian domination but as a fact the war his not ended it has hardly been interrupted it bis bas onla changed its form there is in progress today struggle na as irreconcilable and as pitiless aa as that which drenched europe with blood for mire than four year democracy is once more or still on the defensive bolshevism a force as ambition as tyrannical and as wenar men 1 ov as has set out to conquer and enslave the world the battle line hitherto in russia has extended into germany tomorrow a new front may sprig into being elsewhere for the sinister fact about thia this new world is that it takes no account of racial or political frontiers it is not national but international anti national two implacably antagonistic forces have come to grips either democracy or bolshevism must disappear from this earth in the popular attitude toward the news from europe there Is to a great degree the a same of the significance of events that was noticeable during the developments of civil strife in russia the general impression seems to be that the upheaval in germany is of concern hieny chiefly to that country and there is a sort of grim satisfaction in seeing the parent land of sc socialism in the clutches of its malign offspring bolshevism yet jus uso as surely as democracy was summoned to tight fight for its existence on the battlefields of reig beig um and france Is it challenged by the fluctuating struggle in berlin it is 13 not necessary to believe that the as brome of them assert have a disciplined army of or men bolshevism is less a political or military movement I 1 than ban it is a disease it la Is a state of mind and as such grows in ill power imperceptibly until suJ delly an op tr like the revolutionary turmoil in germany prents itself and then the force becomes visible concrete an armed menace thus within the last week we have had newa news of bolshevik capture of riga rigs bolshevik notice rioting in budapest bolshevik attacks on lemberg and vilna and a desperate bolshevik uprising against the socialist government in germany As already has been nade clear these campaigns are directed only primarily against th ih countries indicates they are part of the bolshevik program to create i worldwide world wide revolution which shall overthrow everywhere the existing social system and exterminate demo democracy crary lenine was right when he said that as the te strength of bolshevism increased its dangers mua multiply for each success it gains helps to arouse the democratic nat ons to understanding cf of what the hideous thing beaus and what it purposes to do 6 a realization that democracy must shimp ou 01 thia this pestilence or perish miserably ably philadelphia north Aine american rIcan |