Show PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the gortat world war ANALYSIS OF SOVIET RULE cold beaconing eally easily prove proves fallacy on an which the idea Is bed based Demge Domacio cism its round foundation atlon stone wons article by FRANK COMERFORO COMERFORD lenane has frequently observed that depre representative tentative goern government ment Is a fall he lie has insisted that the demo cratic italic form of government la 13 debauched and destroyed by he the roU machine that political corrupt tn n to tees tho the will of the people it anine Is I 1 right in this thi enn conclusion elusion then tahe hotel evik go emment la offers just from three to five fire times as much chance ance for political corruption aa as our oo 00 n form of government if it la Is dan berous for the american people to entrust their business to aa an agent whom they directly elect and who te to directly responsible to them how much more dangerous dancer oils must it be b to turn over the business to 17 men appointed by a central executive com committee mitt the members of 0 which have been appointed by an all Alina salan congress which all Itus russian congress Is 1 elected by soviets for or whom the people did not vote applying this thi plan to our own government our con cress ress would bo elected by the state legislatures and the aldermen of the cities then this colross so elected would pick an executive committee et of and this committee would elect 17 commissioners to whom would be given the supreme power of the tate both legislative and executive power the right to make laws and the authority to enforce the laws democracy or Auta all down through history two theories of government have been at war one Is that the majority hall rule the other that the minority mino rit shall nile rule the people struggling tor for freedom have battled for tie the former the few seeking special privileges have hae fought for the latter the first la Is democratic the lecont cecon I 1 autocratic no compro comero iq 1 ps risible ible there la Is no middle ground phebe two antagonistic ideas have nothing to common like parallel lines they can never meet in their nature they are se aei larate arante and apart the government of the late kaiser of 0 germany of nicholas the autocrat of russia were foundry on the idea that the minority rule history shows that minority rule bes has always enslaved the major tty fly the rule of a minority over a majority means slavery for the many it Is I 1 s human nature the principle always the same result if it Is a political apolitical meeting 1 and the minority rona runs it it the result la Is a machine and a boss bos when it Is a nation yon you have a blau bureaucracy cracy and a dictator deriving his power not from the consent of the governed but from the bayonets of the army there may be room for or honest difference differences of 0 opinion between honest men on many questions but there la Is not any room for or difference of opinion among honest free men on the that minority rule te to a menace in article III ot of the bol bola abt boAt constitution ution we find incontrovertible evidence vi that the government of soviet russia Is s built on the tyrant tyrants tone stone minority rule section 23 25 reads the all Itus russian sian congress Is composed of 0 representative representatives 0 of f city evicts t in the ratio 0 of one delegate 0 or every voters and of representatives of the soviets 0 of the in t the b e r ratio 0 of ef 0 one re del delegate e g at e i 0 or r t every ve r y aw inhabitants discrimination against Peas peasants Pe asart arts bo lo explanation Is given for basing the representation in congress from the cities on the number of 0 voters while hile the he representation 11 in con congress griess fro from the provinces Is based on the number of 0 inhabitant inhabitants the word words are not synonyms a voter Is I 1 an inhabit ant of certain age and possessing pos certain qualifications an aa inhabitant Is I 1 ani on alo lives in the province re rArd less of age a or qualification qualifications it if wo jorj a inhabitant la Is given the same meaning that the word voter Is given then it Is apparent that the coni titu tion unjustly discriminates against the poor peasant an the have bad no general el elections in 1 ausla it Is impossible to give the official cons ruc tion of two words if tho the word luba inhabitant bitant means meting any man woman or child living in the province the discrimination crimin atlon against the poor peasants la Is just ne as although it docs does not go to the same length As an illustration if it wr we read this im pro provision vision of the constitution to the word inhabitant the tame same meaning as we re give to the word voter then we see tut wit the voters of the city have one congressman for or every chile the poor P peasants bate haie one congressman for or every if we construe the wo voter legal voter aad and to mean the qualified the word inhabitant to mean any hu ha man inan W la 4 living ln in the prota we e sm um tat that the people of the city have one congressman fur every oters amie hile the people of the brov inces have hare one con congressman ressman for or aery e SOO voters I 1 reach tal estL ate nate in the manner in a the united state we rati limtt zatto att t aa there to I 1 one voter ter in every pat of the laha this Is i based upon male auff suffrage rate alona wf with the voting ago ci fixed at twenty one years la in both men and women have the suffrage and the art a qualifying one to vote Is cf elshteyn elsh alteen teen years yeam 1 I therefore figure that then would be one voter to every two in population there la Is about the nation against a ulyst the poor peas peasant Rut and the favoring of he the it ta t only a question of 0 hor ho r nuch i i a p politic 0 1 1 t 1 c I 1 L bel I 1 anino n t n rm ry y be t the h e 1 idealist d e a I 1 i at some people sa I 1 ie e Is but this section of 0 the con constitution prom prows him 0 be L t practical machine politician in his moth tuc th oil the revision aus written to a situation it has a purpose lanine has tre frequently quealy written and slen about ih th poor wor peasants lie tie can be forgiven overworking the phrase the ar poor peasants mike up the great bulk of 0 the population of russia it Is not bad politics although it smacks of demagogy dema coffy to speak often and sympathetically ot 0 the sull ering poor particularly when the por peasants make up the ma jorat r of 0 oza oz a constituency w many politicians owe their offices to this appeal la in russia over 80 per cent ot of the people lve 1110 aa the land landover over four fifths ot of all till the are peasants less than on octh of the population live in the town and cities measured by bis his words ord lenine la Is the friend of the poor peasants pe arants by the constitution their enemy As we have een seen the constitution specifically declares de claree that the supreme power 0 of the government Is vested in n the all russian 1 congress a of cour coarse this Is true only in theory for or we hare have read bow the all russian congre turns the supreme power over to the th central executive com committee which fik turn surrenders the power to the IT people peoples commissars commissary commis sars the discrimination against the poor peasant runs all through the constitution the bolsheviks are at least con sta tent paragraph raph B of fraction 63 53 ot of the constitution fornis furnishes hes additional evidence of the conspiracy against the pea peasants it reads t the provincial soviets an are composed of 0 representatives ot of the city ovieto and the rural soviets one representative for inhabitants ot of the rural districts and one represent atla for 2000 voters in the city lu iii the regional congresses it la Is the same one for inhabitants of the country and one representative for S 5 voters of the city alm at disfranchising the governments of the nation of the regions region of the provinces are based on the of the poor peasants I 1 am wondering it if there Is 1 any significance in the tact fact that the people of the city have one represent for a certain number of totes votes and the fe of the country have one representative for just five times the number you will note the ratio Is always the same for congressmen it Is in the city as against 12 in the country in the regional congress it Is voters of the city as against inhabitants of the country in the provincial congresses it Is one representative for 2000 voters in the city one representative for inhabitants from the rural dis tracts why this five live to one I 1 am von wondering dering bow how leaine hit upon the ratio of fire to one Is there any connection between this anve to one discrimination against the poor peasants I 1 and the ratio of population in russia between city dwellers and poor peasants which la Is about five to one onet it Is to not difficult to guess tho reason for this action any american ward politician could furnish the explanation Pla nallon in a minute all political experience proves that a political machine machino la Is best controlled easiest organized in the cities political machines have never been popular in the country districts the soviet vit form of government Is a pol political lUcal macht machino no the control atrol of the machine ie is insured by disfranchising the poor peasants the men who ho designed the bolshevik constitution knew know one thing about practical politics and knew that one thing thoroughly through ty and that ie Is that cities are accessible to political control amenable to political influence nce deal ideal for the political machine the soldiers and sailors are generally geni ceni 1 I stationed matlo edl in cities this give 1 them the lower dower of city voters they are not dis L ImIn aking against they are favored soldiers and sailors are not free agents in the sense the civilians usually are civilians have a freedom of thought and action that the military do not enjoy the soldier a s occupation prevents it finst first he Is on an employee of the governments ments second he Is under discipline third the peoples at his pay d determine the quantity and nd quality el rl bis his food arrange for the of the barracks the rotes iotes and the bayonets of the military sustain and support lanine as truly as the military force held he czar on his throne ca rUh lot 1111 anion |