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Show IBOLSHEVIKI IN OGDEN. Have the Bolshevik! appeared in Ogden? Og-den? Yes, for here is the evidence in a letter to the Standard: "Editor: Holiday greetings! No personal ill feeling. "Have you any loved ones in the army or navy who have been spared to make the supreme sacrifice? sacri-fice? "It is evident from your daily editorials ed-itorials and news items that spu arc not aware of the fact that, were it not for Bolshevism, including includ-ing Lenine and Trotzky, 'peace' would not have been possible at this time. "It the truth will out, this will be ackonwledged some day. "Then why use the club: "An independent newspaper, published every evening except Sunday, without a muzzle or a :lub." "Bolshevism is inevitable wheth-er wheth-er It be in this generation or some future generation." The handwriting is good and the author au-thor undoubtedly is neither a tramp nor a nondescript, and, therefore,, his letter contains the clement of surprise, as we had not looked for a Bolshevist in this community except some down- Iand-out individual whose hoplelessncss 1 had soured his soul. Of course the Standard is opposed to "the Bolsheviki, and to all organizations ( which are purely destructive and without with-out a constructive policy. The world "would go back to the dark ages, if Bolshevism were to prevail, and then the biggest bulldozer and the mightiest brute would- club the weak into submission. sub-mission. ' It is a far-fetched plea, this follower of Lenine makes. ' We presume the local Bolshevist would say, if closely questioned, that the spread of the doctrines of the Bolsheviki Bol-sheviki broke down the morale of the German army and thus early terminated terminat-ed the war. That is not true, for even today there is no serious manifestation manifesta-tion of the Lenine doctrines in Germany. Ger-many. What gave the world peace were the heroic deeds of the allies; the Tiig guns, the tanks, the dash of an irresistible army. When the Americans, the British and 'the French shot great holes through the German machine and were preparing prepar-ing to blow the remnants of the Prussian Prus-sian Guards oft the face of the earth, peace came. An American fighter Informs us that his commander stated that had the jGermans continued to battle ten more days there would have been a slaughter slaugh-ter of Huns on a scale larger than the massacre of the Russians in the Ma-rurian Ma-rurian Lake region in the early part of the war, and the Germans knew they were on the Terge of complete destruction and t:ttlinad to beg for peace. High, explosive shells and a fighting force more courageous than their own, took the fight out of the Teuton. If our local Bolshevik champion has a better explanation, we welcome his statement. |