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Show IAN INDICTMENT. In his latest book, John SpargO places an appalling story of Bolshevism before the world. He calls it the greatest failure in all history. He says In- tried to make the book free from sensationalism, but a eritic pays : "On looking over his work with its cumulative evidence of brutal bru-tal oppression, savagery, political trickery, reckless experiment, eor-j ruption, inefficiency and despotism, one feels that he has made a tor-, rible book. In his introduction Spargo saya "Yet more agonizing still is the consciousness that here in the United States there are men and women of splendid character and I apparent intelligence whose vision has been so warped by hatred ot the evils of the present system, and by a cunning propaganda, that they are ready to hail this loathsome thing of hatred, this monstrous tyranny, as an evangel of fraternalism and freedom; ready to bring! upon this nation where, despite every shorteonung. we are at least two eeuturies ahead of Bolshevized Russia, politically, economically, morally the curse which during less than thirty months has nffliei ed unhappy Russia with greater ills than fifty years of czarism." Mr. Spargo accuses the Bolshevist dietators of having proeeed-ed proeeed-ed contrary to every promise they made of freedom, peace, industrial efficiency and plentiful production, Workers, in particular, who were to be masters of the machines, have become bondslaves, "forced to take ll:e plac of beasts of burden." |