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, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19th„ 1919
"BOLSHEVISM THREATENING THE WORLD"
The following is an abbreviated quotation of an article on the growth
and spread of Bolshevism in Europe printed in the Literary Digest of Novem
ber 22, 1918. The question of what Bolshevism is and what its doctrines mean
to tlie world is a subject at present attracting the attention of all thinking per
sons. Viewed in the light of its effects, as presented in Husain and Germany.
Bolshevism appears to provide a prospect .hat the world, but just redoeomed
from the horrors of human conflict, is facing ah even greater horror in the
unleashed madness of ignorance and brutality created by the Bolsheviki doc
trines The article makes not attempt to explain the reasons which underlie
t'.'.o Bolshevik movement but provides an insight into its effects as produced
on the masses of Central and Eastern Europe which fully sustains the con
tention of commentators that it presents an unutterable menace to the worl-l
through engendering ideas which tend to destroy law and order and make the
world a prey to unleashed human passions.
The article follows:
A shudder runs through the Western nations as they watch the mil
lions of Central Europe plunge from autocracy to anarchy, and our publicists
begin to ask if we must tight again against the new foe. “Must we save the
world from anarchy?" is on every lip, anil the fact that such questions are
being asked everywhere is proof enough, as The New Republic (New York)
notes, that "the war does not end when the enemy surrenders.” Ex-President
Taft, calling attention in the Philadelphia Public Ledger to the sweep of
Bolshevism through Germany and Austria, declares that this new movement
may "stop short of nothing hut a massacre of all who are respectable, thrifty,
educated, or decent.” and he hints that our armies may yet be needed to aid
Russia to her feet, and to help the Austrian people "regain self-control denied
them by the bloody hands of anarchy and mob rule." The Socialist New
York Call protests against this as a demand for the inauguration of a war of
imperialism," in which our own "financial and commercial dynasties" would
seek to aid the like "German brood." In other words, "it is a Holy Alliance
r.f the 'respectable, thrifty, educated, or decent," which The Call thinks the
ex-President would form against the "mob.” Yet some of our most represen
tative editors, as they watch the progress of the German revolution, are by no
means certain that the war for democracy is not to be followed by a war
against anarchy. Press dispatches tell us that the all-Socialist Government
of Germany is aiming at an understanding with Russia, and one correspon
dent hears that "some of the German and Russian Bolsheviki go so far as'to
bilk of a common resistance to the Western Powers."
If Germany’s “wild men succed in enlisting in their support the brutish'
elements of the German Army" it will be .a serious thing for the world, tho
New York Globe believes. Bolshevism, this New York daily warns its readers,
is not only “antidemocratic and autocratic, hut is aggressive,” and "if thV
power that remains with Russian and Germany is hurled at the democratic
world in a new enterprise of conquest, the peace may not be of long duration."
Mr. Frank H. Simonds. the conservative and well-informed military critic of
ti.<* New York Tribune, turns his attention from problems of strategy to those
of peace, and comes to the similinr conclusion that there is no sound reason
for indulging in "immediate expectations of a return to old conditions of peace
and quiet." He notes the parallelism between the early events of the respect
ive revolutions in Russia and Germany, and reminds us that the Russian re
\olution was brought about by German influence "and based upon the ideas of
the German Socialists." He further recalls the fact that in both countries the
basis of revolution was "hunger, aggravated by military defeat." But
Russia’s progress from the LvofT-Miliukoff cabinet to that of Kerensky and
from that to the rule of Lenine and Trotsky took months, whereas within a
week after the Kaiser’s abdication the German Government was controlled by
the independent or radical Socialists, and the bourgeoisie were entirely ex
cluded. This, says Mr. Simonds, is passing “very rapidly from the tyranny
of autocracy to the tyihnny of anarchy." and he continues:
“If the recent course of events in Germany be not promptly changed, |
nothing seems more certain than that we shall at no distant time find our-,
selves facing eastward over the Khine upon a vast seething mass of anarchy,
extending from the Khine to the Siberian wastes and including within its lim
its the 300,000,000 people of Kussia, Germany, and Austria.
"If the present movement in Germany continues wo shall find also that
the hostility which swept over Kussia after the revolution, the hostility for
the Western nations, the hatred of Britain and of America as reactionary
states, will appear in Germany.
"All contemporary signs point to the swift arrival in Germany of ex-1
uctly the same sort of control which has plunged Russia into anarchy and
ruin. German autocracy has failed in its effort to make over the world, but
German socialism, which has already conquered Russia and Germany and has
invaded Austria and Bulgaria, is not less hostile to the Western form of dem
ocracy than was German autocracy.
"The thing Americans as a mass do not and con not understand is that
to the German and Russian Socialists the American form of democracy seems,
more hideous than their own expiring autocracies. The men who now control j
the German and Kussia revolutions are as hostile to the form of representative)
democracy under which we live as we should be to the Hohonzollern or Hnps
burg rule, which was for them but an intermediate stage between slavery and
complete liberation.
"A new war of ideas has begun between Central Europe and the West
ern nations. It may lead to a new war before the old war has finally been
liquidated. It seems bound to lead to new horrors and fresh anarchy. It
n.ay preclude any settlement such as the league of nations provided, because
the Germans and Russians of the. revolution may refuse to deal with nations
v.ihch they regard as reactionary and capitalistic. To national war interna
tional class war may now succeed, will now succeed if Germany and Russia
con bring it about."
The Kaiser, who, it was said, had violently protested that he would
never abandon his people in their hour of distress, abdicated on November 9,
and fled to a castle in Holland, where he was interned by the Dutch Govern
Before and after the Kaiser’s abdication. Germany’s minor princes were
accepting the situation and abdicating at the rate of two or three a day. The
led wave within a week was sweeping away all of Germany’s dynasties, a Bed
Guard like that in Russia appeared as if by magic to defend the red flags that
were soon flying over the cities and factories and fortresses and palaces of the
most thickly populated regions of Germany. This guard soon took control of
all news channels and train service. Bavarian Socialists declared an inde
pendent republic, but the German revolution soon appeared to lose its separa
tist character, and the aim of the Socialists now seems to be a single German
republic, which, it may l»o noted, German Austria is thought likely to enter.
Soviets or Soldiers’ and Workmen's Councils wore at once organized in the
chief cities of northern Germany, as well as among the soldiers and sailors.
Amsterdam dispatches told of the conversion of the Reichstag building Into a
soldiers’ camp where travel-stained Red Guards munched their army bread in
luxurious upholstered chairs. Loyal officers in Berlin fought the crowds with
machine guns, but if the dispatches may be believed there was comparatively
little: bloodshed during the first days following the Kaiser’s exit. Perhaps one
reason for this was the prompt announcement of Field-Marshal von Hinden
burg& of the Commander of the Eastern Army that they and their troops would
support the new regime. Fpon the abdication of the Kaiser, Prince Max was
succeded by the Socialist Friedrich Ebert. Germany’s Government by Novem
ber I t consisted “exclusively of Socialists, responsible to Soviets chosen by
organized workers and in which the remainder of the population has no voice.”
This, continues^Qwrut aCopenhagen
correspondent, is “Leninc’s program and is as conscious a form of Bolshevism
as tho present Russian Government.” While the new regime was forming at
Berlin, radical doctrines were being openly preached in Sweden. Holland.
Spain, and Switzerland.
The raising of the red flag in Austria and Germany as well as Russia,
and tho possible spread of what our editors generally call Bolshevism to other
countries, is described by the St. Louis Star "as the worst menace to democ
racy that now exists since autocracy has been overthrown." As the Globc
Democrat sums it up:
"Autocracy and anarchy would seem to be at opposite poles, but it is
only a step fro n one to the other. Lower the eagles of despotic imperialism
and instantly the red flag is raised.’’ The New York Tribune tells its readers
that “there is more in common, emotionally and psychically, between Russian
and. German proletarians than has often been clear”—
"The soul of the proletariat in both countries is a peasant, envious
gloomy soul. The Russian got his socialism from the German; and it suited
both equally, because it was a socialism of fear, hatred, and revenge. The
German, like the Russian, submitted to a million tyrannies in helpless despair,
: ublimated his grievances by faith in the divine right of kings, believing it
less and less, and went stolidly on with an existence of terrific repressions.
“Now suddenly banish all the verboten signs, lift the private and social
and political restraints, give control of Germany to the Bolshevik proletariat of
Be*l ; — and what will happen? "Nobody knows.”
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