RED RULE

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 121, 22 May 1920, Page 71

RED RULE

AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FEAR, TERRORISM, VIOLENCE. Very cunningly the apostles of Sovietism have attempted to throw doubt upon the cabled' descriptions, of -Bolshevism at work in Russia. Irrefutable proof of its anarchistic nature has, however, been discovered or officially recorded in America. The United States Senate passed a resolution on 4th February, 1919, directing a judiciary sub-committee to investigate Bolshevist propaganda in the United -States. This committee made a thorough inquiry, calling witnesses ■from both the friends and the opponents of the Soviet system, and at length formulated an elaborate report, the substance of '■> which appeared in the Congressional Record of 12th December, 1919. The salient features which constitute the programme of Bolshevism, as it exists to-day in Russia and is presented to the rest of ths world as a. panacea for all ills, may be summarised as follows: — 1. The repudiation of democracy and the establishment of a dictatorship. 2. The confiscation of ail land and the improvements thereon. 3. The confiscation of all forests and natural resources. 4. The confiscation of all live stock and all agricultural implements. 5. The confiscation of all banks and banking institutions and the establishment of a. State, monopoly of the banking business. 6. , The confiscation of all factories, mills/ mines and industrial institutions, j and the delivery of the control ■ and operation thereof to the employees therein. 7. The confiscation of all churches and all church property, real and personal. 8. The confiscation of all newspapers and periodicals and all mechanical facilities and machinery used in the publication thereof. 9. The seizure, and confiscation of all public meeting places and assembly halls. 10. The confiscation of all transportation and communication systems. 11. The confiscation of the entire estate of all decedents. 12. The monopolising by the State of' all advertisements of every nature, whether .in newspapers, periodicals, handbills, or programmes. 13. The repudiation of all, debts against the Government and all obligations due the non-Bolshevist elements of the population. 14. The establishment of universal' compulsory military service, regardless of religious scruples and conscientious objections. 15. The-establishment of universal compulsory labour. 16. The abolition of the Sunday school and all other schools and institutions that teach religion. 17. The- absolute separation of churches and schools.. 18. The" establishment, through marriage and divorce laws, of a method for the legalisation of prostitution, when the same is engaged in by consent of the pp.rties. 19. The refusal to recognise the existence of G-od in its Governmental and judicial proceedings. 20. The conferring of the rights of citizenship on aliens without regard to length of residence or intelligence. 21. The arming of all so-called "toilers," . and the disarming of all persons who had succeeded in acquiring; property. 22. The -discrimination in 'favour of residents of cities against residents of the rural districts through giving residents of cities five times as much voting power as is accorded to residents of rural districts in such elections as are permitted 23. The disfranchisement of all persons employing any other person in connection with 'their business. 24. The disfranchisement of all persons receiving rent, interest, or dividends. 25. The disfranchisement of all merchants, .traders, and- commercial agent 3. 26. Tho disfranehisement of all priests, clergymen, or employees of churches and religious bodies. 27. The denial of the existence of any inalienable rights in tho individual citizen. . ' 28; The establishment of a judicial system exercising- autocratic, power, convicting persons, and imposing penalties in their absence, and without opportunity to be heard, and even adopting the death penalty for numerous crjmes and misdemeanours. , 29. The'inauguration of a reign of fear, terrorism, and violence.