The Red Conspiracy

radicals, especially the Socialists. Among those who helped most to bring it into such high esteem was Albert Rhys Williams, who had spent but one year of his l

support, the so-called Red Army, in which the Chinese and Letts have played a prominent part, is an army of mercenaries

up to the time when they found it overwhelmingly against them. Then they invented a new double name for their anti-democratic government: Soviets, or dictatorship of the proleta

cenaries was required in order to keep down the ever-increasing number of insurrections and the ceaseless attacks from many foreign foes, enormous subsidies had to be paid to Bolshevist workingmen, regardless of the fact that the factories were producing sometimes little and sometimes

of the Russian Revolution," herself a So

hrough the country with their political adversaries, proclaiming 'enemies of the people' not only the Liberals, the Constitutional-Democratic Party, but also the party of the Socialists-Revolutionists and the Social-Democrats Mensheviki, that is, the parties of the Russian peasantry and proletariat. They have instituted a system of terror unequaled in c

hes the full text of the Russian Bolshevist Constitution under the caption, "Here's Constitution of World's Firs

d, and the entire land is declared to be national property and is to be apportioned among husband

utility, all implements whether animate or inanimate, model farms

nd other means of production or transportation, the Soviet law, for the control by workmen and the establishment of the

purpose of eliminating the parasitic strata of soc

er to eliminate all possibility of restoring the power of the exploiters, it is decreed that all t

The entire power, within the boundaries of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Repub

s work the duty of every citizen of the Republic, and pro

e nor the right to be voted for, even though they bel

abor in order to obtain fro

oing any work, such as interest from

ts, trade and co

ergy of all d

government has made them a thousand times worse. Industry has been reduced to an almost negligible minimum, property has been destroyed on every side and possession made a crime. The country has been reduced to chaos, for no one cares to sow where others will reap; and unemployment is widespread, for employers are outlawed, and the government has not enough satisfactory positions to

s, farmers, wealthy peasants and monasteries. It canno

the appetite for it; hence more qua

bilizing an army. In their refusal they stated 'in the spring soldiers will be needed at home in

sk and Voronezh peasant meetings

the spring. Whoever will then not return to the village or vol

f having as great a force as possible in the

Red Army in order to be able better to defend a piece of land taken away from the landlord and, as they say, that 'the neighboring peasants should not come to cut our hay right in front of our windows, like last year.'

n result in skirmishes and murder. There are similar happenings in othe

th 'Stolypin heirs,' as they call the shopkeepers. The latter, however, have organized and are ready for a stubborn resistance.

that no less a personage than Lenine himself, in "A Letter to American Workingmen," publ

gling, from month to month, under the greatest difficulties, to correct their own mistakes, trying to solve in practice the most difficult problems of organizing a new social state, fighting,

ries and workers under state ownership, and are now learning, from day to day, under the greatest difficulties, to conduct the management of ent

and other legislative bodies and to be the supreme accomplishments of a democratic form of government. The deputies of the soviets, according to the Bolshevist Constitution, were to be elected by the secret, direct and equal vote of all the working masses. Theoretic

ctory or foundry at open meetings, by the raising of hands and always under the knowing eye of the chairman. The majority of the workers very freq

. Local Soviets send their representatives to the Provincial Congress, the Provincial Congress is represented by delegates at the All-Russian Congress, and only this last body elects the Central Executive Committee. Often

alists and members of the Labor Group. Often, when workers demanded new elections to the Soviet (as happened in Petrograd late in December of 1917, and early in January, 1918), and such elections did take place, the Bolsheviki would not permit the newly elected delegates to enter the building of the Soviet and frequently arrested them. Gradually only Bolsheviki and Socialists-Revolu

the working masses' thus definitely disappeared. A few persons, often appointed from above (the Bolsheviki often had recourse to bayonets to support the fiction of Soviet rule: in Tumen the Execu

County, a mob of peasants, armed with axes, scythes and sticks, fell upon the Soviets and beast-like tore into fragments fifty Bolsheviki. In the Neviansk works the insurrection of the workers against the Red Army lasted for three

a" we are told that "Vlast Naroda," in May, 1918,

n of bringing the deputies before their own court of justice. The latter fled. The Financi

arded by a most vigilant military force. Even on the streets

members. One of the presiding officers has been wounded. The

d ordered a Bartholomew night, the dep

ers of the Soviets

ers of the Soviets have literally been torn to

members of the Sovi

ee of the Socialists-Revolutionists of the Left, in the middle of March,

st Violators, Liars an

not express the will of the

under threats of shooting or starvation. This terrorism completely suff

ki. It is a blind tool in the hands of the 'agents-provac

y the dictatorship of the Central Committee of the Bolshevist Party, governing with the assis

y, under the Bolshevist regime, is farther off than it was before. The British High Commissioner, R. H. Br

rule of force and oppression unequa

e speech, they have suppressed, since coming into powe

servants, and even amongst the workmen those who dared to vote against the Bolsheviki are marked down by the Bolshevist police as counter-revolutiona

-Revolutionists, in an article published in "Struggling Russia," Ap

(out of a total of 132,000) sent delegates. The conference adopted a resolution sharply denouncing the Bolshevist regime. Following this conference an attempt was made, in May, to call t

igidly enforced by the Russian Socialist Government. R. H. Bruce-Lockhart, to whom referen

been shot without even the mockery of a trial, and thousands more are left to rot in the prisons under co

mobilized officers who do not share their political views, but whose technical knowledge is indispensable, and by the thr

ly after his return from that country, testified before the Senatorial Committe

ll religions impossible. They assert that all misery is due to the

with this purpose in view, we are issuing a ca

as the Commissionaire of En

stration. This letter implored the Holy Father to deign to take into consideration the conditions existing in Russia. It exposed a list of crimes and outrages, cities sacked, churches profaned and pillaged, more than twenty bishops and more than one hundred priests assassinated, the victims being of every kind

tian fraternity, we hope, Venerable Father, that we may count on your compassion as representing the Christian Church, and trust that your flock will be informed of what is going on, and that in common with you th

them is being spit upon and profaned. People, with rifles on their shoulders and their hats on, often enter the church and right there question the clergymen and arrest pries

blished the following special cable desp

Chaplain at Odessa and Russian ports of the Black Sea, describing the religious persec

a Fleet, among the dockers in the port, in the towns and

ries of "Down with the priests!" "Down with the Church!" At a fête in the town gardens one saw a soldier of the Red Army, amid the gu

far in advance of our effete western thought. They have murdered Vladimir, the Metropolitan of Kiev, twenty bishops, and many hundreds of priests. Before killing them they cut off the limbs of the

ntless sanctuaries profaned. In Cronstadt Cathedral the great figure of the Crucified Christ was torn down

Orthodox, Roman Catholics and Lutherans alike have been tortured, mutilated, and done to death under t

tentacles on every side. Any restraint on sinful impulse or covetous desire is laughed to scorn. The Bolsheviki publicly encourage outrage and looting. The propaganda for freedom of mind is essentially nihilistic. It is based

travesty of liberty, which the whole civilized world may well shudder at, all mercy, pity and toleration are alike scorned. And it is this new and wond

Times" on April 19, 1919, we are informed that of the 300 priests in the Pe

of the Bolsheviki towards it appears in "The Proletarian," Detroit, April, 1919.

f explaining religion,' caused a storm of indignation to arise among certain 'Socialists.' Clinging to the old fallacy that religion should be left alone, they point to the Russian Constitution and the works o

cries of the Revolutionary working class in all countries in which the Church and the State are combined.

om for hundreds of years. The Feudal aristocracy realized the advantages to be derived from keeping the minds of its slaves in darkness and superstition. One of the most powerful weapons in the hands of aristocracy was the Church, whose noble duty

d the yoke of the Czar and the landlords. It was necessary to pull this poisonous tooth out of the jaws of the state. Hence came the demand: 'Religion is a private matter,'--private as opposed to state. It meant t

r countries which were confronted with conditions like those in Russia. One of the imme

inst the exploiters; nor could it be destroyed by force. Then the Russian workers declared religion a private matter, thereby depriving it of Sta

t is now being employed by the ruling class against the workers. If it is not yet as influential here as it was in Russia

be completed. After that 'We must wage unrelenting war against the Church,' says Bebel, 'because she foments civil war am

ists were not yet satisfied. They went on fighting religion, and their Belgian comrades worked in accord with them. Says E. Va

an Socialists was approved by the inte

Boucharin (The Church and the School), 'but it does not mean that we must not fight it by persuasion.' Further on he emphasizes that it is a 'private matter' only as much as forceful protection or forceful destruction i

lists must not be misled by the

ioneo gives some interesting information relative to th

ools. As regards secondary schools, the Bolshevist reformers are of the opinion that, in general, such institutions are not

d that no certificates were necessary for matriculation at the university. Any half-educated person might become a student of any faculty. The professors were at a loss to know how to lecture on higher mathematics to students ignorant of the multiplication table, or how to explain spectral analysis to person

'Street University.' This is how the 'Izvestia' describes this curious institution of higher education: 'Each of the principal thoroughfares of Voronezh is now a faculty--of law, economics, history, literature, science, etc. The walls of the houses are placarded with posters, containing portraits and brief biographies of me

hey value knowledge very highly, have announced that a geographical university such as the world has 'never yet seen' is going to be