The Frozen Breath of Bolshevism
If Bolshevism comes to America it will do here what it has done in Russia and what it seeks 1
to do in Germany. 1
LIBERTY will be destroyed, because Bolshevism means that one class shall rule over 11
other classes.
PROPERTY will be confiscated without payment to its owners. Your house, your house
hold belongings if you do not own a house, your savings in bank, your liberty bonds you will
lose all these.
FOOD will.be put beyond the reach of all except those who can seize it by brute strength,
for Bolshevism takes the farmer's land, eats the food that is in sight and makes no provision for
to-morrow.
LAWS will be annulled and the whole social system thrown into chaos. 1 here will be no
courts to adjust wrongs; no punishment for wrong-doers.
GOVERNMENT will be transferred from the elected representatives of the people into the
hands of committees, or Soviets, without any central authority—without legislatures, congresses
or president.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN will be the property of the state. One of the Soviets which
set the fashion in Russia—the soviet of Vladimir—has already decreed that all women over 1 8
must register at a bureau of free love and there hold themselves subject to the will of any man who
may order them to follow him.
RELIGION will vanish when respect for law and for women and children vanishes. Bol
shevism worships not the God of our fathers, but License.
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Russia, after months of Bolshevism, is almost a desert, with millions of her people dead and
other millions dying of famine; her industries paralyzed; her government in the hands of ruthless
assassins; her law-abiding men and women either murdered or living in hiding, stripped of every
thing they possessed.
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The American idea guarantees every man a free and open opportunity to share in prosperity.and happiness. The workman of
to-day may be the millionaire of to-morrow. Labor to be efficient and productive must co-ordinate with capital; both must live under the
laws which are made by the elected representative of all the people.
Our Greatest bulwark against Bolshevism must be intelligence, thrift and the patriotism of the American workman. I
This Article is one of a Series—Be sure to read them all.—"America First" Publicity Association.
' (Copyright, 1919) '
SATURDAY EVENING,
HAKRISBURG tSSk TELEGRAPH
APRIL 5," 1919.
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