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(By the Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, Nov. 8—What is a
Bolshevik? As a general thing he is
an unmarried man, with no home oh
his own, no responsibility to children
or family. He has no personal af
fairs of his own to look after, where
fore he sets out to regulate the world.
In any of the good sized towns of
the United States you can see a Bol
shevik. They usually follow the tide,
wear their hair long, do not shave over
much and spend their time showing
how wrong things are in the world.
A woman Bolshevik bobs her hair if
she ever touches it at all.
I have seen them in studies in
Washington square and in basements
in London. I have always considered
it a thrilling thing to know an anar
chist of the Bolshevik type; they are
generally considered picturesque, ev
en if they are smelly. But lying on
^ the pavements of the Letenie the
other day, with Bolshevik machine
guns pouring a rain of lead down the
canon of the buildings, killing am!
wounding helpless women and child
ren, my former oyinion of the Bol
shievik was abruptly changed. Opin
ions of Bolsheviks are picturesque
$ when they are only opinions. Wher
they are translated into deeds thej
are deadly.
The women Bolsheviks in that mas
sacre on the Letenie were ferocious
The last thing I saw before I threv
myself to the sidewalk was a bob-hair
ed woman, standing in an automobile
beside a machine gun which rested it
muzzle on the folded top. It was lead
ing the parade of Krostad sailors whe
fully armed, were marching towar
the Duma building; she sat erect liki
the goddess of madness, with a wild
light in her eyes. Half a mile down
• he street, even as 1 was looking at
her I heard three shots. They were
the signals for the massacre.
The shots ran up along the line of
parade, like fire along a fuse. 1 saw
a movement of persons In automobiles
and I could not see what became of
the woman, but all of a sudden, from
the machine gun beside her, a drum
fire of death was poured into the
crowds.
Here was all the wild talk I had
ever heard among the anarchists of
London, New York and Chicago, come
true; translated into a massacre. I
was seeing Bolsheviks at their best;
they were showing us ail they had; all
the theories they had stowed away
in their black "minds through the
times of peace; all the beliefs they
had cultivated in their conferences
around coffee tables or beer steins;
all that they had gained from the wild
and sometimes contraband books that
anarchists write and read and all
these things were being spoken now
by the machine guns pouring a hail
of hot metal into the crowds on the
streets. The brotherly love that these
anarchists say will one day rule the
world, if anarchism prevails was to
tally lacking.
These Bolsheviks of Russia—and
j they include the Bolsheviks of othei
countries have strange beliefs. Thej
| want the war to end. they say as th<
| war is interfereing with the brother
hood of man. That is just the sort o
doctrine the Germans have preachet
until now through the world. Thi
Germans, therefore who seem to ex
ist in great subtle strength in Russii
have used the Bolsheviks to such ai
exten that it is impossible, in Petrc
grad, they say, to distinguish betweei
a bolshevik and a German.
In their turn the Bolsheviks haw
used the common people of Russit
, both in the army and out of it. B
i their speeches and their newspaper
■ they had half convinced the workin
, people and the tired Russian soldier
i that, if they would only stop helpin
: along the war. their troubles wou
disappear; soldiers might return to
their families and everything would
be as before—beter than ever before
—with the Russian comon folk.
The Bolsheviks believe that (oiks
throughout the world are 'ike n hairy
I bulldog, that, when i*s tail is pinch
ed will not turn around and bite the
pinetier but will bite the nearest liv
ing object in front of it. Some of
them explained the matter to me.
"The capitalists of the earth started
this war”, he said, "and they are keep
ing it up. What we common folk must
do is to stop biting each other and we
must turn around and bite the cap
iyilists."
It only shows the topsyturvydom of
the world when 1 say that this very
man was one of thoese who was on the
streets when the machine guns were
in full blast, killing men and wom
en and children, and this man, need
en and children, and this man, deed
less to say was behind one of those
machines of death, to prove his the
ory, that all men are brothers and
that the capitalists ought to be kill
| ed at once.
I don’t attempt to explain the na-1 ■
ture of a Bolshevik. I’ve only tried *
tq describe their indescribable mad
ness. Talking Is bad enough, bu their
I’etrograd massacre was an Insane
orgy. Side by side with the Germans
and side by side with the friends of
the ex-Czar who want to see him re
seated upon his throne, they fought
unarmed people with a ruthlessnass
that only the Insane would use.
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