Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1919 — WEAVING A TANGLED WEB [ARTICLE]

WEAVING A TANGLED WEB

When lawlessness begins, there is no knowing where it will end. The Bolshevik leaders gained much of their popular support in the beginning by proposing the confiscation of property, alluding primarily to large estates. But they did not stop there. They included small estates, so that honest and industrious people found their earnings seized for the benefit of men who were too lazy or too dishonest to be willing to earn a living. Thus it will be in any country. Whoever proposes to do injustice in one instance will be ready to do it in another if his selfish interests so direct. As Roosevelt once said when he discharged one of his ranch foremen, “He who will steal for me will steal from me.” It is well to beware of demagogues who play for commendation on the representation that they are going to help all the people by infringing upon the rights of some of the people. In the end they wil] do wrong to all the people. * * * * * * Announcement is made that President Wilson may break with Carranza. Another series of “diplomatic triumphs” coming?