Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1919 — Bolshevism Is Not New Excepting in the Name [ARTICLE]

Bolshevism Is Not New Excepting in the Name

There is nothing new in bolshevism excepting the name, writes Gustavus Myers, in the Review. * The essentials of it, he says, were spread broadcast in the United Stated 90 years ago. Industrial communism, free and easy marriage and divorce, children the property of the state, abolition of religious instruction, etc., were all proposed here during the -years 1826-34. The bolshevism of that time, like that of today, became an acute public question with astonishing suddenness, but the approaches were gradual and could be traced to the French revolution and the anti-religious campaign headed by Thomas Paine. Then caj®e Robert Dale Owen, with his gospel of perfect social and Industrial equity.