Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1918 — BOLSHEVIK INCONSISTENCY [ARTICLE]

BOLSHEVIK INCONSISTENCY

If one would have convincing proof of the utter inconsistency of the Russian Bolshevik, he has 'but to consider the case of Rouunania. This little country, lying alongside the Russian border, was one of the earliest sufferers in the present wan Her sufferings at the hands of the Turco-Teu tonic hordes are almost unbelievable even in this day of unbelievable atrocities. Early in the war, under the government of the czar, Russia under-

took "to provlde _ Tor~aTrTKduxhanTan' refugees who succeeded in crossing the border and entering her domains, and a regular allowance for their support was made by the czar’s government, and faithfully paid so long as that government endured. After the fall of the imperial government, the Kerensky government also assumed the obligation to care for these pitiable people, but this care was only spasmodic and irregular. Since the fall of the Kerensky regime and the ascendency of the Bolsheviki, all care for them has ceased so far as official Russia is concerned. Loudly as they prate of their humanitarianism and the inherent rights of the proletariat, it would seem that the followers of Lenine and Trotsky sould not fail to recognize the urgent claims of these helpless people within their borders. Their utter neglect would seem to indicate that the policy of the Bolsheviki is not only repudiation of national obligations, but of all personal and human obligations as well.