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THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL | 3
Third Installment.
On November 15, 1917, the old veteran, General
Alexeiev, arrived in Novocherkassk, the capital of the Don
Cossacks. He had come to gather a Russian army and to
lead it to battle against Bolshevism for the salvation and
re-establishment of a united Russia. What a strange mixture
his followers repersented! There were former officers, gen-
erals, cadets, office clerks and high school boys. They all
entered Alexeiev’s ranks as private soldiers. Amongst them
were the known heroes of the great war—Kornilov, Lukom-
sky, Denikine, Markov, Romanovsky, and others. They
came from all corners of Russia, most of them in civilian
attire. Some had brought their families, while others had
been forced to leave them behind to the mercy of bolshevist
vengeance.
From a tiny group of a few hundred, within two years,
they have grown to an army of over two hundred thousand.
Notwithstanding their differences in nationalities, class,
religion and political views, the common cause united them
all.
It has been a long and weary fight, thousands have
fallen, amongst them Russ’a’s national heroes, Alexeiev and
Kornilov, but they all have joyfully given their lives for a
sacred cause.
Under the able leadership of General Denikine, the
bolshevik has been driven from the Black Sea littoral and
the whole south liberated. Meanwhile new volunteer armies
have sprung up, that of Yudenich in the northwest, Tchai-
kovsky in the far north, and Admiral Kolchak in Siberia.
They have all united under the leadership of Kolchak with
a firm aim, to save this country from moral and material
ruin and to give the people of Russia the opportunity to
establish their destinies according to their own choice, thru
a freely elected constituent assembly.
The task is enormous—for regenerated Russia is not
only facing Lenine alone; aganist her there is still arrayed
Germany. With her Spartacide and monarchist wings she
is strenuously eudeavoring to annihilate struggling Russia.
Today the Russian army of liberation is fighting fresh Ger-
man forces, splendidly equipped. Germany, in violation of
the two-fold peace, the one of Brest Litovsk and the other
resulting from the armistice, had not desisted from waging
an obstinate war against Russia, by openly supplying Lenine
with armies, officers and higher leadership.
The third enemy of a united Russia is represented by
the separatist leaders, supported by the same Germany,
to whom Russia's dismemberment is a means of capturing
new markets, and who seek to get control of the national
wealth and territories which formerly belonged to Russia.
All the nationalities know full well that new Russia,
born from the revolution, has obliged herself to grant the
greatest national liberties and autonomy to all of them.
The tendency of certain territories towards absolute separa-
tion, like that of the Ukrania, under Petluira; Lithuania,
Latveya, Esthonia and others is stimulated by elements who
seek to gain advantage through it and fear the democratic
influences of a federated republic of Russia. There are even
here in this country scores of newspapers that with, or with-
out intent, try to make their readers believe that all these
nationalities were originally free and independent states,
that have been forced under Russia's servitude and are now
about to shake off the hated yoke! They are not saying the
truth for these artificial ‘‘self determination movements’ are
not representing popular will but are merely a result of
German intrigue, which in league with Austria, tried to un-
dermine Russian unity. All these nationalities are inseparable
from the integrity of the Russia State and although they
have preserved their individual character, they were and
must remain a part of the great people as which they have
moulded Russian history. If Germany succeeds in dismem-
bering Russia and in destroying her international prestige
the allies will find themselves facing a terrible menace, the
menace of a general anarchy, of the triumph of Germany
and bolshevism. :
Meanwhile, bolshevism and propaganda has by no
means been confined to Russia alone; like a contagious
disease it has been spreading all through Europe and Asia
and has reached our own country.
Lenine, in the Krasnaza Gazette, one of his press or-
gans, says:
“Besides guns, we have other weapons, stronger than
the Butish tanks with which the English harpies have sup-
plied Denikine, and this weapon is our conviction, the light
of knowledge. Bolshevism and the ideas of cmomunism
have come to replace effete religion. England, that farcial
victor, is trembling and is ready to capitulate, because bol-
shevist ideas have spread like an epidmeic over the countries
enslaved by her. Our foreign policy is the propagation of
our ideas: we have not—and indeed cannot—have any
oher policy. Every day brings vcitory of communism nearer
and the day is not distant when all the secrets will become
known, and the bourgeoisie of the whole world will shudder
when it sees its last hour approaching. Our foreign policy
is the guarantee of a world revolution, and the obvious
conquests which communism has achieved in so short a time
are proofs of our success.” .
These words do not remain a mere theory or phrase,
they have become a fact, and every true patriot who has
the welfare of his country at heart must squarely face it.
The recent arrests made among the foreign agitators have
revealed an alarming activity of bolshevist propaganda
amongst the laboring classes.
Their leaders have long lost their control over the
unions, this has become more and more pronounced during
the recent strikes. Communism, syndicalism and all their
mlder forms have infested the minds of the labor world.
But this propaganda is not only spread through the
radical press, which, since the war has grown to surprising
proportions but is nourished by some of our most popular
papers. Under cover of patriotism, dark forces are spreading
sedition, incite race and class hatred, and fanning unrest
and discontent, they are preparing the ground for the bol-
shevist terror that has reduced Russia to ruin and desolation.
This is the fourth and last of a series of articles on
Russia written by A. Hiehle of this city, who was born in
Odessa. Since these articles were written the All-Russian
armies have suffered considerable reverses, Denikine has
been forced to retire beyond the Don river and the coup
of the social revolutionists in Irkutz has torn the power from
Kolchak who is kept a prisoner in their hands.
Only stupor and exhaustion, following after the terri-
ble war, can explain the want of understanding, in regard
to the dangers which affect us all and which are so immi-
nent and real. It is time that the people in this country make
earnest and look ahead. There are dark clouds gathering,
the dawn of the coming storm.
All through the world the war has unquestionably low-
ered the standard of national morale, which can be judged
by the alarmingly increasing crimes, especially against life
and property. Every one of the fighting nations sacrificed
their very soul for the cause they thought just and true. For
civilians and soldiers alike who have gone through the ex-
perience of the war and daily witnessed its devastation and
sacrifice of human life, the war has lost its terror, its ugli-
ness. No matter to what class they belonged, in all of them
tenderness of heart and conscience seem to have been lost
or deadened. They who did not hesitate to bayonet the liv-
ing body of the adversary, will they shrink from the use of
violence to secure what they believe to be justice for them-
selves and those they love? Will law and property be an
obstacle to them in carrying out their aim in the name of
right and justice?