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Spargo, John, 1876-1966

"Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy"


7. Admission to all kinds of educational institutions, whether
private, government, or public, and the pursuing of the courses of
instruction of these institutions, and receiving scholarships.
Also the pursuance of teaching and other educational professions.
8. Performing the duties of guardians, trustees, or jurors.
9. The use of language and dialects, other than Russian, in the
proceedings of private societies, or in teaching in all kinds of
private educational institutions, and in commercial bookkeeping.
Thus all the humiliating restrictions which had been imposed upon the
Jewish people were swept away. Had the Provisional Government done nothing
else than this, it would have justified itself at the bar of history. But
it accomplished much more than this: before it had been in office a month,
in addition to its liberation of Finns, Poles, and Jews, the Provisional
Government abolished the death penalty; removed all the provincial
governors and substituted for them the elected heads of the provincial
county councils; _confiscated the large land holdings of the Imperial
family and of the monasteries_; levied an excess war-profits tax on all war
industries; and fixed the price of food at rates greatly lower than had
prevailed before.


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