“Fourth. No church or religious society has the right to own property. (The soviet leaders boldly proclaim the home and the church as the enemies of their system, and from the foregoing it would seem that they are trying to destroy them.)
“Fifth. Under the general authority granted to the soviets by the constitution inheritance of property by law or will has been abolished.
“These amazing features of the constitution and laws enacted under the constitution speak more eloquently than any words that could be used to amplify them in portraying the hideousness of a system of government that, if permitted to continue, must inevitably crush out the home in large part by the flippancy with which marriage and divorce are regarded, by the refusal of permitting the land to be held in private ownership, and by refusing the parent the right at death to pass on to his wife or to his children the fruits of years of toil.
“What, then, is my arraignment of sovietism according to the soviet constitution?
“1. The people have no direct vote or voice in government, except the farmers in their local rural soviets and the city dwellers in their urban soviets.
“2. The rural, county, provincial, regional, and All-Russian soviets are elected indirectly, and the people have no direct vote in the election.
“3. The people have no voice in the election of executive officers of the highest or lowest degrees.
“4. There is no mention of independent judicial officers in the constitution.
“5. The people are very largely disfranchised.
“6. The farmer of Russia is discriminated against.