SEEDS OF COMMUNISM.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 July 1924, Page 9

SEEDS OF COMMUNISM.

■ r —“ —"S 5?" * PROPAGATING REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES. LESSONS FROM OTHER 1 COUNTRIES. ; Some straight speaking on the question of Communism and its sinister influence was indulged in by the Hon. R. - Moore when speaking, on the Address-in-Reply in the Legislative Council oil Wednesday. Unfortunately, lie said, the seeds of Communism were being scattered in no small way, and even 1 in the Dominion efforts were being made to propagate these revolutionary principles, and sufficient notice had not 1 been taken of wliat was actually being done. He approached the matter with some reluctance, but he recognised that the time had arrived when there should be plain spaking in the matter. What was claimed as an evolutionary policy was nothing mo-re or less than a revolutionary policy, and, in plain language, it meant that there would be a reaction from a stable Government to a Government of confusion. The Hon. M. Cohen (Dunedin): How are you going to accomplish it? Mr. Moore: “By getting loyal and decent people of the Dominion to join hands and fight it out to the hitter end.” The civilised world, and' more particularly the British portion of it, had progressed in a way that no other country had, but it was not through these doctrines of violence and agitation, and he sincerely hoped that the time would never come when the efficiency of stable government would be impaired or reduced by any outside influences. It was- regretful to find that some people were prepared to depart from this policy. There were evil influences in the Dominion, and we could draw our own conclusions as to who these people were. The latest illustration of the evil effects in Russia should he sufficient to make any man shrink from such a policy, and the moral degradation of the country should be enough to shock the civilised world. He dealt with reports from Russia which showed that divorces were as “easy to get as do<r licenses in England,” and the tendency L idnc % mo / al tone. Even in the Mother Country during the last elections there was a revolt against the Union Jack and hooligans attacked a woman speaker. These acts were significant of the spread of the evil doctrines of violence. And yet youne men were going about this country sowing their evil Communistic seeds and nothing was being done to counteract it.

He maintained that it was the first step (probably only a short one) towards a complete revolution, aiming at the destruction of the commercial "and •social life of the country. A year ago nho would have dreamed that there was such a fine line between anarchy and civil constitutional government? He referred to the Melbourne strike la..t Noveinber. and expressed the opinlfc. was unbelievable that in a P ace hke Australia, where they boasted a white population, that such a riot take plate. There *1 bloody revolution in Cape Town a short latest reports that General Smuts, the man who had prevented the revolution from .spread if S ’.mT d H ee " rC, , ,larod hy a who, i not the real instigator of the tiouble had a good say in it Hie Hon. M. Cohen: They have a ba Mr' y M m 01 e !° rtion in So "th Africa. Mi. Moore * v F s&v it i«c n c-ipk- they hare when they .li'splaoe’a 3 n", l° ls “nPfO'l lo WooclshoF hot u y ,h'"’ e ' l>1 ‘’ ' S I>ad ‘ hat »™s a. Olmv at the severance of the hond-- of national e*i,te l >ee.'--IW llion