SMASH EVERYTHING!

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1924, Page 1

SMASH EVERYTHING!

THE SLOGAN OF THE COALMUXISTS.

(By John Blunt in the “Daily Alail,” London.)

A National Alinority Conference of tho Red International of Labour Unions (British Bureau)—why do these advanced people, whose avowed aim it is to simplify everything, delight in such appallingly long and dreary names?— has been airing its vciws in London. The fiery* rhetoric of the speakers was monotonously confined to the note of smashing everything. They were very seilf-righteous, which no doubt is a good form of protection when you arc rather empty-headed, and held forth upon the iniquities of capitalists and, indeed, of most other people except themselves. AVliat amuses me about them is that though they are the bitter enemies of tlie British Empire and its system of justice, yet they express the utmost indignation with society for daring to possess any laws that may act as a buffer against the evil activities of Communists.

They hurl insults at us, accompanied by brutal threats of violence and bloodshed, and then they are hypocritical enough to expect us to lie down in order that they may stamp on us. AVe are to do nothing to ward off their attacks. W r c are, indeed, to abolish any laws that keep them in order, and meanwhile they keep telling us in their charming way what wo may expect when they* are in [lower.

CRUEL TYRANTS. They yell against the injustice of the laws, as though they loved freedom, when their one idea Ls to do away with all freedom and make us their slaves. I. for one, would rather be dead than at the tender mercy* of Air Toni Mann and bis associates. If their bite is like their hark, then they are simply cruel tyrants masquerading under the disguise of outraged citizens. AVe all know* what has happened in Russia ; we all know' what tho fine promises of the Bolsheviks amounted to. Murder, torture, theft, starvation, and tlie vilest tyranny*. If that is the Promised Land of Communism, then I would prefer, capitalism if I were in tlie gutter. It is gross impertinence for Communists to hold forth as they do in this country when we know perfectly well that Communism, in practice is simply sconndrclism.

It sickens me to hear them talking as though, in their heart of hearts, everybody knew that they were "right. R.ightl AVliy* nothing could lie more hopelessly perverted and wrong than their doctrines. If they had their way they would make this country as ghastly a [dace as Russia. They would stamp out liberty and freedom. They would abolish happiness and joy. They would bring despair and misery into every home, rich or poor. SLAVES OF AN INSANE IDEA.

The pretence that they* are the friends of tliq working man is shocking in its falsity. Nobody is more wretched and ruined ill Russia than the ordinary working man. Communists are the slaves of an insane idea, and they should be no more allowed to propagate their doctrines than a mad dog is allowed to run about the streets. I don’t say that all Communists are self-conscious humbugs, but they are—tbo.se of t-licin who are not mere timeservers—dangerous fanatics against whom society must lie constantly on the alert Far from relaxing our laws against them, we ought to tighten them up.

Sentimentalism, is useless against people who are so embittered and no venomous that they would delight in a revolution. If they choose to try to upset the State they should lie treated as enemies of the State and be deported to their spiritual home, which is Russia. A few months in that heaven 011 earth, not as guests but as ordinary inhabitants, would probably clear their addled brains and modify their foolish enthusiasms.