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GOVERNMENT BY TALK.

SUGGESTIONS FROM CHICAGO.

Ivu ssia is enjoying the ideal Government for which some of our American friends on the extreme left have long sighed. The recipe for it is simple (according to the Chicago. Evening Dost). First, exclude the loathed bourgeoisie from all share in (he management of affairs—exclude, that is, the only people with any experience in managing a Fairs. Then .enunciate a set of lofty general principles and stick to them.

Ji' anybody complains ihaL (ho railroad sendee lias broken down, J'ood is seam* and Ilia sired cars are not running', repeal that you are passionately devoted to human equality.

Never mind that there is no coal in the eily or that farmers eaniiot get ploughs. Draw up a fervid pronuneiatiou asserting (he rights of Ihe eommon man. Be careful that your adjectives and adverbs are properly selected, and let the lire department look out for itself. That is a bourgeois interest anyway, for it anything burns it will be only the houses owned by the capitalists. Your affair is the triumphant proletariat —without bosses, jobs, fuel, food, clothes or lodgings, hut gloriously triumphant at last. You may mu out of all the necessities of life; hut the resources of the dictionary are practically unlimited. I,'he Bolshevik idea of Government is not strictly new. Many years ago there was an exciting municipal campaign in Chicago involving certain questions of city management and public utilities. The Whitechapel Club, a once-fa tunas organisation of newspaper men, pul: its ticket in the Held with this platform; “No Gas.! No Water! No Police!”

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1940, 15 February 1919, Page 1

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264

GOVERNMENT BY TALK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1940, 15 February 1919, Page 1

GOVERNMENT BY TALK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1940, 15 February 1919, Page 1

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