EVIL "TOYS"

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 November 1933, Page 5

EVIL "TOYS"

("Post" Special Correspondent.)

FAITH IN DEMOCRACY NOW THING OF PAST IN LEAGUE WITH HELL

Perth, in ov. ra. . "Our civilisation has taught us to play with diabolical toys which have 'destroyed our moral sanity," said Rev. H. Wallace Bird, in an address here last night. "We are living in a lunatic asylum, in a human inferno which has entered into league with Hell," he said.^ Formerly a certain amount of faith had been placed in democracy, but the ballot box was no longer regarded as a kind of magician's box out of which some sort of freedom might be produced. People voted mainly because they. had to, putting their pathetic liftle crosses against pathetic little names, hoping for the best, while expecting the worst. No longer did they march to the polls with the democratic fire burning in their hearts as if they believed democracy to be a thing which would achieve freedom for the human race. T'hey knew all about it now, espeeialiy those in Australia, where over-government and mis-government were expensive. Faith in democracy had been surrendered everywhere. It was running to seed and dictatorship. "Don't let us fool ourselves," ■ he went on. "If we miss the way this time, God ltnows what is going to happen. It is no use our saying it won't happen. It will. There are -lots of people who want- it to. There will come again the long tra.il of gas and fire and poison."