The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1917 UNCHECKED ANARCHY'S ULTITIMATE

Taihape Daily Times, 20 December 1917, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1917 UNCHECKED ANARCHY'S ULTITIMATE

(With, which is incorporated The Taihapo Post and Waimarino News).

The Red Feds of Russia have entered into jiSfet such an arrangement with Germany that the Red Eeds of New Zealand, judging from experience, would be likely to make with those whose sole aim it is to destroy the British Empire and enslave its people. It has ever been demonstrated that the leaders of Red-Fedism ,anarchy, and destruction have, in the past, been guiuea by an abnormal development of those propensities which arc commonly evident in the burglar and highwayman, and present experience in Russia adds very materially to that evidence, and further''demonstrates that the quality of robbery, rapine, and murder practiced by them has varied very little, only,' perhaps, for the worse. It has, in the past 7occn deplorable to see labour, that groat mass of empire-workers, fall victims to the insane doctrines these disciples of Marx and others preach and practice; will they benefit by the object lesson of what social destruction really mean to a nation? To study the progress of extreme Marxism, termed Maximalism, which is precisely what is understood in New Zealand as RedFcdism ,is to learn and have demonstrated to us, just what will happen here if ever that class aided by their impressionable and easily-led labour victims should ever be powerful enough to seize the governing powers. Russian Red Feds have stopped the war and are arranging peace, say some of their kind amongst us. We admit they have done something which can scarcely be so designated. They have made peace with their enemies, but at what a price ? They have given over their country and the masses of the Russian people to the tender mercies of the most brutally barbarous nation of robbers and murderers that the world hitherto had any conception could exist. That part of Russia that the Germans have no immediate use for, or arc at present unable to exploit,' is convulsed with a bloody internecine struggle. The Red Fed leaders have, with the aid of scientifc barabric Hun culture, set every Russian against his brother. Germany could not slay the Russian people to the degree of subjection, but Red Fedism raises up the arm of brother against brother, and Russians are now turning their immense country into a shambles, covering a third of the earth laud with blood. When these unfortunate victims of Red Fedism have a surfeit of their bloody fratricidal work, they will lie helpless, like clay in the Hun potter's hand, and if Germany should by any unforeseen happening emerge from the war with the possession of any voice and power in shaping the destinies of any peoples, Russia will become Germanised. Russia was being sacrificed from its two extremes ■ —to the treachery and greed of the Czar and to that appanage that surrounded his court at -one end, and by

the insane destructionists at the other

—for the moment the latter arc in possession, and cables telling of their precept and example are conclusive evidence that they arc of the common brand of Red Fedists who will sell their brothers into slavery or set them at each other's throats that they may reap the reward of their Iscariotism. In Russia we have a demonstration, a living picture and example of what the triumph of Red Fedism in New Zealand would mean to us. Like the Germans they have made peace with, Maximalists 'Or their leaders have shown that they have not a spark of national or indi-

vidual honour; they have "scrapped" all pacts, treaties, and other honourable arrangements with their friends and allies. They have instituted a regime of dishonour which places them beyond the pale of association with any other nation on earth execept Germany and Turkey, and even in the the eyes of Germany, bad as that country is, they are regarded as human filth, only to be made use of in such an extremity as Germans now find themselves. Eussian anarchists have not only made peace with Germany, but also with Turkey, and the terms of the armistice provides that all Russian troops shall fraternise, and seek intercourse with their erstwhile foes. To what extremes will not the self-seeking leaders of national destruction go in attaining their ends ? The traditional foes of Russia, Russians are ordered to seek intercourse fith, to fraternise with, and to friendly trade with; t'ney are to flout and to sacrifice everything on any code of honour because such is needful in the process of aggrandisement of Lenin, Trotsky, and their close associates. That the British Empire should ever fall under-the methods of Red Fcdism is something too awful to contemplate, but so long as me.n at one end of the social fabric arc permitted to accumulate wealth produced while men, women, and children are standing in queues a mile long all night waiting for the morsel that will help to keep starvation from claiming their last breath, danger is very near. No condition is worse than starvation, and men will naturally take any course rather than give up his life and the lives of his family to a starvation brought upon him by the greed of others. People are so engrossed with the present, either in accumulating riches or' striving for the means to exist, that they have no care for the future. Russia is learning the lesson; people in t that unhappy country are having the biblical precept, "lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth whore rust and moth doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal," which they in their callous greed have spurned, now mercilessly forced into practice upon them. Everything, whether it be land, money, or other valuables, are being taken, confiscated, nationalised, or taken to enrich the Lenins and Trotskys. Has the future of New Zealand, of the great British Empire no care for us? Are NeM Zealanders, Britishers, going heedlessly on in pursuit of the precisely similar conditions that brought social and national ruin and degradation to Russia? The masses of "our people have common-sense and they exhibit those honourable traits which are traditional yet they are largely left dut of national consideration, except as beasts of burden. The real leaders of the masses in a course that is honourable—the John Ballances and Richard Seddtms—were maligned and hounded by the million-makers, but what is the result? There has arisen men who are preaching sedition and revolution, and they are making alarming progress in the promulgation of their doctrines. Far-seeing men have recently urged a bringing together in counsel of worker and employer to . discuss interests in common with a | view to establishing bonds of amity, : but a section of the employers of today who were the canaille of yesterj day constitute a serious obstruction to any such desired consummation. The future of New Zealand, and the future of the British Empire rests with the leaders of the people to-day; they can determine whether the Empire drifts into a state of anarchy, confiscation, robbery; murder, and civil war such as we see in Russia, or whether, maintaining the traditions of the race, it cantinues in the future a pattern of honour and humane Government.