The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919 MR. SEMPLE ON BOLSHEVISM.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 March 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919 MR. SEMPLE ON BOLSHEVISM.

(With which is Incorporated The Tai* haps Po*t tod WalnsMl’jo N«wa).

j The law-abiding people of this Dominion are fully justified in believing and stating publicly that there is, at least, one avowed trinity of anarchy a member of their Parliament, for has not Mr Semple stated to a Dominion audience that “if he was in Russia he would be a Bolshevist; if in Germany, a Sparticist; and if in Ireland, a Sinn Fciner.” We congratulate Mr. Semple on being in a long-suffering Anglo-Saxon community, because if he were in Germany. to-day and chanced Ito exhibit his Sparticism within the reach of Noske he would either be,

shot at sight or lined up against a wall with other outlaws and enemies of peaceful Government and be shot. But Mr. Semple takes good care to remain in New Zealand, amongst New j Zealanders, who regard him as a so--1 cial crank, but even the patience of | Anglo-Saxons will not be. trifled with I limitlessly. Mr Semple has constitutj vd himself a New Zealand champion I of the most hideous cult that has ever I poisoned the breath of the people of 1 this world from the time the first | word of history was written, and I the ultra-credulous, the criminallyj minded and the pitiably ignorant arc believing every word he utters. His poisoned breath is being used to contaminate the sacred profession of labour. Apparetnly Mr Semple has fastened upon labour unions and fed- | orations to enable him to spread the j most damnable doctrines that file | cruellest and most bloodthirsty conceptions the anipial in mail is capable of. If the deepest and darkest pits of hell and infamy were scavengered to find the filthiest and most frightful elements on which to base a new cult I j to involve mankind in an orgy of selfj destruction, it is not conceivable tfilTt ( anything better adapted for the pur-

I pose than the creed .of the Bolsheviks I could be discovered, search as one ■ would, and yet the professor of such I a cult is given the protection of the laws of fair New Zealand. But where did the apostles of the frightfulness of Bolshevism commence the proselyj tising, was it in enlightened England, or even in Germany? Not at all, the most ignorant, credulous peoplle in Europe were selected by the murderers, destroyers, sabots, and ravagers amongst whom to get a footing on earth for their hell-divined doctrines. But Mr. Semple, like the snake of Eden, asks New Zealand Eves whe- i ther the revolting news cabled to this country is true, and he answers his own question, as did the destroyer of Eden) whether it be allegorical or ; not) by asserting .boldly that the j cables are lies, that there is not a | word ,of truth in them, and some poor j credulous intelligences believe him. When the Bolshevik proclamation i about the nationalisation of girls and women came along, in which itwas de- j creed that every woman and girl from j the age of eighteen up were the pro- j p.’rty of the State; that they were to | present themselves like pigs in droves j periodically, when brutes called men | from nineteen to fifty years of age could go amongst them and select anyone they pleased, regardless of the consent of the girl or woman, Mr. Semple raved and raged, lost his mental balance, and declared it all the most damnable of lies. He told audience after audience that the nationalisation of girls and women was a Canard published by some insignificant newspaper in Scandinavia, and that this newspaper got the frightful proclamation from a remote source somewhere in the Ural Mountains. No, Mr Semple, mountain atmosphere is too pure, clear, and fresh to permit

of the origin of snoli a filthy docu

meat; it was conceived, written, and published in the deepest,, hottest, most central spot in the heii of Bolshevism. There is no doubt about the authenticity of the disgraceful proclamation; it was published in the Russian newspaper “Izvestia,” the official Bolshevist organ; it was issued by the Soviet of the City of Vladimir; there was nothing remote about its origin; it was .-officially evolved by Bolsheviks and officially issued by the Soviets of Hie City of Vladimir; it was printed in the Bolshvvrk ' official newspaper,, which stated that the decree was based on the example of similar regulations issued at Buga, Kolpeno, and other cities. In the. City of Khvolinsk and in places in that district there was also published in Soviet newspapers details of provisional rights in connection with the * ‘Socialisation of Women,” and Mr Semple knows as well as the rest of mankind the truth about this hideously dehumanising, bitterly degrading, beautiful proclamation; and yet, in the face of what he knows, he tells the women and girls of New Zealand that it is all lies. While Mr Semple knows the truth about this proclamation he deliberately tolls the women and girls of this. Dominion that it had its origin in some remote place in the Ural mountains, ia place to which modern civilisation has not yet penetrated. Mr Semple’s story indicates that ho has a.- perfectly correct estimation of how women of this Dominion would regard such a proclamation, and in face of the facts he repudiates it. Sensible people can M> Semple in his championship of Bolshevism as a tool or a fool. Labour loaders with whom Mr Semple is in communion in the Legislature are endeavouring to camouflage the audacity of their confrere; in fact, «ho Hon. J. T. Paul virtually rcpudiates it. and even Mr Holland and Mr Fraser arc discreetly silent about it. It is a fairly well established trpth that Bolshevism ia seeking to remodel society on' Bolshevik lines, and in accordance with Bolshevik thought and desire as regards women, and in Russia, whore it deems itself powerful enough it has not hesitated to proclaim its now social--policy, which is the complete nationalisation orljocialisation of all women and girls of eighteen years >of age. All over tlic age of eighteen must register their names with ,tho Soviets, and periodically meet to display themselves for men to choose any from among them they please, and the woman has no power- to object, Jjdt must go with the brute who selects her or suffer the horrors of a punishment B'olsheviks alone know how to inflict. It is world-widely admitted that Bolshevism is tTTo most degrading menace that modern civilisation has any experience of. even outdistancing that of Prussianism. An entirely frank address by Mr Semple,- M.P.. on the subject of “ Why I Support and Champion in New Zealand the Cult of Bolshevism” would be interesting at any time before the next general election. Documents have recently been discovered which prove that both Lenin and Trotsky are agents of the Prussian GoernmenL That being so, has Mr Semple’s attachment to the high priests of Bolshevism any relationship with their German masters? That' aspect, at least, does concern every honourable citizen of this country, and it would be degrading in the extreme

to compel the people’s representatives in Parliament to continue addressing Mr Semple as “ Honourable ’ ’ if liis professions of Bolshevism involve him in any such admissions.