The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919. A SOCIAL DISEASE.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 March 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919. A SOCIAL DISEASE.

(With wttich iB incorporated The fai« hape Poat tad Wralisatkio News).

It is largely displayed and indelibly written upon the slate of the civilised world that production and trade are the antithesis of I tdsbevism. In countries where production is plentiful, trade is flourishing, and peoples are prosperous, there is little or no sign of Bolshevism; but where Bolshevism is rampant, • pursuing its course of robbery and murder, and disorganisation production is virtually at a standstill, trading and manufacture is impracticable and society is chaotic./ There is no doubt, about this, for look where one will there is convincing testimony in daily and hourly Idemonstration. Then, we may conclude that Bolshevism is the evolution of criminal intelligence; we are justified in doing so because it results in the establishment of a ro'gn :>•-' Urror such as the world has hitherto bad no conception of. Life is never safe; one lie from a known Bolshevist is all that is required to put a man against a wall for summary execution ar/d degradation. Manufacturers and traders cannot operate because tue idea of common

property renders everything manufactured, raw materia l ', and even the factory and machinery, being seized by a bddy of half-demented criminals; starvation and instability prevail everywhere except in the bloody human machinery of destruction Bolshe-

vik dictators have set up to effect their levelling clown of man to the state of the brute. Conditions in Bolshevik countries are so obvious that no evenly-balanced, mentality woul'd think of denying their existence, and yet Bolshevik propagandists find material even in New Zealand on which to piy their disaster-bringing cult. At one period of comparatively recent British history the coastline of Britain was infested with a body of men known as "Wreckers."' These men lived on the wreckage an'd destruction they could effect in dark, stormy weather by decoying ships at sea on to a rocky coast by the display of false guiding lights. When the object ex their treachery bumped and broke upon the rocks to which it hati. been enticed the Wreckers callously loft seamen and passengers to the mercy of waves and an angjry sea while they plundered the wreck of its cargo of valuables. If Wreckers were with us to-day they would undoubtedly be termed Bolsheviks. Wreckers flourished and found many friends in their time, but human instincts are for peace and justice, and they were exterminated. B'olsheviks are the Wreckers of the present day; they murder and destroy that they may seize upon the social wreckage they succeed in effecting, caring nothing for the lives they destroy, and a peaceloving nuankin'd will cast them out into the oblivion to which Wreckers have gone. The state of the public mind and the degree of education in any country is traceable and capable of being estimated by the spread of Bolshevism. In Russia ignorance is prevalent everywhere and the public min'd is so dishevelled and society disrupted that the country is an easy prey to the Bolshevik wreckers. In Germany the spread of Bolshevism is chiefly owing to the state of the public mind resulting from the decisive defeat of militarism by which it sought to seine floTriiialion of tlie world.

and by the starvation that the Allied

blockade of the country has wrought. Actual ignorance is playing only a small part in German Bolshevism, and there are undoubted evidences that with a plenitude of food the (distracted people will soon banish the Bolshevik and settle down to ret reiving the industries for which they were hitherto wcrld-widcly renowned. Bolshevism is the abandonment of industry and peaceful organisation fojr systematic robbery and murder, it is the doctrine ox Prussian might is right carried to its most awful extreme, and its very nature renders its complete destruction sure and absolute. While people arc in a state of inflammation they see nothing in Govemmet that is respectable; they see the prevailig abuse an!d nothing else; they iaro rendered furious by the governing house of ill-fame, and they do not think of correction or regulation; they take the shortest way to abate oppression, hardship and illcJOnditions, and pull (down the whole social structure. Can there be any sublimer sight than to witness the efforts of a nation to save itself from such disaster, by tempering its laws and rendering them more in accordance with the spirit of justice that the masses are somewhat blindly seeking? We would ask sane labour' in this country not to allow the desperation into which it is forced, the inflamed state of mind which is begat of laws that permit them to be robbed and exploited, to thoughtlessly ally itself with Bolshevism, that anarchy and lawlessness which is self-destructive. Labour has all the power to peacefully and lawfully reform society so that conditions of life do not. permit of the fear of want, and do not lend themselves to the making of millionaires. Ambition and enterprise are admirable qualities, but Bolshevism is a social mental defection; it is purely an'd simply « social disease which will furnish its own antidote.