The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE THURSDAY, APRIL 10. A NEW ZEALAND UTOPIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 April 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

THURSDAY, APRIL 10. A NEW ZEALAND UTOPIA.

(With wHieh is Incorporate*? The Taihape Post c,c& WaiscrVi'-* !Sewß).

General Smuts lias been sent to Hungary by the Allies to pacify the people by letting them know just what the Entente is prepared to. do to assist them back to a healthy, civil L life, and if necessary enter into a new armistice with the Hungarian people with such conditions as will save them from the starvation brought upon themselves by their connection with Germany in,, the war. It is now reported that Smuts is leaving Hungary without arranging a new armistice, and there is fear that the Kussian intrigor Bela Kim has ecme into prominaneo with a communistic scheme that augurs ill for the middle and upper class people. The ''Daily News'" correspondent in Budapest says a now freak Utopia has been started by a mob who raided the prison, released Bela Kuu, late Lenin's confidential agent, and a Soviet Republic was proclaimed half an hour afterwards. The many social changes in such countries are fully explained in: the I'aotHhat. despite the claim that they arc made in the name of democracy, every mob leader. wh;o, for the moment, is in power', spends very nearly all his time in dictating what people shall do, and how they shall be governed, but the secret of the fugitive success of these leaders lies in that fact that he ene.ourag.os the belief in Ms followers, who are drawn from the ignorant, and criminal classes, that it is quite right and honourable for them to rob and murder everybody, man 'and woman, who possesses Anything to be robbed of. One' of Bela Kim's first orders is that bathrooms shall be put in every house, which shall bo available to all children, the houseoccupier to supply hot water, soap, and towels. It is evident the subject in Bela Knn 's Utopia is not to have a home that is his castle. He informed the "Daily News" man that everyone willing to work should receive State wages. He is not concerned about the frontiers because he stands for a universal brotherhood; all leadership should be in the hands of workers, and rich people must cease to exist. Bela Kun did not idisclose (much of Jiis Utopia, but it is sufficient to show how helplessly and disastrously it must, like all other Utopias, fail. It will run its bloody course till its subjects have murdered all capable organisers of that industry whereby a people only can live, and until all stores and nearly all capita) have been wasted. Only those willing to work arc to receive State wages, but if any Utopia is to come near success everyone must be willing to work. The sage who wrote in the Book of Genesis, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou cat bread," knew and stated the only basis upon which any democratic superstructure can be successfully built. Foredoomed to .ridicule and failure is any Utopian scheme in 'which only the willing horse' is to work. Bela. Kun 's brotherhood of, man goes the whole hog; there are to be no naTional or community boundaries; he is not concerned about frontiers, and. however . divergent civilisations have, in the centuries, drifted in opposite directions i.nd ideals, all, is to be wiped, away j by his mere dictation that it shall be so. Anything so sweeping is, of

course, too absurd for serious consideration, and the text of Bela Kan's interview is only useful os instancing the catchy rubbish with which the Lenin's and Bela Kuns corrupt the untrained minds of labour to enable them to work out their own selfish, criminal purposes. Since the Book of G-enesis laid it down that all must work, there have been thousands of sages and wise men who have realised that work is the true basis for any democracy to be built upon. Man's Utopias are but the pictures of himself; .examine his Utopia and there, stripped bare/arc the undeniable evidences of his .unmingled selfishness, his irritated vanity; lot me be on top whoever is at the bottom, is his cree,d, and he commences a campaign of distraction of everything above him, and what an awful residue; nothing but the man's vanity and sorry selfism. Carlyle paraphrases Genesis in saying: "To work, then, one and all; hands to work." The waster, the destroyer, and the builder are, it seems, almost re'ady to commence work in this young country; will their schemes be according to the B'ela Kun views, or will they be based upon Genesis, Carlyle, and the prophetic writings of G. S. Whittier? If labour and democracy will stand off and view ! the contrast that is before thoughtfully the Utopia sought to be established here will be based upon true human love and benevolence —world service, not selfism, and who will say such a Utopia is not realisable? We need no (mystic shibboleths, or heiroglyphs, no dreaming; all must be harmony, and its leader must point his finger to labour, to work, to effort to produce and to achieve; the land will be no better except by what labour does for it, and there will be no riches 10-ther than what labour delves and works for. There will be nothing come supernaturally at the dictates of any New Zealand Bela Kuns; it will be just a state of humanity aud nothing more, therefore there will be frailties and feebleness. We want no state or condition in which the man who kills most men is worshipped as >a god while labour is a cypher; we want bankruptcy, beggary, tyranny, helplessness, hypocrisy "and fraud passed out | into oblivion, and we desire the true virtue of work, of labour, to take their places. If the New Zealand ''Utopia to come is based upon every man being compelled to work, instead of. as provided by the Bela Kun Utopia in Hungary, his being willing to work, there is little reason to doubt j its ultimate suceefes. The want of the whole world to-day is system, and we | arc getting' from the Bela Kuns and the Lenins, Arthur Hendersons, and Ramsay Macdonalds an unfathomable chaos. We may, in New Zealand, be on the eve of what has been termed by Boone, "a constructive era of society:" if this means that there is to be less waste of labour in vices and questionable pleasures, and from the city haunts of vice a stream of manhood is turned upon the land to labour, to increase the food and riches whereby nations arc made truly great, and their peoples are made prosperous, free and happy, and comfort is made to reign ir. the smallest habitation, wo j shall have solved the Utopia problem. ! j ,T. n. Whittier gives us lead and eour- j i age in the words: — j

Take heart, the waster builds again, A charmed life old goodness hath; The fares may perish, but the grain Is not for death.