The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 1919. A WAVE OF ANARCHY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3335, 13 November 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 1919. A WAVE OF ANARCHY.

With which I'ls incorporated “The Taihape Post and Waimarino News.”

British people are neither alarmist, impulsive, dogmatic nor -are they ever looking for trouble, yet these qualities, which are regarded.‘ on occasions as: virtues came very near to bringing; about the downfall of the race. If any plotting, scheming, 01' other treason-it able and traitorous engineering against‘ the State or society is -discovered it is invariably the origination and work of foreigners, men who seem to be much‘ more endowed with such criminal 111-‘ stincts than ‘British are. War came] upon Britain almost as’ a flash through ‘ her free admission of foreigners intoher life and industry; foreigners are frequently ‘turning up -as spies and plotters, not only in Britain, but also in all her dominions up to the present" moment, and yet we go on admitting‘ foreigners almost daily into our industrial life, into ‘society, and even givel tonthem positions of trust in our -govern- 3 ing institutions. British people,l through their incliriatioii not to regard Ii foreigners as being any more given to; treachery than themselves, invite sucht uprisings against the law as-are_-.fre,-ti qirenhily ‘occurring in various pants of Australia.‘ Nothing very serious of the kind has yet happened in this Dominion, but it will be little short of miraculous if our disregard of the foreign element in our midst. does Il'ot' sooner or later cause the trouble our lapse in this connection seems _to invite. In America, Canada, South Africa, and Australia, plotting against Empire and State is overshadowing trade robbery and its resultant high cost of living. In Australia, a Masterl Spy, who will not disclose his idell-{ tity, is being deported, and nobody‘ yet knows the extent of his ramifications in breaking down the social! fabric. Th’e exact nature, and the‘ volume of his treachery is not yet dis- \ coverable, consequently, although the; originator has been caught, the machi-i nery he has set going may yet do in~‘ calculable injury to the Shiite against which he has been plot’f-ing and ‘SPY? ing. In South Africa, -the old ‘German element is causing considerable uneasiness, and something sirnilfll‘ Obtains in Canada, but it seems that the major organised attempt is being made to break down industry and government. in most. powerful quarters, first hoping that when that is achieved States such as New Zealand will fall‘ an easy prey. The United States Government has laid bare an immense organiS3"fioll of treachery; a combination of Russian workers, pledged to- overthrow the United States Government by revolutionary means. This organisation is actually directed by the Russian Chief of Police, in Petrograd; it has its ‘ branches, with a membership of 70,000, iright throughout the States, and con- ‘ ventions of the who-le are ‘held from ltime to time as the Director may lord-er. It carries on propaganda in 1 every part of America through "news- [ pflpcrs and by paid agitators. A comiplete counterfeiting plant was found, t Which Was.to go on turning out Spill”.ious coins and fictitious notes wherewith to bribe and decoy new memberkship in the Bolshevik cult. Bundles of bank notes ready for distribution were

seized, but it is not stated how many

of such notes are already supposed to be in circulation. The comprehensiveness of the scheme is reflccted in the fact that many tons Of I'o‘/0111' ticnary literature were seized. Simul-‘ taneously 700 police raided 73 Bolshe‘vil; llicatdquarterst and 81"1‘95t0d 500 men, ch-arged with criminal‘ anarchy, amongst whom is -the ‘3ilotoTio*llS Jim Larkin. These prisoncl's Were Pledg‘ ed with those who are still at liberty, to convert small strikes into large strikes, and general strikesinto open armed revolution of ‘the woirkillg classes against», the State. Vvorkers were to immediately seize all means of production, and all articles Of 00115111119‘ tion, and make the workers masters of all wealth; they were to mercilessly destroy all that remained of Government authority and class domination, all titles to property, all fences and boundaries ‘to privla:tel,'y-owned (land, totally placing power in communes appointed for the purpose. We would seriously point out to New '-Zealand workers and producers that it is not the plot of a comic opera that is being dismissed andiput into practizz in America; it, is a: diabolically conceived plan for the destruction of all law and order by criminal an;il:ch’st3 who are in deadly earnest. Wit".lou: a shadow of doubt there are thousands of workers being inveigled into strikes by revolutionary anarchists who would scorn the man who dare suggest they were anything but loyal to their country, and yet they are most assuredly the victims of the organised anarchist agitator class. So insinuatingly, insidiously do the social government wreckers ply their damnable vocation that it behoves all workers to beware how they commit themselves to any secret agitator. At no time in the history of civilisation was there such imperative need for caution by all classes of the community in accepting virtually unknown and untried men at their own face value. It is because the British vvorkman is unsuspecting owing to his own innate honest, law-abiding traits; because he is an open-faced, fully jewelled British lever, that he is sometimes duped by the speciousness and corruption of the A.'lli‘dl‘C‘iliSt '.lna‘lll-‘delStl!'o_V€l‘. The United States’ Department. of Justice has; completely determined the fact that Riissians are not primarily responsible for this wave of anachy over the world, it was conceived an.d made in Gerznany, by Germans, by a people into whom is inbred deceit, lying ' and treachery, by a people that prefer to govern by brute force rather than by humane intelligence, and it is in this theigreuater danger lties. Germ-an authorities shipped 500 ‘or these Communists to Russia. and the world is new experiencing the re"sult; a-contin-"gent was despatched to. the United States to work similar disaster to that wrought in Russia; the capture of a Master Spy has been made in Australia, and after the general election next month the anarchist. monster may be expected to show his teeth in this little Dominion. VVbilo success or failure‘ at the elections is causing exciienlcnt in the ranks of’ workers, the Anarchist agitator may discover his opportunity, and it is sheer lunacy to assume that New Zealand is going to be more immune from the activities of these State WTOCkel’s than any‘ -other country. W-orkcrls "are as loyal: as any class in our community, but it must be realised that it is the working class that the revolutionary anarchist first honours with his attentions. It may be, however, that failure in other countries will modify plans for work in New Zealand.