SOVIET GOVERNMENT ENSURED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3388, 17 January 1920, Page 4

SOVIET GOVERNMENT ENSURED.

-_..._._._¢_.r There is now no doubt"' about the assured triumph. of Bolshevism; in Russia. Lenin. and Trotsky have defied and fought against. all comers 111151 1151"? won, and what is to be the 111111101100 upon the masses in all other countries‘? One may be comforted with the belief that there can scarcely be a levelling down of Russians to the lowest class, and that the most probable outcome will be a general flow to that condition in which are the better class trading people. Whichever it may be, the civilised world, the purdueing world,» and the trading and mercantile world are faced with an innovation. in govermnent, society, and industry, that will not be neglected however much the desire may be to fence it out from other countries. Its influence is already being widely felt, Lithuanians and Letts are making peace with 801shevikg «and are introducing Soviet Government. The victory of Lenin‘ and Trotsky is being reflected in Germany and other European countries, and the British Empire cannot leave it out of its considerations without incurring fatal results. The Premiers’ “New Yea.r’s Message” was nothing less than an -acknowledgment of the truth of this view. Military experts go on telling us that Britain will be Called upon to fight again within the next year or two; they see in the commercialist rush to ruin all Eprope and America in the throes of :1 somewhatsimilar internpcine struggle as H 1335 from which Russian Bolshevism is just Victoriously emerging, and they set! the wily Jap lying back awaiting his opportunity. Seven years ago IlobodY (h*(3.anlt even ‘".h'{lt Germany C'Ou'ld ]_)I‘0" duee such carnage and destruction as that we now have ample evidence of, and nobody new dreams of the power

that will be given to ‘the Yellow Peri]

by those profiteers, trusts and_extol'tioners that are fast driving all civilised peoples to follow the Bolshevik example. In the German war the world was menaced with slavery, and it took virtually all the men and armaments not arrayed on the side of that peril to save civilisation, but is there not an infinitely more appalling menace in the internal disruption of society and industry in America and throughout the British Empire, while Japan is systematically increasing armaments of every kind and establishing bases and munition work in accordanceiwith military science‘! Gnovernments have encouraged commercialism. until it has got. out of hand, and now defies all governments; it is the canker that 15 poisoning the national life-blood, the worm that i~ spreading dry I‘of tvlll'ou,9,hout t:iv’l'.safion, and governments are po‘.vel.les.=; to check it. If politicians will not endeavour to stem the wave of destruction; if scientists and economists will not picture the ruin that is being wrought; if a far superior class of labour to that of Russia will not commence a campaign against the yellow peril that seems imminent, let. the churches at least, preach, Sundays and week-days, day and night, in support of the “New Year ’s Messagefi’ the B'l'itisll Commonwealth Premiers have breadcasted. It is nobocly’s business, nobody’s mission to start while there is yet time to save civiliation from infinitely worse than the Mohammedan death to Cliristian peoples in their subjugation of large areas of Europe? The League of Nations may achieve international peace, but the real peace needed is that which will save civilisation.