The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1920. ANOTHER UTOPIA PASSING.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3603, 15 October 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1920. ANOTHER UTOPIA PASSING.

With which is incorporated "The Taihape Post and Waimarino News,"

It seems apparent. that another ; Utopia has failed; that Bolshevism has been weighed too well in the .balance and found to be utterly wanting. Taking final results of the Red revolution in Russia what is there to be found in them that are admirable, or even tolerable? The failure of Bolshevism presents another serious going off at a tangent of; a people who have striven through long years for some humane social and industrial* reform, and have embittered instead of rendered more palatable their conditions of life. In the chaotic social state precipitated by the enforced abdication of the Czar, a few anarchists fanned the feelings of the populace into a frenzy in which acts of destruction, confiscation and murder became of every-day occurrence, committed at the will and dictation of men of the very worst type; committed without any previous consideration of justice or mercy; no plan or policy existed to guide the Red slaves of Lenin, and Trotsky in their robberies, confiscations and massacres; nothing but the will and dictation of two insane individuals, who, in the general melee managed to get possession of the governing machinery. With the fall of the Bolshevik Utopia the great- Russian State is virtually dissipated; it has to be rebuilt from its foundations upward. That Russia will rapidly recover there need be little doubt but Bolshevism of the Lenin and Trotsky type will have to be suppressed with just as much severity as was practised in its establishment. It is a vile, viper ous, sinuous thing; the most deadly trap into which the masses of the people have either been led or and no road of return is visibly possible that does not lie ' through its destruction —over its bones. In Russia; custodians of the public estate and the makers of laws during Czarist days were only a little more actuated by selfishness and self-aggrandise-ment than are custodians of the public estate, and the makers oflitatute laws in other countries, Like did not produce like, however, because in those other countries the people are better educated and therefore better fitted to realise the folly and danger of what such orgies of anarchy could only result in. To find what social cancers are being grafted upon the people in >the name of liberty there need be no going abroad but it is unthinkable that educated intelligence of the masses in this Dominion will ever see any virtue for good in the Bolshevik frenzy which labour Members of Parliament have, in and out of season, inside and outside of Parliament, extolled. Bolshevism in Russia appears to have "shot its' bolt, " wrought its own destruction in time to warn people against its application to the miscarriages of justice in this Dominion. New Zealand will be well rid of it for Labour will in future incline to more irreproachable ethical methods of warfare against privilege and patronage. While New Zealand Bolshevism is lifting aloud its vo.'ce against the introduction of Chinese to this country, Lenin and Trotsky are using Red armies composed almost entirely of Chinese ghouls in suppresssing any and every expression against their regime. Thousands of Russians are being massacred by Lenin's army of Chinese mercenary ghouls, but I there is no longer any possibility of Bolshevism enlisting Chinese mercenaries to do the butchering of innocent people in this country. Russia is fast heading for peace; peace is very urgently being sought, and what is of particular moment to New Zealanders is the rapid attainment of peace conditions in that unfortunate country. The nearness of a state of peace has virtually cast over the American wheat corner a condition of panic, by bringing the price of wheat down from throe dollars to Jess than ono dollar "a" bushe] # Owing to the declining price of wheat British people are agitating to have th"e price of a four pound loaf lowered from fourteen pence to one shilling. The Australian Commonwealth is refusing to be led into any trap for artifically keeping up wheat prices; the Government virtually proposes that as wheat people have had all the'enormous advantages of increases, the people shall not be forced to "carry Ih> monkey" in whatever degree of slump may occur. Not only in Russia nave "harvests been more than ordinarily good, but also in all wheat-growing "counfives north of the equator. While wheat monopolists may control machinery for keeping up prices to a dishonest level in India, America and in the Do-

minions, Russian wheat is roGro difficult to manoeuvre, and ix tke-.Br*irii' Government is really in- earnest to bring about a return to popular contentment it can control, with France, very much, of the millions of tons of wheat that Wrangel's successes arc setting loose. It is with the improvement of the food supply likely to "result from the defeat of Bolshevism that labour throughout the world is most deeply concerned. Hafl Bolsbevis~m continued to "succeed in Russia, Red revolution would doubtedly have affected the peoples of other countries, and have rendered the production of food utterly inadequate for maintaining the present volume of human life. With only partial defeat of Bolshevism the peasant, wheat-farmers are settling down to production for the maximum, believing that means of export and handsome returns have -already taken the place of seizure of crops for feeding ghoulish Chinese mercenary Red armies. Peasant farmers have realised that it was no benefit to them to farm bourgoisie lands simply to have their crops commandeered to feed'bands of Red Chinese murderers. Experience of Bolshevism is producing a reaction throughout Russia, and risings against the Red regime are rife all over the land. The Moscow Government is being denounced freely and openly notwithstanding the butcheries of the Chinese ghouls under Lenin— and Trotsky's direction. General Townshend, the hero of Kut, has, with or without Britain's connivance, thrown in his lot with Wrangel, and as the Poles have the forces of Bolshevism virtually defeated in the north, and Wrangel, with the aid of Generals Wieganfl and Townshend, is continuing a triumphal march ir. "the South, there is a strong probability thaF all primary products will soon reflect the shiploads of wheat ? hutter and woof that are carefully being looked after by.-Weigand and Townshend on behalf of Britain and France. Russian harvests have just been garnered, and as the yield was very much above the average there will he many millions of tons for export; already it has materially affected the world's wheat prices in favour of the masses of the people. Russian export is alreadjr rendering ridiculous the cry of greed for production and still more production, and monopolising all that was produce's for exploitation of the people. The defeat of Bolshevism in Russia i? the great? est 'factor in sight in defeating greed and in widespreading national, social and industrial peace, plenty and popular contentment. . X