The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1920. COLLAPSE OF BRITISH BOLSHEVISM.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3629, 16 November 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1920. COLLAPSE OF BRITISH BOLSHEVISM.

With which is incorporated “The Taihape Post and Waimarino News/’

Bolshevism in the land of the Bolshevik'i seems to ebb and flow witn the fluctuations between success and failure of the Bolshevik armies. Lenin learns that his forces are enjoying a spell of victory, and he becomes perky and boastful. With failure he relapses into a condition of sullen insolence, and reaches a state of desperation, letting go a stream of the most direful threats against the whole world, and against r Britain in particular as his Bed armies \ are made to scuttle and run. It is on j the changing fortunes -of Bolshevik arms that the idiosyncrasies of the seer of Bolshevism are made more

clearly apparent. He‘ cannojt by a cultured mind hide his feelings from pub- ' lie view; when he is being punished he screams vengeance; when he is satisfied he becomes a boastful ignoramus. Through it all he discovers to the world that his resources are rapidly being used up in a campaign of idiocy. His means for carrying—©n ruthless war according to plan „and promise are vanishing, the task has

proved too ponderous for him, and he now intimates that his promise to capture all Asia must rely solely upon his poisonous propaganda, which is to enter the soul of the various tribesmen, filling them with a frenzy that is to make them rush down into an orgy of slaughter such as the Bolshevik soul truly delights in. The military strength -of Bolshevism is undoubtedly passing, in time the virus of its propaganda will also become enfeebled and die out, * } for as pronounced supporters of Bolshevism in Britain and other civilised countries become familiar with the inner nature of the cult they revolt against its diabolical teachings. Not long ago it seemed certain that all British Labour would grasp the cult of i Lenin and Trotsky. British Labour mcmlbers of Parliament had reached a stage in their conversion when they could be trusted with all Bolshevism

had to disclose. A great conference was arranged at Geneva, at which the great disillusionment of British Socialists and democrats was complete. They heard the last word in Bolshevism, and they naturally, as civilised men, standing for the betterment of man’s condition, had not one word left to utter iri support of Bolshevism. Mr. Arthut Henderson, the guide and hope of socialism in the British Parliament, returned from Geneva with a loathing of Bolshevism that even he cannot find words to adequatciy express. He has told British Labour that Bolshevism seeks to enslave the people by the setting up of a dictatorship more harmful and hurtful to the cause of the masses than the most extreme imperialism that was ever practiced. Mr. Henderson and his fellow members of Parliament were called to Geneva to bless Bolshevism, and they came away showering upon it all the curses their resourceful vocabularies could frame, and they have been cursing it ever

since The British Council of Action was short-lived; the Geneva Conference will doubtless fiausc earnest, honest tnen ta be ashamed of their connection it. It is discovered before too late that Bolshevism is an inferno into which it was sought to envelop all workers, and bring them under the tender mercies of a ruthless, heartless dictatorship. British Labour has had its fill of Bolshevism, and it will now doubtless direct attention to developing schemes for reaching the greater heights that Socialism is aiming for in the uplifting of the masses of humanity from the into which greed and lust for power has thrust it. Curiosity is already being expressed as to how New Zealand loaners towards Bolshevism will view the new attitude of a their guide, _ counsellor and" friend in'BritfslT Labour circles. Will they continue to extol the virtues and belaud the Labour principles of Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P.? Thje curtain is about to rise on New Zealand Labour leaders; will it.discover earnest, honest, humane workers for a- return of their birthright to-the masses, or will there appear in all Hie hideousness of Bolshevism soulless advocates for the dictatorship of Lenin? If New Zea- j land Labour leaders have now become convinced,"with the Labour Party who attended the Geneva Conference, that Bolshevism is the worst curse with which Labour could be afflicted, will they,-confess their blunders, and ally themselves honourably under the banner which now floats over Mr. Arthur Henderson, and at once institute new means of reaching. that Labour Elysium in which there is no rude dictators'll in? With the renunciation of

BolflrwjV i noiv conditions for advocation of human- laws arc opened un

There is once more common ground on which all Labour can again meet and evolve and institute a common campaign in humanity’s vital interest, and no time should he lost in making good the gaps cut in Labour ranks by the Bolshevism that has so soon erploded.