The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1920. GUERILLA REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3644, 3 December 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1920. GUERILLA REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS.

With which ia incorporated “The Taihape Post and Waimarino News.”

Whatever be the bottommost underlying causes no doubt is possible about the field of destruction over which people with anarchic tendencies are operating becoming, almost daily, more extensive. The people of Ireland seem to be committed to seff-extinc-tion, from the murders, massacres and assassinations, reports of which are given first place in leading British newspapers. In reading reports of the razing and burning of property the thought is suggested that one half the people have been struck with a frenzy of madness, which has not only robbed them of the use of their reasoning faculties, but has; actually also perverted their animal instincts. The great edifices, monuments to civilisation, which one section of people build another destroys. Like the proverbial ."thief in the night/f cut-throats associate in gangs and go about murdering, burning, sacking and destroying ing everything attracting their evil eyes; nothing is sacred from the exercise of the spirit of devils with which they have been filled. The alarming aspect of it all is the sad disclosure that learned men are advocating, assisting, encouraging, openly and secretly helping on the spread of the present wave" of anarchy, which is the more disconcerting because the real object of it, though somewhat apparent, is' not yet openly stated. In Ireland this terrible social affliction is attributed to Sinn Feinism; in America, where it is notably rampant, itr is said to be the work of Bolsheviks, Sinn Feiners being innocent of the terrible crimes enacted throughout the United States. In England the ' anarchhic crime wave is put. down to both Sinn Feinism and Bolshevism, reinforced with a good sprinkling of communists who have proved themselves to have an utter disregard of however outrageously the peace of the commuity is disturbed. No person has yet stated what force it. is behind the organisation of this great social cancer; who the devils are that seek to eliminate by fire and bomb; by the assassin's knife and pistol all civilisation that they may cause some other social structure to arise from the ashes of that they would annihilate. Men best qualified to volunteer an : opinion upon, the extraordinary situation express surprise at the huge sums of money available for causing social unrest amongst all the nations of the world, with, but few exceptions, say the least there is cause for wonder where the fountain of all the goiar spent in fomenting revolution is actually to be found. It seems to be belching money forth for use amongst British and Anglo-Saxon peoples most copiously; its lavish distribution being as yet only measurable by the distraction, bloodshed and desolation it rs increasingly causing. The great, allabsorbing question is, can this effort at revolutionising the whole world succeed? Is the great-force behind revolution so indiscreet as to imagine that men who will enthusiastically cast their vote with revolutionaries in an e'ffort to secure to labour better and more just remuneration, and, as a corollary, better living conditions, will also follow those revolutionaries in an orgy of murder and massacre? If so, they have mistaken the Anglo-Saxon character; they have blundered fatally; there is i" every Anglo-Saxon a stubbornness against any phase humanity to mankind, borne testi- j mony to in the world-widely usect slogan "British fair play/.* The chief trait in the British character is neither tinctured with a burglarious or murderous spirit, and it is yet to be discovered to some mistaken people that whenever the revolutionary test comes Britons will range themselves on _the side of peace and justice, of j that there is neither fear nor doubt. The active force behind revolution was'chagrined at the defeat of British miners, who had been duped into pitting their revolutionary strength against the powers of constitutionav ism and peaceful evolution. In any j case what can British people find, or invent, as a revolutionary casus belli? There is nothing a majority of British people cannot attain by peaceful organisation of a comprehensive character, then why should they foolishly succumb to the wiles and snares of disgruntled foreign peoples, institutions and cults? Of course, they will not; had the recent labour problem in Britain resulted in a general strike, the present isolated, risky incendiarisms and bombings in Liverpool and

London would have been negligible fee- |

side the orgy of bloodshed, fire and waste such a strike would have given cover for. By universal education, and universal suffrage British people have been made superior to the secret machinations of the foreign propagandist of revolution; they cannot be urged into emulating the ferocious instincts of the brute creation. That this is undeniable truth it need only be mentioned that British labour converts to the Soviet system of government were selected as an Independent Labour Mission to go to Russia to study the Soviet in Sovietdom. There could only be one result, and a complete change has come over the majority of labour leaders in Britain, and also on the Continent of Europe. The disillussionment of those labour leaders who viscited Moscow, and t&e blood thirsty frankness of Lenin's 1 written answer to a set of questions propounded by the Mission gave a new aspect to the labour situation in all Europe outside Russia, and particularly in Britain. Then, the power behind the throne Of revolution, after failure in cozening labour, has evidently developed a system of guerilla warfare against- Anglo-Saxon social and political institutions. The rapier of the assassin, the sandbag of the garotter and robber, the pistol of the highwayman, and the rifle of the outlaw, have all been requisitioned by that all-conditioned power behind revolution. British people saw too clearly the pitfalls to modern civilisation in the propaganda of Britain's enemies, and they turned their bacfcs upon it. The "Third International of Moscowi's answer to the 1 Mission of which Mr Ramsay Macdonald anff Philip SnOwden were parties; the answer which broke up the camp of communism in Britain, stated thai the main offence against the Third International British Communists aire guilty of is that "they do not foment revolution t and sedition amongst the people, the soldiers and the sailors of Britain." Lenin, and the power assisting Lenin is evidently of the opinion that no reform is worth while that does not involve the murder, starvation and degradation of millions of women and children. British people have shown that they have no intention,of substituting such a cult' for that of love, charity and goodwill that is inbred in the Anglo-Saxon. Even in Taihape the question is often asked whether the revolution has yet commenced in one place or another, and quite a number of men seem to have got. the idea that something very serious is timed to happen at Christmas. Whatever change may have taken place in New Zealand communism, it is a fact that the visit of the Independent Labour Mission to Moscow is responsible for the overthrow of communism in Britain. j -