THE BOLSHEVIKS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1919, Page 8

THE BOLSHEVIKS.

To the Editor. Sir, —While the inferno of red revolution is gripping humanity with its tentacles, it might be well for those countries which are for the present outside tlie swirl of chaos, to take advantage )f the position thus offered to put their house in order. There is no action without reaction, and the political structure has collapsed because it was socially ana commercially unbalanced. The Bolshevik, or anything 'shevik can't bolt with the country unless the country wants to go with him. The view of the 'bottom dog is that if the road he has 'teen travelling leads to nowhere, the •trail suggested by rebellion can't be '.flittch worse 'anyhow. In this respect social tyranny - develops the force that brings about its own destruction. France met the Bolshevik of her time by placing upwards of three million workers on the land, and the same move gave national stability 'to 1 an excitable and ■motional people. Further, it guaranteed her fijod supply. Bread, which iorms a third of the Frenchman's diet, bari not, previous to the war, risen in >riee for fifty years. In regard to food itufl's, no country on earth has a rejorrt to equal this. Mad Bill, and the irmy he "sooled" at the world, dis:overed that th& men who confiscated the lands of France when they were held by a few landlords, would fight like all Gehenna in defence of their own little cabbage plots. Peasant ownership might not be the panacea for all social ilia, but it seems to be the only rebellionproof structure yet erected by man.—l am, etc., • FRANK BEGL. Toko, lit J 3iarch.