THE BOLSHEVIST BUBBLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1922, Page 7

THE BOLSHEVIST BUBBLE.

CAUSE OF INDUSTRIAL UNREST. THE WAY OUT OF CHAOS. Food for mueh thought was to be found in the lecture on the present industrial unrest, delivered at the Chautauqua at New Plymouth on Monday Bight by Dr. E. F. Loveland, of New York.

The loss of vital force and of ideas. consequent upon the great world war, which had shaken the very foundations of the world, demanded that some nation or nations should lead the way out of chaos, and, said Dr. Loveland, this responsibility rested upon the two Eng-lish-speaking nations of Great Britain an the United States, two nations who had so much in common and who could not afford to think apart. The storm centre of the present world’s unrest was in the industrial sphere of toilers and traders. There were three systems of labor which had evolved through the ages: the slave system, the feudalists system, and the present wage system, the last of which was the result of modern invention, which, in turn, was the result of the two wonderful powers of chemistry and electricity. The speaker dealt in broad outline with the opposing forces of Capital and Labor, which, instead of being in cooperation, •were antagonistic to each other. The final form of this bitter class struggle we saw in strikes, lockouts, boycotts and the like, the whole trouble being accentuated by the Bolshevistic, Communistic and I.W.W. elements, who endeavored to overthrow the only Governments, but the age-long institutions of civilisation itself.

The great conference gathered at Washington gave hopes of 'better days for all peoples everywhere. He himself had no great political panacea for Bolshevism. It was for the general public itself, upon whose intelligence and sense of justice the representative form of government rested, to give the blow to Bolshevism, which thrived upon the ignorance of the people. This the lecturer instanced by the result in Russia, where 160 millions of the people could neither read nor write. It was among such people as these that Bolshevism gained its hold. Democracy, which these Bolshev : ks prated so much about, was a fine thing, but, pushed too far, as it had been by Lenin and Trotsky, it became anarchy. Education was now the fundamental' problem. We must train the mind of the people, for the fallow mind was the breeding place of all sorts of germs, and the child-minded adult was the ready recipient of these Bolshevistic doctrines.

“We Americans will sing ‘God Save the King* with you,” said Dr. Loveland, “because we realise that your King is no despot like the fallen Houses of Hapsburg, Romanoff and Hohenzollern, but the emblem of your liberty, your glorious human flag.” The singing of the National Anthem brought an inspiring address to a close.