BOLSHEVISM.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 289, 18 July 1919, Page 8

BOLSHEVISM.

“What d<» \ou think of youi country now?” With this question I greeted a Russian shoemaker some time after the Czar had been deposed and Russia had ceased to be a fighting force in the great war. “What do I think of m> country? My country will he all right,’’ said he, “if you will just give it tune. It you keep a dog tied up for ten years, and then suddenly let him loose, what will happen? Why, he will worry the sheep, kill the chickens, scratch up the flowers, tear the children’s clothes, and get into all sorts of mischief. Well, that is just like Russia she has been hold down in slavery through all her history. The rank and Ah' of the people were never allowed to think or act for themselves, and now that liberty has come suddenly, they do not know how to be have, but you just give the Russians time, and they will come out alright.” Now this incident let- u> into the v*tv heart of our modern situation. To those who have no education 01

training for it, libcrt\ is interpreted a* license. They jump to the conclusion that liberty means for every man to do, when and how he pleases, anything In likes; hut such liberty would close up every church, pull down every al tar, blot out every school, destroy everv fireside, dismantle all (iovern ments, and turn this old world into a veritable shambles.

Lloyd George has said that “The world must be safe for democracies,’’ and by that he no doubt meant that the day must soon pass when any few despots could have it in their powei to impose their will upon the great body of the people, and even drive them to the bloody slaughter of one another without their will or consent. Hut someone else has said that

“Democracies must be made safe for the yvorld, ’ which means that democratic peoples must learn the art o‘ self-control, and to respect and obey properly constituted authority; to respect and obey their oyy n duly quali tied ami elected leaders and represon

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