The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-03
AMERICA HAD TURN OVER
NEEDED MANY DECADES AGO
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forty-two millions, which means that
tucorporateed cities. The proletariat
|. alr. I'VE = IN cities, for it is only the
| CITY, manual worker that the Bolshe-
vist, recognizes as a worker in the
tr,lest sense Of the word.
[xa@so, Just from a purely material
md: physical & standpoint. the first
achievement. Z 81 violent revolution
would: be acute misery for. almost
half;S1the population. including those
who ~mostrSManted the revolution.
This. would bring starvation, to those
who thought they were going to get
something they: call liberty, but
which is despotism instead-despot-
ism and*hunger. ,~'...
=. Modern industry and transporta-
ton rs q. mechanism that cannot be
rolled into a bundle and: thrown in
to, e. Seshaot ie heap land then ~immedi-
ately. set going again as, it was be-
fore. Violent revolution would do
to industry about what a. railroad
wreck does ftoIwooden cars
In addition there is this to be said:
The whole world today needs every
ounce of: product that can be ground
out of our industrial system. There
is already enough starvation to tax
the rehabilitation resources Of all the
going concerns in the world every
where. And those Of us who are still
normal owe it to the hungry people
to give them food and clothes and
! machines to enable them to start life
anew. This we shall have to do. also,
if the world is to be saved for sanity
and progress.
World Faces Starvation.
Industry must be kept going. The
brutality that is left in it-and there
is plenty of it-must come out, but
the wheels must go on and on to
meet the needs Of destitute millions.
Paris know what this restitution
future safety.
The argument for violent Boil
shevik upheaval does not meet the ar
| gument for progress in the world. It
kills it.
Needs for Progress Vital.
There is true need for progress
real progress that means better
chances for the average man and
| woman, richer, fuller lives. more Of
! happiness and less Of tragic risk Of
| life. There is need for progress in
many directions. It is not hard to
point out what might be done to i'm
prove the general conditions Of life.
But Bolshevism does not lead us
toward better things. 1t leads us
backward.
First Of all it leads us away from
democracy and into despotism. It is
now a. good many decades since
America decided to sever connections
with despotism and it has just Tough
another war to kill that hated prin-
ciple. We were not wrong in that
| original decision decades ago and we
were not wrong in our great war
with Germany. We were eternally
right.
There had to be revolution in
Russia to throw out the car and
his system.
| There had to be war to throw
out the German kaiser and his sys-
tenn.
The Bolshevists tell us that we
shall have to have a revolution also.
But they forget that we had our
revolution great many years ago.
In fact. we had our revolution in
1776! The Bolshevists forget that.
And they forget that we have been
making orderly, democratic progress
ever since.
solved all of their problems but one
without revolution and they have not
solved any of them in America that
cannot be solved without violence
and that being the case the use OF
violence loses the only excuse it ever
had.
| Where Force Was Necessary.
There was a reason for the Rus
sian Nihilist. He had no other way.
To believe in that principle in
America is like using forceps to pull
water out of a sponge.
There are one hundred and ten
millions of people in America and
the island possessions. These one
hundred and ten millions of people
have too much collective wisdom to
try any such idotic and ridiculous
thing as a violent revolution.
Wise persons do not carry keys to
their front doors and then use dyna-
mite when they wish to open those
doors. They use the keys. Of course
L Americans have a key to every
= door in the national life. They may
do what they wish. by turning the
key. They will laugh loudly at any
wild persons who come proposing
that they blow open the door and
| wreck the place.
Bolshevism is wrong in principle
destructive in operation, messy an,
dirty in its effect alike upon the ma.
chinery of the nation and the SOU
of the Individual
> Where Autocracy Fails.
1t would make a thousand time
> worse every abuse that exists, and i
would destroy the productiveness O
the nation. which means that it would
throw into disruption the business O
! making things to eat and wear. I
would substitute the principle of au.
tocratic action for thu. of democratic
action.
l.. That ought to answer the question
Of What about Bolshevism p 70
every sane and healthy-mindec
American.
AS for those who are not sane and
healthy minded, there are tw
things to do one ~ which is ~ c,x