The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
IF. S. In Providence JournaD

if men only would think" No man
in his time pondered more upon the
idiosyncrasies of his fellow men than
did this Scotch philosopher, and no
man has described human society in
the chaos of fermentation as he has
done. 1t was quite evident to him, as
it is to many of us, that men as
rule do not give thought to matters
beyond their daily tasks, for if they
did false PHILOSOPHERS would be
laughed into the oblivion Of ridicule
soon after birth.
Bolshevism is nebulous, myster-
ious thing to most people. 1t is
chameleon in appearance, now SEEM
ing to be an indignation of human
Slavic elements assuming form. radiat
ing energy, and discovering voice at
another time pitiable cry to man
kind for brotherhood and human SYM
pathy; and again it appears like hive
Of bees swarming unintelligently as to
their destiny, but compelled to read
Just themselves within their environ
ment. At still other moments it APP
pears to be nothing more than the
scum brought to the surface by the
fermentation of nation.
Bolshevism is the ideal OF the
ignorant dreamer of dreams, of I'M
practicable folk and of all those who
would reap where they have not sown.
1t is wildly illustrated in that parable
in the New Testament which tells OF
a certain householder who, requiring
men to work in his vineyards, went
into the market place to hire them,
first in the early morning, then at the
third hour of the day, again at the
sixth and ninth hours. and. finally
at the eleventh hour. AS will be re-
membered by all who have delighted
in the naivette of this sympathetic
story, when evening came the pay
master gave each man penny for mis-
days work, without regard to the
number of hours he had worked, and
each of us has shared the righteous
Indignation of the men of the early
morning who cried out, saying, These
last have wrought but one hour, and
thou hast made them equal to US
which have borne the burden and heat
of the day.
Every man can make his own
application of this parable. To the
man who thinks, however, the follow
ing question arises inevitably, viz:
Is social condition possible wherein
the man of the eleventh hour shall
rank equally with the man of the ear
ly morning, or is it conceivable that
society could attain to such beatif1c
condition that the loafer should share
on the same basis with the toiler and
the ignorant and shiftless with the
educated and ambitious?
Yet Bolshevism demands this, de-
mands it with the disingenuous insist
ence of childhood, and either raves
when it's foolish proposals are rejected
or strikes out savagely with its animal
strength to acquire by brute force
what it cannot gain by idealistic
sophistry.
It has been revealed within the last
six months that Bolshevism boiled
down to a substance leaves nothing
hut a slime. Even the new oil flo
alton process for extracting the last
grain of metal from the ore would fail
to find anything in it which would
float on a bubble. In sentiment it is
an appeal that Lazarus shall be fed
at the rich mans table, but in practice
it is a brutal savagery which, like
wild beast, kills and tortures to vent
it's bestiality.
Now that Boshevism has lit UP the
sky with it's lurid flames men will see
more clearly, and, it is hoped, give
themselves up to little serious
thought. They should know first that
''isms" of this kind of the men of the
eleventh hour are merely indigestive
gas, a complaint, however, which
demands the services of an intelligent
physician, not a quack. They should
also realize that the visible regulator
of not only material but human des-
tiny in this world is our good old
friend Mother Nature, that she had
been on the job many, many millions
of years before men appeared on this
planet, that she is most decidedly not
tickle in her purposes, but continues
constantly and with utmost patience
to work along well-defined lines, and
that the broad highway of natural
development is individualism demand
ing expression in every living thing,
and constant to itself in every chem
ical or substance. The law of the
survival of the fittest is in many ways
a harsh law, but it is law of nature,
conceived to be her fundamental law
by the first man who reasoned
The law of natural selection is
exceedingly unsentimental. Nature
wastes no tears on the individual
or the species of plant or animal
which she discards for unfitness, and
yet no one has been absurd as to apol-
ogze for her severity. Mankind has
existed long enough to appreciate thai