Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-09-06
CHAUTAUQUA SPEAKER
(conAinusd from Pare ~

years ago. They are economically In
dependent. Tho rest Of the world
can go hang for all they are needed.
That 10 the reason why people have
not STAYED in Russia. The other ten
percent IL the upper class. In the
upper class are very gifted people, In
tellectual, great artists, poets. But
when It comes to government they
are helpless. They are great dream
ers and idlers hut poor doors. This
ten percent fesl no kinship from the
90 percent. They are afraid OF the
lower classes and well they might
be.
A thousand books can be read on
the subject but it is best expressed
in one sentence. by man who said,
"The time is by when 80 percent can
be treated as manure for few roses
First there was the political revo.
luton and then followed the class
revolution. No one particularly plot
ted for the political revolution and
to overthrow the Gear. It happened
over night. No one really wanted
it but after 1t had happened sS per-
cent Of the people rejoiced as we did
at the signing OF the armistice.
Bolshevik groups attempted to
steer the ship Of state. They wanted
democracy like that in the United
States. Failed. Why? Because in
the open part Of the time and part
of the time behind the scenes were a
body Of men working to overthrow
Kerensky because they were men
<@ hal
cracy as we know it. One OF the
leaders was Lenine. He was In Swift
zerland at the time that the trouble
started. Anyone would have found It.
a very difiicult matter to get out of
Switzerland and into Russia at that
time. But not SO Lenine. Because
he was conducted across Germany in
to Russia under German escort.
Germany wanted to get Russia out
Of the war. because that would per-
NIT them to take away their troops
from that border and place them
elsewhere. Sothey sent workers into
Russia to assist Lenifie. Russian
speaking workers from Germany got
into action. There they found the
ground ploughed. narrowed, raked
and ready fer the seed.
Kerensky did 1t. WhethG he in
tended to or not is not known. But
he did it when he signed military
order No. !. This order was that No
soldier need salute a superior Of
ficer or obey the command of a su-
perior officer until the command was
passed upon by a committee Of SOL
diefs. The morale was gone ana in
surreetion came. There was some
reason for that reaction of the men
against the officers.
The 3olsheviki program included
the right Of private property. There
is some haEiness in the minds Of
Americans in regard to this program.
Ask a Bolsheviki the cause. He would
say war and poverty. He would
say eliminate them. And the way to
do this would be do away with CAPT.
talism. Work with no other income
possible was their plan. Their plans
were three ideas. not Russian, not
new. First, French, and IS years
old. No man can own a piece of land.
The state shall own all. Second,
German, Carl Marx, No man can own
mill 1t shall belong to the state.
Third, French. German, Italian. Span
ish, United States, cry place where
there are reds. The only way you
can make this change is by machine
gun and the only way to maintain
this is by machine. gun. There was
would have no rights, all incomes
were to be the same. Nobody was
to be rich or poor. The slogan was
Bread and Peace and Land to the
peasant and Bread and Peace and
Industry to the working man.
They said to the peasant: Take
your gun and go home and take the
land that belongs to you. To the
1aborer they said: Take your gun
and go home and take the factory
that belongs to you. Imagine the
Then Mr.. Dennis outlined the pro-
gress made by the Two lower class
es in overcoming the other class
and the subsequent uphedsals. He
the unfavorable side Of
this country which the immigrant
sees and the unfavorable impression
which the immigrant takes back to
his home country with him.
1t is hoped that we will soon see
that it is just as big job to make
perfect citizens as 1t Is to make per,
feet soldiers. We have been GRIM
inally negligent in the treatment Of
the aliens on our shores. We have
been n-Christianlike. Every Am
erican who wants to help must get
behind the Americaniza.ion plan and
get behind 1t hard. This is the best
way to combat Bolshevism in ,lis
country.
Mr.. Dennis believes in the eigh.
hour law, in collective bargaining
The working man must bc treated
like human being and not like a
Bullet or Ballot? Which will 1:
be? Changes are wanted in the
United States. One Of the answers
to Bolshevism and a good ore Is
the words Of the late Teddy Roose-
welt. "One nag. one language. one
Make 1t possible that
every man and woman who wants
TO work to find a good life will not
have to return to their own country
but will find it here in America.
Evening Program
The comedy 1T Pays to Advertise"
was presented to q good sized audience |
At the Chautauqua on Friday evening !
and it certainl was a winner. The
play. filled with comic situations and |