The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-18
SOCIALISM HAS
WRECKED ITSELF
Herbert Hoover Says 1t Is
an Economic and Spirit
ual Fallacy
WARNS AMERICA
OF EXPERIMENTS
Country Should Not Abandon It's
Moral Leadership In Restoring the
World to Order.

NEW YORK, Sept ls.-Two ''domin-
ant convictions" in the mind of Herbert
Hoover after his five years service abroad
are that socialism is ''bankrupting ITSELF
and that America must not abandon it's
moral leadership in restoring order in the
world nor permit itself to, be used for
experiment III social diseases
In an address at dinner of the Ameri-
can Institute of Mining and AIetallurgical
engineers at which he was the guest OF
| honor, Mr.. Hoover declared that the phil
osophy of the Lenines and Trotzkys was
destroying itself from a startling quar-
ter in the extraordinary lowering of pro-
duetivity of industrial commodities to Il
point below the necessity for continued
existence of their millions of people"
Referring to the revolution in Russia,
he said:
Although socialism has now proved it
self with rivers of blood and suffering to
be an economic and spiritual fallacy and
to have wrecked itself on the rock of pro-
duction, | believe it was necessary for
the world to have had the demonstration
1t is not necessary, however, that we OF
1AlllCu 9tdttS, HOW that we nave VIII
messed these results, shall plunge our own
population into these miseries and into a
laboratory for experiment in foreign SO.
cial diseases.
The paramount business of every
American today is this business of finding
a solution to these issues, but this solu
ton must be found by Americans, in a
practical American way, based upon
American ideas, on American philosophy
of life
Mr.. Hoover declared the enemy col
lapsed mot only from military and nava
defeat but from economic exhaustion. In
this race the allies were not far behind
BY this exhaustion, the whole OF Europe
faced famine the like of which had not
been seen since the 80 years war, wher
a third of the population died OF starva
ton
The speaker praised the efforts of Pres
ident Wilson ia intervening in Europ,
a second time and taking these step,
which resulted in a practical, economic
organization of the country, pending tn,
contamination of peace and the arrival o
the forthcoming harvest
The problem of the rehabilitation of En-
rope" he said, the setting up of new
born democracies and the warding off o
Bolshevis1n on the one hand. and the re
action on the other-a desperate stua
ton involving century-old animosities anC
greed-was equivalent to providing 70
the needs of 200,000,00O people formerl,
under enemy domination, as well as t,
care for the allies and neutrals
These things have not been solved b.
the service or direction of any one man,
continued Mr. Hoover. They have beer
accomplished through coordination of tn
men of good will in 20 governments o
Europe and throughout. the world by ere
alton of a thread of American personnel
directed from single center
A thousand Americans were sent int
these communities with but little author
4 ty beyond their own assurance and til
confidence on all sides that they were dis
4 interested that their only desire was t
4 solve great and human emergency 70
! no political and no commercial advantage
4 Il cannot pay enough tribute to a
a these thousand Americans, The proof G
I their performance lay in the fact that FL
rope has come through the most terribl
Z period of its history with no loss of lif
from economic causes, with stronge
democracy and glow in its heart for til
United States