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the service or direction Of any one man.
They have been accomplished through
coordination of the men of good will in
twenty Governments of Europe and
throughout by creation of n thread of
American personnel, directed from a sim
gle centre. A thousand Americans were
sent into these communities with hut
little authority beyond their own assur-
ance and the confidence on all sides that
they were disinterested. that their only
desire waSt TO solve n great and human
emergency for no political and no COM
mercial advantage. The proof of their
performance lay in the fact that, Europe
has come through the most terrible ne
Rod of its history with no loss of life
from economic causes, with a stronger
democracy and a glow in its heart for
the United States.
America saved Civilization,
From the armistice to this years
harvest there has been furnished more
IMAM TWO and quarter billion dollars
worth of supplies. 1t may be years -be-
1ore we receive any return from these
loans. but IL that period should never
come the American people, by this sec
ono intervention in Europe, have saved
civilization and have done so with no
thought to the burden or cost to them
serves. These matters have been brought
to a successful close with the arrival O;
the harvest and the prospect Of peace"
MIR. Hoover then declared that the
present conditions in Europe are not
strictly the outgrowth of war conditions
but rather the elimination of the last
century struggle for fairer political and
economic conditions. MARKHAM socialism.
he pointed out. had favored all of Eu-
rope before the war. During the war
the economic effort was sustained by the
patriotic stimulus and by the injection
OF women into industry.
But with the passing Of the war con-
ditions, he said. Europe again turned to
Socialism in two phases-Bolshevism
which communized property over night.
and the legislative naturalization of in
dustry.
The outstanding result of nearly a
year of this has been falling off in
production until to-day there are in Eu-
rope 1o0,000,000 people who cannot be
sustained from European production.
This fall in production he attributed
almost wholly to social ferment and un-
rest.
Taking the case of Russia. he showed
that despite the political severity of the
old regime. which kept the vast ma
Jority in ignorance and servility, all but
small minority were we'll fed, well
clothed and well housed. They were
able TO produce not only enough for
this. but enough to make Russia the
greatest exporter in the world.
The Cost of Socialism.
Then he continued:
Socialism was brought In over night
at the hands of small minority of in
tellectual dilettante and criminals. and
this tyranny of minority, more terrible
even than the old, has now had nearly
two years in which to effect the con-
version of the wicked competitive sys-
tenn into the Elysium of Communism.
Two-thirds of the railways and three
fourths OF the rolling stock that they
control are out of operation.
'The whole population is without any
normal comforts of life and plunged into
the most grievous famine of centuries.
Its people are dying at the rate of hum
dreds Of thousands monthly from star
walton and disease. It's capital city has
diminished in population from nearly
100000 to less than 100000 The
streets of every city and village have
run with blood of executions, nor have
these executions been confined to the
so-called middle and upper classes, for
latterly the opposition of the workmen
and farmers to this regime has brought
them also to the firing squad in APP
palling numbers.
IF We examine the recent proclama-
tons of this group of mixed idealists
and murderers, we find a radical change
in their economic and social ideas. They
have abandoned the specialization of the
land, for they find the farmer will not
produce for payment in high flown and
altrustic phrases. They have reestab-
llshed a differential wage in an attempt
to stimulate exertion and ambition of
skilled labor.
The apologists of this debacle are
telling us that 1t is due to the allied
blockade. and to various other opRpsi-
tions. but any one with a rudimentary
knowledge of Russia knows that they
did have within their borders ample
supplies of food. coal, oil, wool, fax,
cotton and metals and the factories with