The Wrangell sentinel., 1920-04-22

more than It should: that property has been given more thoughl' thnni human beings. l am concerned with the dan. ger that these innovations promise. danger to the working men themselves. a menace to law and order, without which no one is secure, without which there can be no freedom
 Political Action Called Failure.
 heard speech in London that deeply impressed me. It was applaud ed by several thousand men and wom- en-average good British working peo- pie. Most of the men wore service badges. The speaker, a clean young Englishman of about thirty-five, said;
 Political action is failure. We vote and we are betrayed. Political parties are the agents of bands Of capital. Their purpose is to keep the workers apart, knowing that divided we are powerless. The only time they are willing we should unite Is when war calls for men. What did we win in the war? Nothing We thought we had a stake In the game, that the hand we were playing was our own. Now that 1t Is over we have discovered that we won nothing.
 "What did the working man ever get by, voting, except the worst of ftf The word vote comes from Latin word. meaning to wish., Who ever got anything by wishing?
 we are like the story In Bellamy's Looking Backward You remember he spoke of coach. On top of this coach the capitalists sit in the sun shine enjoying the ride. On the side of the coach. hanging by their finger nails and toenails are the hundreds Of thousands who make up the middle class. Millions of men are pulling the coach. They are sweating and trudg- ing-they are the working men. Run- ming along the side of the coach are millions more, fighting to get chance to get hold of the rope and pull the coach. They are the idle. There is only one thing to do. That is to stop pulling the coach, let go of the rope. Don't wish about 1t; do 1t. The fellows on the top of the coach don't do any wishing-they boss and drive"
 The crowd cheered. There Is some truth in the speech. It is true that the working man has not had square deal, but the fact that he has not had fair treatment does not make the plan of direct action a sane. wise plan. Revolution would only lead to blood and disorder and leave the very men who revolted in worse plight than they are now. The millions who are the majority have an infinitely better weapon than force. They have the ballot. They are in the majority. Men must think their way out of the will derness. They cannot fight their way out. When they try to they go deeper in.
 BoIshevism Finding Favor.
 found the word bolshevism in the minds and on the lips of the working people of Europe. I expected to find them antibolshevik if for no other req
 
 Russia and the bolsheviks made peace with Germany while the allies were in a death, struggle with her with the re- suit in doubt. I found them confess ing their faith in bolshevism, speaking of 1t as new religion, resenting the placed in its way. s-N =
 In Ireland, the last place expected to find leaning toward bolshevism. l found an open devotion to 1t. The Irish people are in many respects the most conservative in the world. The only radicalism they have ever shown Is the revolutionary spirit expressed in up- rislngs for freedom. The Irish are people of reminiscence and tradition. The Celtic mind Is devoted to form and custom. was present at the Irish Federation of Labor convention held in August, 1919, at Drogheda. The delegates to this convention, repre- senting 30OOOO union men and women, went on record almost unanimously for bolshevism. later learned that few. of them, if any, knew exactly what bolshevism was. asked a lead Ing spirit of the convention if he be- lieved in communism, the abolition of the private ownership of property. and he said, "Of course not; that's rank nonsense; socialism; impossible and impractical" The pro and con of bolshevism has from the beginning iuIj ing men are bolsheviks because em- ployers are against it. and employers are against 1t because the men are for 1t.
 iCopyrikht 1920, Western Newspaper Unionl