Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-05-01


been given more thought than human
beings. am concerned with The dan
ger that these innovations promise, 9
danger to the working men themselves
menace to law and order, without
which no one Is secure, without which
there can be no freedom.
Political Action Called Failure.
heard a speech in London that
deeply impressed me. 1t was applaud
ed by several thousand men and WON
en-average good British working peO-
pie. Most of the men wore service
badges. The speaker. a clean young
Englishman Of about thirty-hve, said :
Political action is a 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
var calls for men. What did we win
II the war? Nothing. We thought we
had stake in the game. that the hand
we were playing was our own. Now
that It is over we have discovered that
we won nothing.
what did the working man ever
get by voting, except the worst of it?
The word vote comes from a Latin
word, meaning to wish Who ever got
anything by wishing?
eve are like the story in Bellamy's
looking Backward You remember
Ne spoke of coach. On top Of this
cPach the capitalists sit in the sun
shine enjoying the ride. On the side
of the coach, hanging by their finger
ndls 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-
iHgTtthey are the working men. Run
mig along the side of the coach are
Millions more, fighting to get a chance
toget hold Of the rope and pull the
coah. They are the idle. There is
onlA one thing to do. That is to stop
pulling the coach, let go of the rope.
Dom wish about it; do it. The fellows
on tse top Of the coach don't do any
wishhg-they boss and drive"
Thy crowd cheered. There is some
truthfn the speech. It is true that
the wP'king man has not had a square
deal, ut the fact that ne has not had
fair trhtment does not make the plan
of dirst action a sane, wise plan.
Revolubn would only lead to blood
and disrder and leave the very men
who revlted in a worse plight than
they arenOw. The millions who are
the majdty have an infinitely better
weapon Nan force. They have the
ballot. Thy are in the majority. Men
must thin their way out of the VIII
derness. hey cannot fight their way
out. Wheithey try to they so deeper
In.
soIshsism Finding Favor.
/ found e word bolshevism in the
minds and the lips Of the working
people Of ErOpe. expected to find
them antlbohevik IL for no other rea-
son than thu bolshevism came from
Russia and t bOlsheviks made peace
with German,whlle the allies were in
a death struge with her with the re-
suit in doubt, found them confess
ing their faithn bolshevism, speaking
Of 1t as. nevreligion, resenting the
obstacles theiown governments had
placed in its VT.
In Ireland, Il Hast place expected
to find leanintoward bolshevism. l |
found an open dotion to It. The Irish
people are in my respects the most
conservative in le world. The only
radlcalism they I've ever shown is the
revolutionary SPIT expressed in up-
risings for freeda. The Irish are a
people Of Remittance and tradition.
The Celtic minds devoted to form
and custom. wasresent at the Irish
Federation of Lar convention held |
In August, 1919, Drogheda. The
delegates to this,onvention, repre-
senting 100000 uni men and women,
went on record aost unanimously |
for bolshevism. ter learned that
few of them, II 8, knew exactly
what bOlshevism wa 1 asked a lead |
Ing spirit of the cOention if he be-
lieved in communisnthe abolition of
the private ownersp Of property, |
and he said, "Of ctse not; that's
rank nonsense; socism /: impossible
and impractical" Thpro and con OF
bOlshevism has frOnthe beginning
been partisan and predice4 Work.
Ing men are bOlshevi becluse en-
ployers are against itAnd Employers
are against it because E mel are for
it.
Copyright. 1870. Western NTspapA Union)
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