The Arvada enterprise., 1920-04-01

more than It should: that property has
been given more thought than human
beings. am concerned with the dan
ger that these innovations promise. .
danger to the working men themselves.
4 menace to law and order. without
which no one 10 secure. without which
there can b no freedom.
Political Aetien Called Failure.
heard q 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. clean young
Engiishman Of about thlrty-nve, said:
political action 10 4 failure. We
vote and we are betrayed. Political
parties are the agents of bands Of
capital. Their purpose 10 to keep the
workers apart. knowing that divided
we are powerless. The only time they
arc willing we should unite 10 when
war calls for men. What did We win
In the warl Nothing. We thought We
had q stake in the game. that the hand
we were playing was our own. Now
that It IL over we have discovered that
we won nothing.
"What did the working man ever
get by voting. except the worst Of 1T
The word vote comes from Latin
word. meaning to WISH Who ever got
anything by wishing2
I'VE are like the story In Bellamy's
Looking Backward You remember
he spoke Of a 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 60 Of the rope.
Don't wish about 1t; do II. The fellows
on the top Of the coach don't do any
wlshlng-they boss and drive"
The crowd cheered. There Is some
truth In the speech. II II true that
the working man has not had q square
deal. but the fact that he has not had
fair treatment does not make the plan
Of direct action, sane, wise plan.
Revolution would only lead to blood
and disorder and leave the very men
who revolted In a 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 vii.
derneas. They cannot fight their way
out. When they try to they 20 deeper
In.
Deishsvism Finding Favor.
I found the word bolshevism In the
minds and on the lips Of the working
people Of Europe. I expected to nnd
them antibolshevik II for no other rea.
son than that bolshevism came from
| Russia and the b0lsheviks made peace
with Germany while the allies were 10
a death struggle with her with the re.
SUIT IN oouD.. ! iound tnem cohiess'
ing t"elF ta'tn IN oo'sne'is"' speaklnk
OF u new Religion resent'ne inc
oostac'es .ne'r o"" governments neo
piaceo IN "s way
IN Ireland he last pace ! expected
10 snd q leaning toward oo'snevlsm. !
round an open devot'on 10 II. Inc Ir'sn
people are IN many respects the most
conservative IN the woHa. Inc only
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