The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-09-03
IS THE WORLD GOING MAD:

Is the whole world going mad,
asks Editor w. O. Ensign of the
Hysham Echo Looking over the
European situation and many situa-
tons in every country, including our
own, it must be confessed that there
Is reason for asking such question
and for deep meditation over the out
look and the possible results, he con-
. tinues.
There are a dozen different wars
. going on right now, with prospects
OF more instead OF less. All Europe
rests upon volcano which helches
forth fire and devastation, murder
end hell, first at one place and then
at another, and rs liable to ernpt at
any moment and en9ulf the whole
world
Trotzky said a few days ago that
within a year the whole world Will
become bolsheyik Well. who is go
ing to question it? The signs OF the
times point strongly TO his being
more than half right than they do
toward his being wrong. There Is
no question but what Germany and
all its former allies III the world war
are in sympathy with the Russian
movement TO engulf the world With
bolshevism. and they flay all be de-
pended upon TO aid such move TO
the be,t OF their ability. The work
ingmen Of England and Italy are also
n sympathy With it, There are thou
sands right here in the United States
that are likewise IN sympathy. tho
not i'll such numbers as in European
countries.
Poland is entitled to no sympathy
from US. as it was no sooner allotted
big territory by the treaty than IL
proceeded 10 mobilize and start out
ON war Of conquest against Russia
for more territory, Naturally. our
sympathy goes oaC more 70 the Poles
than to the Russians, because the lat
ter have been acting crazy Tor .
number OF years nov, but legally
ana Technically they are entitled to
it,
France went Wild over AIsace and
Lorraine italy went dp III the air
over Fiume, and 20 on all down the
line There is no satisfying any of
them.
Looking over CIR own beloved
country, We find that hali the pop
ulatiol would rather own an auto
mobile than home. They have got
taste of the deshpOts and Injuries,
and have gone crazy about ii. With
out a dollar in bank for sickness, old
age or the possible rainy day, they
pay prices FOR wearing apparel and
things their appetites desire that are
absolutely appalling. The proyerbial
drunken sailor is piker to most OF
them The daily papers reeE with
accounts Of thefts, burglary, hold
ups, murder, suicide, oUtraees and
every kind OF crime until it is sick
ening to read Of il al.
What is the matter with us all?
Is the world gone era zy2 Is there
some deYilish microbe in the air or
masot ia our brains? Is is a cinch
that we are no longer normal. No
body will work unless they get IS,
SO, s12 ana up 10 $50 a day, and
when they get 1t it does not do them
any good as They proceed at once
10 spend it on SIS shoes. SO hats,
SIS silk shirts, So flisree waists,
JOY rides, Jazz. chocolate eClaires and
bootleg booze.
Whoa Back up, there, Don't you
know that water is bound to seek its
level sooner or later? Don't you
know that nobody ever danced vet
but had TO pay the fiddler? Or have
yoa the bolsheyik bug and the air
plane shimmy shivers so bad that
you don't know whether you are
afoot or horseback?
We had all better BEGIN 10 oil up
the wheels III our heads, because they
are going round at such a speed that
ii we stuck our fingers in our ears
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