The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-07

1 didn't know what they were talking about It couldn't be done.
 l In the first place there was a divided proletariat About half the proletariat would side in every time with the capi- | talists because they depended for a live lihood on the incomes of the capitalists. The proletadiat were not all factory
 hands Walters, dressmakers. milliners, chauffeurs, barbers and better class shopkeepers were members of a parasiti- cal proletariat who would cling to the
 upper casses. He even included among the number Surgeons who operate on the poor to get experience for important operations on the rich"
 He said there was nothing to do but keep ca talking. He had talked all his life and would keep on talking. When he started out at 20 years of age he de- cided to cut himself free from all the
 glitter of the world and champion the unpopular cause he knew to be riEsst. But from the very first he had been 4p- plauded and richly rewarded-and long ago he knew something must be wrong The trouble was that English audiences could be deeply impressed and seemed
 easy to educate, yet in five days after applauding a principle they would tSsn out and vote in their usual conservative way.
 
 Nicholans Lenne, "the greatest his- torical character in the world today" When the Russian peasants had quit fighting "the robber caste's war and went home and committed one of the worst atrocities of the war, the seizure of the Russian robber caste's land, ! Lenine saw that the constituent assembly would oly go on talking and talking, so he did away with it. Mir. Shaw declared ha a1 I aniDa'r fhanrieC with l out qualification, but he was not sure i that he accepted the measures of aplica- | tion. The world lacked information about Bolshevism. The government would not l give passports to accredited investi- gators.
 It appeared from the evidence of lately | released English prisoners that terrible atrocities had been committed. When 1 an Englishman was overwhelmed on the I battlefield by 200 Boshevists, he was 1 dragged away to a place where they forced him to take bath and eat big , dinner Then they sent etorturers to him to whom the prisoners exclaimed, T am English, and proud of it!'' The extreme atrocity was then committed. The Eng lishman was given stacks of literature printed in pure English. There Was nothing else to do, so he read it. After a week or so he was sent every day or ! two lO d ~hho 9c Citt uiiNiA AAi~ release.
 1 He could appreciate the reason for 1 the stories about cutting off a finger | one week, a toe the next week. and then 1 an ear When one had soldiers out | fighting the Bolshevists, it was best to 1 encourage them to fight hard to escape i capture He approved of the efficiency i both of Mir. Churchill British secretary 1 of war) and Mir. Lefifne.
 l Speaking of atrocities, he wished to. rss /, call the case of certain Edward, King 1 of England, who laid seize to Calais When the burghes surrendered Edward | demanded that five of the richest ner- chants be led out with ropes around their necks ready to be hung. His wife was iu an interesting condition then and sympa- 1 thetically begged Edward to spare then I lives And he, being a dreadful medieval barbarian, gave in to his wife.
 l All this talk about the punishment oi atrocities in the war had better be dealt with in the ancient way of King Edward unless all atrocities were to come before ] stern justice. Not only the atrocities oi | German officers and men, but on the al 1 lied side as we'll. He felt inclined to in ! quire how much Holland had been paid