The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-07-12

10 the poor. These who were maligned
first Lover of the Poor were those who
cried out against the tenements, de-
manding for human beings the sun
shine and air cattlemen give their
stock. These unpopular ones were the
same who brought ice to keep milk
cool In the hot summer for the ehIl-
dren of the slums; these were the
crusaders against child labor, the
protestants against compelling the
women who bear the children Of the
race to work so many hours each day
that exhaustion marred and marked
the physical and mental strength 81
children.
freed children of Russia learned Of
the cancer and feared II as much As
the thing they had escaped
None Able to Check Disease.
They beheId oldschooI politicians
acting as doctors to sick cIviliEatioa.
These doctors, miscalled Statesmen.
were agreed as to the cause Of the Dis
ease and that the symptoms threat
ened death. Many prescriptions havs
been given the patient, but meme seem
to check the disease. These preserip-
lions had been various formulas Of
government. the constitutional mon
archy, a democracy, a republic. TIE
giving Of these various treatments
failed to effect a cure. Civilization
continued to suffer. At times pain be
came uncomfortable and the doctors gave
LEGAL anesthetics. These were the laws.
included under, the general designation
Social Welfare Legislation" They
made the patient temporarily more
easy. They allayed pain that might
otherwise have produced cenvulslons-
Revolution.
And then these Russian people.
studying the new world int which
they had so recently come, discovered
were quacks, they were unreliable and
dishonest. They were more Interested
In their own fortunes than the fate Of
the patient. They imposed upon the
people who hired and trusted them.
Their time and thought was taken mp
in holding their jobs, rather than In do
ing their work. That the schools Of
political medicine, called political par
ties, responsible for these doctors,
were diploma mills, graft rings. That
some Of the people suspected tAese
physicians of being interested I'm keep
Ing the patient sick and were net max
ing an honest effort 10 eure. Il had
even been rumored that there are pee
pie I'm the world who make pront cut
Of poverty; that special privilege n
the powerful proflteer ef our day.
Turned 70 Old Thsory.
Plato had spoken about another
remedy way back in the foartA Cen
fury before Christ. 50 had Marx. An
untried remedy theory. Its object
was TO cure poverty. TAe RussianA
seeing that the remedies In eo@meA
use had failed, turned their thoughts
to this old remedy which had RsvsE
been tried At least II had net failed !;
this was I'm len favor. IL was m en-
pertinent, to be sure, but ~Nothing yea
tured, neshing gained" Many argued
that IL could not more completely fan
than the prescriptions at present In
use.
And with the fall Of imperialism
there came into Russia one whe had
been exiled. For many years be had
been a teacher and preacher q the
untried remedy. Russia saw in him
q savior. He came with q message.
He said that communism would keep
them free, make them happy. They
listened, they believed They were AZ
little children, 50 great was their
faith. To them q promise was q truth
fulfilled, the word a covenant; and the
promise was that peasants would have
their own land, that working men
would be their own bosses. 1t Was the
word they had waited for, the realiEa-
ton of the dreams they had dreamed
In the dark treadmIll The Prophet
had come. The new day awaited
them. They rejoiced and cried. Long
live the new MAsiah" No one sacri-
legiousiy questioned the practicability
of the dream. Every one forgot the
common, controlling instinct Of man
selfishness. Maybe In the intense gen-
eraI seIhshaess individual selashReas
could not be seen-
The man was Lenine-the message
Communism.