Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-04-29
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DAVID GoLDSTEN OF BOSTON AD-
DRESSED LARGE CROWD
ON RED MENACE -
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David Goldstein of Boston, one of the
best known lecturers and authors in
the United States, spoke on "Bolshe-
vism, What 1t Is; The Remedy For it, ,.
before a large gathering of citizens at
the high school auditorium Tuesday:
evening, under the auspices of the local
knights of Columbus council. His
subject, timely one, was
listened to attentively and he held his
audience for nearly an hour and half
without firing them, his talk being
most interesting and convincing.
A. F. Koslosky introduced the speaker
in brief remarks.
Mr.. Goldstein took up the subject;
without any preliminaries, reviewing its
history from the start to the present
day. "It was some years before that
shot was fred which killed the heir to
the, Austrian throne and thus set the
spark to the conhagration that has
changed the map of Europe that this
modern scourge was shown to threaten
the life of every government under the
sum- the speaker said. He went on to
say that Americans have returned home
and the government is being aided in its
work of readjusting affairs from q war
to peace basis, the fight has again
been taken up, in an effort to@show what
the red peril means to Americans, to
those who love God and country, to
those who want Columbia to live her
thousand years. :.
Before getting at the heart of his
theme Mr.. Goldstein told of the 200 or
more attempts to practice socialistic
principles by organization of colonies.
He said that no doubt many of them
were started with high ideals, by men
of marked ability, with plenty of r.
best of natural opportunities, yet de-
spite all these advantages these at
tempts at cooperative commonwealth
building were wrecked by incompetence,
jealousy, dishonesty or sex immortality.
The first attempt to bolshevise whole
community, he said, took place in
Paris in 1871, when the Socialists took
advantage of their countries defeat in
time Of war to overthrow their home
government and took possession of
Paris, enacting in miniature what took
place in Russia in November, 1917.
Then for the first time was a dictator.
ship Of the proletariat set up and there
was .confiscation of private property,
DESPERATION of churches, etc., etc., until
they were finally forced to capitulate.
Thu spirit Of rebellion was not sub
Ftdued, however, and their descriptive
propa ganda continued. A louder note
was struck, they insisting that to be
successful Socialism must overthrow all
the capitalist governments and apply
the teachings of Marx and Engels; at
least nation must be under their con-
troll before the program could be sue
cessfully carried out. The World War
gave them this opportunity and when
Russia had met defeat after defeat, the
Cars government was overthrow and
a democratic constituent assembly set
up. This marked the advent Of social
revolution.
Lenine and Trotsky, who the speaker
said, had learned their doctrine of So
cialism on the east side of New York
City, came out Of hiding to return to
Russia and take a hand in the overturn
of the new government. They did not
overthrow the Gar, this the speaker
mhde plain, but with the aid of the red
guard cast down truly representative
government and set up dictatorship OF
the proletariat after the fashion of the
first one inaugurated in Paris in 1871.
Explaining that Bolshevism is a nick
name for Socialism, Mr.. Goldstein said
that it is the teachings of the socialists
everywhere, the socialist, the social
labor, the social democrat, the commun-
list and the communist labor parties. He
claimed that it is the Russian name for
what is now being taught in II inter
collegiate socialists societies organized
in as many colleges and universities in
this country.
BY reference to the constitution of
the Russian socialist federated soviet
republic Mr.. Goldstein showed how
private ownership of land is abolished
forever there, together with the instru-
ments of production, all capital being
taken without any compensation what
soever. He compared this with the LAY
of our land which upholds the inviola.
bility Of the principle Of private owner:
ship and guarantees just compensation
for private property when taken over
by the government. On the moral side
of this issue he cited the marriage and
divorce DEGREES in Russia which he de-
clared ''make the marriage tie of no
more binding force than that Of a man
and q woman placing their names on 2
hotel register.' =.
The lecturer read parts of the socialist
declaration against the American gov
eminent adopted by the Socialist party
after our country entered the war that
there were openly reasonable in sentl-
ment. In this connection he spoke on
"free speech' and said that the Social
lists argued that free speech and free
press might bring confusion and poison
to the minds of the people, adding that
if Debs, Mrs. Stokes, Haywood, st. John
Tucker and 1900 other revolutionaries
had acted against the Lenine and Trots-
XIV government as they did against our
republic during the World War; they
would not now be in our federal and
state prisons or out on bail Int would
long since have been lined up before
the red guards and shot. He gave evil
derce tendin. to show that the Social.
ist. Eolshevist element Of our country
had in mind to carry out the program
here that was followed in Paris and
Moscow and Petrograd ami that they
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