The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-02-09
History is Repeated in Russia

II Patrick Henry, The ilefy virginia patriot believe
who remarked that he had light 10 guide hs steps except th
lamp Of experience Without denying that other kinds Of umna
on may be available 10 take it that all will that
experience is safe guide in and he who fails heed IL
lessons pay for his folly
Lcnnc and Toy have tried in Russia large scale
scheme which many other have sought put practice
small scale IN other parts of the world and with the
suit tragic failure is merely another instance Of history
pcaing itself and surprise those who have read the ron
ccs of ockc experiments elsewhere If Socialism did not today
have rs advocates everywhere seeking tried and tested
institutions and principles OF government IN order TO enthronc
their alacous eas one form another the study Of the
history OF the attempts reduce It's theories practice could have
nothing than academic interest mnisering "a the ga
of curiosity without possessing practical value Bul with
propagandhk busy plying their trade in America elsewhere
pmaca for social and governmental ills instead Of an old
which has often been tried with disastrous consequences
10 the patient bcooves eseybody to look 10 experience for the
light which shows how sociaiistic schemes actually work
Prof Graham has told the story Of the failure of the sociais
colony Paraguay which DR. y d. Hills summarizes as follows
Founder William Lane and his wife, English writer the
other New York school teachers several years spent in Australia
selecting the eoots who were praeea workers and not inter
ecuas farmers carpenters masons mners-pcked and
gift from the Government of Paraguay of 100000
of land with 5000 head Of cattle and ocs OF sheep climate soil
forests special exemption from axes-everyhng s
IDEAL said William Lame his pledge abolish all poverty Lane
said he would the worker the full $40 day that he
produced and not allow capital ability and political governments
10 take $3.50 and leave only $3.50 of what the worker pro-
duced.
II predict" said Lane colony viii hecome rich that
The New Paraguay may day become the Financial center of the
namely individual excellence and the sereance that makes the
worker grow Within years the 5000 head of cattle had be-
come neglected handful the stores were empty of goods the
granarcs held wheat the through the roofs the chill
dren barcfooed the half naked the desperate
These Socialists starved the midst of plenty shvercl in the
midst of forests.
At the meeting when the colony exploded expelled Lane
they forced return to individual ownership after which wealth
and prosperity came in upon the families like a flood
1t woman who pointed to one typical socaistic family
This is what substantially that woman said: Look at that man
lie is charged with theft yagancy denessand remember what
We brought him here Industrious and sefsuppormg
citizen After months he found ont that whether he worked not
family received Saturday clothing food and labor checks
50 he stopped working He slipped the hill out of sight or hid
in the forest and read penny novels Little by little his family and
himself became pae and parasites and he was caught stealing
from the common store And now the head OF this socasc colony
has made a slave OF him
These found that socialism killed initiative paralyzed
growth snted the nclects of their children And yet enne
and Totsky the ohcyt have taken that miserable tragedy
in Paraguay and repeated in Russia Lenc says 13ols
lcvism nothing but Karl Marks theory enloned by military
force 1S000O000 people, In Russia Marx socialism
been an alodyne paialyzng activity
who it that tells that socialism has swept Russia
like tornado and cyclone that has ruined fruitful land
You may question what ambassadors and dodb the testimony
Of Diplomats and correspondents and bankers m surely YOU can
not question reports that committee Of British labor
who to Russia arguments carry the Soviet
Government over to Engs coal mines and factories LET hs
British monists give their testimony Here The
millions of people in etroglad has fallen half million;
those who are left are half starved half naked and aefooted
deep with mud the water-works broken down. the
choked all railroads arayzed the national capital
half garbage heap and half graveyard In Moscow they found
only three factories workings the Bolshevst managers
drove the to wora the point Of ryovers all private prop
y house store restaurant shop has been abolished until
Russia has become a sort Of he'll.
This in plain words is the testimony Of workngmen what
Marks socialism do for country and the history
than hundred sociasc colonies
dire results that brings wherever
light the facts set forth Prof Graams report
British labor Commission Dr. Hills pertinenty asks: WIy
try the hosandth time exploded desion? Why
leads straight into the desert where the pilgrims will
peris2 Why by the drifting clouds pipe blown by
instead Of steering by the that
American people for 1870 years Why bombs destroy in
dividual ownersip2'
In whatever may served whether as Nonpartan
pills, North Dakota where blighng effect
already been unprecedented record of bank failures
ohevsm III Russia Debsm America creaton
the impractical brain of Karl Marx inevitably tend toward
result the sitting OF individual initiative stagna
ton ofogress with chaos and disaster its only possible fruits