Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-02-03
SPEAKER ASSAuS
B0LSHEVISM EVIL
PETER w. COLLINS DENOUNCES
ALL "ISMS NAMES COM
MANDMENTS AS CURE

sihle for all evil Of today, Peter W.
Collins of Boston in an address before
about 800 people at the X. c. hall in
this city Monday evening sailed into
all the ''isms' Of the present day,
which he classeu as rcdisms his talk
being convincing. He climaxed his talk
with the statement that "the Ten Com
mandmcnts will still stand as the bea
con light Of humanity, when the grass
is growing over the grave Of Bolshe
vism.'' No doubt Mr.. Collins has
bumped up against some hard custom
ers in the audiences he had addressed,
as he stated after his talk that this
audience was one Of the most attentive
he had ever addressed. Mr.. Collins
spoke here under the auspices Of the
local council of the Knights Of Colum-
bus and his subject was "What 3
Wrong With the World. - p. J. Vasaly,
Grand Knight of the local K. c. coun-
Gil, introduced him. A six-piece cr-
chestra furnished music before the ad-
dress.
Without any preliminaries Mr.. Col
socialism and other "isms'' with the
remark that although we live in what
they call a progressive age, yet there
are many 'islns.' One of these moro
than any others is creating trouble and
that one is bolshevism. EBolshevism, -
Mr.. Collins said, ''has two languages,
the academic and the plain. The first
is to hide the facts from the common
people. The other is the language CT
soap box oratory, which would throw
society from it's foundation He went
on to say that close study of bolshe-
vism discloses in it the denial of the
Divine Creator. 1t claims to be the
answer to the question of trouble: to
be intended for the protection of re-
ligion and the family. Mr.. Collins
said that this could not be a fact be-
cause it would have to come from the
working people and it certainly dld
not The doctrine which denies God
could not and did not come from the
common people, he said. Karl Marx
was named 10y the speaker as the
founder Of bolshevism, which is not
a new doctrine, he said, but merely /.
new nickname for an old doctrine,
there being no difference between boil
shcvism and socialism. He explained
that the word bolshevism'; as a
word is really nice and means 1.-The
majority Of a particular group Since
socialism was laid down 70 years ago.
it has used many methods to spread its
doctrine and bolshcvism is one OF
them, he said. Looking into the his
tory of socialism one will find that
none Of the leaders of socialism came
tho ,,nnr1n tho SQr
stated, and he went on to say that
bolsheyism likewise not only did not
come from the common people but it
is {. detriment to the working people.
Chasing the so-callcd street corner
socialist as one who really knows
nothing about socialism the speaker
said that in order to get real informa-
ton about that doctrine one must CON
suit such socialist writer's as Engels.
Quoting from this authority or So
cialism Mr.. Collins said that the social
ist wants us to believe that the doe
trine is a science. He then read par
agraph from this same authors book
in which the writer considered this
world product of evolution. Here is
where Mr.. Collins took a strong ISSUE
with that part Of the socialist doctrine
which he stated denies the Creator and
he gave some mighty convincing proofs
of the existence of the Divine Creator.
adding that the Ten Commandments
stand opposed to the redisms and the
r>Gislrs stand opposed to the Tn Com
mandn.ents.
"The evils of today Mr.. Collins
said in suggesting remedies for them,
'wcrc brought about by breaking
someone or more of the Ten Command
ments, and what We need today is to
drive into the minds Of people the re-
cognizing Of service to the letter Of
every commandment. The Ten Com
'mandmehts have come down through
civilization as the beacon light Of In
mainly :,nd they will still be standing
when the grass is growing ever the
grave of Bolshevism.'
Mr.. Collins classed the problem of
the underpaid workers as one CT the
very serious evils Of the present time.
He said that just as the prosperity of
the people in a city depends on the
success Of the farmer, so does the well
fare of tho farmer depend on the work
ing men and the answer to the prob
lem is not to be found in strife and
revolution but in the words Of Christ
"vhc laborer is worthy Of his hire.'
This means providing a living wage, a
wage that will provide for the whole
fanlily. It must provide for food,
clothing, education, savings, sickness
au p,u1ection of fine family in Ease Of
death of the head of the family.
Another great evil is unemployment,
the speaker pointed out. Labor reports
show that at present from four to
seven million people are out Of work.
This causes an increase in crime, sick
ness, disease and all other sorts of
trouble, including the breaking up Of
families. The answer is to bring the
man out Of job together with the
job. The government, according to Mr..
Collins, ought to use it's credit to create
work. He held that it would be as fair
for the government to use its money
in this manner as it is for the govern
mcDt to help out the railroads by big
loans. To show how government money
could be employed to great benefit in
relieving the unemployment problems,
Mr.. Collins gave several instances Of
now this could be done. lie mentioned
home building first, saying that toda,.
this nation is short five million houses
and many men gould be used in lui!d-
ing these homes. The forests Of the
nation are rapidly diminishing and no
effort is being made to replace all the
I timber that is being cut. Many men
could be proftably employed in refor-
estation. Millions of acres of land in
| the country are today covered with