The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-05

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country IS not going TO the eternal
bow-bows in a dog cart.
Rubin warned against recognition
Of the bolshevist government by
America. declaring that such an
act would be unfriendly to the Rus
sian people who are praying, pri-
vately to be sure. for the downfall
OF Lenin. Trotzky and the Extraor.
binary Commission. Rubin declared
that the Russians under soviet rule
are not only starved but that they
dare not speak their mind To be
heard criticizing the soviet govern
ment means arrest as counter
revolutionist and execution. It 10
impossible for Americans to con-
ceive Of the terrorism of soviet rule.
maintained by the extraordinary
commission. its spies. and two mill
lion soldiers. The officials and SOL
diers alone are we'll fed. he de-
cIared.
Rubin said that although he
walked the streets OF Moscow until
morning many nights to keep warm
and TO ease the pain OF hunger. he
was never molested. There are no
hold-ups on the streets IN Moscow
anymore" he said. All the crooks
and gun-men are members OF the
extraordinary commission. They rob
the people in broad daylight of their
valuables, selling them in the name
Of the government"
Rubin declared that he did not
suffered in Russia but because he
found that socialism wouldn't work.
But he added that the fact that
there was little food and that bad.
no fuel and none OF the convent
sences OF civilization in the cities of
Russia now and that without the
incentive Of wages the people would
not work, the peasants refusing TO
raise crops for sale, was evidence
that the Wanted idealism of Karl
Marx was anything but ideal.
The speaker warned against the
soviet propaganda He said that
Lenin and Trotzky were flooding the
world with propaganda, trying to
convince the world that reports OF
suffering and famine. misery and
dissatisfaction in Russia are wrong
and that the people are happy.
Tn CONCLUSIONS word about the
United States" he said. THE United
States is the greatest country upon
the face OF the earth. The great
majority OF the American people
live better than the people in any
other country. Politically. they are
freer; economically, better. How
ever. our country is not perfect
There IS some room for improve
ment and 1t could stand great
deal of it
There Is no such thing as per-
lection upon this earth. Whenever
we will reach the stnge of perfec-
ton we will not be among the liv-
ing.
After all, a country cannot be
better than its people. A govern
ment is the plural OF an individual.
The better the individual, the bet
ter the government.
"A great problem confronting the |
American people, which sooner or
later must De solved. Is the problem |
OF Capital and Labor. Capital does
not understand Labor; nor does
Labor understand Capital. I want |
Capital to know thai the germ OF
bolshevism Is not confined to Rus |
STA only. The germ of bolshevism
appeared many years ago in France.
has been manifested in Germany
and in Austria Hungary. The germ
of bolshevism exists In every part
OF the world to greater or lesser
degree.
DO you know what the cause of
it is? Poverty. idleness and ignor-
ance are the greatest factors for
the creation of bolshevisrn. When
a man is hungry, when he 10 idle
and does not know what the NOR
row has in store for him. many
queer notions enter his mind that