Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], May 17, 1919, Image 1

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"TT7HILE the price of silver is soaring beyond any range it has
I) VV reached in recent years the Bolsheviks are interrupting the
' silver industry in Utah and creating conditions which result in the
I destruction of mines. We may be sure that if they were among us in
( greater numbers they would shift from what may be described as a C
j negative policy of destruction to a positive policy, as in Russia and J
vermany. j
When we think of what the Reds have done "at Park City and
k NEureka our minds revert to those woeful scenes in Munich when
the Reds were in power. Under the leadership of Willie Hausmann, a
ruthless demon, unoffending men and women held as hostages, were
7 shot to death, and LFnholy Willie strutted through the tragedy smok
ing a cigarette and laughing as if blood went to his head like wine.
From the dregs of society such men arise whenever the law is sub
f merged and anarchy reigns. They have their little day, as did the
3 communists of 1871 in Paris, and then mercifully are removed from
the scrutiny of appalled and discouraged humanity.
t, We need not flatter ourselves that we have no Willie Hausmanns
j among the Bolsheviks and Sparticans who are stirring up labor
.j troubles among us. They speak softly and hypocritically in public so
-' long as the law affrights them, but when they have overthrown the
jj law they are ready to light their cigarettes, and begin the slaughter of j
innocents with laughter. All appeals to reason, to virtue, to humanity
VTare lost upon them, and yet they appear before us as evangels of
reason and humanity.'
rv If Utah were so foolish as to permit this class to gain a footing
here it would deserve to see repeated the scenes which have made
Petrograd, Moscow, Ufa and Munich places of horror. We have had
our warning in the bombs that were sent to some ofour leading men
through the mail. The whole nation has had its warning.
We have no wish to pass upon the merits of any wage question
raised in Park City or Eureka. It may very well be that the increas
ing market for silver will warrant a restoration of the wage scale or
cven a higher scale.
An increase of wages, while it might satisfy the law-abiding
f workers, would simply augment the rage of the revolutionaries. The
I jP last thing tljey desire is a peaceful settlement. What they want is de-
struction of the present order of society, the destruction of our na-
tional and state governments and the establishment of Leninc and
' Trotzky rule throughout our land. To temporize with them is to in-
vite disaster.
W It is argued that the best way to stamp out Bolshevism is to
I remove the causes of Bolshevism. It is a pleasing epigram, but it
t & proposes a different task. The well meaning who employ it prob
" & ably will tell us that the causes of Bolshevism' are unemployment,
f low wages as compared With prices, profiteering and the concentra-
I tion of wealth in the hands ofta few.
- . It is a mistake. l
I Some of our most active Bolsheviks, in a secret way, are rich
idlers in New York City and elsewhere who have helped to finance H
the Reds. Many of them are women. We may concede that they are H
dominated by their sympathies ; certainly their brains have been as I M
idle as their hands. M
VWhat, then, are the causes of Bolshevism? Contempt for the i M
nioral law, atheism, idleness, lack of education, vice, desire to attain j fl
ease and pleasure without working for it, envy, class hatred, paid 1 M
I propagandists and agitators and brainlessness. These are the pri- JM
Imary causes. The secondary causes are the ills of the social and in- )Mm
dustrial order. imm
Society can remove the secondary causes after years of thought Hl
and struggle. Necessarily it will tye a slow process. Nothing good 11
ever was attained in a day. 11
Only the brainless believe that progress can be made by sudden
destruction. We move from the lower to the higher, from the bad to 11
the better only by discovering improved methods. And after we have i
eliminated one evil we find that new conditions have confronted us 11
with other evils. We build up a new order of society and imagine that 11
the millenium has arrived, when, to our surprise and dismay, unex- mm
pected ills spring out of the new order. TlsJiiiLis-alwajrsjiJiarttlcr , jH
a We may raise wages to the last penny that can be spared and H
yet we cannot increase the happiness of the slaves of vice or of folly. jH
I An increase in wages or a complete change in the economic system Jm
does not eliminate the prodigal son or the wayward daughter. It does '
not cure cancer, drunkenness or degeneracy, or ward off epidemics. H
We would not be so foolish as to argue that an improvement in M
economic conditions docs not make for happiness; we are simply ' M
trying to slibw that no change in system can eradicate the ills that M
produce most of the misery. M
So much for the theory. Now for the facts. v jH
We have seen Bolshevism triumph in Russia and put its new E
system in force. The result has been a universal increase in misery. J ' f)H
A system may be discovered better than the one we possess, but we I -"" hH
have learned by experience that Bolshevism is not that system. ' JH
And yet there are those who would Bolshevize America. 'Ma
SUPREME IMPERIAL PRESIDENT. 'M
OUR respects to Jaffer Koolis Kahn, Tartar chieftan of the prin- H
cipality of Nakhicchevan, at the foot of Mount Ararat, where " H
lived the late Mr. Noah, pioneer. Peace be unto him and may his lilB
tribe increase and may his shadow never grow less in all the land 4p
from the Caucasus to the Tigris and the Euphrates. I'fl
Jaffer Koolis Kahn has addressed a letter to "the imperial rep- jhfl
resentative, the supreme president of the United States," hailing him Am
as "your supreme highness," and humbly asks that the United States !
accept a nandate to administer the affairs of the principality. . ill
In uat remote land, where princes, have seen the rise and fall of mm
empires and where they know imperialism when they see it, the? reign- fill
P fV SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 17, 1919. ' WM
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