® PAGE TWENTY-TWO THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, = SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1918. } 7 a -- - ---- ---- 5 * THE LUNACY OF BRITISH BOL- SHEVISM -- IDIOTIC REASONING oy THE WAY TO NATIONAL DISASTER : : By Robert If the British Bolshevists can spare half-an-hour from their favor- ite occupation of holding confererices and drawing up manifestoes 1 should like them to "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" a. short passage from one of Sir Anthony Hope's stories and to apply the said passage as 4 touchstone to their recent la- mentable Bolshevist policy. " I found the passage a few 'days @go, and it struck me as a very happy description of the reysoning of our cosmopolitan Labor: idealists: It occurs in a love stoty, end is the opinion which a practical man of af- fairs expresses of a brilliant but shal- low theorist: "The man is constitutionally ine capable of thinking in the right or- der. It's always the same with him; I don't care whether it's his article about North Africa or that book of vis about primitive man. He always ~-not occasionally, but always starts with his conclusion, and works backwards to the preniisses. North Africa ought to be that shape---it is! Primitive man ought te have thought that--he did! You see? The result is that the facts have to adapt them- selves to these conclusions of his. Now that habit of mind makes a man who has to do with public affairs a dangerous and pernicious fool. He ought not to be allowed about. What, I should like to know, does he think Jhe Almighty made facts for? Not to be looked at, evidently, That is the quotation. We will now take an interval for silent prayer. Thank you. And now, dearly be- loved, let us remember with Captain Cuttle that the 'bearings of this ob- servation le in the application there- of." Arguing Backwards, The German Democracy ought to exist--therefore it does. The Ger- man Demoerdcy ought to join us in our desire for the 'peoples peace' -- therefore it will. The Germany Demo- eracy ought to overthrow the Kaiser ----therefore it must. Let us then meet and agree with "our German comrades," and we shall find them exactly what we want them to be because they ought to do just like that. There we have the reasoning upon which the whole cult of Bolshevism and "International solidarity" has been built up by a number of ami- able persons who, according to Sir Anthony Hope's man of affairs, are political idiots and "'ought not to be allowed about." Let us subject that sweet and dove- like piece of reasoning to the one essential test--a comparison of the assumptioy with the facts, THE BIG HEALTH DRIV HAS BEEN STARTED. TO BUILD UP THE BLOOD OF THE PEOPLE - Spring is the Time When People Worn and Weary After a Hard Winter Need a Tonic to Restore the Blood and Renew Energy and Ambition. It is one of the most persistent traditions of the human race to take in the spring, and like most of the accumulated wisdom of mankind Vinter is always a trying season for people who have small reserve Not many of us gel as much exercise and out-of-door air in winter as in summer. time is spent in rooms none. too well ventilated, our diet lacks the fresh green foods of sum- grows thin and sluggish with ill effects on the entire basis. mer, and it is po wonder that the blood system. Blatchford. J The German Democracy ought to exist tiful. Butt does not ex- a political Mrs. Harris, in't no sich person.' In- German Democracy there a German Autocracy with a cult of bleod and iron and a policy of slave-driving and plunder. It we call the Kaiser and Hindenburg and Tirpitz a German Democracy, and if we treat with them for peace on Bol- shevist lines of no indemnities and no annexations and no fiscal or economic boycott, we shall get what Russia has got. The blood and iron Democracy annexes 350 miilion square miles of Russian soil, seizes all the Ryssian naval ports, puts 50 millions 0f Russians under the Ger- man yoke, demobilises the Russian army, interns the Russian navy, for- bids the Russian democratic. pro- paganda, saddles Russia - with an economic "agreement" which amounts to economic slavery and the death of Russian industry, and con- demns the Russian people to pay-an indemnity of £300,000,000. That is the kind of democratic peace which the Bolshevists have achieved by their brother confer- ence with a German emocracy, which ought to have existed but did not, which ought to have overthrown the Kaiser but could not, An Amazing Cataclysm, This Russian debacle is the most tremendous and amazing cataclysm in modern history. Russia was a great empire. The conquest of Rus- sig thas long. been regarded by mili- tary authorities as impossible. Men of the greatest military genius; lead- ing enormous and puissant armies, have been checked and defedted and uttesly routed im their attempts to conquer Russia. For centuries the Germans have feared Russia. . Fred- erick the Great confessed that the Russians had always beaten him and left the sound advice; 'Never fight Russia." In this war, despite the treachery, the corruption, and the incompet- ence which maimed and checkmated the Russian armies and generals, the Germans were again and again defeated in Russia. Had the Russian people after the Revolution remained true to the army and. to their Allies the might of Germany would have battered its life out against the Rus- sian rock. And now we See Russia humiliated, betrayed, and disgraced. See 'her mighty Empire shattered and split up into a congeries of petty feudal States. We see her invincible armies reduced to a broken, disaffected rabble. And see her enemies march- ing on her capital. Many people who need a tonic neglect it, because they are not sick enough to cause them any worse feeling than one of fatigue and discomfort. health is so gradual that they, themselves, They do face, weak nerves, languidness and irritability attract the atten tonic is the right remedy, and the Pink Pills. This medicine huilds 1 strength to every part of the body. The appetite is. improved, the digestion is toned up, there "is new color in the cheeks and lips, vigorous health replaces weariness and lassitude and you find a new joy in living, INDIGESTION CURED. Mrs. Harry Odd, Nipissing, Ont., says: "For a long time | was a great sufferer from indigestion. 1 could pot eat a meal without undergoing much suffering and as time went on 1 naturally became much run down, and found the greatest difficulty in doing my housework. In fact only those who have suffered from stom- by a doctor, but as he was not help- ing me I,began taking other medi- es, and had used several kinds thout it before I heard that . Pink Pills were re- {for this trouble, The re- be What 1 was constantly grow- ker and weaker when my RHEUMATISM CURED, Mr. Fred Eisiel{ Dashwood, Ont., says: "When I began® using Dr. Williams® Pink Pills I was little bet- ter than a wreck; for years I had suffered periodically from rheum- atism and lumbago. 1 was constant- ly doctoring, and while this gave me some relief, it did not cure me. As a matter of fact before I began using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills 1 had spent more than a hundred dollars in other treatment and was still a syfferer. Then I was recommended to try Dr. Willlams® Pink Pills, and the use of only six boxes made a cure, and I have not had a twinge of the trou- ble since. While taking the pills my weight and general health increased in a most gratifying manner, and you may be sure 1 will always be a .warin friend of.this medicine." ST. VITUS DANCE CURED. Mrs. Wm. Hill, Stratford, Ont., says: "l suffered from a nervous breakdown after the birth of my first child, and the trouble developed in- to St. Vitus dince, which ptt me in- to such a condition that I was ly able to do my housework; my hands twitched and trembled so that 1 could scarcely hold anything and 1 but ins walked so unsteadily that I was 'ally afraid to go out. Before beginning the use of Dr. Williams' Pink I 1 tried several remedies, but did not help me. It was on advice of a friend that I took pilis, and in a short time they made a complete cure and I have ever since e," is printed er they will a ---- guered do not realize how far from normal they are until pale re is absolutely. no other tonic to compare with Dr. Williams' 1p and enriches the blood and Rus is defeated, she is broken, site n process of enslavement. She who single-banded might have over- thrown the Kaiser's power and comn- Austria and Cermany. and th almost inconceivable re- has been brought about by the tion of a number of ami- ists who would see always reasoned back- had become 'dangerous pre jus fools." I'nis reasoning brings us up again- st a hostile army of stubborn facts, To begin with, the war aims of the alleged German Democrats are not the way aims ofgthe German ralers. We know the wir aims of the Ger- man rulers, and we know that the war aims of Comrades Fritz and Hans don't matter. The wife bf Bill Sikes may be an honest woman, but her honesty is no assurance for ihe householder against her husband's burglaries. Mrs. Sikes may have moral aims of the most impeccable, but they are ngl practical politics becange Mr. es has a big fist and a heav\bgAt. ) sult not Impotent Hans and Fritz. The Russian Bolshevists, by a pro- cess of retrograde reasoning, arrived at the conclusion that Hans and Fritz] did matter because they ought to matter, that the German Democracy ought to stop the war--thergfore they would. The results of this Bol- sheVist faith in the German Demo- cracy are not encouraging. The loveliest of airy castles falls to dust under the shell fire of the apostles of Blood and Iron. The outstanding defect of castles in the air is that they earry no guns. A small coterie of well-meaning political idiots have in a few months wrecked an Empire which defied the armies and genius of Napoleon and Frederick and Charles of Sweden. Incidentally, the blind reaching out of the Bolshevists to embrace.a phan- tom peace will cost the Allies of Rus- sia and champions of real Democracy hundreds of thousands of lives. The policy of annexations, neg in- demnities, and no economic war has resulted "in the enslavement of a "Russian population' greater than the population of the British Isles, in the infliction of an indemnity greater than that paid by France in 1871, in { the annexation of Russian territories larger than the whole of Austria and Germany combined, and in an eco- nomic subjection which will bleed Russia white and make it impossible for her ever to cast off the yoke of her greedy and Vrutal enemy. And there is to be no Russian democratic propaganda! Russia is not only to be denied democracy; she is not even to he allowed to talk about it, It our democrats want to discuss the policy of no annexations, no in- demnities, and no economic war with the Germans, they had better discuss it with those Germans who have power to carry their war aims into effect. The same Germans who talked and dealt with Comrades Trotsky and Lenin. Why trouble poor comrades Fritz and Hans for an ~ AA A a tonie for the blood it has a sound scientific of physical strength. Much of dar not realize that the- decline in tion of friends. Even then a sends renewed health and BAD BLOOD PURIFIED Miss Annle Durocher, "Maidstone, Ont, says: "I am more grateful than I can Nay for what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for me. My blood was in a very bad condition, I was weak, appetite poor, the least exertion would leave me breathless and my face was covered with pim- ples. 1 tried many medicines with- out © getting - any help, 'and then tirough a friend heard of Dr. Wil- Hams' Pink Pills and decided to give .them a fair trial. The result is that this"iredicine purified and enriched expression of a merely pious. opinion? As German Socialist papers point out, the disasterous blunders of the Russian Bolshevists have ruined the poor, enaemic German hope of German Democracy. The absolute and irredeemable ruin of the Rus few QCerman revolutionary demo- erats into their funk-holes, and has put Hindenburg and the Kaiser more firmly than ever into their saddles. If there was any hobe at all of a German Democracy that pope has been utterly blasted by Comrades Lenin and Trotsky. The Men of Blood and Iron. Meanwhile, the anti-democratic facts, thé German facts, remain as solid as the ever-lasting hills. No words nor wishes can 'move them. | GW many---not poor Fritz and poor Hans, but Germany---is out world power or downfall. The Ger- man nation willingly and knowingly submitted to iron discipline, endur- ed grinding drill, made enormous sacrifices for four decades of years with the object of {oreign conquest. The Ger X tion went to war to achieve he conquest, The German people have fought, and bled, and suffered, and paid to achieve that conquest. Is it likely that after all they have done, and given, and en- dured they are going to be argued or persuaded out of their spoils and who reason backwards and "ought not to be allowed about?" Germany has fought for the plun- der, She meant 10 fight for it. She is prepared to go on fighting for it. She recognizes, no argument bu t the stern argument of defeat. She abides hy the deecisionsof the sword. Other- wise she need not 'have drawn the sword. The spectacle of a party of talkative Allied Labor leaders uob- nobbing round a table with Com- rades Fritz and Hans will interest the Men of Blood and Iron, but it} will only whet their punpose. The more her enemies babble for peace the better will Germany be pleased Russian peacemongers have al- ready given Germany by a few weeks' parley more than her Hindenburgs and Ludendorfts could have won in a hundred years. While the Pacifists talk the Ger- mans are starving Rumanian women to death. And there is always an outside chance that disaffection or war weariness may shake the Allies' will to victory, > fog their reward by a handful of persons : Meanwhile, Comrade Gompers, of the United States, has put the real: situation in a few words for all who care to understand. . ' "We are not talking; we are figlt- ing," says Comrade Gompers, and there we have the naked fact. The Allies can beat the Germans in spite of all that Lenin and Trotsky have done to help them, They will beat the Germans if they will look at the Almighty's 'facts and not begin to reason backwards. But they will not be helped, they will be hindered, in their work by every day wasted in foolish and futile international _palavers about the peace aims of poor Fritz and poor Hane, Comrades Fritz and Hans cannot give us peace. Their masters can give us peace of the kind théy have given Russia. But there is only one way of getting real peace, or as our Labor leaders prefer to call it, a "People's Peace," and that is by fighting for it and winning it. Let Us Learn Our Lesson, "We are not talking; we are fight- ing," Mr. Gompers says. And when we are fighting talk is @ waste of breath and time, Do not let us reject the Tesson which has cost the peor Russian! péople such a price. A few weeks ago some of our journals and some of our people were extolling Comrades on the Britdsh workers to take ex- ample by the shining wisdom of Bol- shevism, A few weeks ago some of those Englishmen and Scotsmen, who "aught not to be allowed about," were advocating strikes and revolu- tion and a 'People's Peace" by negotiation. If the terms of peace dictated to the Russian peace-mong- ers at the point of the German bayo- net Have not cured our British. Bol- shevists of their dangerous habit of reasoning backwards their case is in- deed hopeless. if there is any Briton or French- man who thinks or hopes that Ger- any can be persuaded into a sur- Tender, a quick menual glance back across the history of the war, and a long steady look at the map should suffice to cure him of his obsession. Germany has' just seized territory fifty per cent. larger than her own empire, She has just enslaved a pop- ulation almost as large as her gwn. She has just made a finantial treaty which will fill her coffers with plun- der. She has just walked over the body of one she feared as an invin- cible foe. She has her grfp on wealthiest part of France. She has Rumania and Serbia and Belgium under her feet. She is red with the blood of murdered people. 'She is wild with rage and partial victory. | She has her sword in her hand. > 'What can Mr, Henderson and Mr. my blood, cleared away all the pim- ples and left me enjoying the best of health. If I feel that I need a medicine again, you may be sure that it is Dr. Willams' Pink Pills I shall take." « - DIZZINESS AND PATIGUE, Miss Beatrice M, Guelph, Ont., says: "I have derived great benefit from the use of Dr. Willlams® Pink Pills. For nearly a year 1 was troubled with anaemia, and many of its attendant evi face had a pale, tired, pearance, suffer Thomas say to Comrades Pritz and Hans about it? What can those cowed and bullied German Demo erats do to give us peace? 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