The Red Flag of Russia

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 13 (Supplement)

The Red Flag of Russia

(By Darius.)

I exst »r & p s' ,o °«™ ,- stesgSS^s the Impatient or the wretcn a tne . tin wrath ” It appears to me that s&i rs^aizw^ tlon by constitutional means or ,A h l the the tenets of Christianity. We mention tne Christendom, whereas the revolt of: the Bol-shevist-was neither so cruel nor bo bloody as revolutionary measures under the com mune in France. An Invidious Brotherhood. In Russia the territory involved Is Immeasurably greater, but for intensity of wood lust and for cruelty the 'Communist excels the Bolshevist. However, the latter has not finished his sanguinary- wort,-and he has emissaries the world over well supplied with money, preaching to the vicious and the atheistical the downfall of present rule and authority and a universal brotherhood on “f one ',Z\ of with f”<l dttoKWj The intentions of these emissaries are not generally understood. If they were, the Monarch, the Republicans, and the Prime Ministers of Christendom, would Bound them back to the kennels from whioh they were loosed. The enemy within our gates is the enemy to be feared. It was so in war-time; it is so in time of peace. Empires, Dominions, and States are ready for alliance, but they are not in allianoe for the purpose •of extirpating the internal and death-plan-ning spawn of the Russian rebellion with its ideals of a universal but invidious brotherhood. Bloody* and Remorseless Copyists. The Bolshevik rulers are but a reincar? nation of the Paris Communists and their flag is the flag borrowed from the commune. The hatred of the two classes against the priests, the church, and the divinity, Is characteristic of the vilest revolutionary creed. That the church is blameless I do not take upon myself to say—only. this I know: that which is sacred and divine &t- ---' tracts the first wrath and fury of the insurgent revolutionary. The sacred is _an offence to the profane. The beautiful cathedrals of Belgium were targets for the German artillery. To dethrone God is to disorganise Christendom arid 1 thereby 'destroy the symbolic emblem'of the Redeemers union with His church on Earth, and man’3 with the Unimpugnable Trinity. An Old Play on a New Stage. History says that in the last days of its, drunken and furious rule—in the very crisis and agony of its violent death, while the j grasp of "the national army was tightening upon its throat, and it could only fetch its breath in spasms, and only move its limbs

Death to Religion and Social Order.

to the convulsions of diesohition the commune added one more to. atrocities. n> the murder of those it had detained ns hostages The captives in question nearly of them priests —had committed no•overt.act against, the commune, yet it was inf, _ that they must of necessity, be opponents of the Red Revolution. The sutteriw theoe hostages had to endure need not be dwelt upon For most they ended in execution. On May 24. 1871. the Archbishop of Paris and five other hostages were shot In the outward courtyard of prJ f on : h of the firing party knelt to the P • nri annealed for pardon. Their comrades rushed them with hiohs - insulted the hostages so grossly, even the commander was shocked and exclaimed. ••You are here to shoot these men and not to outrage them!” There was nothing of bloody origina l f„ lento or to Trotsky. The stose and scenery were new as they arranged thing , but it was the same old play, with thei sam hideous characters, made against rulers on earth and the Lord of Life. The Creed of the Commune. "The Abbe Lamazou," quotes a <3ommunistic leader, as follows:— “What do we care about war against the foreigner ? ■we want is war—deadly war—against capital, and the massacre of the priests and t wealthy. We must die.or conquer To do that we must deny the existence ot God of a familv. of a fatherland. We must free our children from' the brutalising yoke of priests, kings, and nationality. To de y- » is to, affirm that man stands the of his own fate: it is doing away with priests and religion. To denr Godisfor man to assert his own strength and .liberty. To deny the existence of a family is to assert the independence of man fr °™ hi ® A cradle: it is to deliver woman f ' om a bo " d age which she owes to priests rotten civilisation. As for our country we cast it away from us because we do no admit that men may kill each- other for the sake of any nationality. All lahiourers proletarians, are brethren; society at large, built up as it is now. society is our sworn enemy. Society itself is bad: we must alter it. Working men of all countries, to work, to work! War, war to the knife, to capital, to property, and to every government which protects them! The right of labour to all—the right of property to all —such is our ob iect To attain that object we will spare no effort; we will fight, we willl die, if required. under the guidance of the red flag, that standard of socialism and of the commune.” The To-morrows May Be As Yesterday. The Russian revolution, like the brief reign of the Paris Gomipune, , ; was the outcome of class'-selfishness arid the ambition of the B^oßl^ W6%«rs«to ruleithelation,The profligacy of the ria'tion; emphasised be-, yond reason, by the circulation of vicious ' and infiamrriatriry literature, was also an- incitement to revolution. / Exactly the same sinister influences 1 are in operation to-day, wherever the Red Flag is flown. ' It signifies terror, anarchy, destruction, murder, anti-Christ, and the intention to destroy the superstructure we have built upon barbarism, and designated by the noble name of civilisation.