CHILDREN AND BOLSHEVISM.
ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
Sta,—I was greatly amused at Mary D. Waldegrave's reply to my letter. The good lady was shocked. " It is so horrible," she writes, and then she adds, " We who believe in God, we know that He is." That, my dear lady, explains nothing. In point of numbers the adherents to your God are in the minority, and if we were to call for a majority report from the others it might shock you. I desire to assure you, however, I do not wish to steal your God from you. It would be equal to me going into the park and taking the doll from a little child that was playing with one. It would be an outrage. But supposing that child went back to the park when she was twenty years of age and played with the doll in the same way. What do you think the people would say? I think they would say she was weak-minded. This is your position in the eyes of every thinking man and woman.
Mr. Angus Watson, in the same issue of the Spectator, makes six rambling statements, not one of them bearing on my letter, and the first one is incorrect. Before there was a Labour College in this country I was teaching the children of the working class. For proof of this he can turn up the Young Socialist, May issue, 1906. His second and third statement are schoolboy speculations; his fourth, the " Adam and Eve story." " It is not a necessary Christian ethic." I will leave this one to Mr. Reginald Wilson and the Christian Church. The fifth, " All the programmes he outlines have been tried before." This is the statement of an ignorant man. It has only been tried once, and that in the Russia of to-day. The sixth statement, "What the world needs is not more things, but more spirit." This one crowns all the others. Every politician, every small man and big man, every newspaper in the country, has had but one cry this last twelvemonth, " More Production." Mr. Reginald Wilson on August 14th again has a try, and all he can talk about is the Ten Commandments. He also makes reference to Moloch. Might I inform him that Moloch, like the Hebrew God, is quite modern? If he had said Marduk or Krishna then there might have been a glimmering of reason in his suggestion. I shall be pleased to answer any of your correspondents if they will deal in realities, but when they make reference to their God and their Spirit, these are personal matters, and are outside of economic facts. Bolshevism is based on the materialist conception of history and the dictatorship of the proletariat.—I am, Sir, &c., Ton ANDERSON. 24 Queen Mary Avenue, Glasgow.
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