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Show COLLINS TALKS 01 BOLSHEVISM "Red" Doctrine Has No Sympathy Sym-pathy With Conditions of Working Classes The doctrine of bolahcvlsm never originated from tho hopes and aspirations aspira-tions of the working classes and ' has no sympathy with their condition, but Is essentially a government of a fow dsepots, according to Peter W. Collins, noted Boston labor leader, who spoke nt the Ogden tabernacle last ovcnlng on "Bolshovism, the lied Menace," under auspices of the Ogden council, Knights of Columbus. Colum-bus. An nudlence which comfortably comfort-ably filled the large auditorium was present. In Introducing tho visitor, Mayor Frank Francis declared It was a source of satisfaction that people of Utah, who are largely of the self-1 reliant homo owning class know so little about the dnngcrs confronting many of the larger eastern cities. "This Is an age of mistaken 'Isms' In which many remedies are brought forward lo remedy all our ills," the speaker declared. "The doctrine should be explained not in the academic aca-demic sense and tho language of the college and university, where it poses under high sounding titles, but in the language of the workman, who, after all, is the most concerned and to whom the direct appeal Is most frequently made. Its yurposc is simply sim-ply using the working people as a crowbar to pry society from Its foundation." foun-dation." The red doctrlno denies tho existence exist-ence of a Supreme Being and is, in its las analysis, socialism as taught by Karl Marx put into action. In pointing out the fallacies of the movement, Mr. Collins said that 90 per cent of the menibors of the socialist so-cialist party did not understand and fully realize the doctrine they professed pro-fessed to believe but that careful study of the writings of their masters mas-ters would reveal the despotic nims sought for. Opening the meeting, vocal selections selec-tions were given by Mrs. S. P. Dobbs and Mrs. Hay Morrissey. |