CHILDREN AND BOLSHEVISM.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—I am extremely glad that my letter on this subject, which you were so kind as to publish, has drawn the attention of many . people to this poisonous propaganda among children. Mr. Tom Anderson triumphantly announces that his movement has dis- owned the ethics of Christianity. Of that there can be no doubt. The essential ideas underlying Christianity as set forth in the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are surely duty and love. In the Ten Proletarian Maxims there is practically no mention of either. The Golden Rule is replaced by a command to "teach revolution and to wage the class war." As to the new God with which Mr. Anderson pro- poses to replace " Our Father which art in heaven," he has apparently gone back for his conception to the Moloch of heathen times. So at least I gather from a letter addressed by him to an inquirer on the subject of the Proletarian Schools. Distinguishing between the " Socialist " and the "Prole- tarian" Schools, Mr. Anderson writes: "The difference between them (the Socialist schools) and us is they are angels, we are human. We would fight and kill to bring the revolu- tion; they would plead and pray to convince you of the need of a change."—I am, Sir, &c.,
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