Show Russian Recognition W v I HILE there is a 3 European trend in the airel direction Lion of resumption of trade with Russia and while recognition of tho the soviet so government may result in ill iii the near iwar future so persistent arc are the promises to bo ho good goOl goodof of Nicholai Lenin Leuin and so avaricious the demands of business business bustness busi bust ness firms in allied countries and to somo extent in our own thoro there arc are hero and there voices in the tho wilderness wilder wilder- ness trained ness trained voices too too crying crying out against it 31 as ts in iniquitous iniquitous iniquitous in- in 11 stand stand- in principle and unwise from u a practical point Herbert Hoover says ASter After a few months nen th the Bolshevik have exhausted tho the or in gold bold and securities which they have remaining from tho the amounts they have stolen from tho banks then they will need to export Jort commodities in exchange for inward goods Xo No one is going going- to give them credit They havo no commodities com corn to e export without caus causing Dg further suffering to their people They cannot export wheat when the population is hungry nor cotton or flax when they arcin arc are arcin in rags Their irn imports ds will then automatically cease A. A J. J Sack director oC or tho Russian iz information bureau hureau of the United States sums up the tho situation os us follows Tho The called so-called m d Bolshevist government o Is unable to give Europe Europa tho raw materials an and foodstuffs sho she needs be because because because be- be cause of or tho the utter Inefficiency of or the Bolshevist adminis adminis- administrative administrative apparatus on the iho ono hand band mid and the disorganization tion lion of at transport transportation lIon on the other Tho The Bolshevik would not nt bo ho able to collect and bring the raw materials I and foodstuffs to the ports even If It tho the peasants would not r refuse fuso to part with materials and foodstuffs Being to pay In commodities tho aro ready to 10 tou u ulo o tho gold Sold In their possession but tho the amount of oC gold Sohl they possess Is la ao fO o negligible compared with Russia's nee needs s that the products the thc they would bo be ablo to Import In n exchange for this gold would d not bo be sufficient not only for or starting tho the productive processes In Russia but even for satisfying 5 tho the Immediate needs of oC tho the starving starving- tion Thus the tho decIsion of or the allied supreme council even cn If tr It will wUl result In dealings with the tho will nc net t help either Russia or Europe Prof Joseph M. M Goldstein in his book on Russia Her ITer Economic Past and Future Futuro says that Russia would have havo t to expend a year for t ton ten n years or to bring her bel productivity product to the I level of even eyen so 80 backward a country as Hun Austria liun ia gary was before the war war and and p more ore oro must be expended for building new railroads and new rolling stock i In view of these untoward conditions condition if they arc correctly reported capital usually timid would naturally naturally naturally ally bo ho exceedingly c. reluctant t to finance Russia's rehabilitation rehabilitation rehabilitation reha reha- needs ev even n if tho the allies go so far as lS t to recognize recognize recognize nize the Lenin government But aside asido from nIl all financial financial finan finan- cial considerations it may well be asked whether self- self respecting nations are willing to condone the well- well known Bolshevist crimes and trea treachery hery and hypocrisy and tho the fact that their bloody regime regimo represents a tyranny t-ranny which bich rules that vast country country so so far as ns it docs does rule rule against against the expressed win wilt of- of tho people or whether er it would not be he wiser fo wait until the tho Bolshevist tyranny is and a democratic government ent is established the stability and honesty of which could not be questioned |