Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-10 | Page 7 | Soviet Theories Vanishing

r 1 t I Soviet Theories V Vanishing a 0 o 07 0 7 FURTHER URTHER evidence that the soviet czars of oJ Russia are admitting through the issuance of decrees that their original communistic theories c cannot n be e worked out successfully in actual practice ti tice e is contained in the order recently issued providing providing providing pro pro- viding for the coinage of silver The main plank in what might be termed the soviet pl platform consisted of the theory that the theA A world could get along without money that money that is that portion of the world which could not become become become be be- come dictators The first move of the soviet soviet le leaders ders was the seizure of all the the gold they could lay y their hands on The coinage of silver anc and the printing of paper money was stopped The cessation of the issuance of paper rubles however wever was brief and the resumption of the printing of such money really was the first admission admission admission ad ad- mission mission of the impracticability of the theory that tha money was n not t necessary in the transaction of business The soviet leaders then went to the J o other q r extreme and have ground out according to their Jr own admissions approximately a trillion fables r gt of oJ paper money r This is money except by y the word t the soviet rulers became practically worthless an anti to o meat the demands of the peasants whose is increasing for a more substantial al medium of exchange the soviet rulers consented t td tota a resumption of the coinage of silver This last lat concession following a number of others including the restoration of free trade to cooperative societies wo would ld seem to be a a. a final admission sion of the impossibility of te tre original co communistic n theories iL