Show 2 A FACING STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the great world war SOVIETS MISUSE OF POWER i conditions in russia under that F form orm of government not of a sort to Y commend themselves to thinking men I 1 article by FRANK COMERFORD soviet government has been a costly i experiment russia Is almost sue site climbing to the treatment not with standing ng the lied billed army la Is meeting with success on the held back of the army amny conditions lit in russia v lra are growing I 1 ng from bad to worse the soviet leaders aders I 1 e are drunk with power and they have conducted themselves as drunken men inen gen generally do reckless waste intolerant greed for spoils here ere the record they have made the tha political machine Is tile the same plundering graft organization under communism in russia that it to Is under dern democracy in other countries the dovlet government Is a political mn ma clil cliftie tie and communism lias has not changed its character or it its methods it has simply given it larger tunit unities les for spoils greater security in its corruption the prints some from the budget tor for 1010 1019 according to tills this newspaper the revenue for tho the first half of 1010 amounted to rubles and the expenditures to ru bles so that the deficit for the iho girat rat six months of 1010 of soviet russia amounted to the enormous sum of oyer over rubles the acquisition of foodstuffs and necessaries of life hits cost a deficit of flye five billion rubles and the railways four and a halt b bt lion llon rubles thus a half year of bol rule cost more th anthe total outlay on the whole war money expended recklessly the report of the bolshevik nemen sky on the audit of the central soviet commission in charge of till all textile fac tories appeared in fit the of february 23 25 1910 1919 the finance credit division divi of the central soviet commission re delved up to february 1 1019 i rubles there was no control t 04 0 the expenditure of moneys money oey was advanced to factories immediately upon demand and there were cases capes f when money was forwarded to fac j s torlea tories which did not exist from july 1 i 1 to december 31 WS lols tile the central lavlet commission advanced on no nc 5 count ot of products to be received S rubles the value of the he goods securing these advances received up to january 1 1919 1010 wis vis only rubles the negligent way of doing business may be particularly observed from the way the central sot vict commission purchased supplies es of 1 raw wool up to january 1 1 only 1 boods of wool was tic acquired ired whereas the annual require requirement ent Is a alg ared at boods tile the tremendous staff of i about persons employed by the are in the majority of f cases bases doing nothing useful it appears that there were on the payroll of tills this institution persons who actually were not lit in the service at all but who s were receiving salar salaries leg there were cases where the same persons received salaries twice tor for the same periods period the of the officials is negligible ton to a striking degree such soviet institutions gays bays at tho abe end of his report are a beautiful example of den deadening denIng bureaucracy reau cracy and must be liquidated it would seem that the idealists Idea lists in n charge of the communist program in n russia are experts in graft ring methods payroll padding Is among their accomplishments an innocent bystander might suspect some of these soviet officials of having a anang toward private property particularly when it Is in ea easy gy reach their own Condemn condemnation atlon probably it Is fair to the tha bolsheviks to state their case in their own words tho the bulletin of the central executive committee af pf of the soviets no IS 15 1019 t announces we have created ex ea commissaries commis saries and extra or 1 commissions without number ft all ali of are to A lesser or greater degree only mischief makers the tolling population see eco in the squandering of money right and left by tile the commissaries commis saries and in their indecent loudness and profanity ltv during their trips arpa through the the complete absence sence of party discipline peoples commissar Luna charsky ne cordIng to the Sever Severn nayna aTna coni com uuna of march 23 1010 1910 declared tha rhe upper stra stratum tUrn of tile the soviet yuie rule Is ij becoming detached froin the macies anra ba und tind tile the blunders of tile C communist workers aro are becoming more and more re th these I 1 ese latter according to statements by workmen treat the masses in A highhanded high handed manner and tire arc very g generous I 1 anero us with threats and repressions repression the soviet machine lins hits had its irvin run in with tho the workers the factory committees have hav 0 hoen been bulldozed the fit soviets have been brutal in their hrvat bent of the mir struggle atrue elo glo belan beaw n the ts and the committee of factory meris Is an ordinary occurrence according to the bol bolshevik newspaper alioto 0 of april 1019 workers denied right night to strike thi alir movies have the whip hand in III their controversy with tile tho work worker erv ill pv tire thi government and the lied briny lincks their decrees there is in a final court of settlement for nu all dis agreements bet between weeti the soviets ond ind the workers it Is the walland wall wu and the king firing squad the right of strike la Is denied the workers many ot of those choie who have dared to strike have paid for it with their lives the workers tire are without recourse when commanded by the soviet whether or not they hey were slaves slave of the machines before communism came it Is certain that they are now the slaves of tho the soviets even ns its slaves blives of the machines and tile tha capitalists who owned tile the machines they had the right to strike for their rights the soviets deprived them of this right the bolshevik Sost lovsky r reporting on the lie condition in tile the province in fit the lie of the ho provincial soviet march 0 wrote the local communist soviet workers behaved themselves with rare exceptions in a disgusting manner misuse of f power Is going on constantly the conduct of bf the soviet commit sarles Is a general scandal in russia hussla their conduct la Is described in no 12 january 18 IDID 1010 of the of the provincial soviets the commas sailes barles were going through the county in sumptuous carriages driven by three and often by six horses A grent great array army of adjutants ond a largo suite bulte accompanied these theme and an imposing number of trunks followed along they enado exorbitant demands upon the tolling population coupled with assaults and brutality their way of aqua squandering money right and left cleftis Is particularly characteristic in some houses the ho commissaries commis saries gambled away and spent on intoxicants large sums the hardworking hard working population looked upon there orgies R ns complete deamoral imblon and failure of duty to tile the world revolution these pen lien pictures of life in russia under the soviet regime are not furnished by the of bolshevism they are the complaints of bolshevik leaders do we need a greater warning of the menace of bolshevism copyright 1920 western newspaper |