Show THE COMMUNISTS OF RUSSIA The Communists of Russia are looked upon by the Wall Street Journal as dreamers who h ho do not live in a world orid ot of realities In a recent Issue the Journal made this comment Tho The Russian Communist Is con con- contented contented tented to dwell In unrelieved wretchedness for three generations ge In order to prove something which ho he thinks ought to be true He lie might hue have fallen asleep one mid mid- midsummer midsummer summer night and had his pockets filled with gold by the tho fairies only to find nothing but dry lea leaves lea es on his Ills return to the tho outside world He lie has been looking for tor fairy fair gold in inFranco InFranco inFranco Franco for or some somo years past and has found nothing but leaves Only last year Moscow proposed that the French rench should make a II loan to the Soviet out of at part ot of which they the would ouM pay off oct old debts to France It sounds like Uko Alice In Wonderland to state It that way but there Is the Bolshevist con con- conception conception of at finance It was not ohly untrue but It It could not be true tr c. c It was put out because Mos Mos- Moscow Moscow cow does not not want the Soviet am am- ambassador ambassador ambassador thrown thrown out of at France neck and crop as the tho Soviet am am- ambassador ambassador was thrown out of at Eng Eng- land Hence tho the gesture To Ig Ignorant ig- ig ignorant nOrl Dt people abroad and especial especial- especially ly in the United States Stales the tho Impression impression sion slon of ot a conciliatory disposition In Moscow with a a. blamable churlish churlish- churlishness ness Dess in Paris might be created When Karl Marx wrote his toil toll I some and tedious book on capital he lie was expounding expound In one assumption tion and he had to Ignore every every- everything everything thing else in order to establish his unsound major premise From first to last he never saw what credit meant Capital looked to him like something which was as drawn out of ot ofa ota ofa a bank with a bit ot of paper to pay him his two pounds a week in his London lodgings He never neer real real- realized realIzed realized that wages came out of at the tho great structure of ot credit represent represent- representing ing ten times forty times a hun bun hundred hundred dred times the capital which he re re- regarded regarded re- re regarded as the tho wage source When the Soviets confiscated the tho treas treas- treasury treasury ury and the private stock ot of o metal money and negotiable Instruments they thought they the had taken over oyer the tho entire resources of o capital It took took them about three years years to find they had destroyed what was fifty times more essential the entire structure of ot credit It was Lenin who first discovered ered that and it if I ho had bad continued the tho process ot of disillusion a very few years ears longer he would have been no more a So Socialist than Napoleon was Dimly with Ith little enough understanding one section of at the Soviet let is striving ing to restore the destroyed spirit spirit- spiritual ual structure of credit only to find tho the vision dissipated by the un unconvinced unconvinced convinced extremists of o whom Braunstein or Trotsky or whatever he calls himself now is a fair ex ex- ex ample |