Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-27
DARk-AGE T0RTURES
VIEWED IN RUSSIA
Peasant Family Sentenced 10 Die In
Flames while whole District
Watches the Tragedy.
ny John BALDERsToNl

Watches the Tragedy.
tRy JOHN BALDERSTONO
t'opyrght 1918, by Tho Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
LopoN, May "a Russia, where
idcalists and anarchists announced
They would promptly inaugurate
the Golden Age, has rclnpscd into
the horrors Of the Dark Ages. Slav-
cry and torturcs have been intro
duoed into the country whore capi.
ialisls aud bourgeois have been held
mp 70 cNecratiou. Travellers who
reach here after suffering terrible
hardships toll tho same story OF the
relapse into barharism OF the starv.
ing republic NJ soyicts. Maxim
E"rNN tho distinguished novelist.
mas sent To friends here a stupefy-
ing narrative which | have obtained
Monstroug rumorS" Gortv says,
arc circulating here about the army
which 10 retroating from Asia Minor.
IL anpears that It has brought into
lno Crimca largo number OF female
slaves, and that at Thcodosia a. reg
uIar slave market Is hcing held The
supply was 80 large that prices soon
I'U from 100 To lb0 ruhlcs to %
10 30 ruhlcs per slave. At the prog
ont value Of the ruhlc % ruhleS are
worth about So Can any contrast
ho more striking, any sarcasm more
ulhnE than this? According 20 Of
llNlhl assurances. We arc entering
the Kingdom Of Communism. where
complete equality Is 10 reign among
men, where bourgeois property Is
entirely abolished and whero the
power NJ Chattels is entirely broken
J n reality, We are transforming hu-
man beings into chAttels, we arc re-
storing property in human beings
instead Of destroying bourgeois
property and the soldiers OF the
revolutionary army arc publicly
trading in slaves rs the planters did
| in the times OF Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
Massacre the People.
Yves, the process OF selr-discip-
line among the masses ia proceeding
with gigantic strides The revolu-
| tlPpary army garrison nj SevaRto
| poi has already carried through the
last final struggle with the bour-
Eeois. without much ado they de.
| cided simply to massacre all the
middle classes who lived within
their reach They decided Bnd did
| It: at first they massacred the in
ha ahitsnts Of the two best residential
streets In Sevastopol. then tho same
/ operation, in spite OF the resistance
| of the local Soviet. was extended IA
| Sim feropol. and then the turn came
to Eupatorin Apparently similar
methods OF class warfare will soon he
extended to Greater Russia, for al
ready we have Bleichmann. ne lead
er OF the anarchists. onergstically
carrying on an agitation inside the
Petrograd Soviet TO bring about tht
same thing here.
VAN observers OF the village today
are unanimously of the opinion tha
the process of disintogration and de
moraiization IL proceeding In th'
country with Irresistible force, Hav
ing pIundered the estates Of the land
owners, having shared among them
selves or simply DESTROYED the deac
and living stock on these estates
having even taken 80 pieces th'
buildings, the peasants are now pre-
pairing for war against one another
for the division OF the spoils.
ITO this is added the calamity o
famine. In some districts the popu
lation has long ago consumed al
the available stocks OF corn includlnI
the seed corn, while In others IN
peasants, having n good harvest, ar
hiding corn and even burying IL II
order not to share It with their stsrv
ing neighbors. All this must lea d
and in some places has already lea
to a war of all against all, and tC
the most senseless chaos and uniYer
sal destruction and murder
Judicial Tortures.
A most lurid light is shed upor
what is going on in Russia by certain
official statements regarding the use
OF torture by judicial" authorities
throughout the country, one re-
port from Petrograd reads, referring
to conditions in the Interior, savage
cruelty holds high holiday IL tx the
resurrection OF torture and the stake
We are returning to the middle ages
The only difference Is that in place
of the official executioner In a red
shirt, there are amateur execution.
ers andA populacs that carries out
It's savage verdicts."
Some weeks ago a telegram from
Kanzan made even Petrograd shud-
der. II was this: I'm the Svyazhsky
district four peasants were burnt on
a pyre by order OF peasant as
sembly The execution took place In
the presence OF the Inhabitants or the
whole district" what the peasants
were, burnt for, the report did not
sayaIt"Posslbly the people who burnt
them did not know" saVagely COM
mented A Petrograd writer.
Nor is such an event exceptional.
Here is another report; In the
pubIic square OF n district town.
Rarnopol, the execution Of three boys
all under age has taken place They
were caught thieving The heads OF
ali three were cut off In the pres
ence Of a great crowd OF people. IN
tho case OF n fourth person. his
skull was crushed in. BY order OF
the court, this fourth party had
been sentenced 10 he tortured
And another news Item In the
middle OF February n Cassock VII
lage OF the government OF kaban
arra nged the public execution OF
forty Red Guards. who had been
taken prisoners. Six men were quar-
tered. The executions went on Tor
three days,
KILLS THREE WHO REPORT
HIM TO BE DRAFT EVADER