El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-05-27
RUSSIA RULED BY.
BUTCHER BANDS.
TOrtures Of the Dark Ages;
Selling Of Souls, Rapine
and Murder.
By JOHN BALDEBsTON.


where idealists and anarchists am
nounced they would promptly iuau-
gurate the Golden Age. has relapsed
into the horrors Of the Dark Ages
Slavery and tortures have been intro
duced into the country where CAPT
talists and burge0is have been held
I'D to execration. Travellers who
reach here after suffering terrible
hardsEzqs tell the same story Of the
relapse into barbarism Of the starving
reDublic OF soriets. Maxim Gorky,
the distinguished novelist, has sent TO
friends here a Supplying narrative
which 1 have obtained
s1ronstrous rumors," Gorky says,
care circulated here about the army
which is retreatiug from ASIA MINOR
it aunears thar lr has brought INTO
the Crimea a large number Of female
slaves and that at Theod0sia regu-
lar slave market is being held The
eronTr was so large that prices soon
fell from 100 OF $50 rounles 20 70 OF
30 rou5les per slave cat the present
value OF the r0uble 25 roubles are
worth about SD
RESTORING Traffic in Souls
aCan any contrast be more striking,
According to official assurances. we
are entering the kingdom Of COM
munism. where complete equality rs 70
reign among men, where polrse9-s
property is entirely abolished ana
where the power OF cnattels is en-
tfrelv broken In reality. we are
Transforming human beings into chat
tells, we are restoring property 10
human beings instead or destroying
bourgeois property. and u2e so-qleEs
of the evolutionary army are public
~ trading in slaves, as me planters
did I'm the times Of Harriet Beecher
Stowe
eyes. the process Of self discipline
among the masses IS proceeding with
gigantic strides The revolutionary
army garrison at SevastapQl has all
ready carried through the last final
struggle with the bourgeolsie- With
out much ado they decided simply 20
massacre All the middle classes VINO
lived within thei- reach
massacre All Opponents.
They decided and did it; at first
they massac-ed the Inhabitants Of the
two best residential streets in Sevas-
top0l, then the same operation, IN
spite of the resistance Of the local
soviet. was extended TO Sim1eropol,
and then the tern came Of Eupatorla-
Apparently similar methods or class
warfare viii soon be extended TO
Bleichmauu, the leader Of the anar-
chists. energatically carrying on an
agitation inside the Petrograd soviet +
TO bring about the same thing here
All observers Of the village today j
are unanimously OF the opinion that
the process Of DISSATISFACTION and de-
m0raliZariQn is proceeding In the
country with Irresistible force HaT- /
ing pIundered the estates Of the land i
owners, having shared among tlern-
selves or simply destroyed the dead
and living stocks on these estates.
having even taken TO pieces the build
ings. the peasants are now preparing
for war against one another for the
division Of the spoil
Calamity II Famine.
'-To this IS addzd-the calamity OF
famine. In son ricts the popu-
lation has long lsumed an the
available st0cl. II including the /.
seed corn. while u "A hers the peas
ants having a COED harvest, are hide
ms. corn and even buryiug IL in order
not TO share ir with their starving
neighbors All this must lead, and i'm
some places has already led, 70 war
of all against ALI and 10 the most
seuseless chaos and universal de-
srructlon and murder"
A most lurid light IS shed upon
what is going on in Russia by certain
official statements regarding the use
of torture By 'judieiaI' authority
throughout the country one report
from Pertograd reads, referring 20
conditions in the interior savage
cruelty holds high holiday 1t is the
lesurrecti0n OF torture and the stake.
We are returning to the Middle Ages
The only difference is that in place
Of the official eEecutiOuer in red
shirt, there are amateur eNecutioners
and a populace that carries out Its
sewage Verdicts" g.