Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15

Russia the world has hith-
erto received little or no
information. Copious ac-
counts have been published of the
political aspects of bolshevik domi'
nation and its excuses. But the DOL
sheviki disclaim being an ordinary
political government movement Inc!
have declared that they embodS
something entirely new in the
science of government. They cai
their plan the dictatorship of the
proletariat, and their government an
industrial one in which committees
of workingmen directly run all rae
tories. railroads. street railways
banks and other enterprises.
This. at least. is their Theoretical
program They and their followers
are trying to Introduce it in othei
countries.
How has the experiment worked
out in Russia? Just what the actu a'
results have been is contained IN
comprehensive article which Will APP
near in the forthcoming issue of the
National Civic Federation Review
The article is based upon personally
gathered first hand testimony OF
careful observers who nave. come
from Russia and who had good OPP
portunties to study conditions there
All Beliefs Represented.
These observers comprise men of all
shades of political belief, lnciuding
men who managed big industria
plants in Russia. socialists, bolShe-
tors and a variety of others. mum
Der of them are Americans VINO mao
lived for many years in Russia ana
know the country and Its peolhe IN
timately. 1t is notao ole that dlheI dc
they do in their political IDEAS, tnes
all agree in their Independent state
ments of the facts of the situation III
Russia.
Rolsheyism is not as new TO amer
cans as the name would imply. w
have had the theory here years
i'm the agitations Of the l. W W. IN
fact. many of the bolsheVlk ieauel
in Russia received their training mere
in the + w. w. carrying the methods
and ideas of that organization VIII
them when they flocked back TO Rus
STA after the revolution which over.
threw czardom. That German colo
and intrigue were greatly lnstrui'ien
ial III pnrt:ng them back in Russia
proved fact.
Ex-Convicts as Rulers.
DIR. Ludovic H. Grondys. . noted
Dutch professor, of socialist leanlnss
who made A long tour in Russia re-
Gently. declares the active followers
of the bolshevik leaders are composed
in great part of an immense swarm
of prisoners. These, he says. are hoi
the political criminals that Warreo
against the car. but actual ftlohs
who. when the revolution took place
were released from prisons in SIBERIA
Petrograd. Moscow and other PAGES
Gen A. Dobra janshy gives many spe-
cific instances of eX-conVlctS ala lot
mer jailbirds who are now az the
head of various sovlets or VINO &C
cupy other powerful positions under
the bolshevik government. Wher
freed from prison the first thing they
did was to burn police and court
buildings containing their crlmlna
records With these incriminatlnt
documents destroyed. they boldly pu
themselves forward as political mar
tyrs confident that no papers could
be produced proving their crlmihaI
careers. Many of them had been con
victed of robbery. and number Tor
murder. The chairman of the work
mems and soldiers council at TAM
DOH was n llie-leTUlVI IeiCaSVu - oiii
Siberia, where he had been sent for
twenty-five murders which he ad-
mitted.
When the bolSheviki came into
power they vested all authority in the
hands of these committees. The utter
demoraliza of the Russian army
at the instigation of Germany is well
known The scheme of the soldiers
electing their officers destroyed all
discipline and turned the army into d
mob. The real officers were degraded
into cooks and scavengers and the
men who talked the loudest and fast
est were elected officers. In any
army such scheme would be thor
oughly destructive. but it was espe-
cially SO in the Russian army. where
of every 10000 soldiers Clio We're il
literate.
Ignorant of Administration.