Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-10-26
ia c0MMIssARIEs RULE RUSSIA.

Manchester. Eng. Oct 22.-f Chicago
Tribune Cable. Copyright by the Man
chester Guardian and the Chicago Tri-
bnne. Moscow was gray and dull.
There was quality Of tension in the
atmosphere. which may have been due,
felt, to the presence of a strong gov
ernment, joined to an ignorance Of the
relation in which at any moment one
might stand towards it,
For that 1t Is strong government is
beyond dispute. The idea that it is com.
posed OF men who forced themselves into
offices for which they were entirely
unfit seems to me, after months of ex-
perience among them. .luite outside tie
truth The eighteen commits sa-ies. er
ministers, are men of unusual intelli-
gence-ln some cases of high technical
qualifications. And however they have
been chosen. they were we'll chosen.
Lenine Great Organizer.
Lenine himself whatever opinion may
be held of his ideas. is by way of being
a political genius. krassin. commissary
of transports. is highly qualified tech
nlclan and was formerly manager for all
the Russia of the Siemens- -Schuekert
company. His organizing powers are
undoubfed.
Lunacharsky. eommissory of education.
is man in love with his work and one
who has that rare quality in an educa-
tlonai reformer-vision-a he labors
to materialize his visions.
Milutin. commissary of industries. is
professor of economies at Moscow uni
yersity. kurski. eommissary of Justice.
is local lawyer.
In Tomski and Melnichansky. of the
professional unions, DR.. Semasski. state
hygiene. Mrs. Lebedev. doctor Of medi-
cine. of the maternity branch of the
commissariat or social maintenance. aud
Siderski, of food control. not to men
ton others. the government has people
of solid ability. great experience and
considerable powers for work.
Group of Grip.
The commissaries of the people form
real executives and they are men of
grip They recoil from no act which
they consider justifiable in the interests
of the government. And here is, | think.
one of the secrets of their power An
other is their capacity for work. The
stories of orgies and of selfseeking are
quite false. A London clerk lives bet
ter than they do Their lives are simple.
only one of them who was at all we'll
dressedl and the reality is a life of WORK
to which a convicts' task is ehild's play
Work UnfIaggingly.
They bear marks of the strain under
which they live. | do not know what is
the average number of hours worked
daily by the commissaries. but one of
them works regularly from lunch time
to 3 or 4 o clock Il. m. and has never
been known to 20 ont to breathe the
fresh air: another takes only five hours
of sleep; still another less.
| mention this only TO show the char
acter of the men who are III the fore
front of holshevism and to put down
coldly my own experience with them
But even these men could not hold their
own without a good organization to back
them This they have. And the west
ern world should realize that politically
and Enthusiastically the organization is
strong and complete.
Are Well Housed.
The commissaries or ministries are
well housed. deliberately organized and
highly staffed.
Numbers of the bourgeois and former
are employed. and at first
one of the greatest dangers and diff
ficulties was the amount of sabotage
experienced. But this was dealt with
and sabotage was made one
IT the crimes answerable to revolu-
tionary trihunal--tke extraordinary com
mission.
The head and front OF the whole or
ganization is supplied by pure socialists
have a party organi-
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