The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-03-27
Literary DigesD

turist artists were commissioned to
paint sky-blue the entire Theater
Square in Moscow, and TO suspend
Snow white lanterns from the trees in
imitation of clouds. This was during
a festival arranged by the soviet gov
eminent to celebrate the anniversary
OF its advent to power, Since the aim
of bolshevism, according TO its leaders
Is to dominate the world, and a vigor
Gus propaganda in its behalf has been
uncovered in this country, it is inter-
esting to contemplate the sample of
heaven" that it has to show us in
Russia or this paradise we can gath
e" an incomplete but Illuminating
picture from the recent reports OF
Russian fugitives and from the testi-
mony laid before the Overman investi-
eating committee,
A Nightmare.
"a nightmare in a lunatic asylum,
cables a Geneva correspondent of the
New York Times, is the way Russian
fugitives who struggle into Switzer-
land describe life in Russia under Le-
mines rule. The people of Moscow,
we are told, are dying of starvation
and plague, and their number has
been reduced from 100000 to 1,000,-
900. And the railways have stopped
running, making escape almost i'm
possible. When horse dies in the
streets, according to this dispatch;
men and women fight with the dogs
for its flesh, 'hwich they eat on the
spot, not having sufficient will power
left to carry their booty home to
cook" Fear and famine" we read,
have engendered veritable epidemic
of insanity and maniacs of all kinds
stalk raving through the streets" In
the maternity hospitals $50 per cent
OF the mothers die after child birth,
and infant mortality is scarcely low
err"
The Graveyard.
In this tortured city, which its in
habitants have christened "The
human flesh Is reported
to have been sold as food. This in
formation, says a Washington cores
pondent- of the New York World, has
been received by our state depart
ment.
The plague that has the city in its
grin saws an Associated Press dis
patch, is typhus, and there are no
medicines, no disinfectants, and no
soap with which to fight it. Accord
ing to this dispatch, which quotes
British business man just returned
from Moscow to Paris, railway OIL
Gals in Moscow recently ordered the
crowd out of the central railway sta
ton to clean it, and found the bodies
of five victims of the typhus, which
had been lying for days among the
peasants sleeping on the floor" rms
man reports that "the situation IN
Petrograd was said to be worse" and
n dispatch from Berne quotes an or"
fetal statement that during Decem-
Der and January nearly 100000 per-
sons in Petrograd died from hunger
and disease"
A further account of conditions In
bolshevik Russia at the end or jan
uary is supplied by an Omsk cores
pondent of the London Times, who
also gathers his information from ref
ugees. We read:
Would Exterminate.
"The situation in Moscow is de-
scribed as CHASTITY. All shops except
those maintained by the soviet are
closed, and nothing is obtainabie
without cards, only those associated
with the bolsheviki being able to OBJ
tain cards People who stand aloof
from the bolsheviki suffer indescrio-
able hardships.
"It Is impossible to estimate how
many are dying of starvation, puf
every body coming from Russia de-
clares that the bolsheviki are delib-
eratelv trying to exterminate the ed
ucated classes. FTlceS III 1hoF'
are fabulous, and the sledge drivers
decline to bulge under 200 ruoies'
where they would previously have
been content with 40 kopecks 600 ko-
pecks make ruble). Bread costs loo
rubles (nominally e10) a pound, and
clothes are unprocurable at any price
whatever.
"Many churches in Moscow have
been turned into theaters, and the IA
nous and sacred Strastnoi monastery
has been transformed into dancing
hall where harlots and profligates
hold high revel nightly
Woman Slaves.
srhe naturalization of women,
though tried in many places, mas
nroved a failure owing to the feeling
aroused but there is little doubt that
women belonging to the better CLASS
undergo hfdeous treatment at the
hands of the inhuman monsters VINO
constitute the bolshevist regime.
"In Moscow a special battalion OF
Chinese, composed of laborers orig
iually imported to work on the Muir
man railway is maintained for carry
ing out executions. The executions
have been so numerous that it is fu-
tile to estimate the numbers or the