New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

Peasants who have 500 hectares ara
treated just as badly. Little Russ,.
(Ukraine is German invention> -
now going through this same exper;.
ence, for the people there have not
yet suffered the ill-treatment of the
Bolshevists, though they are beginnips
to be aware of it.
Lrof
Prince Lvof declared the hope Of
the patriotic Russians is embodied in
the governments of Kolchak, DEM.
kline and Tchaikovsky. Then he con-
tinued:
"The Bolshevists do not constitute
political party; they are rather the die.
tators Of the proletarians. At the same
time they are against the proletarians,
for they oppress them.
"Bolshevism is the negation of de.
mocracy. The Bolshevists fear more
than anything else the expression Of
the Will of the people. That is why
they destroyed the Constituent As.
sembly. On the other hand, all the
elements in the governments now
existing in Russia - and by this ]
understood Prince Lvoff to mean the
supporters of these governments with
out regard to differences in political
opinion-"are working for the resto.
ration of the Constituent Assembly
The reason why the Boishevists work
against it is that they dread peace. for
if peace in Russia were once estab-
lished by Constituent Assembly Boil.
shevism would end.
"The whole Russian aim is to create
again the Constituent Assembly. When
that is done the various nationalities
can be free on the basis of federation
with the rest of Russia"
Tchaikousky
Nicholas Tchaikovsky, Premier of
the Archangel government, said, in
part:
The pretension of the Bolsheviki
that they represent the proetarians is
without foundation. They are serving
their own ends, however hard the con-
sequences may be for the working
people.
The class war which is underlying
the civil war is an artificial thing in
Russia, because the class Of working
people is very small, and class antag-
onism in the peasantry is limited to
the land question, and that question
has been settled by the law of the
Constituent Assembly, which provides
that the land belongs to those that
work on it."
A signed statement, given by
Tchaikovsky to Mr.. Abbot, editor
Of "The Outlook" reads:
"Bolshevism is the outcome of war
much more than of revolution. 1t has
been born out Of the war, strengthened
by the war and supported by the war
and now the struggle against its at
tacks in Russia is direct continue
ton Of the great war of nations.
Being an international as we'll as &
Russian danger, it ought to be faced
by an international resistance to it,
destructive work.
We Russians recognize this strug
gle against Bolshevism as primaril,
our own duty, and we do not expect TIT
Allies to fight instead of US in tht
front ranks, but we do not consider il
reasonable or just to be left to face
alone this enemy to all human kind.
1--WE do not demand that the Allie:
send their men to fight instead of us
but we do demand to be supported
morally and materially by them, anc
we leave it to the conscience Of the
Allied nations to decide in what form
and to what extent they can render
this brotherly assistance indispensable
to themselves as well as to Russia.
We are perfectly sure that every
day that Bolshevism continues in Rus.
sia 1t endangers the peace of nations
and increases the danger Of reaction
among the masses inhabiting Eastern
Europe"