The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-13
Aged Prince Says KOlchak and
Denikine Are Aiding
DespOtism.
tLET US ALONE" HE SAYS
compares Situation in Russia
With France in 1892 When
Liberty Lived.
BY LAURENCE HILLS.
STAFF Correspondent Of THE sUS.

Copyright, 1919 oil rights reserced.
PARIS, Oct. 12-Prince Peter Kropot-
kin, about whose arrest and execution
many legends have been circulating, has
broken the silence which he has main
tanned throughout more than two years
of Bolshevist rule. In a remarkable
letter to his old friend Georgs Brandes.
which Humdnite publishes simultane-
busly with its receipt by the noted Dam
fish critic, Kropotkin draws desolate
picture Of Russia to-day Without at
tempting to defend or condemn Boil
fhevism he explains and tries to JUS
tify Russlas present position as being
analogous to that of France during cer-
tain moments in its own revolution when
il was seeking the light
Russia to-day is vast social revo-
: luton seeking an outlet" writes kro-
!. potkin He raises his voice against the
blockade, which, he says. Is heaping
= misery upon disaster and sapping the
Z last bit of energy and life blood Of
= Russia. He condemns the policy OF the
Allies OF intervention in all the varied
forms in which it has been evident up
= to the present moment. and protests
z against the support of Kolchak and
: Denikine, who are working for the re-
2 construction Of the former despotism.
Back mt Old Work.
= Here are some of the extracts which
, shed an interesting light on the exist
:, once of the aged revolutionary and MS
:. wife in a secluded province near Mos
! COW:
Z 'sThe person who brings you this let
: ter will tell you of the isolated life we
:. are leading in this little provincial Town.
= At my age II is physically impossible TO
q participate in public affairs during the
:. revolution. and 10 do so in an amateur
y ish way is not in my nature. During
Z last winter when we lived in Moscow, l
= collaborated with a group of citizens In
= the elaboration of plan for Federal
s list republic. but the group was dis
persed and l return to my previous IA
: bors on my book on Ethics, which De-
= gan fifteen years ago in England.
X "Au that can do is to give you
& general idea of the situation In Russia,
= OF which the West realizes so little. An
I. analogy will explain it. perhaps we
Z now are passing through period ike
that through which France lived during
the JaCODlI6 TeNOlullOn iiOAi s'tPNeh4SS'i
go, to July, "a, with this in addition
that this is a social revolution, seeking
= its outlet, its roadway.
1.-THE dicta orial method of the Jacobins
was wrong it could not create stable
organization and naturally ended In a
reaction, but the Jacobins achieved
& nevertheless the complete abolition of
tho Federal rights established IN SO,
6 which the Legislature had not been able
: to accomplish. 1t was the beginning OF
the immense changes in the life of Eu-
rope Of the nineteenth century.
y Methods Are Wrong,
t"An analogous situation has been pro-
Z duced in Russia. The Bolsheviks are
: aiming to introduce by a dictatorship Of
a fraction of the Social Democrats the
Specialization of the soil, of industry and
. of commerce. While the change which
! they are seeking to bring about Is a
fundamental principle of Socialism it.
9 self, unhappily the methods by which
they seek. in state so essentially cen-
tralized. to bring about a communism
which paralyzes the constructive labor
: OF the people. renders success impossible
y and is preparing the way for period OF
Z furious and ugly reaction.
4 you speak in the Occident of restor-
: ing order in Russia by the Intervention
of the arms of the Allies. i protest
= with all my force against any form
{. of armed Intervention by the Allies In
r Russian affairs This Intervention will
have for Its consequences an accession
of Russian chauvinism. 1t will bring us
( the return of the chauvlnst monarchy,
a return OF which already we see the
beginning and-note this carefully, II
will produce in the ensemble Of the
:, Russian people such an attitude OF hos
tility toward western Europe that the
consequences will be sad indeed. The
Americans have understood this well al
q ready.
you imagine that in supporting Kol-
= chalk and Denikine you are supporting
the liberal Republican party. but this
: is a grave error. Whatever may be the
! intentions of these two leaders the
Z greater number of those by whom they
are surrounded have totally different
& visions. Those of the Allies who read
clearly the vents in Russia must repudi-
Z ate all armed Intervention.
Give Us Bread, He Says.
eff they wish really to come to the
aid of Russia they will find an Inn
mense lot to do in another direction.
T. We need bread we pay 80 rubles for
3 half a pound of black corn bread, but
that is when we find the bread We
have no bread it is a famine all around
Win al IT'S nOrrlDle CONSEQUENCES An
:. entire generation is hungering-and they
refuse us the right to buy bread In the
Occident. Why is this? Is 1t to bring
+ .us the return OF Romanoff?
y INSTEAD of playing the role OF Aus
tria, Prussia and Russia against France
! in 1898 the Allies should have done
:. everything in their power to help the
z Russian people out of their miserable
position. Moreover. much blood Will bs
shed in the future to bring Russia back
= to the past, but 1t will be unsuccessful
q ITO construct a new future without
delay l appeal to the Allies to come to
the aid of our children come and aid
:, us in the necessary constructive work
and for this work send us not diplomats
: and generals. but bread and tools with
Z which to produce and organized builders.
those who have so well helped the Allies
4 during those terrible five years to re
4 vent economic disorganlzation and hav
repulsed the harbarous invasion OF Cie,
q many"