The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-03
BOLSHEVIKT STAYING
RUSSIAN CLERGYMEN
Ten Bishops Have Been Shot and Many
Priests Murdered While Other Afro
cities Have Been Committed.

London. March 3 Correspondence Of
the Associated Press Murders of
elergymen constitute the latest feature
of bolsheyik terror in Russia, says Pro.
lessor Peter Strive, a distinguished Rus
sian economist, who has escaped from
Russia and arrived in England after hid
ing from the bolsheviki for months in
Moscow, and after a long journey on
foot to reach safety in Finland, He was
| compelled to disguise himself to escape
death at the hands of the adherents of
Leuine and Trotzky. Professor Strive
was representative from Petrograd in
the second Duma and a member Of the
assembly conyoked by Alexander F. ker-
ensky.
Altogether ten bishops had been shot
| and many priests murdered, and the dean
Of Kazan cathedral and his two sons
! were drowned in the Neva by the red
soldiers" said Professor Strive. Near
! kotlas, all the monks in one monastery
were shot to death. Professor katashef.
minister of religion in Kerensky's gov
| eminent, who has escaped into Finland,
says that the present persecution Of
! the church in Petrograd is only com
parable with the persecution Of the early
| Christians.
"In Moscow all the shootings take
place at night, but in Petrograd the vic
! Tins Of the bolsheyiki are shot in the
afternoon in the courtyard of the head
quarters Of the executive commission
and, in order to drown the noise, it is
usual to start up the engines Of motor
cars which are waiting in The vicinity.
cat the beginning of the bolshevik
movement, publicly expressed the opin-
| ion that not even German would hold
| converse with a bolshevik As a Rus
sian constitutionalist Il il completely in
| applicable to me how any allied govern
ment can contemplate discussion Of any
| sort, in any circumstances or at any
| place, with anyone who calls himself a
! bolshevik.
"Those who imagine that there can be
any pact between the forces of civil
/ zation and boIshevism, have no concep-
| ton of the real state of affairs in Rus
| STA. The most moderate form of restor-
alton Of order and liberty in Russia
| would make the existence of bolshevism
! impossible. Bolshevism Is complete ty-
ranny which is absolutely incompatible
with any form of ordered liberty and
constitutional government. 1t is entire'
| " false to say that bolshevism is a pop.
ular form Of government. If Trotzky
would walk a verst through Moscow he
would be killed. No car lived in great
er terror Of his subjects than the chiefs
1 of the bolshevik government. There was
more law and justice under serfdom than
under the bolsheviki
at is untrue that the armed forces
of the bolsheviki can offer any serious
/ resistance to organized and well-armed
pressure, and the failure Of the bolshe.
! wiki in Esthonia, where they yielded be-
fore small but compact forces, is much
more characteristic of their real nature
than the successes they gained in the
north and the east agaist the driblets
which were put in action there. o.
"To represent the bolsheviki as being
strong is'not only false but very danger
Gus because it creates the very impress
sion that the bolsheviki desire to ere.
ate, They aim at world revolution, and
to create false impression Of their pow
err is to further their aims Civilization
must not shrink from the problem; il
can be dealt with easily if it is grasped
firmly. The real strength of the bolshe-
wiki lies in the irresoluton Of the lead
ers of civilization