The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-05-31
HUNT ON BoLsHEvISM

Mr.. Frazier Hunts second series Of ar
ticles on bolshevik Russia begins with a
vivid summary of existing conditions. 1t
is picture drawn not from hearsay but
from direct observations during a two
months trip, just ended, which covered
the principal districts.
Mr.. Hunt has observed and written
not only with intelligent moderation but
even with certain sympathy for the re-
volutionary spirit and the personality OF
I.enine. All the more decisively damning
therefore, is his disclosures Of the effects
of the bolshevik experiment.
Russia is the greatest granary in the
world, next to America. Yet she appeals
today, after year and half of "the die
tatorship of the proletariat," to be fed by
the outside world, by the nations her re-
evolutionary rulers have covered with
scorn and hatred as capitalistic, pluto
cratic, bourgeois democratic-all that the
communist would destroy. In Petrograd,
the birthplace and once the stronghold of
the ruling regime, Mr.. Hunt, upon his ar
rival, found the people with faces white
and gaunt from half feeding" the chill
dren "thin and underfed, their drawn,
pinched faces stabbing into your heart,
typhus raging and the death rate be-
tween 500 and 1000 daily in a city now
100000, formerly over 100000. When
he returned the other day on his way out
to Helsingfors "it seemed the tragic dy-
ing city was even more hungry and de-
spairing than before.
Moscow is much better off. 'But as the
maximum allowance even for the most
petted workmen is only one pound daily
and for the ordinary office man one-quar-
ter of pound, it is impossible for any
one to live entirely on the government ra-
tions" And food, even at half the price
of Petrograd, would be about 81 a pound
for black bread, butter at 81 pound, SUI
gar at Sc, veal at $4-
So the people of bolshevik Russia
jewellers in land once of plenty, are
"bluish white" with starvation, "wallow-
ing in despair, disillusion and terror"
Under bolshevism, the revolution that
started with such high hope and humane
ideality entered upon its stage of blood
sed and fanatical despotism. 1t was only
by violence that the dictatorship of the
proletariat" could be maintained, for il
represented the ruthless rule of minor
ity. But is was not its inhumanity tina
has sealed the fate of the bolshevist ex
pertinent. Bolshevism has failed because
it destroyed necessary parts of the ma
chinery of modern civilized society. i
murdered or drove away the intelligent
STA which had been the soul of the revolu
ton for generations and were its only
hope of progress. 1t substituted the "dic
tatorship Of the proletaritt" that is, thu
rule of handful of theorists ruling anC
pretending to be expressing the will Of
the masses. 1t destroyed or drove away
the directing brains of industry anC
transportation.
The result was inevitable. 1t has proved
the fallacy of the bolshevik theories. II
takes more than biceps to move the huge
organism of modern industrial society
The worker-meaning as the radica
phrase singer does, merely the manua
worker-cannot work and manage, too
He does not create all the wealth. He does
not perform the only necessary function
the brain worker, the organizer, direc-
tor, manager, are essential and when il
was too late even Lenine discoveed this
and began to bid for their return.
Russia, mighty Russia, the great agri-
cultural state which if rightly organized
could feed the world, now offers its blue
white misery, its paralysis and death, as
a warning against pr0letarianism. What