Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-17
DIVIDENDS OF DEATH.

After being going concern for three years the
Russian soviet government be judged by the
kind of dividends it has declared.
If could play words in such a serious
matter it might be said that the dividends con-
sis of guilt-edged insecurities They are:
An increase in the death rate of "a per
thousand.
A decrease in the birth rate of per thou
sand.
Five thousand children dying in Moscow
every month for lack of food.
Within two months of 1919, 242115 per-
stricken with typhoid fever in Petrograd
alone.
Only one-twefth of the necessary food
A price of $4,000 rubles for a suit of
clothes.
Constant warfare with Finland, Iatvia,
Esthonia, the Ukraine, Turkey Poland Arme-
MIA, and Siberia, well as strife between
town and country in Russia itself
Overlooking prisons with $4,000 persons
arrested during the past year.
A decrease of industry's output to one
fifth of normal.
This summary is compiled from an article by
A. j. Sack, Director of the Russian Information
Bureau in the United States which we print on
another page We commend it to our readers at
tention, for ii constitutes admirable epitome of
the present situation in Russia
NJ. Sack points that, in spite of its military
victories, Bolshevism be destroyed because
of its inherent weaknesses and absurdites. But
he insists that the Russian people themselves must
Nwage their fight with wisdom against the Red
dragon and must be supported-morally at least
by all the democracies in the world.
But after Bolshevism is overthrown, mainly
by the efforts of the Slavs themselves the world
must give material we'll moral aid the Rus
sian writer declares. The havoc that has been
he Reds has bepn thot W
heroic assistance from abroad can save that great
country.
The rest Of the world has understood
Russia. This is partly because of the Slavic tenn
permanent itself They are a silent, stoical people,
these Russians, with Oriental strain in their
character that makes them mystical and fatastic
While the rest of Europe has been clamorng for
American aid in the problems of reconstruction,
the great of the Muscovtes-who love Boil
shevism better than we do-have patiently
borne their burdens even to the point of annhila-
ton.
While France and Belgium are on the road to
reconstruction, thanks to American help Russia
is being allowed to sink deeper into the slough. 1t
is answer to say that Russia is to blame for
her own predicament; for she is being ruled by
boodthirsty minority. who have cornered most of
the country's food and ammunition, leaving the
powerless We remember that the
Slav was just emerging from centuries of czarism
when the Bolshevik brgands possessed themselves
of the government; hence cannot condemn the
peasantry for being poYerless against them.
Russa's contribution to the of the allies
during the war alone commands consideration.
Millions of her died fighting against Germany.
Because of treachery at home, these mouzhiks
frequently had no other weapons but clubs or even
their bare fists. Only their ndomtable courage
and the splendid leadership of Grand Duke Mich
olasT-that great strategst to whose patriotism and
soldiership full justice has never been done--en-