The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-04-10
AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST in RUSSIA.
A.


educational budget of cZarist Russia
in 1914
Judging from the articles by Mr..
Eyre-and' they are by far the most
interesting articles on Russia now APP
peafing In the American pres--the
american journalists in Russia are
under constant Bolshevist influence
and pressure and therefore their re-
puts must De read " it'll great deal of
care summing up what is of real i'm
would quote, first of ALL from World OF
fepruarg II. 1910. Says Mr. Eyre:
IA MOSCOW, Petrograd and other in
Custflai centers some 8 900 00a human
beings or whom only tins fraction
are Botsheviki are slowly, bal surely,
Starving 10 death. There are abun-
dant food stocks in the south ana
East. but they cannot be carried in
sufficient quantity over the semi
paralyzed railroads. Fuel is slight
ly less scarce than ii was i've,
month sage. The lack of heat,
however, is helping the food short
aGe to increase the mortality rate.
which is likely to attain 80 per cent
in Moscow before spring. Disease
Is rampant, and the typhus epidemic
, in Siberia. where kolchak left MANY
tens of thousands of victims behind
| him in his retreat, is spreading swiftly
westward. Owing to the absence OF
iHedical suppleSI the epldem1C can be
combated only by quarantine"
Mr.. Eyre continues. saying that
Frotzky himself defined the Industrial
situation as a race between economic
reconstruction and reversion to saw
agery, Trotzky added that unless ur-
gent and heroic steps were taken the
latter would win, meaning thereby
that the railroads would stop and
urban factories would be deprived
consequently OF fuel and raw materials
necessary to their existence" To this
Mr.. Eyre adds: "A far-reaching in
curry convinces me that the danger of
the cities actually perishing through
stnppage or means of communication
with the food producing rural dis
tricts is very real one unless Russia
gets peace and resum ption of trade
In the near future with those cour~
tries that can give locomotives and
machinery, which are her first re-
quirement The Bolsheviks
freely confess their desperate neea fuy
help from foreign capitalism
20, according to Mr. Eyre. the CON
ditions In the Bolsheviyt cities are
such that in some OF them about a.
per cent OF the entire population ara
sentenced to death from epidemics
during the coming spring. Further
more, there Is a real danger of the
cities actually perishing through stnn-
page Of means of communication with
the food producing rural district.
The Beisheviki confess their desperate
need for help from foreign capitalism.
and are ready to abandon many prtn-
ctples OF communism. To make the
picture complets. Mr. Eyre describes
In one OF his articles the class OF spec.
efators that f'ourishes now in the
Russian cities In spite OF All the Boil
shevist DEGREES. While many millions
OF the urban population in Russia are
dying from disease and starvation, in
neutrality-suspicious. and Bolshevist
commissaries--are living in luxury
The so-called communism Is in fact
new kind OF capitalism and dig
archy in the most horrible. the most
tyrannic form ever known.
Turning now TO the rural population
OF Russia. to the IS per cent of Rus
sia's large population. about whom
the people abroad know so little, Mfr
Eyre. in an article printed In the New
York World of March, rs. 1890. coa-
tributes much to nroner knowing Of
modern Russia by telling that the
Russian peasant unless he chs noes ~
be Young and unusually progressive is
extremely anti-Bolshavik. - He Is
anti Bolsheyik in Tho S3.nse that he in
opposed to communism. 50. cGm-
niunism Is not fonrishing either In
urban or in rural Russia, The Boil
sheviki have not heen able to bring
about the new order" for the estah-
lishment OF which they have perform
ed their cruel experiments upon the
body and soul of Russia According
to all data. the villages almost un-
touched by the Rolshevist revolution.
live their own life, life poor ma
teriaIly and intellectually since the .
Industries and cultural life in the
cities are destroyed unde rthe Boil
sheyist regime, and the villages. above
all need the stimulating influence OF
the cities. The cities are In danger OF
actually perishing from epidemics and
starvation unless energetic help is
eiven Russia from abroad. Peters the
Killer may discuss music and poetry.
Iunacharsky NAV quote billions OF eS-
nenditures for education in Bolsheviss
Russia. The fact remains, however.
hat Russia, urban Russia at least. IL
'uffcring and diving. The cause OF her
offerings is Boishevisni Mr.. Eyre
would contribute much not only IL
The Russian cause but to the cause OF
humanity as well. IL he would find the
courage 10 come to this conclusion.
His own articles, in part, can serve as
A basis for such a conclusion,