The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-08-25
Predicts Speedy Overthrow of
Bolshevism; Says Only Small
Percent of Population In
clined Toward Reds.
WORLD PEACE TO COME
WITH END RUSS STRIFE
Doesn't Think Great Deal of
League; Wants United
States of World" Likes
Policy of President.

Civil warfare must be ended IL
trouble torn Russia before the
worlds peace is secure.
Immediate downfall Of the Bolshe-
Wiki is probable.
The anti bolsheyiki number many
millions more than Lenine and Trot.
sky followers, the former including
the peasantry (eighty-five percent Of
the Russian populace) capitalist :,
scholars and etc. While the popaa-
ton of Russia is approximately $780,
100000 people, scarcely more than
one-half million are bolsheviki
Success OF the Lenine forces Is
due to its perfected not large, or
ganization. Inability to perfect d
fighting organization resulted in the
failures OF Kolchak and Denikin.
Bolshevism was born at a social
iat conference which convened in
Geneva, Italy IN 1903. The confer
ence was adjourned and later con
vened in London.
he European war and the atti-
tude of the Russian government.
guided by Nicholas, resulted in tn
spread Of Bolshevism.
All classes of Russian people arc
facing starvation, this being the
result of the civil warfare.
These are some of the views Of
the Russian situation as voiced last
night by Count Tolstoy in his ChaA-
tauqua lecture. Count Tolstoy, fresh
from the strife-torn country ard
lecognized as an authority on all
questions Russian, is son OF
Nount Leo Nikolaiyitch Tolstoy the
celebrated Russian author and phii
osUpher, who died in 1910.
Having an excellent command OF
the English language, and a Rus
sian speaker of rare ability, Count
lolstoy's lecture, The Truth About
Russia was well received by the
large audience attending the Chau-
tauqua last night
Industrial Conditions.
Peasants have assumed control OF
the land; the laboring classes are III
charge OF the factories and are being
managed in such a manner that pro
duction from the plants is almost
impossible; little work is beiag
done; the railroads are being used
only for war purposes and food in
the villages cannot be carried into
the large cities such as Moscow and
Petrograd.
Pointing out these conditions
Count Tolstoy summed up the indus
trial conditions in his native conn
try.
General conditions in the Russian
villages are much better than H.
the large cities, the speaker said.
This being the case, thousands o.
people have fled from Petrograd and
Moscow to the villages and out OF
the country Population of these two
cities has greatly diminished dur
ing the reign of Lenine and Trotzky.
Only twenty percent of the Rus
sian railway equipment is in useful
condition. according to Count Toll
stoy.
Prices Are High.
The extravagant issuance of paper
money by the reigning power has
made many millionaires in Russia.
Count Tolstoy declared. But even
the millionaires are starving. Rus
sian money has no purchasing
mower. Fifteen thousand dollars was
paid for a suit of clothes, $1,000 for
a pound of tea and other goods ars
equally as high, the speaker said.
The count scored the economic
blockade maintained by Great Brit
ain and the Allies.
He denounced Nikolai Lenine,
1rasident OF the Russian soviet gov
eminent and Trotsky, the bolshe
Wiki minister of war, declaring that
they were the most undesirable
characters in the ranks of the ra Il
cal socialists. Russia will continue
to fall to ruination as long as these