New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-05
One Picture and Another

Seymour Steadman, the Chicago
lawyer who is the speaking member
Of the political firm of Debs & Stead
man, in his acceptance speech de-
llvers the customary socialistic dia-
tribe against capitalism. He sees
its early collapse and establishment
throughout the world of the institu-
lions Of Bolshevism. Capitalism is
at its old tricks of making the
masses miserable.
Belgium is capitalistic; Russia is
not. Belgium was devastated by
the war; Russia proper never saw a
foreign soldier. Belgium is de-
pendent on the outside for raw ma
terials; Russia possesses every kind.
Every advantage being with the So
clalistic state, how goes it in Bel
GUM and Russia with respect to the
average human happiness in each?
Charlotte Kellogg, wife of Mr..
Hoover's assistant, describes Bel
GUMS present condition in the Au-
gust "Atlantic." From Ostend to
Brussels is again the old unhroken
garden of Flanders, the loveliest in
the world. Every one is at work,
digging, planting, harvesting. The
red-tiled cottages shine like jewels
on the plotted plain, with it's en-
erald patches of grain, of potatoes,
OF hop vines and its riot of blooming
bulbs. Belgium in a century has
not come so near to feeding herself.
But Belgium, as every one knows,
is the most highly industrialized
area in the world-4O per cent of
her population being engaged in in
dustrial pursuits, against 221s per
cent in Germany and 231A per cent
in France before the war. To-day
Belgium's coal production is 1O3 per
cent of what it was in pre-war days.
Her railroads have more EMPLOYEES
than six years ago. The Germans
wrecked the great metal plants, car
rying off the machinery. Yet they
are again operating-have attained
to so per cent Of normal, and new
records are promised as soon as coke
comes in freely from Germany and
ore from Lorraine. The smaller
factories in many cases are work
ing to full capacity. Belgian IN
dustry as whole is employing about
80 per cent of its pre-war person.
mel. Belgium, next to Serbia the
most devastated of the combatant
nations, but the least infected with
the Bolshevist spirit, went to work
under the captalistic system, and
promises of all nations to make the
speediest recovery.
Turn to facts concerning Russia
given by John Alleyne Gade, com
missioner of the United States to
the Baltic States. Never" he saws
in his article, "Bolshevism From the
Inside" "has starvation or NAL
nutrition taken place on so large a
scale-no, not even in Indian fam
ines" In Moscow $4,000 get one
small meal day at soup kitchens.
According to official figures Russia
now has but 2,7OO sound locomo-
tlves, and of these 200 are discarded
every month. Lomonosotf, Lenine's
railway expert, said a short time
ago IN speech at Petrograd that
soon railroad transport would be so
per cent below the level that pre-
vailed before Bolshevism blessed the
land.
But two trains a month come from
Iurkestan, and hence there is no
cotton; only 5 per cent of the textile
plants operate. With only enough
engines and cars to carry the Red
army and its supplies, grain rots in
warehouses, and there is no fuel ex-
cept local wood. In the Petrograd
region the peasants, first allowed