Evening star., 1920-11-21
cORKY Y|SbECOM|NG
'ENFANT TERRIBLE:
Popularity in Russia So Great
lenin Nor Trotsky Dare
Offend.
Cross-Atlan.ic Gable Service to The Star.

Cross-Atlantic Gable Service to The Star.
COPENHAGEN. November 90
Maxim Gorky. whose real interest in
the welfare of the masses no one
has doubted. appears to follow in the
footsteps of Macmillan Harden in
Germany. and to have become the
| "enfant terrible" of the bolshevist
party. His popularity in Russia is so
Trotsky dare touch him. ill though he
is. when from his bed he hauls them
over the Goals. His latest philippe is
published in the Moscow paper Pravda.
which has just reached here.
Everything" he says. lis now the
property of the people. but this prop
erty is being destroyed more and more
from day to day. The houses are be-
ing ruined. costly furniture is being
used for fuel and priceless works OF
thing. or do We carry on any work
| worthy of free people? No. We work
without soul, carelessly, without
energy. Through our lack of fore
sight and sense of making work fruit
| full We waste the resources OF our
state. OF course. that Is really hardly
worth mentioning. particularly for us
| who claim that We want to regenerate
the world through new order OF so
ciety. But have our present masters.
L
selves and who do not wish to work.
the slightest claim to call themselves
educators?
Workers Are UnimDressed.
These same masters will perhaps
in a very near future not even have
a pair of trousers to put on. 1 do
not think the workers of Europe are
inclined to be very much impressed
| by these men. Revolutionary social
|
ingly beautiful. but nevertheless we
must work. All we have done hither-
to is to create an atmosphere OF
laziness and criminal carelessness.
Never have we worked as poorly or as
dishonesty as at present. To be sure,
lack of proper nourishment and the
physical weakness resulting from it
| is party the reason, but in the main
it is due to our utter lack of the sense
of responsibility"
great is the influence of Gorky that
each of his attacks upon the soviet
government and its leaders meets
with an immediate response. and tina
| effect Of the article quoted above was
the birth of a very strong opposi-
ton. with the very circle OF the
stanchest supporters of Lenin against
the policy of the dictator. The object OF
this opposition is to compel the soviet
government to adopt very moderate
policy.
! Trotsky Storms and RaEes.
| Trotzky storms and RACES worse
than ever. In a speech he has just
made to the commanders of the red
armies. he said:
THE entire capitalistic world has
/ now formed a league against the
soviet government. We are passing
through most critical time. In all
the wars Russia has fought our chief
enemy has always been France. and
I want to hammer it into your minds
THAT France il now preparing great
iblow against us at Odessa, Novoros-
!sosk and Nikolajew. 1t is more than
likely that French troops are going
| to land and capture our cities. Our
country is Impoverished and bleed
ling from a thousand wounds. but we
swear that we will fight until we have
! swept back every hostile force"
The Russian paper VOLTA Russia gives
a dreadful description Of the reign OF
| terror at Archangel and surrounding
districts. Acting upon the orders OF
Trotsay. the commissioner, kedrow. IS
rnassacring the popula ton. At Cholmo-
cor. on the northern Dvina river. he has
inst had 1900 people belonging to the
.inteligenzia" shot down. The butcn-
cry was carried out with machine guns
land the sight of the shambles was
SO horrible that a number Oh REQ
soldiers present went insane.
| At Archangei a commission named
by Trotsky is arresting and execut-
! ing people night and day. among these
I, a large number of women accuseb
| of having circulated rumors ibeling the
/ bolshevists.