Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-04
Soviet and Peasant
now facing.


Very slowly the form of the Russia is emerging
from deluge of revolution, anarchy and communism
MANY of the old features of the country have been
swept away rretrcvab and others have been changed
almost beyond recognition. But this flood of revolutions
like other material deugcs been able to change
! the more prominent distinctions of the landscape
| There have been tremendous changes in Russia.
Great evils have been swept away Tremendous injus-
tees rghted The have been opened for
bettements that seemed utterly impossible But the
great experiment in radicalism the regeneration OF
human society. the proposed reorganization of Russia
upon plan radically different from that upon which
other great nations are organized, has been utter
failure
The great lesson in the Russian experiment is that
the social sysem as It exists various forms throut
the world is not system that is arbitrarily imposed
upon many b, the will of the few, but it the plan
| evolved as the result of human experience adjusted
by innumerablo compromises and still in process of
evolution by which the human achieves the prime
object of human existence that is the production of
the of human living with the surplus upon
which progress toward greater we'll being is dependent
|
In Russia the ownership of the land has been
fcrrcd from the land nobility the peasants, but the
principle of land ownership and inheritance and of the
incentive that makes agricultural production and i'm
provemcnt possible, has resisted all efforts for its
| overthrow.
| In Russian cities the accumulated wealth of the
country, rather that part of 1t which was not de-
stroycd by the violence of the revolution, has passed
from ownership TO another By exile, by murder,
by robbery by laws that have violated every principle
of lust legislation the rich Russia have been made
poor and the poor of Russain exceptional cascshave
been made rich but when all these changes and trans
fers and distinctions have been accomplished, 1t is
found that successful production only be carried
forward when labor s inellrcnty directed TO profit
able result, and when the accumulated profits of pro
duction arc safcgrardcd for investment in productive
industry.
For the improvement of the present industrial sys-
tcrn things preemincntly desirable. The first
of these is a moro efficient method of balancing pro
duction and consumption with impartial justice to both
! consumers and producers and with the minimum OF
waste thru nproduction of idle classes and the
necessary service of middle When perfection in
this respect reached there will be enough of
thing for everybody and everybody will have at all
times all that he needs of the necessarcs of life.
The other Improvement is fair distribution OF the
surplus of production that to say of profits, in such
that every person that contributes 10 production
will be rewarded in proportion 10 the value OF his
service the community interests Perfection in this
respect is ideal impossible of attainment, because
mon agree what is fair share for them
ALL and there is no authority make nfablc de-
csion of this point. But the principle involved is one
that be recognized and understood, and and
tho principle will find expression in the mechanism
of industrial affairs.
In the forwarding of these improvements the indus
trial beterment of humanity may be accomplished in
Russia turnout tho world In far az the Russian
revolution has carried the Russian people forward along
these lines, 1T has been benefit to them and to the
world.
Nothing has been accomplished in Russia in n radical
reorganization of human society along lines that an
ta-oristic to human nature and contrary TO human
rcrioncc Nothing good will he accomplished along
/ such lines anywhere at any tune,