New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-07
The Vivisection


The newspaper correspondent who
have at last penetrated Darkest Rus
sia and are sending out the first uns
censored descriptions of the effects Of
the Bolshevist vivisection transmit
dispatches that make the throat
choke and bring gooseflesh to the
most insensitive.
Never in modern days has there
been such a horror. 1t is as if the
Black Death had returned, but with
difference the thought of which
further sickens the imagination.
The great pest of the Dark Ages
was visitation Of nature, not pre-
ventable by the science then known.
The starvation pestilence of present
day Russia was not only preventable
but was brought on by the specific
acts of particular group of men.
They, of course, did not consciously
plan for a canine, but they pursued
toxic policy whose necessary conse-
quences obviously would be famine.
The millions now dying and the
other millions who are barely able
to keep themselves alive owe their
sad fate to Bolshevism, and to it
alone. About the curtains of Lenine
and Trotzky must troop dolorous
shadows. The procession that scared
the eyeballs of Macbeth must be
nothing to what they see if there re-
mains in their bosoms a spark Of
humanity.
Moscow is the capital of an En-
pire Of Hunger because Of the rulers
who now hide themselves in the
Kremlin, not daring to look at the
work of their hands. They broke
down the complicated machinery of
civilization which must regularly re-
volve If populations that exchange
their products are to live. They
achieved the destruction by decree
ing the repeal of the law which says
that what a man produces shall be
his own.
1t was a simple and direct path to
general suicide.
If Lvof and Miliukoff had con-
tinued in power, Russia by this time
would be recovered so far as con-
Germs essentials. If Kerensky had
not been driven out, Russia to-day
would be reasonably happy. If Kol-
chak or Yudenitch or Denikine or
Wrangel had overthrown the Boil
shevist power, there might have been
the loss of crop along the Volga,
but other parts Of Russia easily
could have supplied the shortage.
The cause of the famine is political.
This truth should never be forgot
ten. The results show what harm
cruel and vain men, their heads filled
with false doctrines, can do in a
short time.
But some measure of responsible
ity lodges outside Of Russia-with
those who, on one excuse or another,
have prevented real relief being
given. They have had enough malef-
cent influence to bring the European
troops home from Archangel and to
prevent effective aid going to those
who sought to save Russia by revolt.
We have never seen the inside of the
head of one Of our Bolshevists; but
were sight granted it would be of
strange tumble. There would be.
weakness of moral perception, hard
ened dullness of intellect, insensate
indifference to human misery. The
bedsides of our Bolshevists must also
have grim visitors.
Callous aloofness has been advo-
Gated. 1t was said that Russia,
without molestation, should be al
lowed to carry through her Great
Experiment. A vivisection was in
progress with which none should in
terfere.
Now that the vivisection is COM
pleted and the final convulsive
spasms are watched. how do our
curious ones who wanted to satisfy
their curiosity like what they be-
bold?