The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-08-19
Russian Communist Die
tators Are Concerned
OPINIONS FROM LENINE.
In Case of Bad Harvest There
Can Be No Diminishings
In Crisis
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.I


Reval, Esthonia, August 15.-Fam-
inc, resulting from crop failure. is far
more feared by the communist die
tators of Russia than any develop.
ment Of capitalism that might come
from recent concessions toward free
trade. according to speeches by Len
inc and other Communist leaders,
editorials in Bolshevik official papers
and other information from Moscow
reaching the Baltic states. Lenine,
writing for the Baku Communist, Is
reported by the official bolshevik
sad assahsx Is nothing eT 70 fssT
in the rise of small farming and
small industry. 1t cannot be danger
GUS to our big industry. Something
else is to be feared. In case Of bad
harvest, there can be no diminishing
in the crisis of the working classes.
mot the growth of petty bourgeo-
Isle and capital is dangerous, but the
state of need and lack Of foodstuffs
that is continuing too. long. That is
and cannot stand against the ele-
ments of petty bourgeoisie."
In this, as in other articles widely
distributed throughout Russia In sup
port of the new economic policy,
Lenine points out that, by holding
firmly to the reins of big industry,
the dictatorship of the proletariat can
always control any situation that
might develop with regard to smaller
capitalistic advancement.
Lenine So Pessimistic
In speech before the All Russian
supply conference, recently held at
Moscow, Lenine, as reported in the
official newspapers Pravda and IL
vestia was extremely pessismistic
about the famine possibilities.
There has come to pass" he Is re-
ported as saying, IAN unforeseen cir.
cumstance, WHICH now, in the second
hardships. Whether we are in for a
series of arid years, as has been pro-
phesied these two years, we do not
know. But 1t has become perfectly
clear that this Is the second year in
which we will again, over large areas
experience failure of crops, and
this pictures in our minds the i'm
minency of great danger.
y will not now dwell on the ex-
tent Of the area affected by this
very great. 1t is already quite clear
that there will be large arrears in the
payment of tax in kind in many dis
tricts; that in many districts the
population, apart from this, will be
doomed to unheard of sufferings; and
that the supply organizations, instead
of obtaining those districts a surplus
of products for the maintenance of
the army, the labor classes and the
industry, will have to support the
starving population" 49,
Further Lenine pointed out that
the hardships entailed by the crop
failures will be aggravated by the
fact that in the few districts where
the crops probably will be good, the
Soviet supply apparatus is working
worse than elsewhere. >.
"If we look at the map illustrating
the prospects of the harvest" he said,
I'VE find that in those districts Of
Soviet Russia and the Allied sister
republics where the harvest pro-
misses to be good, d. above the aver
age, the supply institutions are GER
tainly not above medium, but fire.
quently below medium. We shall
have to occupy ourselves with the
question of changing personnel of
the supply organizations, but we have
few suitable and experienced candi-
dates who soon adapt themselves to
their new tasks and successfully
push the work"