The Washington herald., 1921-12-22
Calls Soviet a Trust.

To the Editor, The Washingtop Herald:
For the benefit of those few read
ers who have any criticism to offer
against the action OF Congress in
making an appropriation OF a few
millions to feed starving Russian
children, will you please publish
these notes
In the first place the amount is
about equal to the price OF one big
battleship, and God knows this ma
ton. as well as other nations. has
built too many battleships. How
ever, the material part OF this prob
lem Is the least to be considered.
This is the Christmas season. Let
US then consider the psychological
effect of this gift. Here is people
who have known what Christian
Communism really means, a knowi-
edge but dimly discerned by the
average American citizen. There
was published in the Saturday Even
ing Post of about February is, 1918,
an article about The Old Be-
LEVERS of Russia 1t was fully
outlined in what manner they be-
lieved in what they named Joint
Stock Concerns" and how they
managed factories. farms and bust
ness by these methods. We have
the same identical methods in our
small corporations everywhere.
Christian civilization has uncon-
sciously worked out a system in the
United States which is the exact
counterpart of the only true system
ever in vogue in Russia. either in
1918 or in 1921. The development
in Russia was perhaps dated farther
hon no 90 he ~ II
Marx. 1t has probably been in ex-
istence for half a century.
The curse Of Bolshevism in Russia
may be compared with the evil er-
fects OF those soulless corporations
in our own land. that seek to drive
out all competitors: and were IL not
for the activity of the Attorney
General, small corporations would
soon be crowded into bankruptcy.
The meat packers have long since
been ordered to cease their monop-
olies in other food products; yet
these persist in their manufacture
and sale OF a thousand meatless
products, many of inferior grade.
Those who hold the Russian peo-
pie to blame for the imposition Of
a counterfeit system of Karl Marx
theories, upon a previous firm
foundation of Christian Communism.
simply impose an injustice upon
followers OF the Greek church in
primitive purity. We have no quar-
rel with any church or creed, but
as q Christian nation we have an
opportunity to show the true spirit
of the command: go sell what
thou hast and give to the poor"
There are many fanatical followers
of theoretical Utopian ideas who
forget that this was the Eleventh
Commandment. and was given to
a youth who had kept the other
Ten Commandments from his boy
hood. This is indeed q lesson we
should take to heart: Climb tho
stairs step by step with Christian
civilization.
The dictatorship of a half-breed
Tartar and a renegade Jew will end
In failure. The reason OF this fall
ure Is because single monopoly
is contrary to mans evolution.
Those who constitute themselves
the custodians OF material wealth
and abundance are accountable to a
wise Providence for its Just division
and necessary distribution.
The very existence of huge monop
olies depend upon prevention of
these two factors. This 100000 900
will prove that few Americans
still have dictates OF conscience;
but SO far as starving Russia Is
involved as a world-problem in eco
Monies. this amount from the M
ton of millionaires is no more than
y bread-snn thrown. to hungry
dog at Chr stan feast The most
DcnIr- 80
Street should realize that every
dead Russian means an infinitesimal
reduction in a stream Of trade for
the next twenty years in all the
commodities sold By corporations
in Europe. They cast mo bread
upau the watcran -ofs thar -ou,ra free