Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-06
BOLSHEWSM SEEMS
T0TTER|NG IN RUSSIA
According to Count IIya ToIstoy
in Lecture at New Century
Club Last Night.


within the next few months Boi-
shevign win probably end in Russia"
Count ilya ToIstoy told large and en-
/ thusiastic audience at the New Gem
tury Club last night. "Even the lead
ers Themselves realize that they have
failed. 10 Is the passive resistance II
the peasants that IS killing Hoi-
shevism."
4 The speaker drew a vivid picture 81
Russia today, loft stripped and biood-
ii.s by the Bolsheviks. The population.
formerly noted Tor its increase, ha,
decreased fifteen millions Moscow.
onco a city OF two and ono half mil
lion Inhabitants, now has ono MIL
lion. Of whom 100000 arc government
officials, more than in All Russia before
the revolution. Industry In tho nation
allied factories is dead; the railroads
have no new rolling stock, and no
parts for repairing the engines which
run on wood fires; everything Is chaos
and misery
THE Bolsheviks are successful only
In manufacturing money" said Count
tTolstoy. only the shortage Of papcr
limits the amount. Russia has become
ling because their money can buy nofh-
ing. Once one went 20 market with his
money in his pocket and came horns
with the food IN baskets. Now he car-
ries the money in baskets and puts z
1 food in his pocket"
Two rubles ware worth about on-
dollar before the Revolution: today
it takes 200 900 Of these pieces Of pap
er 70 equal an American dollar "a
lone counts out money In Russia: 10
simply offers a handful.
Count Tolstoy protested that he tried
70 be an impartial Judge Of Bolshe-
visTn, but usually failed when ne
thought how il had ruined his country,
He characterized certain Of the Lead
ers as dreamers and fanatics. who
honestly believed in communism. bus
declared that most OF the followers
were the. lowest element in Russia,
bent only on satisfying the lowest hu-
man instincts. AS one Of our great
writer's has said" he declared. not
every Bolshevik may be rascal but
ell rsscals are Bolsheviks."
lie blamed the Bolshevik rule on Tho
war. saying that the revolution vas an
outsrowth Of the war, in which Rus
sia. although she saved the Allies. sur
= fered more losses than all the ress
because Of lack Of supplies War beins
an unmitigsted evil in Count Tofs
stoy's estimation, nothing but wi
could come from it.
4 He attributed the famine in Rus-
\ sia 10 the economic policy OF the Box
y sheviks. The peasants had seized tho
land at the time OF the Revolution and
had begun raising large crops. The
officials tried 20 buy grain but failed.
v When they tried 20 conascate il. thu
peasantss hid or burned IL. After a law
was passed demanding for the gov-
ernment all over the amount need
ed for the peasants family. the poas-
q ants planted enough only for them-
. Iselves.
d 1t IS because OF this chaos and
y misery that Bolshevisn has failed.
e Today the leaders are inviting the for
5. mer factory owners and landed class
o 10 return. II is Count Tolstoys be-
e lief and hope that Russia viii be-
y come a republic of federated states
'e for he considers that all the former
g parts Of Russia viii return cxceug
IS Poland and Finland.
!, Only by following the ideals OF his
" father, Leo TcIstoy, the great writer
and philosopher. can real progress be
i, made, was the closing thought OF the
~ speaker. He told how his father had
,r found peace and Joy by following liz
y orally the New Testament teaching:
N Of love and non-resistance. and SAID
~ that he believed that only by FOL.
10 lowing these teachings, could the con-
s, fused soul of Russia. with it's ancient
ie mingled heritage of Slavic. Byzantine
10 Asian, and European civilizations. fn,
m a way TO take its fitting place amonr
k the nations.
Or Before Count Toistoy's address.
ID group OF Russians. procured by Mis-.
{ Hart Of the Americanization work
IS sang the Russian national anthem an,
al two folk songs.
MI