The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-10
LShEvISM IS
DOOMED TOTAL
RUSS DECLARES


u C10SRMB u VIC - AS
Says Bakhnete4.
The formation Of q federal re-
public and the overthrow Of the
bolsheviki government are newt
able, according to Boris A Bakh-
metoff, who IL . member OF the
Kerensky cabinet and representa-
tive Of Russia At Washington, in nls
address before the members OF the
Moline After-Dinner club last eve
ming.
All the latest advices point to .
growing spirit Of self-dependence
and to a feeling Of dissatisfaction
with the communists which can
mean only the present regimes
downfall, the speaker said. /
1t 10 now proved in Russia that
there can be no production in mod
ern society except under private
property, declared this leader OF
the liberal intellectual class OF the
country which is now entirely
under the control Of Lenin and
Trotzky.
Russia today" he said, 'fs like
a ripe apple on q tree. the DOL
sheyih may fall today or they may
fall tomorrow. But fall they
must"
"My dream is" said the speaker,
.that Russia and America will CO.
Loperate in keeping the world stable
and peaceful"
INSTRUMENTATION and revolt in the
red army, and dissatisfaction OF the
labor element, are among the new
tendencies in Russia today, the
speaker said.
According ITO Bakhemeteff the
peasant 10 the greatest possible
force for good in Russia. "Lenin
himself" he declared, admits that
the peasant has not been won. The
bolsheviki cannot win the peasant.
The very essence Of the revolution
prevents the communists from win
ming the peasants. That essence
is the desire of the peasant to get
the land, to have individual posses
sion. The strong sense Of private
property of 100000 Russian
peasants will prevent the bolshevikl
from succeeding.
THE years Of bitter experience
have not been lost on the Russian
people. Under the terrible oppres-
sion of the communists, under that
continuous taking without giving,
the peasants have organized self
government
"The peasant wants to live in law
and orGer. Peasant courts have
been established. They have start
ed local industries and local trade
exchanges. They have organized
for defense against bolsheviki In
cursions.
| Russia today represents numer-
Gus little social and political atoms.
There has been a great change in
the basic psychology Of the people.
The peasant has learned that his
salvation lies in himself. He has
found a feeling of self-dependence
1.-THE general opinion is that the
overthrow of the bolshevih will
not come from outside. 1t will
come as a gigantic effort of the
people to free themselves from tor
ture. In the peasant organization
lies hope and salvation. The re-
storation of Russia viii come only
through the combined efforts OF the
little peasant government atoms
All the little governments will unite
and form a strong central govern.
ment."
The speaker further declared thai
: Russia had gone back to the middle
t ages under the rule Of the boil
sheviki. He said there had been
3 total collapse of production.
! mo other country could hav'
stood it." continued the speaker
5 An industrial country would hav'
, starved in a month. The only rea
l son that Russia survived under tn
t bolsheviki is because of our peas
= ants and because We have faith.
Word from Russia says that Dol
: shevism has been losing all tn
! time and is undermining itself po
litically. The Russians are disil
lusioned. All recent uprising
: started as labor movements direct
q ed against the communist power.
Labor is protesting. Labor cal
:. live only with production. Indus
9 try has collapsed and the bolshevik
are unable to get sufficient supple
r to feed the labor classes. Only tn
a bureaucrats under Lenin an
: Trotsky are getting food. Every
+ body else is starving.
e Labor is crying for representa-
tive government, for demObilizatio
of the army and conscription b
force and threat. The soldiers ar
s deserving by the thousands. TIL
q only reason for the long life Of tn
Q bolsheviki was that when Russi
IL was attacked from the outside tn
l. national spirit was aroused"
!" Conditions in Russia since tn
a Jap-Russo war. which gave tn
Is outline from history of the cour
e try from the formation Of the fir.
4 congress to the bolshevih, was d.
7; scribed by Bakhmeteff. He sal
- the first provisional governmer
" fell because Russian was exhauste
\ By war and had utterly collapsed.
:. The speaker gave a brief pictul
OF Russia's economic possibilitie
- declaring they are comparable onl
!, with those of America. He adde
a that Americas development wi
!. serve as an example to Russi
No. both industrially and politically.
y. THE future" he declared, wi
70 bring an era Of capitalistic develop
NJ ment paralleled only by Americ
- No other country has solved IL
problem Of economic path6nding /:
America has. That is our profile
and America will be our example.
% We hope for cooperation vii