The New York herald., 1921-06-19
B0LSHEVlKI BEGIN
ATTACKING Church
Start New Paper, Caricatur-
ing Orthodoxy and Re-
ligion in Russia.
CLOSING MONASTERIES
Their Lands, Money, Fac
tories, Hospitals and
Asylums Sequestered.
BAN SET ON ALL WORSHIP
Those Refusing to Carry Out
Programme to Be Dealt
With Severely.
BAN SET ON ALL WORSHIP

| Special Correspondence to THE New YORK
HERALD.
! REyAL June 1.-The Bolsheviki are
beginning their long delayed attack
on religion, and have consequently
started in Moscow a new paper called
Revolution and the Church. filed with
articles. caricatures and poetry de-
signed to turn the Russian Church into
ridicule. The first number Of this
paper contains the following account
of church and monastic property Sc
questered by the Bolsheviki since the
suppression Of the monasteries: Three
hundred and twenty-seven thousand,
three hundred and forty dessatines OF
land, 4.247, ,664,52o rubles, "a factories.
1112 leased houses bringing In a good
income, 7O6 hotels, 227 hospitals and
asylums, 435 milk farms, COZ cattle
sheds and 311 beehives.
The Extraordinary Commission has
also, in a circular to all the members
of the Bolshevist party, drawn atten-
ton to the deplorable fact that many
OF those members still remain "in the
zone of orthodoxy" sing psalms occa-
sionally and attend sometimes to their
religious duties. All this the Extraor-
binary Commission denounces as "im-
proper"
Must Bar Religion.
"In almost every lodge Of our organ
ization," It says, there are to be found
| Individual members who do not adhere
to our rules regarding religion Point
] thirteen of our programme makes 1t
obligatory on All members of our party
to carry on anti-religious propaganda,
but while the party as a whole Is carry
ing on this struggle with religious ten
denotes there are to be found individual
members who not only refrain from
carrying It on but actually strengthen
the religious sentiment among the people
with whom they live and to whom they
are bound by material. economic and
family ties. Apparently they lack the
strength of mind to oppose this ten
dency.
'In the struggle with this evil the
various lodges of our party must take
whatever measures seem most suitable
to meet the necessities of each individual
case. The central committee appeals to
all the organizations and to all members
OF the party to send it concrete proposals
in this connection and to bring out the
most striking facts known to them
touching these breaches of our rules
All communications to be sent to the
Anti-Propaganda Department, Central
Committee, Russian Communist Party
"YAROSLAVSKY,
Head of the Antl-Propaganda Section.
'KATANYAN."
Parvus on Wage Reduction.
The German master spy, Parvus.
writes as follows about Bolshevism in
his newspaper the RoIokolo.
Russia is the only country In the
world which can dare to reduce the
salaries OF her workmen consequently
Russia will become the very greatest
centre In the whole world for industry
and trade Russia will create million
aires in comparison with whose colos-
sal wealth all the other millionaires
whom the world has yet seen VIII only
be beggars And, in addition to this,
Russia, thanks to her peasantry, is the
only country In the world which can
mobilize an army. England could nos
carry out general mobilization again ;
II would cause a revolution. so unpop-
ular has military service become among
the worlxmen and II is doubtful II
France could do SO either. But the Rus
sian peasants Will be passive weapons
In the hands of the Government against
opposition inside Russia and from with
out"
The same writer divides the Bolshevik.
into two categories--the seekers after
adventure and the idealists The frst
class is he thinks. the more nuperous.
They are more energetic and active than
. the idealists. They have got rich
through "plunder and confscation and
speculation. but now that there Is a
danger Of all their riches being useless
to them, owing to Russia's tendency to
collapse, they are trying to establish
trade with the outer world. II they do
good business these desperate adven-
turers will change completely and be-
come merchant princes. With the
growth of trade they will utilize their
strength so that their vast wealth Will
be placed on a solid basis and in abso-
lute security"
Evolution of IdenIists.
or the Boishevist idealists Parvus says
that they are now going through IAN
amazing and terrible evolution. The
Bolshevist idealists, or at least those
among them who understand that 1t is
impossible to unite themselves really
with Western European Socialism, now
wish 10 establish an enormous business
republic In order to realize Socialism by
means OF an adaptation OF economic
methods. This plan Will lead them
finally TO hold down all Russia by arme
force.
"In the Communist Rcd Flag there
has already been printed n letter from
Moscow about the triumphs OF the Sec
ond Red Army in Bruzia. That letter
tells how the Soviet Government has now
in its hands all the oil OF the Caucasus
but Il never seems to srike the writer
that this is naked Imperialism.
"In order that State trading on the
gigantic scale that the Bolsheviki con-
template will give the desired result II
will be necessary to crush the opposition
OF the working classes. The Bolshevisl
have already begun to do so. and they
will continue on that path until II leads
them to a period of colossal capitalism
aaff. ...t l.. 10.