Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-24
Thursday, March "a, 1921.
"Most of US want the law enforced
on the other fellow"
THAT RUSSIAN TRADE


Great Britain having established
trade relations with Russia-really
with the Lenin and Trotzky regime
d noticeable itching to get into the
game is perceptible in trade circles
all over the world. Apprehension
lest Great Britain is gaining some ad-
vantage affects competitors like the
fragrance of the appetizing viands to
those unbidden to the feast
Really. there. have been no unbid-
den ones to the imaginary feast
spread by the bolshevists; every ma
ton has been invited in the same
breath it has been denounced and
while propaganda was being put forth
10 destroy it. And nowhere in all the
record of bolshevism is it written
that a promise is made to be kept or
the right of another government or
individual to be respected.
This SO called treaty between Eng
land and Russia provides for trade
agents stationed in the respective
countries and through these agents
trade is to be conducted; Great Brit
ain promises to withhold support
from factions trying to defeat bolshe
vism and bolshevism promises to alb
stain from propaganda, India and
Egypt undoubtedly being in mind
England, in view of the fact that
whatever money bolshevism has in it's
grasp must of necessity have been
stolen, has q proviso that if a third
party attaches this money the trade
agreement is void. The British gov
eminent, being the largest creditor
Russia has in that country, will have
s. claim on any property seized by
another creditor. In this aspect of
the matter it is interesting to learn
that the seizure in Italy of the bag
gage of Russian commercial dele
gates revealed therein a lot of jewels
believed to have belonged to the cza-
rina who was murdered. The boil
sheviSts evidently are attempting to
get their loot out without sending it
by way of England.
British labor all along has urged
trade relations with the bolshevists,
apparently having no more compunc-
tons, than have the statesmen, to
taking the hand that is bloody and
the gold that was stolen. France,
realizing that if the bolshevists win
she will lose her Russian bonds, is
restrained by more powerful in
f1uence than mere conjunction.
There are those in this country
who urge opening up trade relations
with the Russian leaders, who have
spent treasures of the gold they have
stolen in endeavoring to overthrow
our government and whose solemn
oath would not be trusted by the
raggedest newsboy on the street
They have feature in their urging
that is worthy of consideration, the
argument that such procedure will
tend to create new wealth, so serious
~ needed.
But will it? Here is the question
of the yankee from Missouri and
asked by that cosmopolized quaker
Hoover: What is Russia producing
TO trade?" He is an unusually we'll
informed man respecting foreign con-
ditions and he is convinced the soviet
management in Russia has nothing
except the money and valuables they
have stolen, estimated at from sixty
10 two hundred million dollars, that
when that is gone trade will be gone
for no one is producing grain or flax,
or digging platinum to enhance for
goods, and trains are not being run
to transport the goods If they were
produced. While it is evident that
Lenin is trying to adjust his regime
to the demands of the situation there
is no evidence that such a volte-face
can be successful