The New York herald., 1921-08-04
LENINE IS YIELDING
AS RUSSIA STARVES
Dictator AbandOns Soviet
Principles and Permits
ReversiOn.
CAPITAL HOLDS ALOOF
Foreigners With Money See
No Chance of Profit in De-
nuded Country.
BRAINS OF NATION DEAD
BRAINS OF NATION DEAD
Illiterate Peasants DaZed by
Misfortune and Unable to
Cope With 1t.

that the Bolsheriki leaders realized the
threat of the approaching famine and
the Industrial collapse and acere pre-
pairing to 0ire acay before the storm.
Special Correspondence TO The New YORK
HERALD
Cop,,ioht. 1921. bU THE New YORK HERALD.
REvAL, July 20.-The Chinese have a
proverb which runs: HE who rides on
a tiger can never dismount." Lenine
has so far handled with success the
most ferocious man-eating tiger that
ever appeared in history. but the fact
that now he must get off and lead the
animal in another direction excites the
observer by the possibility of his fall
ure. What will happen If he fails Is
more tremendous possibility. 1t will be
anarchy of a worse kind than the
world has heretofore seen, because. so
far, no complex modern State has ever
fallen into a state Of complete an
archy, and the possibility is only pos
sible in Russia because Of the pre-
dominance Of illiterates and the fact
that It's small intellectual class has
been either killed off or else reduced
to a state Of apathy, hopeless, horrible
and complete.
The harvest this year. 1t is now esti-
mated, will be one-thIrd less than Is
required to feed Russia herself. In the
northern Governments there may be just
enough, but in the Volga provinces there
Is famine One of THE NEW YORK HER
AIDS informants recently arrived from
Russia reported that peasants from
Samara have arrived in Moscow. look
Ing for bread. and the description he
gives of whole populations in southeast
ern Russia abandoning their huts and
their lands and pushing off, they know
not whittier, Is one of the most terrible
stories of mass suffering.
Hundreds of thousands of people are
moving vaguely towards the rising sun,
towards Siberia and the great kirhiz
desert and 1t looks as If there Is moth
ing for 1t but an appeal to the world py
I.enine to save several million people
from certain death by hunger
Lenine Yields to Capital.
The Bolshevist leader has frankly ad-
mitted the appalling nature OF the
catastrophe and Is apparently ready to
surrender everything. He has allowed
banks to be opened, struck silver ruples
again. offered his country to foreign cap
ital which he had up to recently de-
nounced as an enemy in comparison with
which kings and priests are compara-
lively inocuous. being themselves only
playthings in the hands or the supreme
and malignant capitalist. He is even
reported to be prepared to take back the
old landlords and rent out their estates
TO them. He is fast collecting every
.scrap OF exportable material to give TO
foreign capitalists.
But the tragedy of his position Is that
the old landlords are too frightened 20
coms forward, and that the foreign cap
italists are exhibiting similar umidlty.
Nobody can say that the great capital
lists OF America are tumbling over one
another In their rush into Muscovy. 1t
a not so. Even the English capitalists
are toying with the offer and have not
yet delivered the goods.
The capitalist is a hard, practical Gus
toner, and he points out that Russia
has at present nothing to offer him in
exchange for his services. The wood In
which she is SO rich he can get else
whsre. The other raw material is spoilt
or In the bowels of the earth or needs
time to prepare for export, and mean
while the dreadful winter Is coming on.
the fierce winter which was SO often a
friend to Russia but which may fail her
now, for II X kept out Napoleon. Hin
denburg. Kolchak and Denekine. 1t can
not keep out King Hunger-rather, 1t
will form an alliance with him.
The Bolsheviki made much OF the
shipping which has already arrived at
Petrograd but all the cargoes that
have arrived cannot even touch the
fringe of Russian destitution. They are
not1. at1f tue r..
commercial adventurers who want to
make money quickly and owing to the
appalling disorganization and apathy in
Russia, they are sometimes allowed to
lie at the Custom House and are not even
distributed.
Urges People to Seize Power.
In the Economic Life, a Bolshevik
publication, Commissar Rylxov publishes
an article, "The Way Out OF the Crisis"
showing that by the admission even of
the strongest Bolsheviki, crisis does
exist In Russia. Rykov's position brings
him into very close touch with Lenine,
whose views he now shares. though for
merly he opposed them, having been
more radical than Lenine.
Rykov envisagen whole world crisis.
and ne says that the only issue from
It IN Western Europe is for the people
to seize power. In Russia. he adds.
tnere Is another way. ''the increase in
the stock OF goods on hand and the
increase OF production"
he admits that during the next few
months Moscow and Petrograd will be
faced by even more hunger than they
ever have faced, and, as a matter OF
fact. that bread ration of the privileged
worker class or "A" category amounts
now to one-eighth OF pound. 1t is eked
out with herring, OF which the Soviet
Government got large quantity re-
Gently from Norway. He advocates n
tax In the form OF foodstuffs which
would mean the rcestablishment OF pri-
vate property In the full bourgeois
sense OF the word, and the legal de-
velopment OF the villages on the old
bourgeois lines.
He also advocates a currency reform
by which the new money would stand
In relation to the old as one IL to two
thousand.
Rykov deplores the question OF the
naturalization of industry. when a
factory can be made to pay in private
hands," he says, 1T would be crime to
refuse TO give II back TO It's private
owners" II is amusing the solemnlty |
with which the Bolshevist pundlts make |
these discoveries which any child In |
Anefica could have told them of years |
ago.
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