Arizona republican., 1922-06-28
DOWN. ALL OF REDS IN
RUSSIA PREDICTED BY
COUNT |LGA T0LsT0Y
Tells Club Women at Chau-
tauqua That Inability to
Pay Will Complete Up
set of Lenine's Followers

CHAUTAUQUA. n. Y. June 27-
A revolution in Russia which will
dispose of the present Bolshevlk
regime will follow the inevitable fail
ure of the proposed Russian economic
conference at The Hague. was the
prophecy of Count Ilya Tolstoy, son
of the late Count Leo Tolstoy. the
Russian author. in his address mere
before the convention of the General
Federation of Women's clubs. In
ability to pay soldiers and other gov
eminent employees, who have not been
paid for months, will bring about the
downfall OF the Red government,
Count Tolstoy declared.
"The Bolshevik leaders promised to
return from the Genoa conference
with money TO pay the soldiers.
Count Tolstoy said, 'but they re-
turned empty handed" Now they
have one more bundle of hay to hold
in front of the starving horse-the
Hague conference. But / am certain
they will again be disappointed, and
then there may be a revolution. III
is difficult to predict what form the
new government may take. The mon
archistic party is very strongly or
eanized. | am sorry to say, and
revolution may result in the setting
up of a new monarchy for a time
but ] am certain that eventually there
will emerge the United States OF
Russia. This is what I hope for.
The willingness of British and
other European statesmen to recog-
nize the Bolsheviki was deplored BY
Count Tolstoy who lauded the ac-
ton of Secretary of State Hughes
and the administration in withhold :
ing recognition of the Bolsheviki'
Recognition would only prolong
Russia's agony" he said. The Rus
sian nation belongs to the people
which the present rulers do not rep
resent. The Bolsheviki have not been
elected or otherwise legally empow--
cred or entrusted with the disposal
Of Russian resources by the people
and they can offer for sale only stolen
property. which cannot be attractive
to careful investors.
81 am often asked what my father
Leo Tolstoy. would have said about
Rolshevism,'' said Count Tolstoy
"The answer is given clearly in MS
tea achings He was opposed to all
who warted to overthrow govern
ments however despotic, by violence
The accumulated will of an enlight-
ened people would eventually have
oyerthrowh the despotism of the
Romanoffs without violence ano
bloodshed. My father was firm
believer in the principle of passive
resistance, which is in accordance
with the teachings of Christ and OF
all the greatest sages of the world
Therefore about Bolshevism he woule
have said this thing is born of wal
and evil and bloodshed and no gooe
can result from evil
| The Bolshevik experiment. in Rus
| sia is one of the worst political fail'
| ures the world has known, tn'
speaker continued. by spelling tn
| incentive of the people to work
through repeated confiscation or TN
product OF their labor. the BolsheVlk
haze destroyed the creative energ.
that is the power for progress. tn
most valuable asset OF any country
| Those that continue to work In Kus
sia 40 so out of fear for their lives
or out of sheer necessity in order =
barely exist, not out of love for WORK
/ which, theoretically. is the only basl
on which communism could succeed.