Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-01-19
RUSSIA LAND
OF DISTRESS.

Russia has an extreme communistic
form of government The railroads
are free to ride upon, the street cars
are free, the theaters are Free, in
fact about everything is free, declared
Tom Skeyhill in the lecture course at
the Al. Ringiling theater on Monday
might. Only those who work are
given bread, the others starve.
The speaker, an Australian, rapid
talker, a soldier on several fronts in
the World war, brilliant writer,
young man of "a years, an individual
with an abundance of energy, and a
sort of man worth hearing, sp0Ke in
spiringly until past ten o'clock of
Russia, land of dire distress. Things
are ramshackle in many parts of the
world but the worst in Russia. HUI
mainly, declared the speaker, is hes
itating at the cross roads OF the fu-
ture.
Revolution at the Wrong Time
Skeyhill has made study of Rev.
olutions in past history and declared
that the one in Russia came at the
wrong time. There was a chance for
the greatest experiment in govern
ment in all history but the time was
not opportune. @7H. s& <f
In Russia the people are not blood
thirsty, women have not been nation
allied, the Jews have not all been
killed. Both sides in RUSSIA tell
lies, there is no equality, the newspa-
pers are red, the speakers are red,
there is little food, there is not much
fuel, one in three die of typhoid fever,
and conditions could not be much
worse for people to live. ...
There are no stores, such as we
have in Baraboo. All the shutters
are down in front OF the stores except
on those owned by the government.
Only those who work get food; all
others stave. Those who were once
millionaires are now. in rags and
hungry. Clothing IS scarce an one
can get but enough cheap garments
to cover ones body. The water pipes
in the houses are frozen, there is little
fuel. Wooden houses have all been
burned, wooden bridges, too; the gov
eminent will not permit nore lumber
used. There is no coal mined be-
cause there is no capital TO carry on
the work; the railroads are falling to
decay because there is no money to
replace them as fast as they wear
out. S3$saM
There is no incentive for peasant
farmer to grow more than he can
use; the government takes it away
without compensation.
The theatres are crowded, the,
churches are full, the schools have a
long roll, and things. apparently are
moving in the usual way, but there
is an undercurrent Of unrest.
The Russians are good looking.
simple and ignorant. They burned
the houses, not knowing how they
would be able to keep warm after
ward; they broke the machinery, not
knowing how to replace it; they kill
ed the leaders, not realizing there
were none to take their place.
The Leaders
Kerenske wavered and was over
thrown. Lenine is IN power. He is
likely to stay for sometime. The
radical communistic form of govern
ment may not last and a modified
form may come to take its place
Russia covers one-sixth of the earth
and the other nations should help
her. In case she goes down .civiliza-
ton may be drawn into the vortex.
Her government is not as good as
American Democracy but may remain.
They are playing billiards with the
stars and misery is on the throne
The speaker believed the world should
assume the attitude Of the doctrine
laid down in the beatitudes.
Superintendent A. G. Kingsford in
troduced the speaker.