The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-14
boil SHEvISM in
RUSSIALOSINC
SAYS T0LSTOY
pule of Lenin Must Eventually
Bow Before Tolstoy's Doctrine
of Non.Resistance.

the dead patriots son, in an ad-
dress before the Moline after-dinner
club last evening. His subject was
-The Truth About Russia" and he
dealt largely with the relations OF
mis- fathers teachers TO the present
situation there.
"lhe bolsheviki, by confiscating
all grain except that needed by the
peasants Tor Lnelr own use, have
oiled incentive to production, -
said the count. The peasants,
knowing that they will receive
only worthless money for what
ever grain they have TO sell, are re-
naming passive. AS a result, boil
sney1sm is IN greater peril than
ever before. Similarly, 100000, 700
n-cooperationistS in lnula are
endangerlng English rule more than
armed TevoIt ever did.
me eluer Count Iolstoy'S doc-
trlne OF love, according to the
speaker, viii some uay result in d
universal brotherhood, united
states OF the wOTIu. Vlvidly, the
Younger count pictured the moral
struggles Oh MS laIner to arrive at
a conception Oh truth. Dissatisfied
WIN the condlIlons Oh the society lii
wnlcn ne llyeu, the old Russian
philosopher propounded many queS
uOns, among Luem those, TO nIm-
sell:
|. Is there a God and where is
He!
:. What is the will of God?
IN oruer, he went to the conven-
tioual sources OF spiritual reiief,
pat louuu none, sad the speaker.
AT last, turning 10 the Peasants
around nIIn, ne Iounu d satisfying
answer 10 ms nrsL question: Each
mans Gou Is in his neart.
anu luen, ny reaulng the ser
mon On TIE mount, as lecOrdeu n
the GOSpei OI matthew III the new
Testament, ne realized Inat InG
will OF God is that men love one
another"
Two Kinds OF Communism.
Returning to the subject of boil
shevism and present day Russia,
Count Tolstoy declared that there
are two kinds of communism. The
first. which is founded on love, Is
that which was taught by Christ
and believed in by the elder count.
The other, which is founded on
hate, is that of Karl Marx and
Lenin.
Being founded on hate" coD-
tinued the speaker, "Dolshevism in
wolves violence. Violence is evil.
The bolsheviki leaders are Of
three sorts, according to the count.
First there are many who may be
honest in the beliefs and in their
desire to help mankind. Among
these he classed Lenin. But these
men, he declared, are theorists
They DO not see life. They see only
the philosophy of Marx. Then there
are those who believe in the phil
osophy of the German, Nietzsche :.
These men, according TO the count,
are capable of understanding moth
ing but this philosophy of might
makes right and are, to a certain
degree, insane Finally, there are
many adventures. In this class the
speaker put Trotzky.
The two chief elements of th =
great mass of followers of Lenil
and Trotzky are the workers of the
cities and deserters from the army.
None of these, said the count, have
anything to lose. They have no
homes, no families, no money. They
arc utterly unlike the American
workmeE, who have their homes
and are substantial members of
society
The speaker quoted Lenin as
having said that among every 100
bolsheviki there are 60 fools, SO
robbers and one true communist.
This shows what the leaders of the
movement think of their followers.
COnfiscate Property.
The bolshevists, hating capital
ism" continued the speaker, con
hscated the property of this class
when they came into power in 1917.
Production in the cities ceased. The
peasants, who are interested only
in land, and who, shortly before
the bolshevik uprising, had confis-
Gated most of the great estates, oe-
came the only producers. For the
time being the bolsheviki allowed
these people to retain their re-
Gently acquired land, buying from
them their grain and paying for ii
with their worthless paper money.
The peasants, knowing that this
money was worthless, simply hoard
Cd 1t and kept it out of circulation.
sues Of paper money. Some time
ago there were $4,000. 900, 900
worthless rubles in the ountry.
Now, | understand, they are print
ing money at the rate of 00,0G0,-
100000 rubles per day. Russia is a
country of millionaires. Rockefel-
Ter and Ford never dreamed of the
vast wealth which is there. But
lhose millionaires cannot buy any
alng with their money"
The count declared that these
conditions were bound to grow
worse. Outlining some of the plans
which had been offered for reliev-
ing the situation, he stated that
Germany. desiring to pay off her
indemnity, had asked the allies to
allow her to make colonies in toe
country and work its recources.
Ihis the allies refused. But, &C
Seording to Count Tolstoy, the al
AeS, through the Genoa conference,
are planning themselves to COLOMBO
wells and forests, and France the
ae country, England taking the oil
coal mines
:, This must not happen" declared
ne speaker, who appealed to
america to keep out of this confer
encp stIf thn Initial Stntnr N 1rnr