The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-06-27
worst POLITICAL
FAILURE KNOWN
COUNT TOLSTOY TELLS GENERAL
FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S
CLUBS OF RUSSIA

Chautauqua, N Y, CA. PA rev.
olutiOn in Russia which will dispose OF
the present Bolshevik regime will fol-
low the inevitable failure of the pro-
posed Russian economic conference at
The Hague, was the prohecy of Count
Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late Count
Leo Tolstoy, the Russian author, in
an address here tonight before the
convention of the General Federation
of Women's clubs. Inability to pay
soldiers and other government en-
ployes, who have not been paid for
months, will bring about the down
fall Of the Red government, Count
Tolstoy declared.
.'The Bolshevik leaders promised to
return from the Genoa conference with
money to pay the soldiers" Count Toll
stoy said, "but they returned empty
handed" Now they have one more
bundle of hay to hold in front of The
starving horse-The Hague confer
ence. But a Uncertain they will again
be disappointed and then there may
be a revolution. 1t is difficult to pre-
dict what form the new government
may take. The monarchist party is
very strongly organized, am sorry
to say, and a revolution may result
in the setting up new monarchy
for time, but am certain that even
tually there will emerge the United
States of Russiai This is what | hope
for
The willingness of British and other
European statesmen to recognize the
Bolshevik was dep1ored by Count Toll
stow. who lauded the action OF SeCre-
tary Of State Hughes and the admins
tation in Withholding recognition OF
the BoIshevik "Recogniition would
only prolong Russia's agony" he said
"The Russian nation belongs to the
people which the present rulers DO
not represent. The Bolshevikl nave
not been elected or otherwise Legally
empowered or entrusted with the dis
posal of. Russian resources by tne
people, and they can offer for sale only
stolen property, which cannot be at
tractive to careful investors.
ssI am often asked what my fathef,
Leo Tolstoy, would have said ABOUT
Bolshevism,' said Count Tolstov.
s'The answer is given clearly In his
teachings He was opposed to all VINO
wanted to overthrow governments
however despotic, by violence. The
accumulated will of an enlightened
people would eventually have over
thrown the despotism of the Roman
offs without violence and bloodsheo.
MY father was firm believer in the
principle of passive resistance, whcn
is in accordance with the teachings OF
Christ and of all the greatest sages
of the world Therefore about Boil
shevism he would have said, this thing
is born of war and evil and bloodshed,
and no good can result from evil
ssThe Bolshevik experiment in Russ
ia is one of the worst political failures
the world has known" the speaker
continued ''By spelling the incentive
of the people to work, through re-
peated confiscation of the product OF
their labor, the Bo1sheviki have des-
troyed the creative energy that is the
power for progress, the most valuable
asset of any country. Those that con-
tinue to work in Russia DO so out oI
fear for their lives, or out OF sheer
necessity in order to barely exist, not
out of love for work, which, theoretlc
ally, is the only basis on which Com
could succeed"