The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-10
ABYSS CONFRONTS
SOVIET IN RUSSIA
Must Supply Peasants
With Goods or Be
Toppled, Lenin Admits
SITUATION NOT GOOD
Peasantry, Comprising 80 Per
Cent Of Population,
"Watchfully Waits"
By GEORGES POPOFF.


By GEORGES POPOFF.
international News Service Sian Cores
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MOSCOW Either We commuaist
succeed IN supplying the peasants
with goods and thus help them Out
of thc'r straits or they Will aend us
10 the devil That ~ he unayoid-
aalD issuc."
None other tnan Leuin himself
smoke these words which with light
nIue-uke luc.dity illumine the crux
ot .ho present soviet policy He
added
communists nave not vet succeeded
In establishing junction Win the
pp1HIgtry. B. C.. with % per cent Ul
Inc population OF Russia"
lt was at the Eleventh congress o.
the kussuA communicate par on
March % last that he Russian
DrpgIiur. addressing +. 900 CNmmun-
lets assembled IN the Kromin, thus
drew the veil from the abyse which
contronts tho soviet power even to-
day fils words sobsrod and silenced
thc opposition"
An "Unhcalthy situation"
Almost hall a year has passed
since then. Leuin has been very III
ana .s reported recovering The
Genoa conference was followed by
The Hague The domestic political
g.patnn OF Russia, however. has
not changed as reg rds this cardi-
ma. quest!op Fer npfrly two years
we have seen the same latent un-
healthy situation. the fate OF he
soviet power stan hinges solely unon
the attitude OF the Russian peasantrr
constituting 90 per cent Jt the tota'
Those 10000 600 souls have un-
dergone untold sufferings during
'hr last few years. They have been
giving. giving. glvlng-without re-
ce.yiug anything in return. They
have given away THAI which is denr-
est 20 ,hS their wheat. The
requisition5 deprived them of their
main strength They sacrificed hu-
mal material. cattle and food 'tuffs
nearly everything they possessed.
And they received nothing because
Russia's indus .giCs are lying Idle and
the soviet government has no goods.
The Russian peasant has been a. the
border OF despair. He came 10 the
point where he could sacrifice no
more wheat. but at the same time
his hunger for goods increased.
htNOlls Brtik Oul.
Thus 10 came abpu. that a year
ago revOl;s broke out. Rebel!io
seafhcd everywhere. II flared up Ia
Kroustadt because the discomfort OF
the peasaGtry had spread 20 the
army and 20 the workers. Thinge
could not 20 on that way. The So
Wet government realized this In the
eleventh hour. II found the courage
90 confess inqu1lif!cdiy the fiasco or
economic communion. II declared
the so-callcd new economic policy
The COURAGE Of this deed and the
avenues toward It's execution were
found by none o.her than LenIn.
They we're his personal work.
lt VAS the only way out Lenin
himself has confessed It. The new
economic policy. free trade, the
opening Of new sources OF revenue
the removal OF the compulsory
whca, trade, were 20 enable the
government:
/. To demand the minimum OF
wheat from the peasants and
2. To give the peasant bread for
his products.
Adopt New Policy.
Upon these issues depended the
success or failure OF the soviet gov
erument. A face-about was made.
Much Improvement resulted, How
ever, new symptoms OF disease and
decay appeared. Too much had
been expected. Russia resembled a
country In which pestilence relgned,
death stalked through the streets,
life and laughter had been silenced;
all sores, cafes and restaurants were
closed anVopa WhO engaged IN