The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-18

owned bureaus to draw their food, etc. When
ever they attempted to organize to consider their
own interests, the dictatorship of the proletarat
which was the name chosen by Lenine and
Trotzky for their socialist government, sent
troops with machine guns to shoot them down in
old-fashioned cold blood.
Farmers turned in a part of their crops and
hid the balance in true, old-fashioned thrift
against the coming of the proverbial rainy-and
foodless-day. So Lenine and Trotzky sent sol
diers to search for and confiscate their hidden
food stores. When the farmers attempted to
organize in their own interests they got taste
of bayonets and machine gun bullets.
Food got scarcer and scarcer for everyone
except the socialists in the government and in
the aforementioned food bureaus. Even the
soldiers in the Red army had to tighten their
belts.
The farmers plowed and sowed less for others
to seize what they reaped. The laborers worked
and produced less for others to seize what they
produced.
What was everybody's business became no.
body's business. Factories, railroads and rolling
stock became junk because repairs were not
kept up.
Crops failed, and because no one had been
allowed to save any kind of surplus, and the
government wouldn't or couldn't famine reared
its ugly head. No savings, no credit. The Rus
sian socialists were on their own resources to
sink or swim, quite like the old-fashioned belief
that as you SOW you reap.
The spenders had been in the saddle They
had killed the savers and spent in five years the
accumulated savings of generations, and the day
Of reckoning was at hand.
Lenine and Trotzky saw this. They had to,
because they instituted the fad of throat cutting
as part of Russia's new environment.
Lenine announced new -dispensation. Since
the Russians had shown they were not quite up
to. approaching real communism, they should
have a alf-and-haf mixture, with private own
ershipa and management in conjunction with gov
eminent.
Farmers should keep half they raised, the
other half going to government as an income tax.
Private individuals were allowed to engage in
trade. Private distribution, if you please, was
Reconstructed. Factories were turned back to pri-
vate managers on a percentage basis; in other
words, an income tax.
So the bloody cycle proceeds. Thus the gigan-
tic experiment progresses, sowing and reaping
Russia learns at a tremendous cost and the rest
of the world at trifling expense, in comparison
the lesson that character is not the result of en-
vironment. Environment is the resultant of the
outpouring of human character. Joyful or bit
ter, we make our own destiny.
The world, therefore, has to be organized on
basis whereby the strongest and best charac-
ters can lead guide and protect the adolescent
and weaker ones.
Russia's starving millions today are suppl
ants for help from America. By your contrbu-
tions you do two things for them: You show
them that this country, organized on a capital
istic basis, has a surplus greater than its own
needs. You prove to them religion is practical,
by returning good for evil and behaving to others
as you would have others behave to you.