The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-04-20
THE GLORY or SOyIETISM.

lHe people OF tilS country nave Al
ways generously responded 10 the call
for aid, no matter from what part Of
the world that call may come Recent
ly. and even at the present Time, large
sums are being contributed 10 feed the
starving masses of Russia Millions
have been, and are, in dire need OF
food. This is no doubt a worldly char
iity, and yet when one reads of the in
difference of the soviet government 10
the sufferings OF the Russian people,
Iof the government shipping out OF that
country grain when its own people are
crying out for food, just for the pur
Ipose of raising real money To Keep up
ia red army, one questions the wisdom
of sending further aid to that country.
The evidence that Russian grain is be-
ing exported appears in a Norway pa
per. AS Norway is in immediate touch
with Russia that country is in d posi-
ton to secure first hand information
understandable so far away The extracI
from that Norway paper is worth read
ing, as it conveys some idea of the
condition of affairs in Russia. The
article mentioned appeared in "Ost-
landinger," a Norway newspaper, and
was translated for and republished in
the Hannaford IN. d., Enterprise
and is as follows:
1t is said that Russia has sold and is
ready to ship five million Kilograms of
rye to Finland, and in addition has
stored large quantities of grain de-
signed for export.
newspapers as well as by other pa
pers.
II this is true then the greed of the
communists goes beyond all reason.
Russia to export grain! What,
From Famine's kingdom, Where
millions of hands are stretched to
heaven in throes of hunger, Where
mothers, crazed by hunger, kill and
eat their children! Where the living
skeletons gnaw the remains of dead
skeletons! In land where million
voiced groan rises to heaven in prayer
just one hours relief from hunger!
In such land the soviet rulers are
selling cargoes of grain to foreign
countries.
This grain, the same rulers have
forced the peasants to deliver to them.
sens representatives in Russia Mr..
kahrs Sund, arrived in Christiana di-
rect from the famine district. He
stated tlat the conditions over there |
were frightful. They are worse even
than the terrible conditions Nansen
himself described when he was home
a month earlier. The frightfulness has /
increased since, and is constantly |
getting worse.
But the soviet rulers sell the grain |
to foreign countries!
Kahrs relates that the starving !
population is now butchering tleir !
last and almost famished domestic |
animals to consume them in order to |
preserve life yet awhile if only for |
few weeks. The Russian people. who !
consist of about 5000 per cent of |
peasants, have no seed grain and no |
horses or other means for power. The |
famine will continue for years, and 40 |
end is in sight. The Russian people |
will sink so far in misery that there |
seems to be no way of escape said |
Mr. Nansen some time ago.
But the soviet rulers sell the gram
to foreign countries
The soviet government must secure |
money. They are ceaseless IN tae;r
demands for money, and their pse Of |
money goes beyond all reas ii They
nave confiscated and wasted the I'M
nense sums which the Russian Dao-
pie possessed. They have taken ev-
'rything in the country char waJ val
liable. Even the chandeliers aLd prcc.
Gus vessels in silver and gold in the
churches. have been seized and sold
or what it would bring. And every
hing has been wasted. The rich
country has been changed into a land
Vt rags, and is one hunger poor farm.
{ will soon become a frightful NOR
,ue.
But the soviet rulers sell the rain
o foreign countries!
The soviet dictators are the only
mes who live in joy and glory; they
'ay themselves immense salaries; and
they visit other countries they carry
With them staff of servants and red
yards; they engage the SWEETEST ho-
els in the large cities, sometimes the
'hole building or at least long rows
I rooms. They have organized an ar
ny OF million men enlisted for
eriod OF from l-2 to four years, and
his red army, which is the dictator's
est tool, is well fed and costs money.
hundreds of millions of gold rubles
ave been sent by the soviet govern
lent to other countries for the pur-
ose OF spreading communism and
rovide the farmers and laboring men
those countries with the same
lessings which are enjoyed in Rus
a. The soviets must have money to
aste. and at any price must keep up