SEEN FROM THE INSIDE.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 658, 12 August 1921, Page 7

SEEN FROM THE INSIDE.

Before Dr Morris Zueker, the wellknown leader of the Communist party in the United States, went to Russia last September, he had been so active in revolutionary propaganda for the overthrow of the United States Government that he obtained a sentence of fifteen years for sedition. He was one of those pardoned by President Wilson, and he sailed for Russia to investigate and enjoy there the practical operation of the ideal he had been preaching, In America he was decried as down-trodden : Dr Zueker had been free to come and go ; in the paradise of his dreams he was shown at once the inside of a prison. He was held there for months, and then sent out of the country. Dr Zucker’s experience of Sovietism now leads him i.A declare ‘‘the decaying civilisation of Russia" as the worst tyranny in the world. It seems that the greatest argument against Bolshevism is Bolshevism. When enthusiastic Red agitators once get a look at the Russian bargain counter invariably they are shocked at the quality of the goods they have been advertising. Those who really know least about it are the most enthusiastic in favour of Bolshevism, and it requires actual experience to wean them from their ignorance, in some instances. Y ise men let others pay for the experience they profit by.