WHY RUSSIA IS HATED

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 31, 1 August 1923, Page 9

WHY RUSSIA IS HATED

Those who are honestly trying to solvij the (apparently) unsolvable puzzle of Soviet Russia, will find the key here in th's article t written by Frank Cotton In the ' "Australian Worker." T 0 ono who wrings an unprejudiced mind to bear on the situation, the wheie thing" hoeowes as clear as daylight. AH the spiteful, twisted half-truOhs -all the downright liies- all tho flood of malignancy that has been poured over Russia's Grjcjat Experiment is explained, and accounted for "Th c recently ratified agreement between the Sultan of Turkey, and a syndicate of American. Company Promoters, throws , a vivid light on many things, including the virulent hatred of Russia which exists in what we miscall the "Great Centres of Western Civilisation." The agreement referred to, piovides for the build'ng of two thousand four hundred miles of railway through oil regions, under Turkish control. The promoters of this undertaking HAVE THE SOLE RIGHT OF EXPLOITING ALL MINERAL RESOURCES WITHIN 20 -" KILOMETERS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE RAILWAY ROUTE FOR NINETY-NINE YEARS.

After tho company has itceived the annual interest on the original outlay, a substantial amount per annum towards paying off the capital and 12 per cent, annual dividend on the shares of the company, the Sultan of Turkey is to receive 30 p<er cent, of the. balanoo of profits. The people of Turkey, ot course, ge_ _n> thing. Probably the relation of issued script to actual expenditure will be something oh the lines of the Nauru Island scheme. In that case, the paid-up shares tissued had a face value of fifteen times the actual capital put int 0 tlie business. MULTI TUDES OF SIMILAR PROPOSALS FOR LOOTING RUSSIAN NATURAL RESOURCES HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN BY THE SOVIET GOVERN-! MENT. That Government has adopt- I ed as a basic principle the theory I that the natural resources of Russia must be developed primarily in the interest of the Russian people. It Is the disappointed syudicatie-raongera I and wild-cat company promoteis who j are filling the columns of the capi-j talist press all over the world with j fierco denunofat-'ons of Soviet rule.

IT WAS THE REFUSAL TO ALLOW RUSSIA TO BE ROBBED WHICH LED TO ALL THE MURDEROUS RUSSIAN INTERVENTION RAIDS. For the first lime in history thft 'Lords of Land and Princes of the Purse,' who control the destinies of myriads of the human race, havo encountered a Government which can neither be bullied nor bought That v-3 thft whole ■acci'.ct. oi - the ecclesiastical anathemas and capitalistic denunciations hurled at Lenin and T rotate*."'