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than eight distinct classes.... Special cards also are provided for
children from one, two to five and from five to sixteen. It will be
seen that this totals eight distinct varieties of card."

The affect of these distinctions may be gathered from the following
instance given in the article just cited:

"In the month of November there was distributed by the Petrograd
Soviet altogether 13,631,480 pounds of bread.... Had all the bread
been divided evenly among the whole population, each person would
have had about one-half a pound a a day, whereas, in fact, one
category got much less than that amount daily and the third
category none at all."

In the thirteenth place, we note that the Russian Socialist tyrants give
the workmen, in exchange for their labor, pieces of paper run off from
printing presses which seem almost to have solved the problem of
perpetual motion. The workmen are wise if they spend this fiat money
daily for whatever it will bring in food, for its value will collapse
utterly when the dictatorship bursts, leaving the country financially
prostrate, without credit or means of exchange. This is one of the
greatest bunco games ever practiced upon workingmen. Eyre describes it
in a cable dated March 3, 1920, and published in the "New York World" of
March 4, 1920, from which we quote:

"In 'the Socialist Federative Republic of Soviets of Russia,' to
give the Bolshevik land its official title, no mention has been
made of finance. The reason for this is simple. There is no
finance, in the European or American sense of the word, in present
Russia. The Soviet Government pays its own people what it has to
pay in paper money, of which it prints unlimited quantities. Being
determined eventually to abolish money altogether in favor of
Communistic exchange of products, it is not worried about
depreciation in the value of its currency. It possesses about
1,000,000,000 rubles--the exact amount is kept very secret--in
gold, with which it intends to pay for goods purchased abroad until
it can establish a system of barter with foreign commercial
interests. From the capitalistic viewpoint its budgetary
expenditures are chaotic, but in Communistic eyes they are both
sane and logical."

Only to minds financially insane or criminally degenerate could such a
system seem "sane and logical." Their carefu