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?Adveri tscmenta
Member or the Audll Bureau of ci-ctilattoni
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1919
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The Red Power
Shall Bolshevism ho fought. quaran
tined or talkcii to? That is the ques
iion now distractiog the sane nations of
the world.
Never since the advent of the I'.ol
shevist regime have the Allies had a
Russian policy. Practically all that has
been accomplished in checking the spread
of Lenine and Trotzky's power has been
due to the purely providential Czecho
Slovak intervention. An armed force of
rine soldierly quality suddenly <!;'op])ed
from the clouds, saved Siberia and estab?
lished an Allied front west if the Urals.
Tlu Allied governments applauded
this miracle. They couid realize the ad
vaJntages ol ; niiiitavy intervention
which tended to keep vast regions of
Russia still pro-Ally. They knew that
Lenine and Trotzky were thoroughly
pip-German and anti-Ally. The sort of
gcjvernment which Lenine and Trotzky
had set up was an enemy of civilization.
along with the Hohenzollern or the
Hapsburg autocracy. A satisfactory
world peace was unthinkable while any
one of these three tyrannies continued
ia existence.
Yet the Allied powers lacked the will
artd vision to deal energetically with the
Russian question. They reacted emo
tionally to the Bolshevist enormity. But
they were very wary about committing
themselves to a war against the soviets.
Japan furnished the bulk of the troops
for an expedition intended to relieve the
Gaecho-Slovaks. But this expedition
simply cleared Eastern and Central Si
beria. The Czecho-SIovaks were left west
;' the Urals to carry on their unequal
1 test with the Russian Red armies.
iFherc was a time?about five months
ago- when both the military and the
p Sitical power of the Soviets seemed to
bo! collapsing. Trotzky denounced the
? cjvardice of the Red Guards and the in
. dnpetency of their officers. But nov/ it
estimated that the Red power has 240,
D(|0 mrr, on the Volga front. And it has
refcently sent troops into Livonia, Estho
r.i? and Lithuania. recapturing Riga and
Wna.
ii pan has begun to withdraw her
trjiops from Siberia. Lord Northcliffe
that no morc British troops will be
Lo Russia. it is natural for Japan
h to cut out of the Russian situa
She has done her full share to
tipport a half-hearted Allied military
intervention. Thc other Allies have
failed to cooperate efriciently with her.
Iior own interest does not Iie in tiie re
tion of a strong Russian state. Nor
Great Britain's interest Iie that
way. And the failure of the Allied eon
to produce an intelligible Russian
",'? an excusc to those states
which arc not especialiy concerned i:i
g Rus ia from her own weakness.
The United Statcs is not without
c for thc lack of military and po?
litical cooperation in Russia. Our gov
i rnment long delaycd approval of an e:c
Pvtjition to relicvc thc Czecho-SIovaks.
Thc .\ilie< have, iu fact, merely tlrifted
along. Now they face the dilemma of
fighting Bolshevism in carnest or asking
il ti ]>? 7, ?
lt 1- an unplea ant predicament. But
I o itcome of a programme
r.cgation. If the "hloody and disor
;>' ? '-iv ' of Lenine and Trotz!;y
?? a certificate of tolevance,
1 '' I'dcsci nsion will be due, to long
i'"1 Icthargy and indecision in
| councils.
Shali tho Se-4? Be Safe for U-Boats
Admiral L* r.l < harle* Beresford is
p?rfuri :? :? . signal :-. rvicc to ihe se?
curity ..;' the w irld in his pleas for a
reicogniticn <?>! lh< submarine peril, based
? ?:*-,??-! coloniea, in future wars. The
map accompanying his articlo in la ,1
Sunday's Tribune Magazine ehowed
graphically bow large thc danger i ?, that
facea this countrj in particular and all
the ocoan liu;-r ?-af?/? <,f tho world.
Tlu. peoples of Australia anri British
8outh Africa are keenly awake to this
Their rcpreecntatives liave al?
ready expresscd their fixed reuolvo that
none of the eratwhilc German colonies
in the Pacific and in Africa shall be rz
d to (ierman rontrc:. Tne rest of
tlu A',r)d, and America o.-.pec7aliy. necd?
to r^-aliz*. this point. I. exitia annrt
-om rvt-ry other con ?,ideratir;.i which
?? ii! affect decisions at thc pcucc confer
' - <?'?? lt U based npsm a fac', \h? G?r
iubmarine rampaij,,-.-. Ui ths w-.rl*l
We there learned tha'. ? treacher
- ? and itealthy weapon ba*I been pei'
? -!|y uited to the haml of the
Uirbreaker, the azsass^n, the daatard.
Th<- fbmarine waa beaten. bii by how
mtrrov, :: margin the -lrn<ic- 1zn(\ sup
of thc Aili* showed . ., Ger
forexeen tbe full p,:. , , .
y'r.c i; .boat before thc war, cr even ot
the outset, no one can predict where
the supremacy of the sea would have
lain.
It is probably impossible to prevent
the construction of new U-boats in the
decades to come. But we can prevent
the establishment of U-boat bases out?
side Germany. We can end the German
empire in Africa and in New Guinca and
thus hamper her use of this weapon for
all time. There are other reason?, hu
mane and sufficient, i'cr ending Germari
colonie?. The U-boat, thre-at, resting
largely upon these colonies as bases, is
another reason and is equally sufficient.
Romance in the Making
There have been few episodes of the
war as romantic and unbelievabb as our
own Paderewski's appearance in Warsaw
in the thick of revolution and in?
trigue, risking everything in devotion to
his ideal of a free and united Poland.
That he was shot at and missed death by
a narrow margin is but one'incident in
a venture that cannot fail to be perilous
day by day. with no one can tell what
denouement. The ticke.t that we naturally
pin on this news is "romantic," and su
perficially it is the right one. By all thc
standards of the rest of the world the
Irishman is incurabiy poetic and the
Pole is incurabiy romantic (Pity the
world if either is ever cured!) The Irish
peasant women talk poetry in their daily
life, and the Pole tums to romance
naturally.
Thc most. that can be said in criticism
of the Polish character is that it is too
high strung, too taut with emotion, to
work easily and comfortably and success
fully in this very practical and blunder
ing and stupid world. It was a splendid
venture of Paderewski's, and all who
have known what ardor and vision sent
him forth, his life in his hand, to do
what he could for his faith admire his
- ourage and pray for his success. Was
it doomed to failure? ls true romance
impossible in this drear old world?
Greece and Rome Again
History has repeated itself so fre
quently in the last few years, and the
fact has been so faithfully chronicled by
obscrvant writers, that the novelty of the
repetition almost has worn off. However,
it docs seem worthy of note that the
glovy that was Greece and the grandeur
that was Rome are again contending for
the supremacy. In this case the wheel of
history has been a long time making its
revolution, for it has been two thousand
years since the Greek phalanx was
proved inferiov to the Roman legion and
the Macedonian wara put an end to Hel
lenic hopes of beating back the tide of
Roman conquest.
But now, as in the days of Mithri
dates, Greece dreams of a greater empire,
and finds that dream likely to be made
at least difiicult of realization by the
rival ambitions that have their centre
in the city which humbled Greek pride
in the three wars from 214 to 168 B. C.
The prospective dismemberment of Tur?
key gave great encouragement to the
Greeks, they hoping through their es
pousal of the cause of tlie Allies to fall
heir to Epirus. part of Asia Minor and
the 'Egean isles, "where burning Sappho
loved and sung." The Greeks even per?
mitted themselves to hope that Constan
tinople. or, in the words of Dr. John N.
Metaxa, former Governor of Salonica
and friend of Premier Venizelos, "thc
ancient Byzantium, the glowing centre
of Hellenism," might be rcstored to
them.
But just at thc moment when Greece
sees part of its ancient glory about to be
restored "thc grandeur that was Rome"
steps in again in thc person of Italy and
reaches oui after many of thc prizes that
Greece lays claim to. These lands, says
Dr. .Metaxa, have been allotted to Italy
in a secret treaty of the powers. Dr.
.Metaxa expresses the hope that Ameri?
can sentiment will prevent the carrying
out of this treaty and that Greece,
through the self-determination of thc in
habitants of thc lands under dispute,
v.ill again bc numbered among Ihe great
nations. Thc demands upon American
sentiment, alas, are unlimited. But that
is not the real trouble. Tho earth's sur
facc is limited. and there is far too. littlc
to satisfy all tlie national aspirations.
Old Guard Classiciste
Thc classics have with3tood gencra
tions of abusc at thc hands of profession?
al erudites who flush mme warmly over
one aorist than over all the"Iliad." They
will doubtlcss survive the present amal
gamation of lcarning to encouragc thc
study of Latin and Greek. That would
be a serviceable definition, in fact. A
cla -ic is a work of art over which ten
thousand professors can sweep in vain.
Nevcrthelesa we w ish that Dcan West's
committee of the proposed league could
display a little more of the humanism in
which it.-? subjeets are supposcd to give
such an admirablc grounding. From
President Butler'.-; recent ultcranoe* we
had come \-> hope that the war had i 1
i-tilled much new thought into our Rcata
of lcarning and that a modern resettling
I of thc clasaical problem in the light of
prescnt-day educational wisdom was nor.
, bcyond hope. The gi*t of the committee's
latest utterancc is in thi3 paragraph:
ln thio clvilized libcrai education tiie
clasticg hare a necosKarv aiul not a mere
!;? tradUional pmc<*. Th<y nr<> fuadamen
ti) to our nation*! larjKuajre and to other
Important modtrn ton;ruea. The;: arc &?
monr.lrnbly an nurency fo? train,iijc the
youn~ min*! t"> clenmottf, exactneao pml
C-ior-nitfrmcr,'. T'nev nv? of groai help ii
pr?par;n<r Btud?nts to raastor al] othor
?tudies, whethe-/ Bcientific. profesalonn),
tochnicai, h5?torica1. Mitrary ov arfUtic.
The'.ir Htcrstsre !? fol] of ihe nobleut 5m
puiaoti and J* adr/iUtedly th* gveetast < l
:.ll for-izn MtOTHturaa, TWir history Ig
"?',*? li"v to u!l htstorj*,"and it recordu the
18 of <nir OMin ci'.ili,.-, | | Ivr*', ju*.
t,f.- h?kI demoerajcy, To '-m';? th? c'a-wIcK
v/f/uid, therefore, be to deatroy h m.iir;
part of thc foundation of our modern
knowledge.
There ia nothing to contradict in these
sound sentiments. Every one can agree
with all that thc committee says without
advancing the cause of practical educa?
tion half a lecture period. Thc classics
are all that thc committee says; but the
classics a. they have been studied in this
country have yielded in the vast major?
ity of cases practically nothing besides
: tho mental training. Therefore, t'.vo
questions are being asked: First, cannot
i the same amount of mental training be
; obtained with a genuine yield of worth -
while knowledge? Second, cannot a real
grasp of the classical literaturc and lii -
j tory and art and example so highly and
| justly praised by Dean West's committee
: and so generally missed in college classi?
cal study be substituted for thc present
wa.teful drill?
Shall Labor Have a Party ?
-V distinct clash of labor ideals has
] come about as the result of the forma
; tion here of what has been christened
the New York Labor party. Similar
"parties" in other cit;es of thc country
were simultaneously formed. Union labor
has been thc moving power in every case,
, but in taking this course it is acting in
direct oppo.ition to the position of
1 Samuel Gompers, president of the
| American Federation of Labor, and
I such other labor leaders as Frank Mor
i rison, secretary of the American Feder
| ation of Labor; Hugh Frayne, Eastern
j representative of tbe Federation and
\ labor member of the War Industries
; Board; James Lord, presidenl of the
; mining department of the Federation,
! and others.
The New York convention, which was
attended by 884 delegates from labor or?
ganizations cf the greater city, went cr.
record as believing that the time had
co'me when labcr "must u?.e both arms?
political and economic?to protect, its ex
istence and bring about industrial de?
mocracy." The i'cat of the English La?
bor party in polling two million and a
half votes in the recent election and cb
j.taining recognition in Parliament as the
"official opposition" is a source of in
spiration.
Yet this very success of English la?
bor was used by Mr. Gompers ns his
svrongest. argument again t the forma?
tion of a labor party in Ameriea. When
labor goes into politics, Mr. Gompcr.3
said. it becomes a "vote-catching ma?
chine" and forgets the cause of labor.
He admitted that ence he was a believer
in a labor party, but declared he was
cured^y his participation in the Henry
George movement of 188.").
"The labor movement suffered," Mr.
Gompers said, "and I abandoned the
idea. Labor leaders paid more atten?
tion to vote getting than to winning
Etrikes cr obtaining wage increases."
Thomas J. Curtis, who presided at the
opening of New York's labor convention,
aroused applause by declaring that:
"Never before has it been so neces?
sary as to-day t'or labor to band togcth.r
in political life. Those in power are de
termined to orusli labor at every oppor?
tunity."
This is directly opposed to the thc-is
of Mr. Gompers, who said a few weeks
ago, when discussing the call for the la?
bor convention:
"Aftcr all, what counts in thc world is
economic power, not politi< tl power.
Witness thc Socialist-. What stand have
they taken in the Mooney case? Ilov
have they solved tho riddle of frecing
him from jail? Hy a general strike, ii"
you please; by nee of economic power."
A speaker at thc Yorkville Casino
convention. in appcaling for unity of la?
bor. said there must bc a labor party
which would cmbracc both un organized
and organized labor. Mr. Gompers also
appealed for unity, but saw it made pos?
sible by this plan:
"Ncvcr in America's history has there
J.men so groat ;i necessity for unity of ae
tion. American labor, without a political
party <>f ita own, has accomplished dur?
ing this war three times whal England
has accomplished. If labor goes into
politics it. will have to get votes. and
labor will decline from a powerful eco?
nomic unit tn a vote-catching machine."
Just before he sailed for Europe to at?
tend tho World Labor Conference at
Lausanne Mr. Gompers, tcstifying he
forestl\c Senate Ccmmittcc rn Educa?
tion and Labor, ,-aid that lubor bad ac?
complished what il had in Ameriea
; "because in tlio labor movement in
I .Ameriea we have not gone after false
gods. In thc labor movement in Amcricn
we have nol allowed thc political par
ti-">. no matter hov, alttiiistic they may
procliiim themselves in He, to domi
nate er influence our movement, not
any Republican party, not. anv Demo?
cratic party, not any Socialisl party, or
any labor party. We have stood as a
movement of America's workers, believ?
ing that under the institutions of our
Republic wc have the lawful right
to organi/.c, to slrivc for ,-, biittor life.
to work out our own salvation to the last.
opportunity, and that if this opportunity
i* gone wc have thc right to quit work
ancl try to impos'.i justice into the con
(liddration of th" mind of tlie cmployer."
The Rev. Richard Roberts, a member
of tho British Labor party, cxplained to
the Yorkville Casino meeting thc work
ings cf the British party plan, which ho
CXtoUed. This plan. according tn Mr.
Gompcr*. consist.? of "two and a half
milllo:i labcr mcn pttying due, into th"
| Labor party nnd receiving nothing in
return except.the brilliant lcadership_
I in the pcliticnl field"?of such Socialists
aj Ramsay Macdonald.
At r. meeting of Mr. Gompero and
tho other labor leaders previously re?
ferred to it. waa resolved to withholtl
J R.pport from thc movement to organi^e
rt po'itic,-.; iabcr party. It romnin-, to bc
icr.- wh.-.t. progro-s the Labor party can
j make wilh the avowed opposition of the
I chosen leaders of organized labor.
The Russian Menace
To the Editor of Thc Tribune.
SIR: Has it not become fully cviiicat
that before a stab'.c psace can be made.
or thc foundation laid for a possible
league of nations in the future, order must
hc restored in Russna? lt. ii also per
foctly certain that thia result cannot bc
reached without assistance from the outj
,-irle, and this assistance ought to come
:<nd can only come from tho Allies and
ourselvcs. It is a duty that ve o'A-e. in the
first place. to Ku.-sia. She has always been
our friend, and had it not been for her
hard fighting, attended by immense losses,
111 the early stages of ihe war. France
would undoubtedly have been overrun, the
Allies beaten and enormous payments ex
acted from us by the German fleet.
Again, we owe it to ourselves. Bol
shevism, like the influenza, is in the air. and
in spreading with the r,u:ne rapidity and thc
same dcadiy results. Tiie only way to
ueal with it now is to stamp it out at its
source. Killed there, it would die every
wherc.
VYe owe it a'.so to the cause of liberty
and hurnanity. Our President is proclaim
ing in Kuropean capita ls that we entered
the war to destroy tyranny and to secure
hurnanity, aud while he is making this
boast t;, rar.ny is being spread and hu?
rnanity outraged within easy reach of our
forces, nnd we sit supine. Never in fll
history has there been such. cold blooded.
calculating, deliberate and persistent
cruelty and wickedness as is practised by
the Bolsheviki. They began by dispersing
the constitutional convention. and entered
at once uiion a prolonged campaign of
torture, robbing and murder, with the de?
clared purpose of exterminatihg every one
with property or education, destroying the
only possible basis for anything like gov?
ernment for at least a generation back, and
making peace in Europe or a league of na?
tions impossibl*.
ft is understood to be du" wholly to the
unwillingiiess of our administration to
act that Bolshevism was not. put down
at its inception. Great Britain. France and
Japan wanted to send sufficient force to
put it down. but we- -or rather he tool.
the ground that the Bolsheviki probably
would bo offended if any one interfered,
ar.d insisted oa the adoption of the same
weak. vacillating, neither one thing nor
the other. worse than useless policy that
brought us such disgrace and huniiliatioii
in Mexico. We have sent altogether too
few men to Russia to !>o of any use and
altogether Loo many to be sacrifieed, as
they now seem likely to be.
Last May I had a most intcresting talk
with the woman who coinmanded what was
known as the Battalion of Death. She
was a (ine looking, r.nstanding peasant, and
spoke with great earnestness and fluency.
She said she had just keen all over Russia
among the peasants and that they wers
eager to be rid of tlie Bolshevik oppression
and ruin. and that if we and the Allies
would send a joint force of 100,000 men to
their rcscuc they -would rally against them
and drive the tyranta out. Above all things
-.he urged immediate help, saying it would
be effective then, but that delay would be
fatal. and truly it has been. Our govern?
ment. has acted with thc same lack of
iudgmenl. fovesight, preparedness j'k!
executive ability that it exhibitsd at. the
beginning of the war, and a humane and
valorous California Senator is urging tha,t
our forces be wlthdrawn and Russia left
to utte ? ruin. VETERAN".
Washington, D, C, .lan. 10, 1.919.
I nat Westminster Suggesticn
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My attention has been drawn to a
paragraph under the hoading "Roosevelt
Memorial in Westmii.ster Planned." appear
inj;' in your issue dated Sunday, January 12,
1919, which containa several misstatements
of fact. A.lthough such a proposal as tiie
one mentioned b; you wou'.d have my
hcarty support. I did not make the sugges
tion accreditcd to me in your aiticle.
neither havo I bec-n p?/3scnt nt ^:ly luncheon
at India f-Fousc or elsewherc at which such
a suggestion has been made. | am surpriscd
lhal ;i paper of your stand ing should givo
publication to an item of this natuve, hav?
ing regard to the fact that i: would be
necessary first of all to obtain thc pcrmis
sion not only of the British authorities, but
of thc family of thc late ex-Prcsidcnt, be?
fore anything could bo done toward carry
ine; out such a project.
Please give this lctter thc same promi
nence ps thc article tr. ?. hich 7. refcrs.
R. R. APPLEBY.
New Vork, Jan. 13, 1919.
Our Colonel
I locp Ioi ing, well knov ing
II :.- wor il and its blindnes ;,
\ hea ,'t o'. erflowing
With. mcasurolcss kindness.
L'ndnunted in labor,
1 A nd Death was a t rifle ),
As swift as a eabrc,
Direct as ;.? rifle.
All Man ill Ip.;. doing.
All Boy in his laughtt r,
lle fronted, unruing,
Thc Now and Hcrcaftor.
As staneh as a ccdai',
A comrade. a brother
Oh, such was Thc Leader
We loved a ? 110 othei !
\\ hen v.-eakei 30U 1 raltcrcd
II71 courage remnde us,
Whose tongue nev< r paltcrcd,
Who nover botrayed us.
II is hand en ? our ihou'.dcr
All honora exceed ng.
What breast. but was boldcr
B <i ause he wa,; leading!
And slill in our troubl >,
In peace or in wartirne,
Ifis word shall redoubla
Our strength as afoictime.
When wronga cry for rigbting
No odds shall ;ipp.>U u-t;
To clean, hore-st fighting
Again he "-ill call us
And, cowboys or dou^hboj s,
We'll follow hit* dn1.11. boya.
Who nover said "Go, boya!"
But always na',d "Come. bov*!"
ARTHUR GUITERMAN.
Roosevelt's Last Message
This editorial was dictated by Colonel Roosevelt to his sec?
retary Fridey, January 3, and was to have been submitted to
him for revision the following Monday, the day of his death.
1 he League of Nations
IT IS, of course, a serious misfortune
that our people are not getting a I
clear idea of what is happening on
the other side. For the moment. the
point as to which we were foggy is the
league of nations. Wc all of us earnest
ly desire such a league, only we wish to
be sure that it wiil help and not hinder
the cause of world peace and justice.
There is not a young man in this country
who has fought, or an old man who has
seen those dear to him tight. who does
not wish to minimize the chance of fut?
ure war. But there is not a man of
sense who does not know that in any
such movement if too much is attempted
the result is either failure or worsc than
failure.
The trouble with Mr. Wilscn's utter
ances, so far as they are reported, and
the utterances of acquiesce.ice in them
by European state:men. is that they are
still absolute'.y in the stage of rhetoric,
precisely like the fourteen points. Some
of the fourteen points will probably have
to be construed as having a mischievous
sentence. a smallcr number might be c'on
strued as being harmless and one or
two even as benehcial, but nobody knows
what Mr. Wilson really means by them,
and so all talk of adopting them as basis
for a peace or league is nonsense and,
if the talker is intelligent, it is insineere
nonsense to boot. So Mr. Wilson's re?
cent utterances give us absolutely no
clew as to whether he really intends that
at this moment we shall admit Russia,
Germany. with which, incidentally, we
are still waging war; Turkey, China and
Me^ieo into the league on a full equality
with ourselves. Mr. Taft has recently
delined the purposes of tlie league and
the limitations under which it would act
in a way that enables most of us to say
we very hcartiiy agree in principle with
his theory and can. without doubt, come
to an agreement on specihe detai'.k
Would it not bc well to begin with the
league. which we actually have in ex
istence, the league of the Allies who have
fought through this threat war? Let us
st the pi'ace table see that real justice is
dor.e as among these allies, and that
while tbe sternest reparation is demand
ed from our foes for such hcrrors as i
those committed in Belgium, Northern
France, Armenia and the sinking of the
Lusitania, nothing should be done in the
spirit of mere vengeaiice. Then let us
agree to extend the privileges of the
league asrapidly as their eonduct war
rants it to other nations, doubtless dis
criminating between those who would
have a guiding part in the league and \
the weak nations who would be entitled
to the privileges of membership, but who :
would not be entitled to a guiding voice |
in the councils. Let each nation reserve
to itself and for its own decision and
let it clearly set forth questions which
are non-justiciable. Let nothing be done !
that will interfere with our preparing j
for our own defence by introducing a j
system of universal obligatory military
training modelled on the Swiss plan.
Finally, make it perfectly clear that
we do not intend to take a position of
an international meddlesome Matty.
The American people do not wish to go
into an overseas war unless for a very
great cause and where the issue n abso
lutely plain. Therefore. we do not wish
to undertake the responsibility of send- 1
ing our gallant young men to die in cb
Ecure iights in the Balkans or in Central
Europe or in a war we do not approve of. j
Moreover, the American people do not i
intend to give up the Mcnroe Doctrine.
Let civilized Europe and Asia introduce
some kind 01" palice system in the weak
vn,] disorderly countries at their thresh
olds, but let the United States treat
Mexico as our Balkan peninsula and re
fuse to allow European or Asiatic pow- j
ers to interfere on this continent in any j
way tlu.t ir.ip".ies permanent or semi-per
manent possession. Every or.e of our al?
lies will with delight grant this request
if President Wilson chocses tj make it.
and it will be a great misfortune if it is
nol made.
I believe t'naL such -an effort made
moderately and sanely, but sincsrely and
with utter sccm for words that are not
made good by deeds, will be productive
v.' real and lasting international good.
(Cop'jright 1919. Tlie Kansas City Star)
Socialist Revolt Based on
Endless Chain of Falsehood
By William English Walling
Wiiliatn English Walling, as did John Spargo, Charles Ed-vord R ???
.'?'/ a.id a large number of other Socialists. broke away from tlie Sociuli-'t
iicriy becaine of Us unpatiotic stand ht regard lo the vjor. These me?i
organized the Social Democratic League of America, of which Mr.
iVu-Lling is secretary.
rr^HK P.U33ian soviet revolution is built,
i up largcly on a gross misreprcsenta
tion of revolutionary rnovements in
Germany, Italy, France, England and
Ameriea. On the other hand, the rev?
olutionary movemnnts in France, Eng?
land and lt ly : re largcly based upon
a gross misrepresentatioti of tlie soviet
movement in Kussia. and so 0:1. ad
infinitum. Ti.'., kcy to the strength
of the Socialist Internation_.l is the
connection maintained' between tlie
movoments in the various countries and ,
tli^ gull'bility of thc massos with regard
t."> foreign affairs, As there i.; no other
international cleroociatic movement, tin- S:>
uialista have a 111011.poly. This is vastly
important. A campaign to spread the truth
among all peoples as to thc conditions in
other countiics has now become uphill
work. Thc claboratc Socialist campaign
?of misreprcsentation ha ? a lifty-ycar star'.
And, unfortunatcly, even now there is no
prospect of aa international democratic
organization whatever of a ";enuine kind.
One striking illustration of this method of
building up thc Socialist International will
suff.ee.
l-i tlie elections oi' Ifilfi the Socialists nf
Ih-- United States obtained just ?'?:?) per
cent 01' tiie total vote. Since they have
adopted th" Bolshevik 'iiternationtil policy
tiiis percentage has "alien until now it ean
:v'"''.' be said that the SocTalist part-, vote
of this country does not number '.' per
cent and pocsibly no1 much over i per
cen! of th'- total. Nor a;- ai! cl' these
voters Rolshcvists. nro-Balshevi ts or near
Bolshevists li'^" th" party leaders. Thus
-.-..> have lcndors, mi -Ii ,is Morris Hillquit,
inprescnting a fraction of an organization
which reoresents portsibly ?"> or "I*? per cent.
o>' tlie <>r'7;.'iii-e<i American working class.
while thc organized American working class
r-'pree; ',:? no mo'.c than 777 per e"nl of th -
totai industrial working class; the latter
1-'p ,-e,.e.r,s 1,0 more 'han 10 or 15 per cent
oi" the popuinllon.
UilUuiit America's l oicvl
ln the face ol' such fac'-s as the."-, fully
well known to every well read European
Socialist ieader, Emile Huysmans, secretary
oi' ihe Sociaiist International. send- a mos
sage to Ameriea asking thal Moiris [liil
quit be given ii pusuport tu represent the
organized working class ol' ihe I'nited
States! There can ba no doubt that IliH
qu t wa:: Lo lie presented to tin.' entire
Socialist movement of Europe jn this capac
ity, nbaolutel: ignoring thc cxister.ee of
the American Federation of Labor. But 1
this does not exhibit thc full ouormity
of rluysmans'3 misrepresentation, for we ,
know thnt to th" European Socialists thc !
orgfini/.ed work'ng class means the nation. i
Hillquit w.-i.-i to ne presented tn 'he peoples
of Europe a.- the roprr.aentative of $,he '
American people!
This is how the numericn! strongth of ;
tho viii-int:.-, Socialist movements Is mis- '
statad, We can imnginc the misstatements j
of tho character and position of foroign :
S-..cia;ist':. Thes" dogrmatistn nnd fnnatic
simply do not know what tvutli means. All
<JibcuBsion3 ns to facts with them become !
an utter wnpte oT time. ye\ thla is the '
basis unon whirh the Socialist parties uf '
L'.ie Ccntinenl of Europe are activelv en
gagcd ia working fcr an immediate inter?
national revolution.
That an immediate revolution is the Euro?
pean Socialist programme need not be wen
tioned. It is known that the leadars of
the Italian Socialist party hoast of their
rolation to the great Italian disaster at
Capoietto.
The French Socialists
Thc French movement has repeatedly in?
dorsed the action^ of the Italians. But it
has al, o taken a cicar position of its own,
especia'ly since thc party fell completely
into the hands 0f the pro-Bolshevik faction
'his sa:,,nier and fall. Here is the latest
rosdlution of thc French Socialist party:
"The French Socialist party welcomcs
thc German republic and tho taking over
ef \'<m- power iii Piussia and the confed
cratcd states by tho working class.
"As in the Russia of the soviels. 5o
cialism has appeared in all Central Europe
as the proper liquidator of the political i
and ocial situation left by the war.
?'Tho party thus sees justificd the con?
fidencc which it has always had in the
action of Ihe pooplo.
"Considering that certain of the con?
ditions of the armistice leave thc sharplv
de lined fear thal the Allied governments
l-.ave thc intention of further cxtending
tho ciminal military intervention against
icvolutionary Russia, the party declares
that it vill apps-al to all the forces of the i
French proletariat to prevent the social
ism which is being born in Russia. as
wclj .7- in Germany and Austria. from ho
ing crushed by coalitions of foreign capi
:alisini:.
"Thc party urges the Ficnch working
people most urgently to rally to the sup
P?rt of '<?''?' unions aud Socialist groups,
to sustain their class journal? and to
? keep themselves ready to make- socialiam
iriumph in France as it has in the other
countries of Europe."
The peace conference will |,0 deeply af
fected by this movement. lt will bc obliged
ni tbe first olnce to endeavor to give
the movement no just cause for irriUtion: ;
this wi 1 liave hi, influeUce on each nnd |
every d-jcirnon in tho conference with re?
gard to territorial questions aud to indem
mties. But the conference will also be
ob iged to maintain a Bufficiently strong form I
of government and a suflicient military fore
to cope with the extreWely aggressivo and [
violent an,. unscrupulous revolutionary agi
tation in France. Italy and other countries
agitation which extends even to parts of !
Fai!- and. This a-r.ntior. is sufflciently char- ;
actarized by the fact thu; it giveo a com- !
plete und unqualified*8upport to the Russian
sovictr.
Put Yourself in Their Place
"''?"' ''';?' Shreveport Times)
If you had ri,kcd your ull in the serviee
<.r your country on n forei-a battlefield,
or on ono of Uncle Sam's warships. how
would you like to be welcomed back to
your native shoroa by a man <>{ the Will
ii m R. Hearst stamp, who wai hniled as
"n friend of Germany" by Hun leaders
t h^mselves ? ..
To the Boss
O Boss, although your words of weleome
salve me.
I'm gladder to be back than you're to
have me;
And, giving this inconsequential warn?
ing.
Perhaps 1*11 catch my breatb to-morrow
morning.
F. P. A.
To the Editor of Thc Tribune.
SIR: Four months ajro I came to this
country on my first visit. Most of the
time 1 have taken your paper daily.
Lately I have been much interested in your
attitude regarding the English people. and
note with pleasure that you recogni/e tho
desirability of a cioser union between the,
two English-speaking nations. Britain and
America.
I came to this country with the Ivvie of
discovering the explanction of the mental
make-up of this people which has so rapidly
attainerT the position of moral leader. of
the world. I do not pretend :o have found
a full answlrr yet, but my .earch has led me
to some very definite conclusions alon^
other lines. Thoue.h it is trite. I must say
that if only one would bear iu mind the
other's viewpoint in interprcting his actions
folks would get along so much better.
I havi seen it said lately that the history
books read in school have n great influence
on the outlook of men and women later in
life. I remember when at school in England
the story of the Mayflower Pilgrims was
served up in such a way that it invariably
produced the imnression on us that those
conscience-obeying ancestora were martyrs.
There are other martyrs ie. our history, and
to us children the only difference between
Bishop Cranmer, who \yas bumed at the
stake in earlier times. and the Mayflower
Pilgrims was that Cranmer passed through
'.he fiames to heaven whiln the others sailed
in a boat to America!
Many home.-, 1 have visited in America
are proud to have hanging on their walls
reproductions cf the Pilgrim Father:--. jn
one recently, as f was looking at tiie picture
of the two in their Quaker-like dre'^s watch
ing the Mayflower sailing away from An.er
ica. t!:< master of the house -ort of thought
he needed to help me in an awkward s.'.ua
tion, and said delicatcly:
"You know. in this country we think quite
h lo': of the early Pilgrims."
I replied: "So do we in England. ln fact.
I wonder to whom these hcroes really be
long, England or America? To both! They
cover both countries with their halo of
glory. They were born and mirturcd and
learned to fear God in England."
I remember yet from the page of uur
school books; the reprcsentation of thc May?
flower sailing out from Plymouth,? and can
still recall thc spirit of devotion in tlie
faecs of those who were waving their la?'
goodby to England. NeeJie s to ask who
won tl.e sympachies of f 11 ihe frank haar'.ed
school children of my young days. persccu
toi s or pc rs< cuted.
Our 1..story books were *ust a? frank in
handling ths Joan of Arc incidei ; of arl er
times. The schoolbook picturc= of the
Maid of Orleans on her horse riding ,1 the
head of the French army helned to make
her the heroine that she has ever been to
me, in common with all other English chil?
dren. That is, of course. just a re fleet ion
of the usual Anglo-Saxon spirit '7 ::;"
sportsmanship.
Further on in our books our sympath '
v.-rre invariably with the daring American
colonists who blackencd the watcrs of Bos?
ton Harbor overnight with ihe tea that they
needed hut would rather thus ,pil| than buy
7 with the pr'ce of tlie >urrcnder of what
they fi 7 ;o be just. V" all *?; us i
that was one of Ihe wars that i nded -a -
factorily. I never yet hesrd an English mi n
or woman regret ihe result ef thc War ?''
Indcpcndenc* of thc American Colonics. No
mother regrets tiie birth o !" ;- daughter
now grown and handsome. Phc ma; not
care to recall the actual birth pang?. but
she gloriea in her grown daughter and can
even stand being outgrov.n by her.
Of course, tlio \?ry same historj books
ri'Hil in this country might producc a dit
feren, olTeet. I mean thal oTcr thoi
historical instances an English ho; i,
clincd to say lo America thal hc?
whereas an American might feel liki ' "
injured part; .
I repcat, any present de.'. difficult; ihcrfl
may Ik- in our getting along together "
ciiieHj ou ing to oui lack ??: knov ing r
meinhering the oth* r's viev poinl,
Speaking: in childrr-n's fair; puage. i
would like to Lako i il the American -
and drop them down in middle England and
tell fhem that a fi"' ? of I !unai d i
inpr at Liverpool to take them ba k lo
country, but they mu | ....ii. ,.,' .,.,,. ... ... to
Li- ei pool. Thi y would be mu n
winding lanes, , ur h gh hcdgt . bul
would hinder their progress and
the!,- outlook. Thc temptation to
aml to lingcr on iome ruatic bridge or n
the shudow of a centuries-old church
surprise those who had tiii thm thought
life was an arena of Kusiness. Stttin?
around a chimncy fircplacc in ri
thntched cottage where was be ug brougfit
up the tenth generation within the sam'*
walls, they would get thinking that ri
and narrow surroundings can but hi
retarding influence cn thc i',.lt - \\h<, si"
raised '.here u.
Bul morc than overseas transportation ot
the American people would l like to take thti
inhabitanta of Great Britain and drop thein
aoinewheru in Nebraska. I would tell then.
to run to thc beach nnd padd'e! Tho er
tensive country, not barred by hedgea, nor
furrowed by lanes overgrown with ferns at d
nut bushus, would write a deep lesson in
their hearts. Immediately their thoujr'et
hori/.on would bc extended, and while their
cousins far away are dropping ciphera and
thinking in hundreds of acres instead of
tena of thousands, they would be doing thi!
contrary, and thinking of millions of buab
els instead of thousands.
After they had been going hard a ?rho!<
weel: they should be fumished with Pull
man t;leeping cars on which to do th* last
thousand miles! When they reach the coart
and meet the incoming Cnnarders with their
cousins l believe the Anplo-American diffi
cultiea would be aolved for the most part.
JOSIAH T. C. BLACKMORE.
New York. Jan. 11. 1910.
