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THE 'INDEPENDENT, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C
FRIDAY, OCTQBKT? 17
THE INDEPENDENT
W. 0. SAUNDERS, Editor
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mg t., Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North' Carolina.
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VOL. XII.
. matter .t the po. office t Elizabeth City, N. C. June 9. 1908
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919
NO. 587
Truth About Russia
HRU the courtesy of Senator Wm. E. Borah, THE INDE
PENDENT has finally succeeded in getting a complete re
nrint of the testimony on the Russian situation given be-
.r. o T? T?io't,VTic rYmrrtittff on Sent. 12. 1919. It
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wrings one's heart to read out of the mouths of President Wilson's
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Mr. Bullitt says that the children of Russia are being cared
the children of no other countrw' economic conditions
ibein"- considered. The Russian Soviets are, educating their chil
dren and the older people go without food when necessary to pro
vide, delicacies for the young: ' . j
' Theatres, art galleries and opera houses are open in Russia!
as usual, but instead of being open for the benefit of the rich they j
are free to all the people and instructors are provided to explain the j
beauties of art and the opera to the poor and illiterate who never j
had access to such things before.
In spite of the fact that the Russians are denied coal, gasoline
and manufacturing material by the Allies' blockade, the Soviets
have succeeded in patching up 5,000 .locomotives somehow. and they
run such trains as they have on time. - .
Lenin, the head of the Soviets, who has been painted as a
monster by the daily newspapers, is in fact a shrewd, capable, con
secrated idealist who gets $1,800 a year fop his services and who
enjoys no comforts not afforded the humblest citizens of the dem
ocracy. What Mr. Bullitt testifies to is substantiated by Lincoln Stef
fens, another accredited American journalist. The same things have
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own servants the true conditions in Russia, in the light ot all the, lies oeen torn oy ea xss ana x
that have been told by the prostitute press of America for the .past
three years.
The chief deponent on the Russian situation was' William C.
Bullitt. Prior to our entry info the world war Mr Bullitt was spec
ial European correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and
traveled thru (jermany- -Austria, nuiiuv, iJcigmui, x in
other countries studying conditions there for the Public Ledger.
When we entered the war Mr. Bullitt returned to the United States
and was asked to enter the Department of State at Washington.
He proved a valuable man and when President Wilson went to Pa
ris last December he look Mr. Bullitt along with him and made
him one of the most important members ot tnc American commis
sion. It was this man Bullitt who got together all the information
relating to the Peace Conference and kept this information on tap
for the members of the commission. When President Wilson, Col,
House. Mr. Henry White or any of the rest wanted to know any
thing they sent for Mr. Bullitt. He was the one member of the
commission whose business it was to literally know it all.
In the midst of the conference President Wilson sent Mr. Bul
litt to Russia to ascertain the facts about conditions there and to
bring back if possible a peace proposal from the Russian Soviets.
This Mr. Bullitt did but that peace proposal never got anywhere.
The President was too busy to bother with it and old Lloyd George,
Orlando and Col. House, assisted by certain London lawyers, played
with the proposition for several weeks without getting anywhere.
About the time something might have been done it was reported
that one Kolchak was about to overthrow the Soviet Government
in Russia. Lloyd George and Col. House believed that Kolchak
stuff and lost all interest in dealing with Russia. Russia was left
to starve it out, to work out her salvation as best she could under
an Allied blockade, her efforts to establish a stable government
ihwarted wherever possible by Allied troops and Allied money, in
cluding troops, munitions and money supplied by the United States
to Soviet enemies. And the American people probably never would
have known anything like the truth about Russia if Bullitt hadn't
spilled the beans in the Senate Committee Room in Washington
September 12.
Mr. Bullitt gives some remarkable testimony concerning con
ditions in Russia. He says that the terrible Bolsheviki have not
only abolished drunkeness but have abolished prostitution as well.
He says that family life in Russia has not been disturbed, spite of
the attempts of the newspapers to make it appear that women in have the truth about Russia regardless of how it hurts business.
Russia under the Soviet rule are common property. Making millionaires isn t the end and aim of humanity, after all
As to the Red Terror in Russia, Mr. Bullitt testifies that there
were hardly 5,000 executions while the Terror lasted. There is no
longer any-Red Terror in Russia and life and property are as safe
in Russia to-day as in New York or Philadelphia. Law and order
have been established against all the odds. And Mr. Bullitt remind
ed the Senate Committee that while 5,000 were killed in Russia,
12.000 women and children were condemned and shot by the orders j
of General Mannerhem of Finland. But Mannerheim in Finland j
had the backing of American financiers and militarists. J
I wish I had space to give the readers of this weekly all of the 1
testimony of Wm. C. Bullitt and Lincoln Steffens. j
It is a sorry part our government has played in Russia, a part
we will be ashamed of when the true history of events of the past j
three years are finally written. j
Bolshevism has played havoc with business in Russia. It has
closed every bank and every store, because an industrial democracy
has no need for such things. A democracy which wrill not let a few j
of its people get rich by taking profits from the masses, a demo-!
cracy that abolishes rents, profits and mterest, has no use for any
business conducted for profit. And that is why the business inter- !
ests of the world dread Bolshevism and fight it by lying about it. j
This newspaper never has and neer will be a party to the lies
about Bolshevism. This newspaper does not believe that Bolshe-
vism can take root in America. This newspaper does believe that the i
Soviet form of governmnt will thrive in Russia if given a chance. It '
is the onlv true government of, for and by the, people, ever attempt
ed on this earth. If crushed before it has a chance to demonstrate
whether it is practical or desirable, then the attempt to establish
such a government will be made again in some other land. The
idea can not be killed. If left alone, if given an opportunity to try
out their theories and the Soviets fail ; if they fail after having had
a fair chance, that will be the end of Bolshevism on this earth for
several hundred years to come.
But the fear is that it will succeed and that oher countries
will turn Soviet. If it succeeds it will succeed only because it is a
good thing for all the people. And if other countries adopt the Sov
iet form of government it will be because the people recognize in
it a realization of the democratic ideal. It is for the people to choose
any form of government they want. The people can never choose
anything intelligently so long as they axe given jBes for facts. Let's
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