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Putting Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold Out of Business JUDAS and Benedict Arnold have I been put out of the running as ? trait-ors by Leon Trotzky and Nicolai L?nine. Anv remaining doubts as to the al? legiance of these pillars of Bol? shevism havo been removed by the re? markable scries of seventy documents that have just been made public by the j Committee on Public Information at Washington. The evidence gathered by Edgar Sisson in Russia 'last winter re- j teals that $25.000,000 was the price ? Germany paid for Russia. Moreover, ; the evidence shows that Germany had j prepared detailed plans for a war of world conquest long before the as? sassination at Sarcjevo, and that two Tears before America was drawn into ?je war Germany was mobilizing as de? structive agents and observers an army of anarchists and escaped criminals to operate in the United States. The substance of "the startling docu? ments produced in Washington is sum? marized thus by the committee's report: "They show that the Bolshevik revolu? tion was arranged for by the German great genera! staff and financed by the German jmperial Bank and other German financial institutions. They show that the treaty of Brest Litovsk was a betrayal of the Rus? sian people by the German agents, Lcnine and Trotzky; that a German-picked com? mander was chosen to defend 'Petrograd' against the Germans; that German officers have been secretly received by the Bolshe? vik government as military advisers, as spies upon the embassies of Russia's allies, as officers in the Russian army and as di? rectors of the Bolshevik military, foreign and domestic policy. They show, in short, that the present Bolshevik government? is rot a Russian government at all, but a German government, acting solely in the interests of Germany and betraying the r.ussian people, as it betrays Russia's nat? ural allies, for the benefit of tho imperial German government alone. And they show also that the Bolshevik leaders, for the same German imperial ends, have equally betrayed tho working classes of Russia tvhom they pretend to represent." Through the comment of many of l,he American newspapers there is a strain of "I told you so" and "We knew it all the time." In this vein "The Kansas City Journal" declares: "There was never the least doubt in the minds of the American people that Lcnine and Trotzky were damnable scoundrels who K.;re willing to betray Russia, commit in? numerable murders and institute a reign of terror for pay. But it was hardly sus? pected that the plot was so deliberate, so cold-blooded and was carried out in such a systematic fashion as is disclosed by docu? mentary proof." "The Christian Science Monitor" points out that? "the most ordinary intelligence and ele? mentary logic should have proved to anybody, anybody other, that is to say, than a politician blinded hy prejudice, that the government of Berlin was not passing revo? lutionaries over its railways and across its Hers, or linding these revolutionaries money wherewith to create a thing so dear to the imperial German government as a revolution out of mere love of democracy. The 'comrades' in London, Paris, and in New York who, a little while ago, were i-o strident for peace by negotiation, may now begin to understand that they have themselves been Hie innocent tools of the iggc Mori poured out by the .Bureau of Enemy Psychology, in the multitudinous streams of a peace campaign, now that the campaign in the field is breaking down." VI Je. Had Evidence " Long Ago How Trotzky took orders from his masters in Berlin and why such a mass of evidence has finally come to light is explained by "The Boston Tran? script": "Long ago we had evidence that the Reichsbank had paid the expenses of L?nine and Trotzky when they went to Russia and had practically set up their rule there. Now we know that Berlin paid the ex? penses ?if the Red Guard, paying its pri? vates $6 to $8 a day, when other Russian soldiers had us many cents, perhaps, and that as late as February 7 last the Ger? man military administration sent a sharp and direct written order to Trotzky to tell it why he still permitted Socialistic litera? ture to go to German soldiers?upon which order Trotzky wrote tho words, 'I ask to ?iiscu?s it. 1. '!.' This means that Trotzky ?ad really given his promise to the Ger? mans not to circulate radical literature ^niong the Germans, and that he held him? self hablo to censure by the German mili? tary administration, virtually as its em? ploye. The data supplied by Mr. Sisson are con? clusive, in fact, as to the collusion between Berlin and Bolshevik Russia. It may be usked why cither Berlin or the Bolsheviki Permitted so much evidence of their rotten compact to remain on lile. The explanation the unconquerable documentary habit of the Germans and the confidence of the Bol sheviki in the cover which they thought tney had provided for themselves. But the 'etrayal of their secrets proves that Rus ata and even Bolshevik Moscow and Petro ?Cad are fall 0f men ar)r] WOmen who are tlred of Bolshevism and willing to turn aeainst it." "The Macon Daily Telegraph," in a 1 iscussion which attempts to weigh all the elements involved, recalls that? "international Socialism at least had jdealism behind it and men suffered and lv*d and worked for it who were impelled 'v sheer love of their fcllowmen and the -yarning to a beautiful ideal that even ^ugh it i? all impossible is not without : ? appeal even ?s<>. It is more than Russia, n'"re than Ukraine, more than Finland or ?? allied world these men have sought to ytray for thirty pieces of silver, but it is ""hope and the goal of white mankind ' "??i m their native continent they have *old out. And there w,j, be a good many ! ' ?UBSia, and among the radical groups L^*?' Wh0 wiU bellev8 th?m and Justify what they have done on the basis ???* to fight th. d.vii on* mast hare Art. even though it be the devil's own b,azier that gives it. Foreseeing some sort of ex? pos? long since, American apologists have declared that if these two great Bolshevist leaders took German money they are justi? fied, in that it is better to use the money of autocrats to overthrow autocrats than to bleed the already exploited plain people. We shall hear more of that from now on." But the same newspaper comes to this conclusion : "History knows no blacker treachery than these two men have played their native land. It is worse than Bazaine at Metz, for he turned the trick to gain a crown; this pair bargained for money to deliver 1;~0,000,000 of their fellow-countrymen over to the Prussian as slaves, to deliver thereby th?. world into the hands of the autocrat of Potsdam. As they are German agents so we may be sure the whole Bolshevist structure is in the same influence. Wil helmstrassc is the government of Russia to-day; it is the Soviet, even though it may not be openly the Soviet, except that at every little council table throughout all the empire there sits a German, sometimes openly, sometimes as a Russian. But tak ing these two men at their own estimate, that they ate not Russians, nor Germans, but men of the Brotherhood of Man, who see men not in nationalities, who owe to' no government, to no political or racial di? vision an allegiance they do not feel, they have been traitor to the very school of political thought in which they have be?*n nurtured and of which they have been the leaders." History may be scanned in vain for a parallel of the treachery which has now been established. "The New York Times" asks: "Has the world ever sien traitors like these? It. has seen traitors to a country, and that is what they arc; it has seen traitors to their own class, and that is what they are; it has seen traitors to their own party, and that is what they are; but when has the world ever seen these three kinds of traitors united in the same, persons? "And for what did they betray Russin, .their nominal country; the socialistic creed they pretended to believe in, and the work? ing class in whose interest they pretended to be laboring? For money; money paid them at the outsit, paid to them since they overthrew Kerensky, and paid to them still through the German Imperial Bank." "The Baltimore Sun" comes to a similar conclusion: "Benedict Arnold attempted to betray only his country. L?nine has betrayed his country, his class and the international cause which he professed. The only name that his is fit, to be compared with is that of Judas." arat and Robespierre Pure Spirits in Comparison "The New York Tribune" writes uf ''the Bolshevist lepers": "We have said that it was flattery to compare the Russian Terrorists of to-day with the bloody-handed Terrorists of the French Revolution. Marat and Robespierre remain pure spirits beside L?nine and Trotzky. The two former were patriots, though paranoiacs and criminals. L?nine and Trotzky are intellectual and moral de? generates. "Germany knows how to pick lier own. The Bolshevist posturers had a taint of depravity which made them akin to their M purchasers and masters. For an orgy of power and dreams of luxury they sold Russia into slavery. It was one of the most hideous betrayals in history. L?nine and Trotzky have given a new touch of foulness to treason. By the extent and enormity of their crime they have made i the leprous company which they have | joined--the big and little traitors of the past -look almost clean and fit for human association." "The Montgomery Advertiser" de? clares: ''There has never been in the history of , the world so complete a piece of villan?? as the accomplished programme of the Russian Bolsheviki. And the fair word of i 'idealism' was desecrated by the Bolsheviki ? and their American apologists, in applying j it to the greedy murderous programme of the Russian proletariat. The proof now that it was done in return for German gohl is made public. The shaggy bearded Bolshevik appearing as an idealist, was nothing more than Judas appearing among the Apostles with his thirty pieces of silver hkhlon in his robes." "The Toronto Telegram" thinks that the Hohenzollerns who engineered the ?Russian reign of terror may eventually get a taste of their own medicine: "Russians are almost the first people in history who ever fell into the hands of patriots capable of handing their own country over to a foreign invader in re? turn for the privilege of slaughtering their former rulers, their children and female - relatives, and everybody else who had a goofl suit of clothes on their backs or a dollar in their pockets. "The Romanoffs, with all their faults, were gentle, kindly, loyal people compared to the Hohenzollerns. Emperor William's Russian agents have set the precedent in the massacre of the Romanoff family. That precedent may ultimately be followed by German revolutionists in their dealings with the Hohenzollern family." Of the men who betrayed Russia and of their masters "The Philadelphia In? quirer" writes: "They are two ignoble miscreants whose names will for generations be. a hissing and a contempt, but who shall say that their infamy is, not less than that of the government which stooped to their de bauchery and which found its profit in the treason to which they were seduced? The stink which Germany had made iteelf in the nostrils of civilization has actually been intensified, although that seemed im? possible, by the additional proof, which th?; present publication affords, of its illimit? able corruption, unconscionable duplicity and ignominious greed. "And only last week Vicc-Char.cellor von Payer gave notice that the peace treatie?? which had been signed with the Ukraine. Russia and Rumania would not be sub? mitted for approval or alteration to th? Entente Powers. It would be to.laugh wer?? the issues lc3s grave or the situation less serious, but for all the iniquities the Ger? man government has committed the day 'of retribution is approaching. Let it be sure of that." Only "The Evening Post" Is Skeptical Of all American newspapers only one looks with suspicion upon these revela? tions of the Committee on Public In? formation. After a careful analysis of the first series of documents released by the Creel bureau, "The New York Evening Post" points out certain dis? crepancies in dates and occasional con? flicting assertions which lead that news? paper to comment: "The general tone of the documents is a strain upon credulity. The orders and in? structions and demands and responses havi? the directness of a thieves" kitchen; it i?? not the way in which government conspira cies are couched. Mr. Creel owes it to the country to do his best to find'out whether tve are Teally face to face with the most extraordinary cabal in history or whether Mr. Sisson is the victim of a gigantic hoax. "Mr. Creel is confronted by a simple and immediate duty. He should supply the newspapers with facsimile reproductions of the documents that Mr. Sisson brought with him from Europe and which, in the Eng? lish translation, have been given to the press. We do not ask for this because we think the material as given out by the. Committee on Public Information does not correctly represent the originals, but be? cause we believe that the documents them? selves are far from being above suspicion, and should therefore in their exact fonn be subjected to as wide a scrutiny as pos? sible. In the material as printed yesterday and to-day there is plenty of ground for doubt. It may be that the publication of the Russian or German facsimiles will sup? ply other evidence. The plain fact is that some of the most important charges and documents brought forward by Mr. Sisson were published in Faris months ago and have, on the whole, been discredited. Mr. Sisson remarks of Document 2, printed in the 'Petit Parisien.' that 'the ? Petrograd Bolshevist papers proclaimed it a false? hood.' He does not tell us what new re.-* sons there are for believing in the authen ticity of Document 1 in view of the \ery solid arguments that were made against it." "The New York World" dislikes "The Evening Post's" incredulity and is pained that "there are Americans who question the genuineness" of the docu? ments. To this "The Evening Post" re? plies: "Americans can freely raise questions be? cause the Sisson documents arc not neces? sary to prove what we all know: that tho Bolsheviki have brought Russia and th.-? revolution to the verge of ruin. The docu? menta are not necessary to justify our present policy in Russia."' Supplying the War Plants With Labor By J. B. Densmore Director General L'nitcd States rY/*t ployment Service THE United States Employment Set vice of the Department of Labor i.? the division of the Federal govern ment charged with the vital re sponsibility of keeping the war plants o the nation supplied with labor. This responsibility it holds by virtue o a resolution adopt??d last June by the Wa Labor Policies Board, representing al branches of the government engaged 11 war production. "All recruiting of indus trial labor for public or private work con nected with the war," this resolution sai in part, "shall be conducted through dr i connection with methods authorized by th United States Employment Service." At the present timo a grave shortage o men in essential industries is threatenin the war production of the United States. I the field of unskilled labor alone this shori age is now upward of one million men. The only way in which this shortage ca be filled is by wholesale transfers of me from non-war to war production. If wt work is to be carried on the production < luxuries and non-essentials demanded by tr American consumer for his selfish cornfo must cease. There are not enough men f< luxury and war production both. The United States Employment Servi? is bending every effort to keep war indu tries supplied with men. A quota of u: skilled labor has been assigned to evei state, the totals for all the states equallii the unskilled war labor shortage so far r ported. There is every indication that this sy tern will provide the necessary men, pr vided employers and workers alike lei their whole-hearted cooperation. In tl fortnight ended August 24 over 43,0 skilled laborers from twenty-one stat were recruited and moved to vital w projects by the United States Employme Service. In no state was a single m taken at the expense of other war indi, tries, farming, mining or transportation. The United States Employment Service already placing thousands daily in w work. That is the purpose of its natic wide organization; its f.PO branch offic?; its recruiting agents in almost every cour and township in the land. What has be accomplished so far. however, is only index to the problems ahead. The who hearted cooperation of every Americ with the United States Employment Serv In carrying out this task is essential if t danger of curtailed war production at th of all times, is to be averted. -.--^^^^^iniMMnn, r?n ????ll^ ' ft L?nine and Trotzky, Monarchs of Disaster, Who Draw Their Weekly Salary From the Wilhelmstrasse What About That Child Labor Bin? By Ruth Mclntire National Child Labor Committee THE question of child labor is up again. It was introduced in the House of Representatives on Au? gust 15. Edward Keating, father of the first Federal child labor law, stands sponsor for the bill which has been present? ed to President Wilson, and which met with his approval. It is r^'IT^x- ??";^:':;s:'T7x~0O0i being actively sup i?"':.i\ <.. ported by the Na? tional Child Labor Committee and the American Federa? tion of Labor, and there is every hope that Congress will pass it in the pres? ent session. The is? sue is one of burn? ing importance. This bill embodies exactly tho stand? ards of the Fed ??-?? eral child labor law recently de unconstitutional by the Supreme It would prohibit the employment in factories, mills, canneries and manufac? turing establishments of all children under fourteen years of age; in mines and quar? ries of children under sixteen, and of chil? dren between fourteen and sixteen in fac? tories for more than eight hours a day or at night. The prohibition would be under the war power of Congress for the duration of the war and six months thereafter. The Keating bill is in the nature of an emergency measure?drawn to meet a very real emergency. The importance of immediate action by the Federal government is further shown by reports that have been coming in from all partt? of the country during the last few months concerning tho increase in the num? ber of children granted work permits. It is evident that in practically every state of the Union more children are working than ever before. In Massachusetts the number of working children between fourteen and sixteen years has more than doubled since 1914. At least 60,000 children have been taken from the nahoaLi and 'nut to work. clared Court. In Maine the number of employed children between fourteen and sixteen will be twice or three times that of last year, it is esti? mated. In Missouri more permits were is? sued in one week in June, 191K, than during the entire month of June. 1917. In Mary? land, Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, New York, Wisconsin and other states the closing of the schools brought a rush of young appli? cants for work permits. This enormous in? crease is very generally attributed to war conditions ?the high cost of living and high wages, combined undoubtedly with a praise? worthy, though ill-advised desire of many children to be doing a man's work and help? ing out in these critical times. In England the large increase in child employment, coupled with the closing of schools, the absence of parents from homo and the lack of opportunity for healthy recreation, led to an increase of over one third in the number of children brought be? fore the courts. In all the other warring countries from which we have reports ju vernie delinquency has increased. It is said that, in Germany it has grown 150 per cent. Those who are acquainted with tho situa? tion abroad feel that no effort should be spared to prevent a like condition in Amer? ica. If we make every effort to keep the schools open and the children in school, if we set ourselves against the premature em? ployment of all children in whatever state they may live, if we take constructive child welfare measures while there is still time to make th?cm effective, we can hope to es? cape the conditions that have confronted England and other European countries. It can no longer be asserted that child labor in Alabama does not affect the rest' of the country. A boy in Alabama is quite as much a future citizen of the United States as a boy of Illinois or California, and the effect of his exploitation and consequently lowered health impairs the vigor of the whole nation. It is when his case is multi? plied by thousands that we appreciate his importance. Since the new draft bill has passed Con? gress boys of eighteen will henceforth be subject to military service. This fact does ? not make it any more important than bc i fore that young boys should be freed from early employment and given a chance for proper physical development and education, but it gives point to the necessity for their protection and education. Children who have spent the years from fourteen to six? teen working in a cotton mill for eleven hours daily will be neithev as intelligent nor as strong as those who have spent the time in school and in healthful recreation. t These are a few of the Reasons that have led to the introduction of the Keating bill in Congress. The War Labor Policies Board has ex? cluded child labor from all government work, ruling that in future contracts made by the Federal government "the contractor shall not directly or indirectly employ in the performance of this contract any minor under the age of fourteen years, or permit any minor between the age of fourteen and sixteen to work more than eight hours in any one day, more than six days in any one week, or before 6 a. m. or after 7 p. m." The Keating bill, if passed, will supple ment this clause, forbidding child labor un? der the above standards not only in gov? ernment work, but in all factory work, anc in mines and quarries throughout the coun try. Its enforcement will also be in th< hands of the Child Labor Division. It re establishes the standards of the first Fed eral law by direct prohibition by Congress There is no doubt of the authority of Con gress to do this under the war power. I will establish a minimum standard for al the states, "for the purpose of conservin? the man power of the nation and thereby more effectually providing for .the nationa security and defence." Little mine workers, to whom sunshine is a rare treat