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yS( NOTES .NO T "E -S 0POOG APHY I 0 G '-- o Ily "G," VVY.O MAY I NOT * :: observe that tlhere ip a gatural boild of sympathy "between Presi denitt Wilson and Jolhnson on league quedtions. ~it the opinion of baseball sharps, s IJto r Peckinpaugh of,the -Yanlkees ` is the best spqrtsinan in the major J leagues ..uiColed with his remark able batting power, his fielding c malkes liim one of the greatest ball players in the profession. Next to i Peck in the American league comes 1 Buck ,Weaver of the White Sox, fol lowed by Scott of the Red Sox and Chap#Ian of the Clevelands. The Na tidnal ;iague's best shortstop appears F to bp Arthur Fletclher of -the Giants, I closely followed by Hollacher of the i Cubs; lBancroft of tihe Phillies and Ma.ireville of the Braves. Faany Durack, the Australian mer maid,::- who holds a majqrity of the ,worid sipor,ds, is expected to take pait '.fl..e half-miiie championship at RI Beach, N. Y., on Aug. 30. arijiey Adair has just returned fron a tour through the west, during whicli7 e won 16 straight bouts. Montford Jones, the Oklahoma oil king, who is gathering a stable of thortoughbreds, regardless of cost, is reported to have made a fabulous of fer for Man o' War, the colt that leads all the juveniles of the year. According to. the gossips, Mr. Jones offered Mr. Riddle something like $100,000 for the unbeaten son of Fair ,Play, only to be informed that the'co`it was not for sale at any price. Snapper J6ckey, the one-time jockey Who ·is training the Jones horses, al ready has bought several high-priced youngsters for his employer. Three of them are Brookholt, Thelma E., and Ethel Gray. Cincinnati Original Champs. The Reds' recent climb to the pin nacle of the National league caused niany.scribes to remark that the' idea of a winning team never before oc curreS. to the town opposite Coving ton. This is false, for the idea orig inated'in Redville, just as did the idea of professional baseball. Cin cinnati, undrr the management of -larry. Wright, was the first to "hire" ball players. Wright organized a team..uf star players from many cities a'id iii 1869 made a tour of the U. SS. A. 'from coast to coast. This team played 57 games on its tour, 'and won all but due, which was a tie. Tlhey scored 'a total of 2,389 runs'- against 574 for the enemy. The team was composed of Brainard, pitcher; Allison, catcher; Gould, Sweasy and Waterman, on the bases; George Wright, shortstop; Leonard, H-larry WigLht (manager) and McVay in the outfield. And this club, re iuombler, was the Cincinnati :Rd Sox! They whipped the Tioy liayriakers, perhaps the second professional club; the Cleveland Forest Citys, Harv,ard, the New York Mutuals, the Washilig ton Nationals, the Philadelphia Ath letics, Rockford, St. Louis, San Francisco, and other famous nines of the period. The Red Sox remained uniddfeated until .1870, when the Brooklyn Athletics took their meas ure, 8 to 7. That summer they also cabme near to defeat by Harvard, but were sa ved by chasing in seven runs in the ninth after two men were out. Soon after this Harry Wright went to Boston and in 1874 accompanied the Boston club to England. With the formation, of the National league in 1876 Wright became 1naliager of the Bostolis, and won the pennant in 1877 and 1878. Cinciniati made a poor showing in the first year with the National league, finishing last, and dropped out of the circuit. The Red Sox returned to the fold in 1878, but dropped out again, n 1881, whereafter they won in 1882 the championship' of the 'American asso ciation. Cincinnati returned to the league in 1890. The Amei'ican as sociation placed a team in Redville the fllowirig year, but it aws soon transferred to Milwaukee. The Red Sox, although, the most ancient of professioniial clubs, have never won a pennant, yet they are the deans of baseball and the original champs. The Class in Sportography. it was., "Brooklyn Jiminy'" Carroll who defeated seven men in one night at a boxing tournament in New ýer sey. 'It was his probessioiial debut, a.id for this feat he received $28, or $4a head. When was' the first catchers' mask used, and by whom? Answer tomorrow. - 20 RIOUNDS IN IDAHO. (Special United Press Wire.) Boise, Atig. 18.-Thie state boxing commission, in session here.' passed a reshlution permitting 20-round fights in Idaho. MEN'S HATS NICKSON THE HATTER 112 W. PARK STREET SAY YOU SAW IT IN BUL1LETIN. Le i Ts Lv aconi g..d *vry ..uiug Son ai va1 o~ Vaii 1r9 .ht I at 7!Op; am. W. DELTM PrO SAY YQU SAW IT IN -BULLETIN S1 (By United Press.) v New York, Aug. 18.-If Ban John- L son doesn't make'some side or back steps of defini'oe character within a ,very short time, it is.quite likely that he will experience a brand new sen Sation next winter-that of being relentlessly .hunted. 1 Being hunted in itself spells noth ing n.w for the American league a gpresident, but being hunted with the -definite purpose of being found and 1decapitated will be altogether new. Johnson, in the past, has done a s some great . things for baseball. i Largely through his predominating s e influence, in the early days of the American league, baseball was nur- a tured and thrived until it became the nation's greatest amusement. In the last few years, however, c Johnson has done a few things that a speak unsavory things for him. The , latest ,of these was his cripbling of the New York Yankees throuigh sus pendfilg Carl Mays immediately after that star.pitdher had .been purchased from the Boston Red Sox. Last winter there Was some effort, misdirected as usual, to ,fqre Ban to recede from several points. Clar'k Griffith, Harry Frazee and Charles A. Comiskey were said to be trying to force Ban to resign. The trouble blew over quite as quickly as it had started. Now the New York club, strongest of the lot, is after Ban's scalp, anid the bitter enmity borne toward John son by Frazee is on the scales to A help. Clarke Griffith, wielding the ; power of the -Washington club, and Charles A. Comiskey, with his pow e erful Chicago influence, are expected to jump onto the wagon. These things, it can be readily seen, do not portend a peaceful winter for John son, inasmuch as it is believed that Detroit and St. Louis can be swung over to the anti-Johnson side. Owner Navin of Detroit has a bit of grief Stoward the lead .of the American a league, since on two occasions Hugh Jennings was suspended when victo ries meant so much to his Tigers. Johnson was kept quiet for a time e by warnings. but he has broken out - again, and if he really can be forced f from the presidency of the league it probably will come to pass during a tiie coming winter months. . . . . . . . i . . Si ANINlG i F THE CUl LS tI NATIONAL LEAGUE. ci Won. Lost. Pct. Cincinnati ....... ....71 34 .676 New York ... ... 62 37 .626 .Chicago ....54 46 .540 Brooklyn ................. 0 3 .48 Pittsburg .......... 50 53 .475 Boston ...........3. 57 .406 Y St. Louis .................. 38 60 .383 L Philadelphia ............37 59 .375 b; AMERICAN LEAGUE. fE Won. Lost. Pet. s3 Chicago ..................... 5 39 .625 o1 Detroit .................59 43 .578 o: Cleveland ................57 45 .559 a New York ................55 46 .545 h St. Louis ..................55 47 .539 a: Boston ..................47 55 .461 cl Washington ............42 60 .412 0 Philadelphia ............28 72 .280 1n AUMERICAN ASSOCIATION. f( W'on. Lost. Pet. ci St. Paul ...............66 42 .611 T Indianapolis ............64 44 .593 * Louisville ................61 48 .560 l Kansas City ............56 50 .528 W Columbus ................53 55 .491 ri Mihneapolis ............48 57 .457 ? Milwaukee ..............41 69 .373 1 Toledo ....................40 68 .370 COAST LEAGUE. 1 Won. Lost. Pet. Los Angeles ............76 52 .593 Vernon ....................75 53 .586 Salt L ke ............... 67 53 .558 f San Francisco ........64 64 .500 Sacramento ............59 62 .488 o Oakland ...............61 68 .473 f, Portland ..................54 71 .432 it Seattle ....................45 78 .414 Yesterday's Results ti NATIONAL LEAGUE. Cincinnati 0, Brooklyn 3. AM3.ERICAN LEAGUE. a Washington 4. Detroit 2. c Philadelphia 1, Chicago 3. New York 6, Cleveland 2. ' Boston 2, St. Louis 9. A 0 AMERICAN ASSOCLITION. p Indianapolis 4-1, St. iaul 6-6. t: Louisville 2-5, Milwaukee 3-6. Columbus 1-3, Minneapolis 2-2. d Kansas City 9, Toledo 11. c COAST LEAGUE. c Los Angeles 2, Salt Lake 1. c San Francisco 4-3, Sacramento 5-7. 1 Seattle 2-5. Vernon .0-7. a Portland 1-7, Oakland 6-6. o SFAMOUS WOMEN 1 t o o Ella Flagg Young. Ella Flagg was born in Buffalo, N. Y., on Jan. 15, 1845. In 1868 E she married William Young. She en- E gaged in teaching in '1862. Up to the I time that she was elected superin tendent of schools in Chicago, in 19.09, the holding of such an office by a woman was unknown in his- I tory. As professor of education in < the University of Chicago, she foster ed the social side of the university .1 life.to the extent even, of serving tea I and cake during class. As superin- 1 tendent of schools in Chicago she i also' fostered the social interdepen dence of the pupils. In charge ..of property worth about $43,000,000, and of children numbering aboutl 300,000, she met with such opposi- o tion that in 1913 she felt forced to I .resign, but was re-elected, and served until 1915. Kolhclak's * ers Di. p [I)-G OGfQl GILBOORG IN TUE DIAL. Ili the course ofthe Russian debate ye both i.the defeaiders and the opponents Fi of tfhe Kolehak gover~mient have ex- U0 posed all their arguments. In some at quarters the excitement has risen to of such 'a pitch that diplomatic polite- th ness has been forgotten and the cl Anierica.n liberal press has. been sum- pt marily characterized as "pro-Ger- er main, qx- pacifist, and parlor-bolshe- in vik." And yet all this fire has been E kliidled .with fuel six months old. ai ,When :these iiow-old facts were new, et Siberia was in the grip of the "pro- ft visional and inevitable" civil war tc which followed Kolclhak's coup d'etat. O But today, in the. larger part of Asi- ;1 atic Russa,s snappression has done tl its work and Kolchak is in power. ci Persons who are interested in know- si ing what Kolchak would do in Russia P if he had. ibs way may well ask: e: "What is he doing now in Siberia?" s5 and above all: "What interests must he conciliate? Who are his back- ii ers?" These questions have been so long it a matter of controversy that .1 fqel fl it is impossible to answer them ab- i stractly and in general terms. What t is wanted above all things is facts c and it is facts rather than generaliz- w ations that I hope to supply, What e support, then, does Kolchak claim-. c and what allianices does he acknowl- .P edge-in the military, economic, and ii political fields? And what is the 0 actual value of tle claim in each P case? s The allied world has been given to 1 understand that Kolchak has the t support of an, enthusiastic Russian b army enlisted for the crusade against' the bolsheviki. In this connection a a sentence from an order issued by a General Haida to Kolchak's troops on the Ural front niay be of interest. "It is a shame," says. the order, "that our soldiers desert and unite with the reds." These defections no doubt contributed to the agility of Kol chakq "strategic retreat" from the advanced positions he at one time oc oupied in European Russia. C Military weakness is no novelty to the anti-bolshevik farces. Now as al ways their main Support is the allies. t The aim of the great powers has been I clear from the first to those who I know what is actually occurring in s Russia. They want to crush the Rus sian revolution because a revolution ary Russia endangers the putrid ec- I onomic and political organisms of ! the allied countries. England fears that the free spirit of revolution in Russia will cross the borders of Tur 'lest'an and come into India. France t wants to include south Russia within 2 lher sphere of influence in the near i east and to have an entirely free hand in ddisintegrated Turkey. At first the center of the French zone of south Russia was Kiev; after the 1 occupation of Kiev by the Germans, the French headquarters was trans ,ferred to Yassy, in Rumania. Eng land was established at Archangel in the north. .Japan controlled Man churia and the eastern part of Si beria. neria. In the southern zone the official representative of the allies was the French general, Tabouit. Captain Heunaut was chief economic investi gator for the region. This French captain labored ceaselessly to make I Yassy a center of the Russian coun Ler-revolution, organized under the banner of anti-bolshevism, In No- 1 vember and December, 1918, a con ferente of Russians was held at Yas sy, Rumania, under the leadership of Paul Milioukof and Sergius Sazon- I of. A .llort time after this, Sazonof I appeared in Paris and .announced himself as.representative of Denikin, and .afterwards as emissary of Kol chak also. D:uring the occupation of 1 Odessa by the allies, Captain Hen- I Snaut was the official diplomatic rep resentative pf the powers in that un fortunate city. He was .constantly in I ,colummunication with the prominent " monarchists who .had left .bolsheviist .Russia and gathered in the south at Kiev, Rostof,and Ekaterinodar, and I was particularly intimate with the I reactionary Shoulgin, who, in the columns of his own paper, Kievlian- I in, had refused openly to support any form of constitutional assembly. When Captain Hennaut was in Kiev in January, 1918, he said in the course of -a conversation with the author: "I see and know Russia. She is not ready for a republican form of government. The best thing for her is a monarchy." He knew at the time that I was aware of his official position, but he made no ef fort to conceal his monarchistic lean ings., Monarchistic activities were also betng fostered by England at this time. Narodnoye Dielo, the social revolutionist paper of Kiev, received from a reliable source the report that the post of commander-in-chief of all the anti-bolshevist forces had been offered to .Grand Duke Michail Alex androvich, brother of the tsarfl This c!loice was made under English in fluence and was highly acceptable to the British because of the well known Anglophil tendencies of this Roman off. The grand duke refused the proffered position, and for a time the allies waited. Then came -Kolchak, General Bol dyriov, the Siberian comniander-in cief of the anti-bolshevist forces, re fused to subordinate himself to Kol chak, considering him a usurper. The old.general was summarily dismissed. Democratic Siberia organized a strong body of opposition to Kolchak, but the reactionaries who had been silent for two and a half years now o had the active support of the allies, and Omsk soon became a center of triumphant counter-revolution. With o out even a pretense of an election or of the formation of a popular gov ernment, Denikin declared the-allegi s ance of south Russia to Kolchak. A s a matter of fact, the union of south e Russia and Siberia is only the union - of the Anglo-French alliance. n Kolchak's troops are so untrust ae worthy that he has been obliged to I- depend upon the Japanese and even n on Italians for his main support. r- The commander, Kalmikov, who is .y now under Kolchak's control, refers 4 in his order No, 7 to "the glorious 1- ranks of the Japanese armies, fight Le ing shoulder to shoulder .with our 1- soldiers." In a Siberian paper, along rf with reports of bolshevist atrocities, 0, we read order No. 8, posted at Vi t :eino station, May 30, 1919: "Do not i- take any 'prisoners!" (ialnievos :o tochnoye Ohozrieny.e, June 8, 1919.) id But even with the aid of anuC nieth ods and such allies, Kolchak has not OORG IN THEnAL. ca yet triumphed everywhere in Siberia. d Fighting is in. prpgress all along thl ch UsourrY railway, and a number of stationll on this lipe are in the hands a. of anti-Kolcliak forces. Because of tic this condition the reports of IKol chak's staff are divided iuto two part, the first referring to the west ern or soviet fi'ont, the other to the il internal frott of eastern Siberia. l1 Evep the anti-Bolshevist Cossacks a re an eleilenit of discord. Th-ir confer- a ence in Chita in May and June re- Ir fused to send a pledge of support Sto Kolchak. The Dalnievostochnoye T, Obozrienye; published in Vladivostok "l tinder the ,Kolchak censorship. made C tihe following announcement in this l connection. " * * * for certain rea sons we .re -unable to publish re 1 ports of the Chita Cossack confier- n ence." TIhe reasons are not far to ( seek. t In fact the exercise of censorship1 in this instance is symptomatic of what is happenting wherever Iolchak c' is in control. Siberia has been care- o fulliy cleared of all the leaders of -moderate socialism. Those who had e t the luck to remain alive after K(o- P · chak's massacres are now in Paris. a where, under the leadership of Ker- s t ensky,. they are working against Kol . chak and publishing an anti-Kolchak b -.paper, La Reopublique Russe. The II i moderate democrats in Siberia are e obliged to keep silence, and their I paper, Daliokaya Okrayana, has been a stopped, This newspaper existed for 13 years; it endured the terrible F tzraist reactiop of 1910. 1911, 1912. but it could not be tolerated under the reaction of Kolchak. In Irkutsk . according to the paper, Cooperative v poye Dyelo, a bookstore was raided and some works of Andreyev and Tolstoy were confiscated. The title of Tolstoy's objectionable book was "On the Tzar's Power." Liberty of the press appears thus to be very highly developed under the "free and democratic" Omsk government. In the economic field Kolchak claims the support of two strangely I o incongruous groups--tle captains of 1 industry and the co-operative socie ties. The first he has bought--at a n heavy price. But his claim of friend o ly relations with the co-operative n movement is entirely groundless. At the time when political and i social initiative were completely sup- i pressed by the tsar, there were al if ready developing in Russia numerous -s economic organizations of the great in est implortance-the co-operative so cieties. These organizations, with e the town councils and the provincial n zemstvo assemblies, represented dur iing the revolution the spirit of real e democracy in industry and politics. Lt During the rovolution the co-opera ie tive societies, because of their en ae lightened policy and economic s, strength, gained greatly in power. s- But allied ,c pitalism and Siberian _ autocracy could not tolerate either in the councils or the co-operative so a- cieties, and Kolchak very soon found i- means of clearing out the democratic elements in both. - Throughout their history the co- o operatives have been purely economic ti organizations; they have always re- t1 fused to become involved in political C controversies. However, a little tl group of politicians is now pretend- v lug to speak in the name of the co- a operative societies, pledging the g movement to support the Omsk gov- o ernment. The activities of this group and the utterances of its organ, the t Zaria of Omsk, were repudiated by 1 the most important co-operative or- t ganization in Siberia, the Zukupzbyt, t in a statement published in the Golos p Primoria of Vladivostok, June 12, E 1:919. In spite of this fact,,some men now in the United States are trying c to play a political role ins the name a of the co-operative societies. One r of them, Mr. Bashkyrof, so far as T know, was never connected with the 1 co-operatives in Russia, but was al- c ways a rich owner of mills. How ever, he has signled, as a representa- I. Live of the co-operative movement, a publishedl resolution in favor of Kol chak-this in spite of the fact that v he represents only the small group above referred to. Another man by u the name of Okulich, claiiping to rep repent the Siberian co-operatives, is staying in Washington and working z for the Kolchak interests. About eight months ago this same Okulichl was in London, where he formed a close connection with the London Supply company, an organization formed last year, on the model of f the famous East India company, to monopolize the exploitation of Rus .ia. When Okulich's connections t were learned, all the representatives of Russian co-operatives then in-Erig- c land unanimously, without any voice I of protest, cabled the Siberian com mittee to remove him. Hewas com pelled to leave England.t And now he has, appeared again in, the United States, where he, with Bashkyrof and others is operating under the name of the All-Siberian Co-operative union. A. . M. erkenheim, vice president I of the All-Russian Co-operative c union, is now in the United States. c This officer, representing the- legiti mate Russian co-operative move ment, has issued to the press a state ment repudiating the actions of the < representatives of the so-called All - Siberian organization and a serting e that the co-operative societies in Rue- i sia are not concerned with political y issues. Many American papers have published the pro-Kolchak matter i sent out by Bashkyrof, et. al., but v only one journal-the New York Call , ---saw,fit to print Mr. Berkenheim's f statement. - The position of the captains of in r dustry in the area controlled by Kol - chak may be characterized in a very - few words-they are in the pay of s the new dictator. In an address to t the big business men of the Ural a region, Kolchak said: "I find it necessary to create a boely that is in its nature a state in o stitution on which will depend all the a industrial activities of the region. . This body. comprising the leading s men of industry, will determiine the 's needs of the state, and in particular, s those of the army. It will know the facilities and productive, power of the r factories and undertakings, and will g empower the carrying out of orders i, at its direction and under its control. - * * * You will furthermore t solve the, question of regular finan - cial assistance to be given in indus ) trial enterprises." t- Thus at the time when England, ot France, Italy, and the United .ta.ts are seriously facing the question of lea the role of labor in the task of recon- - struction, Kolchak gives all power Kc into the hands, of Russia's profiteers. ed He has put the .workmen aside .be- an cause that political element- is a hin- co drance to the working of his ma- in cline. cu But Kolchak did not stop with the g' authorization of unlimited exploita tion by private interests. lie sub- ch sidized these interests. A bulletin of Il tile Russian liberation committee of lii London reports -the loans advanced it iby the Kolchak government during ch the period of January-April, 1919, bi as follows: 5 Roubles. Ic Industries .................135,000,000 Railways ........................ 84,000,000 qi Towns and Zemstvos .... 25,000,000 lo Kolchak armies ............ 53,000,000 s Co-operative societies .. 32,000,000 Private banks ............ 110,000,000 st The total revenue of tile govern- la mnent for this period was 4Q6,000,000 la roubles. .el Thus capitalists received 29.4 per oi pI 'ent of the total revenue, while the v( f co-operatives received seven per vi k cent .and the towns and Zemstvos P only three per cent each. If What were the sources of the rev d ;nuue so equitably distributed by the 1. Kolchak governinent? The bulletin above referred to supplied the neces sary information. It says: "- 'According to information given hI by the minister of finance, the fi s nancial situation is improving. Ie Receipts for Jalluary-Apil, 19t19. it Roubles " Spirit monopoly (vodka) 127,500,000 a Railways .............. .... 124,000.000 tl e Excise .............. .. 56,000,000 2 and so forth. m The basis of Siberian public fi unance is the state monopoly of vodka. e In order that the party of the capi Stalistic bourgeoisie and the feudals d may rule, tile people must be drunk. le That was the method of Nicholas II. It is the method of 1Kolchak. Bf esides allied diplomats, Japanese ' troops, and purely Russian vodka, d Kolchak has now the constitutionial democratic or "Cadet," party. It tk was this party that formed, with the ly Octobrists and the extreme right the of progressive bloc which came into e control of the D)uma shortly after the a outbreak of the war, and it was a d- ministry of this bloc headed by t ve Prince Lvoff, that. later shouted the .imperialismls of Milioukov until the 0 triumph of Kerensky put a period to i- this clamor. Ten or eleven years ago the Cadets posed as liberals fighting against the autocracy for a limited monarchy c which was even then the ultimate e goal of their political program. They r supported Nicholas' minister Sazon- 1 of, who is now the representative of I Kolchak and Denikin at Paris. be- I cause of his imperialistic program n and especially because of his attitude a ,an the Polish question. Three or t Tour months ago, the French journal . Humanite published one of sazonof's r secret. notes, sent in 1915, urging 1 the annexation of Poland (German ,and Austrian parts included) to the Russian Tzardom. At a sharer in I the idea of Pan-Slavic imperialism, the Cadet party was the main obstacle to the full development of the revolution. Its aspirations for the conquest of Constantinople and I Galicia were constantly opposed by i the socialists and the Soldiers' and I Workmen's Councils, proponents of I a democratic peace. The provisional government was thus kept in a state t of perpetual crisis. After the peace of l1roest-Litovsk. 1 the southern commnittee of the Cadet party, with the approval of lthe cen tral committee, supported the co(n ter-revolution in Ukrainia. anld took. part in the governmenlllt of G.nllral Skoropadsky, the leader of this movement. As representatives of the Cadet party. Vasilienko, Kistiakovslky and Goutuik held portfolios in Siko ropadsky's cabinet. Milioukov was also at that time (lMay, June, July. 1918) in Kiev, the capital of the counter-revolution. Today the same party supports Kolchak. They were forced by the Russian collapse to abalndol their imnperialistic aims, but they still want political power. All the old I "dark forces" that dared not woirk under the tzarist banner dilring the revolution have made the best of it and have entered the Cadet organi- I zation. One of the Cadets. Professor Veinberg, stated frankly in the Si berian district Dumna that the Rus sian people want a. tzar. The ultra moderate Dalnievostochnaye Oboz rienve of June 12, 1919, gives the following characterization of the Cadet party of today: "The clearly expressed idea of old time Cadetism are now deformed. New commonplace elements which came in since the revolution have mixed all the old political cards. The Cadetisin of today is a conglomerate of different elements; there are lib erals and octobrists and monarchists and simply average men, who are dreaming of an iron power. It makes a very bad impression." The latest congress of the party. held May 1, in Oimsk, adopted a reso lution in favor of Kolchak, which de clared that "concerning the prin ciples of foreign policy the party pre serves the spirit of its traditional view. * * * All nations must unite in fighting for the right and for C'ivilization." (Bulletin of the Rus sian liberation committee. London, June 7, 191t). Now as always it is the "traditional view" of imperial ism that menaces Russia. The res olution says further "We must firmly assert that neither in political nor in social question there can be any talk of return to the old regime." Polit ical return means Nicholas II..tCer tainly nobody thinks of that. But tihe party remaifis true to the idealof a limnited monarchy, while its social program permits it to support a gov vodka monopoly, and backed by Jap aneSe troops. The Kolchak governmuent takes ac count of the fact that it must keep up appearances. Therefore, for propaganda's sake, it is always stated that Kolchak's cabinet counts the most prominent liberal leaders. The value of Kolchak's ministers can be understood from the follow ing illustrations. The minister of finance, Mr. M1ichailof, is a former socialist; but even the moderate -Mme. Breshko-Breshvovsky has char acterized him as a renegade. The minister of foreign affairs-a most important figure now at the climax of international combinations-is a young man by the name of Soukin, wsa was for some time a third secre tiry to the tsarist ambassador at Washington. This is all that can be learned about this prominent liberal o -former clerk of a tzar's office. Kolchak's foreign policy is now guid ed by the Japanese General Otani, 0o and the French and English supreme commissionaires, as they are called in the Siberian press. For the exe- 11 cation of their orders a clerk is a th great convenience. w As to Bielorussof, another Kol, "n chak official, I ams able to say that to many years ago he was a moderate H liberal; however he is now a contrib- 1 utor to the reactionary paper Otes- w chestvienye Viedomosty. To him has been given the task of making prep arations for the organization of the s1 constituent assembly. The Siberian 1l newspaper Eacho (June 11, 1919) quotes from the Nasn Ural the fol lowing characterization of Bielorus- 1 sof: He did not receive any special in- c struction in state and administrative ti - law. His appointment to prepare a ) law for the election of the constitu .ent assembly can be explained only i 1 on the ground that he has been con- Is verted (to a conservative point of it r view) in his old age. Now, in the i s period of renegades, it is very popu- it lar to be one of them. We can say in advance that his appointment is to )l be interpreted not as an effort to enforce democracy through the con stituept assembly. but as an attempt to prepare for it a fine funeral. Not only his (Bielorussof's) hatred of the Ssocialists, but also his unfavorable treatment of all the organs of popu- t ltar self-government (Zemstvos, town councils), reveals his hatred of the principles of the democratic organi zation of state power. All these 0 things detract from the authorita 0 tiveness of the future assembly. In this connection it is perhaps worth while to call attention to a statement which appeared recently (July 12,1919) in Struggling Runs- 1 sia, the Kolchak weekly now appear ing in New York. This magazine says: "Among those who support Kolchak we find such prominent rev e olutionists and socialists as Nich olas Tclhaikovsky, Vladimir Bourtzev. I oris Saviokov," and so on. But they Iforget that Tclhaikovsky has re Io mained entirely alone, without any 1e support from other socialists, in the :o pro-Kolchak organization in Paris, ie acting for no party, withdxut responsi a lility except to himself. They forget 1Y that this man. now 77 years old, rep 1t resents the French comlniunists of 1e 1870-71. They forget that Bourtzev to does not belong to any socialist party ---that he was reactionary even dur ts ing the first period of the revolution, st and now represents the spirit of so y cia.lismn-even moderate socialism-- Le exactly as mluch as Gustave Herve sy represents that of pacifism and anti n- militarism. They forget that- Savin of kov was expelled from the party for e- his reactionary intrigues as early as m August, 1917 (still under Kerensky). Ic and that this ex-socialist represents or the Russian revolution just as much al as the renegalde Jacobin Foushet rep 's resented the French revolution when ig he acted as minister of police under to Napoleon. Besides the cadets and certain renegade socialists, Kolchak counts among his political supporters a third and very important group made up of certain elements of the Orthodox I church. Today the theocratic clergy have again begun to play upon the religious instincts of the masses. The Kolchak military attache. General Nikolaiev, publishd in the New York i Times for July 18,1919, a statement. 1 to the effect that, the patriotic and " religious spirit is arising in the Si- n berian armies. The M\letropolitan e Platen has recently come to the P United States for the purpose of or c organizing a body of church supplort t for Kolchak. Si multaneously with the arrival of this new emissary, the d IKolchak propagandists have begun I to use with great fervor the word li "religious.'' 11 In an interview granted shortly after his arrival in the United States, Metropolitan Platon openly warned the Amlerican J.ewery that pogroms are possible if Kolchak does, not be come sufficiently powerful to pre vent thet. Afterwards, desiring to remove the bad impression created by his involuntary frankness, he ex- 5 plained that lie had always been a friend of the Jews and that in 1905 in Kiev he stopped a mob of 20,000 1 persous about to enter uponl a pogrom. This statement should be t corrected. Platoen is a personality of the old t regimne, very well known in Russia as an active anti-Semite and tzarist. t In this respect he does Itot differ fromn Bishop Evloguy and 1Ietropol itan Pitirimt, who were appointed by i the tzar to high church posts because of their extreme friendship for the t Romanoffs. As to the affair in Kiev, it would be fitting for this Christian t clergyman to confess publicly in deep Christian resignation that lie has I changed his opinions since 1905, ift indeed lie has. But the metropolitan prefers to forget the deeds of 13 years ago. I happen to have had the unfor- i tunate opportunity to witness per- t sonally how the Archbishop Platon protected the Jews of Kiev in 1905. 1 His protection was as serviceable as I that of the Governor General Kleig- ( uels. For four days and four nights ( the Jews were robbed, beaten, killed. i The soldiers of Kleiguels supported c the rioters, who carried the stand- I ards of the church as they went out i to nmassacre the Jews. But Platoen has forgotten all these things now- I or perhaps he thinks that no one in America can remember those times. 1 Like the Metropolitan Platon, Mr. Kovalsky, a contributor to the muaga zine Struggling Russia, is very so licitous for the fate of the Jews. In his appeal to the American Jewry he suggests that the trouble that threat ens may be avoided if financial aid 1 is granted to Kolchak. Indeed, his predictions of what iay happen if this aid is not granted sound very like a warning! Such then, is the support of IKol chak. For military power he depends largely on the Japanese. His eco nomic supporters are the subsidized profiteers and a few discredited ends saries who claim to represent the co operative movement. His chief in ternal source of revenue is the re stored vodka monopoly. His political strength consits in imperialist cadets, reactioary and anti-Semite clergy, and renegade socialists now unknown to their party. BaIt, after all, the rulers of Europe do not care very much. With casuist indifference to means, they go systematically about the business of crushing the one threatening economic organism re maining on the continent after Ger many's collapse--an organism that. threatens the other nations, not with D I Today We Celebrate o o Horace Greeley. At sunrise, on Friday, Aug. 18, 1813, Horace Greeley landed close to the Battery ,New York city. Hle, with $10 in his pocket, and knowing no one within "200 miles, had come to the great city to "be somebody." Horace Greeley was born on Feb. 3, 1811. His father was a farmer, hard working but not very successful. When Horace was about 10 years old, his father, who had speculated in a small way, became a bankrupt, and he aws obliged to flee to avoid ar rest. Going to Westhaven, Vt., Mr. Greeley obtained work on a farm and moved his family thither. When the boy was 14 he went as an apprentice in a printing office. Soon after the completion of his four years' appren ticeship he was thrown out of work. After trying various towns he found employment in Erie, N. Y. Becom ing tired of working in small towns, he started for the great city, walk ing part of the way on the tow path e along the canal, and sometimes rid uing in a scow. In New York city for some months Shle worked on various papers ,when oa printer friend, Mr. Story, suggest ed that they start in business, their caiptal being $150. The attempt was not successful. At the age of 2:1 C young Greeley started the New e Yorker, a weekly paper. Hie also took charge of the Jeffersonian, a n weekly campaign paper published at e Albany, and the "Log Cabin," estab lished to aid in the elections of Gen e eral Harrison to the presidency. President Harrison died after hav ing been in office a month, and seven is days after, Mr. Greeley started, April a 10, 1841, a new paper, the New York Tribune, with the dying words of Harrison as his motto: "I desire you to understand the true principles e of the governmenllt. I wish thenl car rt ried out. I ask nothing more." In 1848 Greeley was elected to congress -for three months to fill out tile un evtpired term of a deceased member, ' and did most effective work with re Sgard to mileage system and the use a' of the public lands. In 1860 he was 'e at the Chicago convention and ' helped to nominate Abraham Lin n- coln. Mr. Greeley had now become it one of the leading men of the nation. - iis paper molded the opinions of i mhundreds` of thousands. He had fought against slavery with all the strength of his able pen; but he ad vocated buying the slaves for four hundred million dollars, rather than going to war. In the draft riots in New York, in 1863. the mob burst into the Tribune building, destroying the furniture, and shouting. "Down with the old white coat"-Greeley al ways wore a coat of white. When urged to arm the office he said, "No; all my life I have worked for the workiing men; if they burn my office and hang me, why, let them do it." After the war, Mr. Greeley, while advocating ''impartial suffrage" for black as well as white, advocated also "universal amnesty." He believed that nothing was to be gained by punishing a defeated portion of our own nation, and was opposed to the proposed hanging of Jefferson Davis. With Gerritt Smith, a well known abolitionist, anid about 20 others, lie signed Mr. Davis' bail bond for $100, o00, which released himl fromi prison at F'ortress Monroo, where he had been for two years. At once the north was aflaine with indignation; no de nunciation was too scathing. Greel ey's comment was: "Seeing how passion cools and wrath abates, I confidently look forward to the time when thousands who have cursed will thank me for What 1 have done and dared in resistance to their own san guinary impulses. * * * Out of a life earnestly devoted to the good of human kind, your children will se lect my goinig to Richmond and sign ing that bail bond as the wisest act." In 1572 considerable dissatisfac tion having arisen in the republican party at the course pursued by Pres ident Grant in regard to the south, the liberal republicans, headed by Sumner, Schurz, and Trumbull, held a convention at Cincinnati and noni nated Horace Greeley for president. The uemocratic party saw the hope lessness of nominating a man in op position, and nominated Greeley as their own candidate. The contest was bitter and partisan in the ex trenme. Mr. Greeley received nearly three million votes, while Genieral Grant received a half million major ity. The defeat was a great disappoint ment to Greeley, who had served his country and the republican party for many years, with very little political reward. But just a month before the election caime the crushing blow of his life, in the death of his wife. He left his campaign work, and for weeks continued at her bedside, un' willing to leave the care of her to an other. A few days before she died, lie said, "I amn a broken down old man. If she lasts, poor soul, another week, I shall go before her." After her death Mr. Greeley suf fered from insomnia that could not be relieved, brain fever developed. On Friday, Nov. 29, 1872, the end caine. At noon lie said to his only remaiining children, Ida and Gabri ella, "I know that my Redeemed liveth," and at half-past three, 'It is done." In the governor's room in the city hall over 50,000 persons passed in one day for a reverent farewell look upon the familiar face. Then through an enorinous concourse of people, Fifth avenue being blocked for a mile, the body was borne to Greeu wood cemetery. Greeley's place in history is that of a man who was fearless in the advocacy of what he I believed to be right. _ _ ` -- - -- - imercantilistic competition, but with he infection of industrial democracy. GREGORY ZILBOORG. Edinburgh.-How . John- Wilson, soldier, waited 32 years for a di vorce, was told here. On his wedding day in 1882. his regiment was or dered to Ceylon. In 1887 he learned that his wife had a child of which he was not the father. At the time he was unable to afford a divorce. Granted. REX CAFE When In Great Falls visit the Rex Cafe. SERVICE EXCELJLENT Especially caters to thq wo. lng class 15 Third St. BSouth .esrr First National Bank.