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I Wrangefs Defeat Sheds Light on Trotzky s 'Labor Army I
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Military Coup Gies New Significance to Red
War Lord's, Pilgrimage Where Forces
Were Raised to Crush White Army
V the following article C-cif Frarcis
McCullagh. writing from first hand
tacts, sets forth mat vividly he nanner
in which Leon Trotzky. the Pd Jm:tcr
of War. personally sowed tit seed': of
Solshcvism in the territcrv 'vhere Gen
W rangcl's White army, ss :te. events
nroved. was to meet crush-ng defeat
Capt McCullagh's r.aTXMtive s not only
a tratne-d observer': intern elv m'erestmg
dcscriptt e vork, mtdm timel hv the re-.-nf
defeat of Gen WrangeF forces but
HL- n brings out m full the sig- ficance ol
Trotzky's "Red Labor Army' c-mpa gn.
T which was closely 'ollowed not by in
dustrial advancement bu. by a mi'itary
coup His Lccoun' of Tro'iky's visit,
jsfl bich trarsformed Ekaterin'' nr$ into a
gigantic . rjDzganda ball, five new and
itoundi l dea of what Rfd propaganda
v i'jB really rvcans and shows agfir th-l :haos
I 'fiflj ?nd misery ever go hand rp Land wth
B Communism.
By CAPT. FRANCIS McCOLLGH
1 020, by Tun St Vont Htsn
LUX DON, Saturday
ROTZKV Mk. lender or the Red
armies v.'sitcd ICkatcrlnburg While
hh I was there hi order, as his purpose
BH 9"U given, to turn two or three of his armies
n. Ir. Rf d la'-nr armies and to make his sol
H diers, in right of ail the wnrld, beat ihelr
swerds into ploughshare.
wH Thi last occasion 1 1 which he hid visited
"'fB i' town hi political n i. t . and he
y 1 1 a I grazed si it through the Iron bars ol i
HH prison van. The foreign newspaper eorre-
Hftl xperdents m Potrograd had itidulecd at that
yB if
H those correspondents was mad enough to
'.VI prophesy thai time would romi when
Hhl this Jewish convict would vlsil. as com
mander-in-chief ol all the Russian armies, a
H Siberian town in which, after sen ins
ions term of imprisonment politics i
JH sub)ect. the Casi himself had met a violent
Hi Ekaterinburg w'a gayly decorated In
8LBg hor.ot of Trotxkya visit, hut (he Botahtylst
ES Minister ol War came, unostontaMouslv
ough in the nlghl time 8 nd refused l
fl In Id any parades, inspections of troops or
h anv other formal function? whatsoever He
H Is a slleht built, wiry man of medium
I ji height, dressed as private soldier, and
. w ji houl anj .1 i i i ! won n 1 -
HH car which has been Inverted for the higher
HH officers of the Red army. It Is of lha'Kl
HH clcth. Is cut in the styjs of the Steel helmet
H worn by thr indent Russian bngatyrs
9H (lnlehts). and the whole front of it (a cov
H ered by a hupe star, the red star of Bolshe-
H Visfll. Mis til developed calves were en-
H casd in a pair of Rrltl.sh army puttees
gaMH trobably one of the many pairs which :ie
fH ha: sent to Kolchak and which had travelled
m. further re.t u lib (he nimble legs "T (1e-
T . Aides Aboard Trctzky's Train W rk
'"'L&Ua Like Slaves Under Mercness Dr'ver
H lie wore no bell and carried no weapon:
H tils face Is sallow. Mephlstophellan. and dl-
B tlnctly Jewish: his eye dark and bright: bis
beard and muntache scanty. His movs
y men ta ai tp Irk tnd animated, and in-- ca-
HB paclty for work superhuman. The em-
ployees on hi-- train told me thai the led i
JP clog's life of it. The typewritinjf Kills wer
" :-cPt working i 1 1 day and far Into the mcht
i HIls numerous 84 etaries were glued thi
i desk i all da His telephoi n wei . i
H Ing Into the receivers or taking down teie-
H phone messages for twenty hours out of the
twenty-four.
H Their master had it Is true, made their
H work somewhat easier for them by ruthless-
H ly cutting out ah the polite phraaea with
H which Russian telrpnone users under the
H old regime ushered in a conversation. .-Ml
superfluities were droppfd. His business
jLB manners are not only brusque, they are
H brutal. This brutality may be necessary.
fjifipT however, for he ha9 got an immense amount
'; of work to attend . r. a i- I he hat to Seal with
j popie who. though they are excessively
'J polite perhaps l should say because thej
I " -re axefsajlvely polite are as dilatory as
well bred Turks.
There u i no denying the fad thai 'n
ttnjl February last Trotzky was a busy man. He
SBS published on his train a newspaper. En
jjHBf Route, tor which h" wrote articles every
aMBl day. and h dictated besides numerous con-
HBV tributlons for the locai paper In the towns
MBV through .Which he parsed. Till. f course.
tllt pave him an "nnrmou! "pull." especially aa
jjjr no able editor h .i the librvt to differ from
F 1 him by a hair's breadth.
I 1 Trotzky delivered lot'.c pulillc speeches
fm everal tunes ., week and spenl tl leaal sis
HP houts every cia presldintj over conference
wm ot commissaries, railway ofUcials. factory
firB men. and even doctors lie had fitfd to his
jfljjH 'rain a wireless apparatus which kept him
In constant communication with IfoiCOW
. sag ai:d he received dally interminable messages
ihput the eastern front, the southern front
ktBJ the Polish front, the northwestern and Fin-
(ffijlg nish fronts, as well as copies of all the oom-
municallons received from the British and
figSj other foreign Government??, not to speak of
urSJ ast amount of technical material sent by
HL his own War Office.
HHV"4 He employed about a dozen secretaries a
h tame editor to run his paper, a number of
IV L tame diplomatists to look after diplomatic
HB( atTalrs and several domesticated C;arlst of-
r.cers to deal with purely military matters
mi;Vni H put ihe fear of Trotzky if not the fear
oj fjod into all these subordinates, but thev
rather gloried than otherwise In their servi
tr.de Most Ruslans like to serve a relent
laaa master.
mM Trotzky Takes Up Great Task
Of Transport Reqrganiamtion
As if all thl work were not enough.
Trotzky devoted himself at Ekaterinburg to
Uansport reorganlsatjoo, a task which would
a. uip absorb the energies of a dozen Sir Eric
HB Gkfddeaea and when KrauMln wont to Eng-
land Trotzky calmly took over the Commis-
j sarlat f Ways of Communication on th?
t grcu'nd that as railway a played such a fcroal
pat In military operarlona he hud battel
I take charge of them as well as of the armv.
V, A I. this testifies to Trotsky's audacity and
H IndefUgabtrity, but It also bstraya a fatal
I S'ji , ,
11 i f n
lack- of orcanlzers In the ranks of the Reds.
Ar.d. it Is almost tlitaersSSarj to add. Cjv
rnment work ts not well ilonc
Despite the elertric thrill which the pres
ence of tl.e Red armv Commissar communl
eatei t' B ery Jo rrfuncnt department which
he enters there is a slut of work Whlob
i Iori the whole machinery, and there are
no', enouch exptrtfl to deal with that wor';.
The oflice are In a chaotic state filled with
visitors who cannot be attended to and
with incompetent clerks rushing hither and
thither. Many hi the old bureaucrats are. it
Is true dribbling back from Paris with their
tails between their lei.. but as they are dis
trusted and are always placed under incom petent
Reds no really cond svoik can be
expected Of tln-m There Is nothing in the
wnrld which a rulins class dislikes so much
a beinc placed on : n equality With people
BThom they had been accustomed to regard
With contempt ae Interior beings.
The stories lold of Troty ley's revels and
dissipations are obvious nonsense. The onl
i! .at on the Bolshevik war lord allowed
himself was a short walk every day in a
eabtlftll p'ne grove where 1 tuwd to walk
myself and an hour's hard physical exer-
i i'- daily shovelling snow from the railway
track In this physical exercise he made
everj man. woman and child in his ti-aln
Ink. part, ami the example he thus set wa
itood. for. as I think I have- already re-
marked, the educated Russian has the same
contempt for manual labor a ihe while
sahib has In India Even Mrs Trotzkv.
Master Trotisky in boy of eleven or twelve)
anc' Master Trotzky 's governess a young
Jewess of twenty or twenty-five, had to
shovel snow like the rest: and this craze
for manual work remained even wfaep
Trotzky was not looking on.
Trotzky Makes Var "n the Louie
To Check the Ravage oi Tynnus
sunuer had h' arrived in Ekaterinburg
than Trotzky plunged straight into wo-k
ci d I marvelled at the sudncitj with which
in I x kled matters which oucht. one wuul
th'nk. in have hjen left entirely to -iert..
I s..ii one example, the typhus que?-
t'on. for I know nometlilng about it. Havl i.
hin.. a year eorllei. to vlsil all the typhus
hOKpltalS in the Urals to interpret for Col.
c:arke. th" head of the Canadian medtea1
-mki whom C.rn Sir Alfred Knox ha I
s"nt to the front with the o'decl of doing
Something t.. stop the terrible wastage 61
mpt caused by typhus among Kolcbak'a
troops. In Clarke "found most of the trouble
t i e due to the apathy of the Russian doc
tors, who would do nothing unless I hey were
given imiim'ted quantities of unproourahle
.i sectiCldes. though, as Dr. Clarke told them
until he w:'s honse and exhausted and flnal
v en Ugh I fne disease himself, heat would
have served their purpose equally well.
On February 19 Trotzky summoned tho
D M. S.. listened In ominous calm to his
Statement that there was n chsnce of
tvphus deereasi:is in any case till the month
of April an. I then attacked him with n
Hidden burst of violence which nearly fright
ened I hoi worthy out inefficient foi. tlonary
' . o 1 1 Ills mig
"I a;n no loctor." aid the Bolshevik war
lord v it t know that typhus is communi
cated by lice. Now It must be possible to
destroy these lice by delouslng apparatus and
by a certain decree of heat. h h could 'f
necessary, be produced In some of our pub-li-
laths. Several of the baths are verv
nearly hot enouch for the purpose ft It is.
and BVfn if the soldiers have not cot
. hunge of clothes they might wah In one
part ot tiie hathhoiise while (heir ClotheB are
I- iiii disinfected in anctlicr part. I am not
a believer In this doctrine ot fatalism that
you preat h. I will Immediately appoint a com
r.nttee to investigate this question, and If 1
find that you do not at once take some tep
in the muter I will hand you over to th
Extraordinary Commission, flood day'
N'exf day an excellent bathhouse va.
opened free at the railway station and I
mvself erjoved tlie first bath that T had ha.'
for three months. The committee was never
ibeleaa appointed, and it published every
thing, even details r.f hospital mtsmanag
ment that were enough to make one's hair
stand on end. for the Bolshevists, when It
.suits their purpose, allow the fullest llbertv
ti the press
The creat propaganda encine t Ii i.-'i hart
r.Ncd the Red Army and smashed KolchaW
and Denikln was then turned onto the louse
m" all Ekaterinburg, was soon placarded
with posters preaching cleanliness and de
noundng dlrt. Some of them contained rP
resrnta'lons of 9 louse macnlfieI to Ihe si'
of a small cow and pointed out. In the ac-
ompanying letterpress, as a worse enemy
than the 'Supreme Ruler" "Kill it" veiled
the posters, "as yu would kill Kolchak. It
Is a far more dancerous enemv. Kolchak
has put 'o Jiath thousand of Communists
It puts to death tens of thousands." The
ni.mlier and N'arlety of these warnincs w-er
Mry creat: and there was every kind of
strtkir tz life size picture In glaring colors to
ailraci the attention of the illiterate, as
well as good medical hints to Impress those
whe could read
Powerful Engine of Propaganda
Serves More Sinister Purposes
The same all-powerful engine of propa
ganda Is employed for other purposes to
teach Communism. 10 enlist support for the
Red army, to foster a hatred of England, to
excite a craze for education and to produce
a contempt tor priests and Christianity.
On the day after his arrival Trotzky ad
dressed a large Communist meeting; and
here I might remark that no such thing as
a public meetlnc in our sense of the word
is ever held in Red Russia. The Bolshevik
leaders only address meetings which hae
been carefully packed with their supporters
and T know of only one case In which It na
announced heforehand that they were going
to speak. Jt Is imposflhle for any one who
is nol a Bolshevist lo find out when Ienlne
golnc 10 speak In Moscow, ihe reason
b' ing simply fear of assassination, and It
Is next lo impossible for a non-Bolabsvik 10
heat him, Trotzky. who la a consummate
orator, made a very able speech, or which
tl e keynote was briefly this:
"We have defeated Kolchak, but a much
mere serious enemy remaine. namely, the
ruined ecoribmjc system of the country. To
pis that riglll w.- must work harder than
men over worked before since history began,
i'txly per cent, of our railway locomotives
t.re out of action, am) If they continue break-
w EH
Miss Yurovsky. the belle of Ekaterinburg and a leader tn one oi
the Boishcvik anti-Christian societies, lives within plain sight oi' the
house where her father murdered the ex-Czar and his family.
' .. . '. " ,77. ' i
THt youni; woman pictured here is Mi Yurovsky, daughter of Ynkel Yurov-s-y
the n an who mu-dcrc-d the ex-Czar ana his family Sh? . the oellc
I Ekaterinburg and is engaged to marry (it not already .vedded to)
Son.-v ky, the chief liijure of the 'Workmen's nd Soldiers Depulie. of EUnter
fnbarg all of whom signed the Heath wrrant executed by Yirovvky f apt
i ' p. who Intfl virwed Yt icvsh lvei . : doicriptio . c he . ng
a' j na n
"T.er a very hin home Riri to of strirgl .iewish type and t'.cut ifitn
ecn -r; old, came into the room She wa Yuro rsky't daughter Mic is aead
cf the League of Commuttial 1 omh,' a sort af nversion of thi Y M C. A.,
eh ch he BoTthevia s lave cstnblo.hcd all over Russia with the idea of - inc'nj
up ihe i- ring genfrohfn in strict Socialist and anti-Christian principl's
Y i vsky and li s f.imily live in one of the best houses ;n ikater r,b ir.i 01 ly
-i h r 'tance fro n nd wiiiiir. icw of the house wrier, the :m'.-ria' ami y
'or,- to death. Although p ovitied with a li e post undei t-e V ? rrent
'uir.ihed viti .imple food Z.nt ot' or create; comfoitj, 'h tli.e oi it.e
Czur c wreck of man and dying fast from heart disease, C pt McCul
la h yt
I
Ing down at the same rate we shall bavs
C' per cent, out of notion within tlif'c
months: which means a total breakdown of
our transport system, and therefore of our
system of governments These engines must
1 repaired. The men who repair them must
hsv food and fuel The rallsvay lints mils
be cleared of snow. Wood must be cut and
brought lo the railways The Ural fac
tories tmiKt be staited This means that !
must work, w ork, work "
lie certainly painted a picture gloom v
ei m:ih to waim the heart of. say. Winston
Churchill, but he did it with a purpose; he
wanted to alarm his followers thoroughly
and lo nidki them see that the economic
situation was extremely serious. He did
not go so far. however, as to make them
despair and I afterward discovered that
fi" deliberately understated the actual ex
tent of the economic breakdown ami omitted
altogether tO tOui h on many very disquiet
ing features.
He ended on a note of robust confidence
and caused a sensation by announcing In
conclusion that six hundred million i ub'.es
In gold had L-een captured with Kolchak. al
thcugh he. must nave known that the amount
was only three hundred million. This news
by the way. had been carefully withheld
from 'he public- until the head of the Red
army could use It. as he did. in an effective
peroration.
Red Leader s Appeal Reechoes
Over the Whole Ural District
I was surprised at the rapidity with which
th- speech was. by previous arrangement
echoed and reechoed ujl over the country
Tin Fight Against Economic Rutn" became
a catchword like "Walt and See'" or "We
Want eight and we won't wait." or any of
the other famous catch phrases of British
politics It became a slereotyped newspaper
headline. It stared at one from placards on
all the walls To Judge from the reports In
the press, it was repeated by every village
orator throughout the Urals. At a meeting
o the Ekaterinburg Soviet which f attended
It was the principal subject of discussion,
and at a meeting of the Communist League
of Youth which Trotzky attended. UlM
Yurovsky daughter of the Cur's murderer
and president of that league, delivered
speech on the same lines. Trotzky must
have smiled his Mephlstophellan smile when
he heard all this parrot outcry, most of It
almost a repetition of what he had said him
self Trotzky 's treatment of the working classes
was marked not only by an absence of flat
lery but even by an autocratic touch whici
one would never have expected. Finding on
his way from Moscow to Ekaterinburg that
the workmen in a certain Ural factory were
not working hard enough he had fifteen of
the worst "slackers" arre.sied and placed on
their trial before a workmen's tribunal In
Ekaterinburg. "
At one point on the Une his train was
stopped by snow, whereupon he had the
whole of the local Soviet taken Into custody
for disobedience lo the order for removing
snosv from the track. Thev also ,vere tiled
beforo a jury of their peers; and. while tho
case wrus still t(l judice. Trotzky wrote,
over his own name In the newspapers, a
ferocious onslaught on th' accused, whose
condemnation was thus made certain, Hi
ii: not say anything about their delaying
him, but he inveighed against them for de
lay ln the trains which brought bread to
tho women and children of Moscow and to
I
th Red workmen who bad hurled the tyrant
frcm his throne and stood in the breach
against Denikln and Judcnltrh."
Trotsky's tr.iln consisted of about a dozen
rriages, but II could not be described as
sumptuous, consisting mostly as it did of
wagOna-lUs cars, all of them, save Trotzky s
OWI car. tieiiiK very much overcrowded with
pi rsonncl. typewriters, desks, writing tables
and document!
Hatred Inspiring Posters Give
Circus Appearance 'o thf Train
.Ml the outside of Trotzky's train waa
i. .ited svith advertisements of Bolshevism
mi oi' Itamcnts to class hatred Imagine an
American President touring the country in
a train plastered all over with posters like
thai of a travelling circus' And yet side
b, de with this ultra-Americanism and
I'Mrn-modernism the latter represented by
ubist a:id futurist productions that looked
like nothing on earth), was a good deal of
hocry old Czarism. Close, to tho futurist
posters stood Lettish guards, who were
merciless as the janizaries of an Ottoman
Saltan About a dozen of them travelled on
Trctzky's train and kept unostentatious but
careful watch on every one who approached
or entered It
The police precautions taken to proteci
l.ei.ine -iml Trot.-.ky .-in- ;is minute, thouch
pot as evident, as those formerly taken to
protect Nicholas II Thus the more Russia
changes the more It is the same thing, t
has had a tyrant who dragged it savagely
bj the hair of the head, so to speak abreast
of contemporary civilization, it has now h
tyrant who thinks that he Is driving it far
r.head of al! modern civilization. But It al-
ays haa a tyrant.
Ii was forbidden for any outsider to ente
Trdtsky'a train without permission and the
names of all persons who had the enfrer
watv pasted up inside the doors.
Trotsky, to do him justice, is a remarkable
man, and Is idolized by the Bolshevists, who
say, and with truth, that he is the ablest
M!i lster of War that Europe has produced
during the last six years of Armageddon.
He foitnd a numerous and well disciplined
army on., of men who were sick and lired of
warfare and who only supported the Bolshe
vists originally because the BoJahevlatS
promisee them peace. He did this despite
th? fact that ne nitnself had never been In
the army or studied warfare, except as an
extremal antl-mllltarlst war correspondent
during the first Balkan war.
Sees Signs Trotzky Will No:
Always Remain a Bohhevist
Most men find it hard enough to deal with
one digressing s'ibject at a time, but he
switches from 9ns important matter to an
other a dozen times In tho course of a single
day and comes to a rapid and generally a
right decision each time
Lt roy-Beanlleu says that "the Jewish
mind la an instrument of precision it has
the exactness of a pair of scales"; and Trot
zky has all the mental precision and the ex
treme Intellectuality of his race, owing to
this fact and to the fact that he Is very am
bitious and Is endowed with a ruthless physi
cal energy and personal bravery which one
does nl always expect to find In h Jew. I
am doubtful If Trotzky will always remain a
Bolshevist or will always submit to the
dei pt . but less aKile Eenlne. Trotzky re
sembles Lloyd Georgo in many respects and
I should not do surprised If. like Lloyd
George, In became practically a dictator. Be
r-istSr
Transformation of Town W here Czar Was
Slain Into Huge Propaganda Hall Re- j
eals Soviet's Inner Workings
cculd do so to-morrow if he liked, for he has
th Red army with him and his War Offlc
in Moscow 's ( fortress bristling with ma
chine g ins and filled with troops who are
dev cted to him.
1 bad lived in Ekaterinburg previously
to the occasion of Trotzky's visit, rtrst in
1 o 1 S -rv the Czechs were there, and :n-ain
111 1319 when Kolchnk's troops and a bat
talion of the Hampshire Regiment occupied
It, r both these occasions It had brfn a
Terj busy place the railway station lieire
Mocked with staff trains, most of which
might be briefly described as bordcli nrr.hu
lnnti the station platform, a local Picca
dill In more f-nes than one belnK always
crowded wiih officers and ladles, the s'ree's
filled with soldier-c horses, cabs and the
speeding motor-cars of great General"
the shops and eating houses full of feod
;he market place crowded with farmers'
carts In fact it was like any other army
base a town of good choeti OVerCTOWdlig,
khaki "hustle." hordes and sin. Boisterous
imperfect, with streaks of religion and bursts
of philanthropy, it was. with all its fault--human
Trotrky Transforms Ek3ter i lburg
Into Fantastic Propaganda Centre
The Bkiterlnburg that met my eves on
this visit was completely thanred Trying
in dea ribe thaf change to myself In one
Word l meant to say "Bolshevism." but
found myself saying "Puritanism." For be
tween th- two :h' re are the most astontsh
i g resemblances, perhaps because extremes
meej. perhaps because the one is as pre
niilstlan as the other Is post-Christian. I
know that It ought not to be so and that
Lenlne should be seated on a heai of skulls
quaffing human blood, while Trotzky should
be engaged nightly 'r. oacch.tnalian revel",
but. as a matter of fact. Lenlne leads as
austere a life as Oliver Cromwell while
Trotzky Is as busy a-s Lloyd George.
Th" platform of Ekaterinburg station was
no longer a promenade, and only people
who had business to do cam" there. It waa
sometimes deserted altogether save for
three grim and watfhful figures thirty paces
apart. Trotzky's Janizaries, One great ha.l
in the station had been turned into a typhus
hospital and another great hall Into a "prop
aganda point." The station walls were
covered with ildvertlsemantB, not advertise
ments of the nerve tablets and hair tonics
order, but Bolshevik propaganda advertise
ments. At each end of the platform was painted
a huge notice ordering all O. C.'a to bring
their men without fall to the "propaganda
point" and to apply there for newspapers
and "literature." which would be given free.
These propaganda points exist In every
station along the Siberian Mne and are very
remarkable' institutions. The largest hall
in the station building Is always selected
and I generally presided over by a C ? Rd
so'dler. who has a tiny office, apart. Seated
there on a collection of Roishevlst nevvs
papera he wrestles in his spare moments
wun inii voluminous uiumes m rv;ii .inr.
lad rates lo the young the damnable and
pernicious heresies of Krautaky. or engages
In edifying conversation about Lenlne's lat
es encyclical With wise ungodly old Com
munists from the local Soviet.
Pictures and Cartoons for Evert
Pja.-e of Bolshevist Erterprise
Over the entrance of the Ekaterinburg
hall there was painted in large letters tho
text "Those who work not. neither must
they eat." while inside one saw on every
wall the well known appeal of Karl Marx.
' Workers of the world unite' You have a
world to pain and only your chains to loee."
The pictures and cartoons with which the
whole Interior was covered from floor to
ceiling might l divided into several groups.
L Those praising the Red army and cal
culated to fortcr a military splrft. 2. Those
coi'demnlng capitalists, priests and militar
ists t. Those Mattering ihe workman and
Promising him the owrlordshlp of the world.
4 Those exciting anger against foreign
countries particularly France and England.
There were appeals to the railway work
men not to go on strike, but to remember
that by striking they would Inflict a deadly
blow on democracy, and that though their
present discomforts were great there was
a good time coniLng
Tlere were charts showing the parts of
machine guns .Mid the way to make tomb?
anu these were generally accompanied by
explanatoi y letter press and by appeals to
thj workmen to drill and arm and study the
mechanism of their rifles, so that tio power
pn earth could disarm them and force them
back again Into the old servitude.
Side by side "with these were charts ex
plaining the construction of the latest agri
cultural machinery and exhorting (he peas
antry to make themselves proficient agri
culturists. The attacks on religion consisted of
caricatures showing monks and priests
making money out of holy relics and squan
dering that money privately on revels and
debaucherv. The priest -was sometimes rep
resented as a huge leering spider weaving
his web around the WlUZhik and Ills wlte and
children and these anti-clerical cartoons
were generally accompanied tv satirical
doggerel from the pen of the Soviet's prin
cipal poet. . Moscow Communist who writes
n Kreat deal of coarse, satirical verse under
the pen name of Ivan Bcdny 'Poor John).
Many huge colored cartoons were devoted
to Kolchak and Denikln. and were mostly
vulgar but effective.
The triumph of the Red rrm was ex
hibited, not without a rough art. In a series
of Cartoons, son., showing the Bed soldier
winding through frozen steppes others
showing them barging madly through the
smcke of battle
No Public House or Church
In the Ccmmuns Pictvic
In one double pictura a number of bloat
ed capitalists, smirking priests and purple
nosed Generals were shown In the act of
binding the Russian workman m chains.
In the other section of the same picture the
workman was seen breaking the chains.
Scattering hit would-be masters right and
left, and Jumping on the stomach of the
fattest of th ii
The "elimination" of the landlord waa
represented in a cartoon containing many
sections. In ihe eaily sections we hud
the old days of serfdom, in tho latter sec
tions we had the landlord running for his
life, accompanied by the parish priest, and
S3 BB
finallv f prosperous and contented peas-
entry owning everything In sight and pro-
vided e.itb a palatial md well attended 1
Communist ( hool but with no public house f
or church in the village.
Some posters dealt with British rule in
India ami others with the situation in Ire- I
land The Bolshe ist expert on Irish affairs f
Is a Comrade Kerzhentscff. who was In Ire- j
land during the Easter rebellion and has
pub'ished a number of pamphlets on "The
Mali Revolution' and ihe Irish question gen- If
crally P.eing an able Journalist and head of j.
the Rosta (RusxlJin Socialist Telegraph H
U'novi, he makes great capital out of the f(
present state of things In Ireland. if'
. i nln-ioyt :rliglous tone was lent to this If,
Propaganda Hall by the pictures relating to
Kar; Marx. One showed a sinking ship In IE
which all humanity was perishing save onlv ft
one man, who ws standing on a raft In the P
form of an op,, hook. ,vro which waa fi
written the name ' Kail Marx" Th're were l?T
also numerous busts of Karl Marx, looking
pafrinreha; (n long hair and beard, but the
n r.i prominent object was the red tar of '
Pdshevlsm a huge construction of red
gia.s with a light inside fixed high up near
ih celling and throwing I baleful light on u
the gre.-xt crowd always gathered underneath "
In' the evening.
These crowds attended the service of song
and ' instruction' which went rn daily from I
about .5 o'clock to midnight, and Which was
Certainly very popular, for I never found it iH
possible to get anything but -tanding room
The best local stneers and musicians, as
well as good musician? from Russia per
formrd gratis op a platform at the end of H
the room wh' re there was a piano and an f
orchestra. N'ot only were revolutionary if
songs given, lasslcal songs by imshkin
and Lermentov were also heard, as well as I
music by Tchaikovsky and other great com-
posers. Recitations. ;eeiures Cn art. edu- jf
cation, socialism, typhus, and every con
celvable subject lent variety to the. enter
lalnment Slogan of Bolshevism Shrieks I
From Every Pos and Pillar r
l have already alluded to the decorations j
in honor of Trotzky's arrival. These took
the form of Red flags passim, of many trl-
t.mph.il arches, of many pictures of Lenlno H
and Trotzky on the walls, and of all sorts of jH
other pictures, a. well as a vast amount of
bunting, evergreens, transparencies and col
ored cloth on all the house fronts.
Everywhere in gigantic letters the war I
cry of Bolshevism shouted at one: "Workers
ot the World Unite!" I anything ever be
c.ims true by constant repetition, this union
must soon lake place, for It is a stereotyped
heading on every issue of every newspaper.
It appears in about a dozen languages on
some of the Bolshevist paper money, it ap
pears on all the propaganda matter and all
the Go. eminent stationery and Bolshevik
mothers paste it oer their child's cradle ss
n i American mother pastes ' God Bless Our tl
Home." LH
The former British Consulate which had
been converted into a Bolshevist Govern
ment office had broken out into a perfec
eruption of decorations with a picture of
framed In R wreath of evercTeens. JH
OS the centre of the scheme The French H
consulate next door, which had been con
verted into a Court of Justice, was similarly
decorated and carried a picture of Trotzky.
Peter 'he Great had been knocked off his
r-destal In the centre of the town, and hl
ft.ire had been taken by a large marble head
of Karl Marx Catherine the Great had also
pen .Icpoie.l In f-ont of tho Cathedral was
at p; romidlcal erection of wee 1 covered
with red cloth bearing the inscription "To .
L-Tbor " It was adorned with brass plaques '
representing half-naked figures toiling in r
mines, forges and factories, these figures be- '
!ng so well designed that T suspe. r the f fl
ploques must have been taken from some
museum E
House Where Czar Was Murdered
Becomes a Political H aduuarters a I
The house where the Crar was murdered
was converted Into an office of the Political
Department and bore a great painting rep
lesenting the Red army charging through
smoke and snow. The square In front of
this house had been called "Resurrection
Place." hut that name has now been changed
'o The SqujiT' r.f National Vengran.-e "
Which shows that the Bolshevists, who ought
to know, entertain none of those doubts
about th murder of the Czar which some
people In this country still harbor.
The street that runs north and south of
that square Is called Karl LPbknecht street.
and the other principal street, in which tne
municipal theatre is situated. Is called Le-
street All the remaining streets and
squares have also had ther names changed, L
Formerly there were few Government ir.
stitutions and no clubs In Ekaterinburg, but
i ow there are whole -streets consisting of aJ)V
nothing else. Instead of promoting business,
however tins multiplication of Government
offices has killed It The dead hand of H
Government conttoi has stifled every kind of
enterprise.
The town had many Communist eating
houses, but they were only for Communists
And - disagreeable workhouse appearance
they all had. Exactly the same in every re
spect save that some bore the sign "Soviet
Government Eating House For Adults."
and others the sign Soviet Government
Eating House For Children." Tho ehll
dren. by the way, are well fed In both Eka- I
tcrinhtirg and In Moscow, but thi is all part
of a large and i unnlng scheme to get them
from their mothers and make them regard
themselves as children of the Statu and not
bound by ties of peculiar affection to any
man and woman.
Repelled by the blank, barracklike ex-te-lor
of the Soviet feeding troughs. I tried to 1
buy food elsewhere, but I found it utterly
impossible.
It wits' not that the Red army had eaten
up everything or thut all the food had been
s nt to European Russls, for no fod had
been sent scross the Crals since the Bolahs-
ists came to that town, which lies close to
0 Of the richest agricultural districts in the
v. .. rid and, though there had been a Whits
army in Ekaterinburg when I was there last,
the civilians could nevertheless got plenty of
food The reason for this stoppage lies in
Ihe Socialist theory that tho State should feed
everybody and that there .should be no pri-
; t( restauro is, no shops, and no middle
class at all. This kills all private enterprise
as surely as a tree is killed by the cutting
away of Its roots