Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 24, 1917, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNE, MEDFOIID, OKEC-OX PTUPA Y, AUflUBT 24, 1917 PATCIE TJIItEPl 0' 1111 DUE TO GERMAN SPY KNAVERY Pro-Germans From America Defame Uncle Sam to Russian Workmen Lies Spread by German-Controlled Press and by Pro-Kaiser Agitat ors on Street Corners. (This Is tho third of the articles written by Charles Edward Ilussoll, who spent three months in Russia as a member of the official Root com mission appointed by President Wil son. These articles contain tho fruits of Russell's observations In his duel capacity as reporter and government investigator.) (By Charles Edward nussoll.) (Copyright l'J17 by tho Newspaper En terprise Association.) If you are an American, of course you hope that Russia will be active and strong on the battle line, dcliver , ing a punch for the allies. Sometimes It looks from the day's news as if Russia was about all in and had no more punch to deliver. But let me tell you something about that. The case of Rus sia is never so bad cms iimMoSHitU as It is painted. You can always discount about 71 percent of all the gloom and old blue stuff you read about It. Discount tlio Gloom. In the next place, for what is left of actualities gone wrong there is al ways a perfectly good reason, and when you come to know it you see that nothing could be otherwise and there Isn't much to worry about. All the existing situation in Russia the real situation, I mean; not the nightmares dreamed by the Blue Line Boys is the natural result of. the old rogimo or the forces that ov erthrew It. ... Take this matter of a halt In the t Jtussian military activities. Here are i. some facts about that not gonorally j,known In this country and yot facts I'that ought to be pondered by every (American. I To begin with, the Russian tempor (nir.tit, which is wa,rm, kindly, goner ' 'wis, and sympathetic, stirred bythe VmWsjrst of enthusiasm caused by the ivoUion, threw tho door wide opon r wl-t is called the Gorman prop anoMid three-fourths of Russia's t)ea,v0 come from just that O'sourt. '""'"So Limit in Trickery. ''e O01! propaganda. you do not on and what that is un less, ft. havt n Ruf)sa and geen at work. Ujn a generttl way u 81,10 ,'escnt lnable human limit In cunning, f,H an( sinister, umlerh m0tho(8 It Is an enorn.. .,.,, , thousands ot . , ' nl0ta has and the United States, It Is very, ably directed and It works with tireless industry. Its object Is by covert agitations. schemes and press control to save Germany from the defeat that awaits her on tho battlefield. In the United States It manifests itself by starting slogans and Insti tuting demands, cunningly calculated to embarrass the country and ham string the government, such as "Tell Your Peace Terms!" and "Our Lib erties are in anger!" In Russia it took Immediate advantage of the strong, generous, benevolent emo tions aroused by the revolution to preach the doctrine that the Germans wore the Russians' loving little broth ers and would you really go out to shoot your brother that-loves you so? Spread It Thick. Over Russia. ThiB did an immense amount of harm. They spread the flub-dub thick over all Russia, and millions there were that fell for it. The Ger mans own newspapers, presses, news bureaus, distributing agencies, men, women and machines in every part of Russia. They made the country re sound with the agitation for peace and good will to murderers. I will give you an illustration. There Is in Petrograd a great level sandy plain called the Field of Mars, formerly the drill asd parade ground for soldiers. It is now the free speeclt exchange and mammonth safety valve for all the oratory and hot air In j Russia. .On any Sunday you can find, there fromAO to 100 meetings In full blast, orators splitting the innocent air with fiery darts of eloquence and thousands of amateous getting from their chests the thoughts thai have oppressed them these many years. There, also, I have seen the Ger man agents at work by the scores, going from meeting to meeting, preaching sedition and the . lovely traits of the men that put Edith Cavell to death. .."Why should we fight the Ger mans?" Is the burden of their song. "Tho German workingmen are our brothers. Let us make war against the capitalists in all nations but let the Russian workingmen and the Ger man workingmen be a band of broth ers together. IVe have shed enough blood for the capitalists that made this war merely for their own profits. Let us throw down our arms and re fuse to fight any longer against our brethren." Defame TncIo Snm In Russia. About one half of the men that were talking this were former resi dents of America, persons with Amer ican citizenship papers and American passports, and the particular delight of these was to defame the United States, cover It with slanders and lies and warn Russians against looking upon us as a democracy. "The common people of America are worse off and more oppressed than you ever were under the czar," is a favorite declaration of these per sons, followed by: "I am an American and, I ought to know." The United States and Great Brit- tain woulU then be blamed for the war and the food shortage the high prices of necessaries and the lack of coal. 'V This kind df thing Incossantly ro peated by thousands of adroit speak crs and scattered by the millions In pamphlets, posters' and newspaptrB was certain to have a profound ef fect. Tho casualties of tho Russians un der their incompetent, dishonest Im perial government . of thieves and grafters had been 7,000,000. No wonder a skillfully prepared' peace program looked good to the rest. At the same time the German agents were turning a trick on the battle front, that for audacity and deviltry has not been equalled any where. Why Army Blow Vi, t Tho Russian soldlors, of course, shared in the universal rejoicing when the old corrupt government fell. The Germans now appealed to them with handbills and circulars idcclar Ing'that the first result of the revolu tion was to be the division of all the land In Russia among the peasants and workers, but as the division would be mado at once every peasant must hasten borne or he would not receive his share." .Some of these an nouncements had a semi-official ap pearance and all seemed to be au thentic. As soon as the news ran along the trenches whole regiments threw down their arms and bolted for home. The railroads were speedily packed and congested with a vast horde scramb ling frantlcaly to get Into rango for all these good things. For weeks every train moving from the front was a spectacle the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Men rode on brake beams, couplers,' air pipes, door steps and the roofs of cars. Hundreds fell off and Were killed. When they had made their way home they found, of course, that there was no distribution of land, and not likely to be one. , It was this exodus, purely the work of German agents, that figured in the dispatches as the "wholesale deser tions on the battle front." It shat tered discipline, scooped the Inside from some of the lines and paralyzed military operations. Altogether It was .worth more to the czar than a victory on the field and almost as much as a pacifist speech from a Yel low Streak In the United States senate. Free Speech, Free Press. You will want to know why the government tolerated these natural ized Americans that wore active dis seminators of troason, the Gorman press agents on the front and the rest of this perilous icull-duggery. The answer Is that with the coming of the revolution speech and the press became absolutely free In Russia and at first this was supposed, to include freedom to overturn the government and betray the country to Germany, If anyone so desired. The wise men of Russia have learned better since. They have learn ed or aro learning that when democ racy Is fighting for its lifo with' a powor like Germany, remorseless, ruthless, savago and . cunning, bont upon absolute domination of the world, all other considerations must for the time being wait upon the su preme necessity of rescuing liberty. It Is a wholesome lesson. We might take some wads of It in the United States. TO FIGHT GERMANY WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. In tho first speech on the general subject of the war and prospects of peace deliv ered in the senate since the publica tion of Pope Benedict's peace propos als, Senator Owen of Oklahoma, de clared that the fact that tho pope, with the approval of Austria and ap parently with tho approval of Gor many, proposed "simultaneous and reciprocal diminution of armaments," seemed to promise that the Teutonic autocracy was coming to its senses." "Wo will help them reach a condi tion of sanity," ho added, "by mul tiplying our war offorts and by co ordinating every nation in the world in this struggle against the world domination, of the Teutonic powers." The senator spoke In support of his joint resqlutlon proposing an Inter national government and police to maintain peaco, end competitive ar manonts and he ambitions of mili tary dynasties. Ho sale it would ho madness for the world to temporize with the Teutonic "conspiracy to de strop the democracies of the world." "Seven-eights of the people of thol world," he continued, "are at heart opposed to tho ambitions of the Prus sian military autocracy and tho Unit- IP FOR BURNS, CUTS and WOUNDS Dtnnlt Eucalyptus Ointment AT ALL onuo STORES Tubes 2se jars boo LEMONS BRING OUT THE HIDDEN BEAUTY Make this lotion for very little v cost and Just see ' . for yourself. ed States should strenuously take steps to Induce every neutral nation to combine with the entente allies in making war on Prusslanlsm. "Tho destruction of Prussian mili tarism may come In one of three ways first, by consent of the military leaders beforo physical destruction conies; second, by the will of the Ger man peoplo before physical ruin en sues; third, by the physical force of the military powers of the entente allies. 1 "The third moans would he more costly in lifo to all nations, but will bo applied If necessary." Bell-ans Absolutely Removesl Indigestion. 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