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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-
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