St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 24, 1920

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The drift here is ) literature going the rounds, some of | much like that in Indiana—an ‘ ele nth-hour turn on the League cf Mations—though in Kentucky the: league issue and the way the negroes h of sentiment has been more | al and is coming now like a Le fit on religious issues. But the main! . : i ( factors in the campaign are the have been mobilized. If the race question had not been raised, the: Republican chanceg would have been | Did Have a Chance. excellént. Kentucky may be put | the Republicans really did have) down as safely Democratic. She will | BE }not desert the “Solid South.” Michance to carry Kentucky. 4 : 140,000 FOREIGN-BORN HERE x doubt about it. Last year they} carr i the State for Governor by *\ 40,000 majority. But the Repub-) americanization Agencies Urged to lean administration has been ina Co-operate in Work. | and has develop@@ some weak- Need of co-ordination and co-op-_ that will cost the nationa eration among agencies doing Amer- : y icanization work in St. Louis was) ye et many votes. pointed out at a meeting of ‘the The biggest take the Repub-?) Americanization and Industrial Com- | titans have made, however, is the( mittee of the Central Council of So- | an af the race issue. Woman cial Agencies yesterday at the Cham-| ' ber of Commerce. iirage came and the Republicans Harry ter Braak, chairman of the, the Industrial Commission of §t.| ? Louis, said there are approximately | 140,000 foreign-born in St. Louis. It! was pointed out that the various or- ganizations working among them! should outline their work so that where one agency could serve best in a given field the work should be! divided so that particular agency) , could do it. The committee will | tity Of Louisville, therefore, will go/ bold its next meeting Nov. 4, at! Te rile which time:a statistical report show-- ae an. fing the activities and sco f work | , é scope of work § The effect of the registration of) uf the various organizations will >= ‘Mesroes by every kind of approach the negro newspapers, the church, pane ools: And in. the Louisville ‘dist more than 12,000 negro ‘women registered as Republicans to ‘tot more than 20 affiliated as Dem- n Fully. 12,000 negro males eregistered as Republicans. The “4 ° “— — = Oe Fy ® Q —_ “4 © S QO i) SS “J nY) D9) @ fds co = 5 @ ee ie ae aa a ee ae ee #0 Many negroes has been to an-‘ presented. PRR ee sh eer WHAT TH Ft ky a Republican State, then there is something wrong about the in- PLO LSS ¢ ( meeting and executive secretary of! ? te cae tap gh Ege ge RD 4 ie! > . > %> LS ies POF hts h Nar ot: ra 3 . : tee ee Yo yo etna, Ne er s * i id BY > CAT, Re PP IIT i i i he a a i i fagonize and arouse the whites. SSS ‘ane women of the State have done mA Se mings going. The Democratic cam- ® encountered in the whole coun- * e Race Question Factor. More even than the men _ to * piiss Schneid- erman was asked. “It’s great,”’ she said. “I like it just as it is. The way it is imposed upon the American peo- ple is indefensible, but the re- sults are good. * Beer and cheap whisky have been abolished, though people with lots of money can swill to their hearts’ content. The result is that the workers’ brains are clearing up, while the brains of the ‘better classes’ are becoming more ad- dled every day.” ) ) } ) ( ) ) ) 'Farmer-Worker Candidate Says She Is for a League, but Most of All for a Government by Just Plain People. ) ' ) ) 4 State, who has been prevented by ill health from making a contempl Western speaking trip in behalf of Senator Harding, issued a statement today through Senator Harry New, chairman of the Republican Speakers’ Bureau, bitterly criticising President Wilson, and attacking the League of tt ee ; an (the Courier-Journal, in the G sete PHILANDER C. KNOX of Pennsylvania, former Secretary of ans, international war, will call for expenditures of treasure, shedding of American blood, for some loss of American life. It idle to say, and fatuous to hope for) went to work as an errand girl in a department store. about it—just a little, when her mother wasn't looking. loved school or hated work, but education spelled success to her. . / rf leadership; and how) E6QRUNCE Poland, against the ad-) S Senator Knox's statement, as given) whose courage and patriotism have saved ort than elsewhere. It is not un- “On the threshold of the adjust-( lished and our fathers preserved. with an obstinacy of purpose which ‘to mak i -otes.) cost us the lives of our best and) had for p280 ® Democratic vot would have aroused jealousy in the comprehension, the egoist of the/ breast of an Alexander or a Napo- leon, Mr. Wilson took his way to ) sovereignty. | , ,rope, who are keenly anxious to in-( volve us in this partnership of na-{ tions, make no dishonest pretensés | that it does not involve the surrend- 3 nals single-handed and alone to recast, ing Paris, ae af of Republican Hope. his own name, and by his’ own super-federation _¢ ® Republican leaders aré bas-( proper authority,’ the map and the) means of what is called a League of Nations, and is now about to receive the nation’s verdict through a grave eritts, which are Republican. And “In his demand for the election of (and solemn referendum in which he ey & counting upon a majority in( a Democratic Senate and House in, is represented by ® Loulsville district. They think( 1918, as he was about to take up his \ Cox. | “If we are worthy of participat- ing in a government, ‘amine and judge Mr. Wilson’s su- his so-called League This document, less you give me uncontrolled power) far as it can be understood, in- ( you repudiate me and my leadership; cludes so much that is strange to our uncontrolled by the country, whose trary to our fundamental principles be entrammeled by counsel, the) preme effort, of Nations. ride nationalism. of international intercourse and con- ra has represented the Louls- wished to be beyond human control, } duct, destructive of treaty rights, in- : ng bet oe - ‘aye as at that time, the word of the ; dispensable to the thited States was the law of yaad ehcp ng » were then, emis . . ~ ‘and interest displayed by eine ae Sees tetdeee against( of the United States must give there- om our thrift and energy its\to the fullest and most mature, care- tie half of what it is this. year, ope of material aid; our love qf { ful and calm consideration. “The proposed covenant, ity. “Alezander or Napolcon.” (of abolishing war, Canvans Looks Rosy. - : “tnderstanding the possibilities of ‘tions, breeds ts have poled many(the investment of al) these mighty) Moreover, net. “in the State and have a forces in the uncontrolled power of) that every future war shall be a po- | tential world war, and that we shall be an active participant in every on ide ich makes them worthy of their( such war. registration outs wh : wale -of " “We are thus thrust fully into the te that the whole people a Oa Og OOO ae actually sanc- for bélieve these outbreaks will not ‘Unabashed by this rebuke, and(eccur for ambitious mey do not hes- ' itate to waste life in order to pun- ish an enemy or gain a goal. “The provisions of the proposed covenant are also destructive of our e smen of Eu-/ The state | par Calls the League Unsafe. “The soundness of Senator Hard- ing’s position lies in his recognition of the fundamental fact that the league, as tendered to us, will not do, as it is not safe for America, and not being safe for America, it is not safe the world. Senator Harding recognizes that we desire no special- ly insured relation to the League of Nations; and therefore, that the league, as proposed, must be reject- ed, and the energies of the world, under the leadership of the United States, directed to the formation of a him a Republican Senate any House, terrible cauldron of European pol- Continucd on Page Fifteen.. . ~~ ; ( } ) itics and every outbreak in the Bal-) even domestic, if it threatens Some — a nee © Soviet Army of Social Destruction and Crusade Against Present World French General, Back Permanent Anglo- Standing Is Hardly Possible. From Russia, Says Bolshevist Under- SPRL LWW BB LAPP POD DP PPD DPLD DL OP Reh SO LD PLA A hdl Ld * -_, \ “aac Owe, a a a on Finally there has been this Polish ™” ae business. Many Russians of moder- |tinctions of race or nationality.” The General went on to add that ‘one catise of the revival of patriot-| } ism has been the patriotic pride the) masses have been taking in the easy victories of the Sovtets over every, offensive the allies have made into Russian territory to attack the Red 4 tl. a armies. “The Russian peasant looks on and says: “The allies conquered | ‘Germany and Austria, but we whip, them every time they try to meddle, in Russian business.’ “Allied military prestige is at a ( very low ebb in Russia,” the Gen- eral said. “The ‘armies of order’! raised by Kolchak, Judeniteh and) Denikine are no more, though the Entente pf Europe did everything in)! “Tt must be remembered,” he ob-{ served, “that the Russian has an almost mystical respect for those who conquer, for the mujik sees in “People have asserted,” he con-) (tinued. “that most of the soldiers ‘and officers of the old army were forced by sheer poverty and hunger) }to join the Red forces. I don't be-/ lieve it. Possibly a few adventurers, professional! soldiers with no other way of making a living, took Soviet commissions just as they would have ‘enlisted in France or in Timbuctoo. But the majority of the old fighters have taken up arms for honorable The idea of, ) Poland talking back to a country like) /Russia! The idea of a Polish in- vasion' The mere thought of such ‘ar has been the one thing neces-, Not that she sary to establish discipline solidly in) it ' the Red armies. vice of Foch, began her attack, the officers in the Soviet army have been wearing rectangles bor-’ It cost $68 fa all, Suk the same] dered in gold braid on their coat sleeves. And privates have again ac-, cepted the duty of saluting their su- periors. Furthermore, though they d ,no longer say ‘Mr. Captain.” or ‘Me? Captain,’ as was the old custom, they are required to place the word ‘to-/; ‘warich’ before an officer's name in (addressing him: ‘teomrade Captain.’ of wealth vanished with her dream / p+ thie is a verbal. not a substan- of an education. She quit trying to get out of the; ferior la now taking toward the su- in- \ perior the attitude that was enforced by severe penalites under the old re-) ot the working woman a better one. ) gime. Officers again live in separate She began to dream, not of riches or t, culture or leadership for herself, but )and with somewhat more sumptuotts Couldn't the work-) tare. They have a ‘mess’ as they did ing women be organized to compel) better conditions just as well as the/ sky. They form a class apart.” Within a few yeara Rose Schneiderman was a “‘trouble- \ “union agitator,” tial change. The fact is that the in. quarters apart from the privates,’ under Nicholas II or under Keren- ‘Where, then,” I asked with a gemile in which my friend joined, ( ‘Where, then, is the anti-militariem ‘which Lenine and his comrades were Miss Schneiderman was the cen-) preaching but two years ago? His tral figuce in the organization not/army is assuming a more and more, ‘reactionary’ charaeter, reactionary, In the sense, at lea that it is going 1 which she is now the national vice) back to ancient = s, Bio ad So eee Bonaparte in Last year she went as 4 delegate from this league to the In- Labor Mission } Peace Congress, out of which sprang ) the International Working Women's “That is another @f the ironies of life,” the General reflected. “Trotzky, {ing star in the night, and go dow the Russian Danton, takes up the: in history as one of the consequences Kaiser's task at the point where: Incidentally, Mise Schneiderman } William It abandoned !t. The Ho-( Continued om Page Fifteen. henzollern has found .o understudy * ) we really on the threshold of @ 7 = to replace him, the moment the com- bined boots of the world compelled him to step off the stage of history.” OT Rw allies tried to stifle the Russian revolution by estahb- lishing a commercial blockade -around Russian territory. At the Same time, the allies have proven to be the chief agents for furnishing the Bolsheviki with their most re- liable means of defense. “The Red army,” my friend pro- ceeded, “has arms and munitions itn ‘abundance. Take clothing, for in- Blance. Some of the shops who used to make war supplies have been at } work again for some months past But the principal stocks have come from England. The ‘Whites’ of Kolchak, Denikine and Judenftch had received complete and lavish provisionings from the English, uni- forms, especially, not to mention guns and shells. Well, when the counter-revolutionaries took to flight they left all such material for the ' Bolsheviki. I was located at a point between Otchakov and Nikolatev at the beginning of the Polish war, and there crowds of tussian recruits,™ rushing to the colors under the im- pulse “of patriotism and an aroused public opinion passed by, dressed up in English uniforms and marching to the tune of war songs, just as fn th® days of the Czar. “Then the Red army reabsorbed the sevetal divisions which had gone to France and fought a part of the war there. The French Government i sent these troops home = fully equipped, except for rifles. Each sol- dier had a knapsack, two pair of boots, a coat, and so forth. The Red propagandist took charge of those men the moment they set foot in tussia and it was not difficult to persuade them to stay in service. They needed only a gun to be ready to fight for the Soviets. “Work in the munition factories has become gradually more intensive. They are hard at work repairing railroad locomotives, and rolling stock in general. Very considerable numbers 6f locomotives were left /hehind in the three routs of the White armies. This equipment was put to good use by the Bolsheviki in their offensive ins Poland, an of- fensive which they could make with relative ease since they were work- ing on interior lines. “Another source of supply, not wholly negligible, has been the amug- giers Arms and supplies have en- tered -uesia through Baltic and northern ports in spite of the En- glish fleet. ad PS all the units of the Rus- sian army are composed of Russians. There are a num- ber of Chinese regiments raised among the Chinese mine workers who were taken in Russia early in the war. There are Lettish regiments also, and a ‘Foreign Legion.’ Ali great revolutionary movements at- tract adventurous spirits from the remotest corners of the globe, agi- tators by temperament who see in every upheaval some reflection of their ovn discontent. In Ryseta some of these foreign adherents have ‘risen to quite important posts. “The Red army, in view of its un¢ doubtedly sound compactness, today proves to be the spinal column of Sovietisem. Without it. the Commun- Ist republic would have collapsed long ago. Relying on it, the Red chieftains in Moscow, who count more aposties than statesmen among their number, are dreaming of the conquest of the world. Emboldened by their continuous victories, they are thinking of themeelves as so many Peters the Hermit—though they do not have that enthustast's religious faith—and are preaching a crusade against the present world. They see before them the possibility of a great armed conflict of East agairist Weet “Many people. of course, think this is only the dream of a few wild fanaticn whose heads have been turned by victory. According to this view, the Soviets are held together by the presence of enemies to fight the ‘Whites,’ the ‘Greans’ and espe- clally the ‘foreigners,’ the allies, tn other words. When the threat from abroad has vanished, the Red army will revolt and raise some General to power, just as the old Sane Culot- France.” | type, as it were, an@ a German type, “Do you think there is anything at that.” in that idea’” I asked. “Will the Russian revolution pass like a sheot. simply. of the recent war? Or ere TT RITE ATL, fb RAT IIE SOT PATH BI ia Me et ee i em ee ee wed ieee de Oe ee bee a RR nt mee re ge . oe erp Mi tae Spr Bsr abt a WR at Oey inmates aahimeRIN ELL LLL LEE LES ELE SSN IERE._ "BEN termes eama a rertnanenr elias mere tne i * Rte Ns st ee oe er cre