Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 12, 1919, Page 5

THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1919 UNSTABLE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT MEANS RETURN OF GERMANY TO HER OLD POWER AND INFLUENCE Former Ambassador Reveals Conditions in Former Monarchy for Bringing Order Out of Chaos (BY Associated Press.) RYB BEACH, N. H., June 12.— Warning that if a stable govern- ment is not established in Russia, Germany will utilize Russian re- sources and mati-power and again be- come a great menace to the people of Europe was given today by David R. Francis; American anibassedor to Russia. Mr. Francis is recuperating} here from illness which compelled him to undergo a stirgical operation in London on his way home from) Archangel. He is awaiting orders from the state department. Mr. Francis was prompted to make | the statement by the recent speeches of Frank A. Vanderlip, formerly | president of the National City bank | of New York in which Mr. Vandeflip | gave his views of the industrial situa- tion in Europe and told America that | she must be prepared to extend her credit to put European business on its feet. “T have read with great interest,” said the ambassador, “Mr. Vanderlip’s note of warning delivered before the Economie elub in New York several days ago. Mr. Vanderlip had un- equalled facilities for studying con- ditions in Europe during his four or five months’ visit and his address, coming as it does from the presi- dent, since resigned, of the largest financial institution in America, im- parts most valuable information. He is not in the diplomatic service; if he were he would have thought a second time concerning his utterance about labor conditions in England. | Those conditions are more or less| serious in every European country | and merit attention even in the United States. | “The Bolshevik spirit which is now manifesting itself in the Canadian | strikes, I am glad to see is frowned upon by the labor unions in that! country as well as in our own. If} thet spirit should dominate in the| new world or even if it should per-/| meate lebor circles to the extent it} did in Russia in the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution, it would as it did there attempt to appropriate | the lands and that would be very de- | plorable for the labor unions of | Amé¥ica. Here the public domain | immense as it was has practically all been taken up by settlers who. own the soil they till and would not lis- ten with any patience to the Bolshe-| vik doctrine or nationalizing the} land. “Lenine has realized this as, be- fore I left Russia, he said Bolshe- vism had no cause to fear the large land owners or feudal barons as he called them, but the small holders among the peasantry were the most} powerful enemies of Bolshevism. | “T did not intend to digress, how- ever, even to this extent from what I wished to say concerning Mr.} Vanderlip’s address. While he visit-| ed almost every accessible country! iri Europe, belligerent and neutral, he did not go to Russia nor mention the resources of that afflicted coun-| try in his comprehensive statement. | He did not even take into account | in Russia} when he stated that the population of | the productive capacity Europe had grown from 110 million to 440 million and without increasing its productivity nearly in the same ration. “Russia during the five years end- ing with 1915 produced an average of and the Necessity Che Casper Datiy Crivune [Japan to célebrate the treaty. Tt | was not received with such acclama tion in Russia. Sazanoff who had been minister of foreign affairs since 1910 was succeeded by Sturmer and the people attributed Sazanoff’s down-fall to thé Japanese treaty, but this is another story. “I was speaking of the sentiment of Russia towatd America. I made every effort during my stay in Rus sia to bring thé two countries closer together. After Sazanoff expresséd in stch a positive way that Russia would not negotiate a new commer- - jcial treaty with the United States, I jturned my attention to promoting commerce between the two countries . | quite naturally, many queries here a \as to openness of the methods of WITH AMERICAN PEACE MISSION Lansing Chagrined at House’ Usurpation of Publicity Spotlight and Naval Advis- ers Also Are Displeased WASHINGTON June 11.—Strange arrival at covenants of pea | Also, the: ake it appear jthe costl rappings of the functioni of the American | gation there is a lot of heartburning. Lloyd George is probably as kéen as his opponents for another election, as his present position—head of a2 coalition government, in which cor- |seryatives have the largest repre- } sentation. while he has always fought fon the side of the radicals—is em- barrassing. : Northcliffe is still striking at the | Premier thru his pres, but mostly in Paris t under cial dele. | Overman committee of the Senate |—the denunciation of the treaty had }mot‘interfered with our international E commercial relations. A la or- German Influetice in Russia —_| tion of the commerce between this “Germany has not only beenjeountry and.Russia was transacted studying the immense resources of through England and much larger Russia for a half century but during jportion through Germany; it was the the past several decades has given! custom of American firms who wished | careful attention to the Russian char-{to sell their wares to Russia to es- | acter going so far as to place Ger-| tablish agencies in Germany for that man teachers in Russian schools. Asjpurpose. I made effort to promote I said in my testimony before the | direct commercial relations; not only ‘encouraging American exporters and and on various other occasions, if| Russian purchasers to make acquain- Germany had deferred the war a tance but even before leaving Ameri- decade or five years even, she would|ca had a conference with president have had such a strong foothold in| of the Western Union Telegraph Co., Russia that it would have been im-|Mr. Carlton, with whom I was per- possible to dislodge her. I have also }sonally acquainted and suggested or expressed the view many times that | urged the laying of a direet cable stories are being borne over the ca-| he has been standing on the sidelines. bles of internai troubles, bricker- | Probably if there were other pro ings and jealousies in the circles of | gressive who could fill the Premier's the Arzerican delegation to the peace | shoes, Northeliffe would support him tonference But with the exception of J. H Following on the reports that Sec- | Thomas, whose statesmanship averted retary Lansing is deeply dissatisfied a strike’ which would have paralyzed and displeased over the manner | Britain, there is no one. Thomas is in which fie has been subcrdinated|a member of parliament and head ‘und Col. House made to appear the | of the Railwaymen’s Union. chief figute next to the President,| fgb Smillie, head df the miners, come others equally entertaining. | played a stellar role in assisting It ie represented now that Secre-| ‘Thomas, and did wonders in pushing Daniels’ recent retreat from the| the question of public ownership. His second to None” navy was an abso- ute surprise to Admiral Benson, head of the American naval mission, | coal mines, at the recent government which’ strongly disapproves Mr. Dan-| probe, boosted considerably the iel’s statement to the House naval/ chences of public ownership But quiz of wealthy dukes and lords, ners of the majority of Britain's it would be difficult if possible to establish peace in Europe with chaos prevailing in Russia or even with Bolshevik rule dominating Russia. It is also my conviction if a stable gov- ernment is not established in Rus- sia that Germany will utilize the re- sources of that country, organize its man-power as Germany knows so well how to do and become as pow- erful and as great # menace to the |people of Europe at the end of one lor two decades as she was at the | beginning of the world war. Lloyd George said to one of his colleagues |at the Paris conference ‘any peace | which we negotiate here with Russia Weft out would be a travesty for | Russia comprises half of the dryland |of Europe and half of Asia also’— and he might have added over one- between | coasts. “I even went so far after my ar- rival in Russia as to obtain the con- \aets of the Russian government to American -and Russian efray half the cost of the eable hwhich was estimated at that time to | be about six million dollars. As the state departmefit said they had no objection to my submitting a prop- ‘osition to the Western Union Tele graph company inasmuch as our gov- ;efmment was not at that time inter- ested in or controlling public utili- ties, I wrote Mr. Carlton of the agreement secured from the Rus- jsian government, stating further- mote that Russia. besides furnishing half of the cost of the cable would be willing to lease it to the West- ern Union company for operation affairs committee. Moreover, it is said Col. House has been conducting secret negotiations with the heads of the British delegation affecting each naval program and that this has been going on without the knowledge of he President's own supposed naval advisers. Then, there is the Irish question. Former Ambassador White and Gen- eral Bliss are represented as not in accord with the action by Secretary Lansing with respect to the turning down of the efforts of friends of {rish freedom to secure a hearing at Versailles. It seems they didn’t nown what was going on until, it vas over. Such developments, along with the resignation of certain of the Amer- can delegates who are over provisions of the treaty, raise displeased | Smillie is not considered quite heavy enough as yet to hold down a pre- mier minister’s job, and, in addition, he is too well hated by conservatives of practically all shades. The latest suggestion for a new premier cames from the Weekly Dis- patch, a Northcliffe Sunday paper, which pointed out that with a few changes in the coalition inet and the substitution of a few Tories, a respectable Tory government could be formed. In place of Lloyd George, the Dis- patch would substitute Bonar Law, oyd George’s parliamentary leader. rv foreign secretary, Lord Cruzon would be substituted for Arthur J Balfour. Sir Edward Carson would @ given the secretaryship for war, n place of Winston Churchill, and ord Robert Cecil would displace seventh of the dry land of the earth.|and would accept as its portion of “Relations between our country/the rental six per cent interest on and Russia have always been of the/its investment; but the reply was most friendly character and were |that the Western Union or the Amer- not interrupted by our abrogeting{ican Telephone & Telegraph com- the commercial treaty with that coun-{pany, which owned the Western try as we did in 1912. When I went |{inion could not see its way clear to Russia as ambassador early inj|to join in the enterprise. My recol- 1916, one year before we entered (lection, moreover, is that I wrote Mr the war, my first or main object was )Carlton that if the cable would not to negotiate a new commertial | pey operating expenses in the begin- treaty. I broached the subject to|ning or for several years thereafter, Sazenioff, Minister of Foreign Af-|I thought the Russian government fairs, under the Empire at our first) would be willing to forego its inter- interview, and was greatly disap-/est. I cannot recall pointed when he said to me that | whether Mr. Carlton made any reply ‘Russia would make no more treaties/‘o my last letter or treated the until her commercial relations with| proposition as closed. her allies were defined and determin-| “At any rate, I planned taking up ed.’ ‘the project again but was prevented “That conference was April 29, by the March, 1917, revolution which 1916; the treaty with Japan which|I wes delighted to welcome!” Tt qwes then being negotiated was con-| meant not only the overthrow of an summated within two months; that|/absolute monarchy and the libera- treaty was signed by Motono, the /tion of the great masses of the Rus- Japanese ambassador, who was also |Sian people but the remeval of a at that time dean of the diplomatie| great impediment to our entering the corps and Sazanoff, the Russian min-|War—that was the making of # co- istet of foreign affairs. The secre¢)belligerent or ally of arn absolute provisions of the treety were not di-|autocrecy. The revolution kegan vulged until the Bolsheviki came into|twenty-one days before President power late in 1917 and published all| Wilson delivered his memorial ad- of the secret treaties. That treaty|dress to congress April 2, 1917, ree- was hailed with such delight in Ja-|ommending that a state of war be de- pan that Motono was recalled and|clared to exist with Germany. made minister of foteign affairs and{Ten days after the revolution began, banquets and bon-fires throughout provis The Fire and the Flavor in cooking is largely a matter of exact céntrol of heat. 784,329,200 bushels of wheat as com- pared with our 802,055,800 bushels during the same period. The year before the war began, 1913, Rus- sia produced 960,000,000 bushels of wheat as compared with our 763,- 300,000 bushels. During those five years the average production of oats in Russia was 1,045,095,800 bush- els as against our average of 1,224 188,200 bushels. Likewise Russia’s average production of barley for this five year period was 492,551,000 2 coal stove. Like gas for convenience. * utensil—cooks quickly. | : Sold by all dealers. | For best results use Coit-o-co Safety Oil. | . THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY { (A Colorado Cotporatioa) | ¥ Denver | > Salt Lake City Cheyenne Albuquerque at this time} viscomte and there were numerous fowever, and seven days after the! 1 With Puritan Oil Cookstoves you can régulate cooking heat perfectly. They light 7 —gi heat for frying, simmering; boiling or baking. pa de high—there iays: No fire tending. None of the kitchen heat or grimy work of r Like gas the flame plays right on the cooking was the first ambassador or chief | of mission to recognize their cov-! ernment and did so by authority of| our government forty-eight hours he fore the recognition by England, France and Italy who had been ullies| of Russia for many months,” | After two years and eight months of strenuous service in Russia, dur- ng a portion of which time he was} the only allied chief of mission in| that country, Ambassedor Francis| was conveyed by the cruised Olympia from Archangel to a Scottish port. During the journey, which was temp- estuous and fatiguing through Are- tic waters, armistice was signed. | After remaining 15 or 20 days in| the United States naval hospital at} Strathpeffer; Scotland, he went to London wheré-he underwent 2 major | surgical operatién. Mr. Frasicis’ nervous system was| very, much weakened. He returned with the president on the steamer George Washington and | after testifying before the Overman committee of the Senate on Balshe- vism, spent two months at White Sul- | phur Springs, W. Va., going thence | to Rye Beach. He has not yet vis- ited his home city, St, Louis. When asked about his future plans the ambassador replied he was wait-| ing for orders from the state depart- | ment. He is rapidly regaining his health and his physician says the op-| i ecessful. Flavor Set the flame low, bushels while our average was only | 198,777,600 bushels, The disparity of rye production is still more start- | ling; Russia’s averege for the five year period was 935,124,000 bushels | and ours was only 39,424,400 bush- els. 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