The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1920, Page 11

b | a _— Bs — i[ <= | TheSeattleStar =<: RUSSIA RIPE FOR COUNTER-REVOL COMMUNISTIC REGIME | IS A GHASTLY FIASCO Tears Down the Rich, Pushes Poor| Farther Into Mire; Nobody Benefits & counter revolution. Whether receut altered conditions in the great empire, BY J. H. DUCKWORTH 1 REVAL, Esthonia.(By courier to New York, by mail to Seattle.) “What keeps the Soviet republic go- ing?” asked a clown at a Petrograd) cireus. His answer was in Russian) rhyme: “Jewish brains, Lettish bayonets, Russian stupidity.” This crack brought down the Bouse. The clown got two weeks in the fortress of Saints Peter and Paul for his temerity. ! I often thought of this incident! when I was safe out of Russia. | ‘There was more than a modicum of truth in the jest. ‘ TERRIBLE REVENGE TAKEN ON OPPRESSORS Led by the clever Jewish brains | the workers and peasants of Russia have also taken a terrible revenge on | their oppressors—the capitalists und the big landowners. But the workers and peasants are Bow heartily dick of the experiment in communism. Russia is now eco- | Romically a wreck. The proletariat | is praying for a change of govern-| ment in the hope of getting bread It ts only by bayouets and the threats of imprisonment or death | that keep the people from openly re. volting. Russia is ripe for a counter- revolution. But the people are too stupid, or rather stupefied, as a re: | sult of continued starvation, to make | & move. - The long and weartsome ride from | Moscow to Jamburg I shall never forget. Soldiers guarded all the sta tions. Soldiers were in all the little | wayside towns. They boarded the) train every hour or so to examine | permits. And all along the 600 miles | Peasants were beseeching us to give them bread. SOVIET OFFICIALS ASK : HELP IN REACHING AMERICA It seemed strange, but numerous Soviet government officials begged me, almost with tears in their“eyes, to help them get to America. Soviet Red Cross nurses, railroad officials, even some of the ‘commis- sare on our train of 300 Swiss refu-/ gees, everybody in Soviet Rumsia, it | seemed, wanted to get out. Scores of Americans of Russian | origin, who gave up their good jobs| in the States and flocked back to Russia after the revolution in the hopes of finding a paradise on earth, now find themselves prisoners in a land of famine. At Jamburg. near the Exthonian frontier, the commissar im charge of our food and the Russian command- ant of the train were both marched off to the loca! headquarters of the extraordinary commission between / armed guards. } It was rumored that they had been | discovered plotting to escape into| Esthonia. We were sorry tor them. | ‘Their fate was sealed. All the way! from Moscow shese two Bolsheviks | had been eulogizing the beauties and benefits of Bolshevism—camouflage DUCKWORTH ACCOMPANIED BY AGENT PROVOCATEUR Feperts ihat their regime cannot last and that Rusia wae in June ripe for | RUSSIA ARE ANXIOUS 1 was accompanied all the way from Moscow by a man I believed to | be a spy of agent-provocateur. e He as thrown in my way the day 1! was evacuated from the prison of| Vetchaika in Moscow. He pretend ed to be an Englishman who had been in prieon, too. But he looked se uncommonly fat and well that I at once became suspicious. | He seemed particularly anxious to find out what I was going to write) when I got out of Russia. And he was always inviting me to hop the train and return to Petrograd. I pre-| tended that my trip had been a fail-| ure; that I had seen nothing of con-| sequence. He expressed astanish-| ment when I got over the frontier at | secing me busily taking notes. | “You seem more cheerful now,” he| said. “Yes,” I answered, * confession. I went to Russia with the friend. liest of feeling toward commun ism, In fact, my intimate friends half-humorously called me a Bol. shevik. I expected to find that “the great 80 per cent” in Russia were compara tively happy, on top. I was quite) willing that the 20 per cent capital fats, exploiters, bourgeoise, call them uld suffer if the IN PRACTICE STLY FIASCO | ut perhaps T was | hevist, after all. | a beautiful rnment. In practice it flanco. Nobody is body, both may be happy under it; eve the 80 and| the 20 per cent, is hungry to the point of st on At Jamsburg we were held up six hours. We were taken about a mile thru the woody to an old farmhouse and given a final shakedown by the extraordinary commission, The mén were taken into one room and the women into another, where our clothing was searched, Some were stripped. Diamond rings, gold and silver coins and even overcoats were taken away from us. Bolshevik liter. | ature we were allowed to keep. | And then, later on in the train, as | military successes of the only future history can tell, reds have we were approaching the red flag on the barbed wire on the frontier, a commissar gravely came into every coach and asked Does anybody want to go back to! Russia? This ts your last chance!” A GRIM JOKER, THIS BOLSHE. | VIK! LAST FEW MINUTES IN ‘The last few minutes tn Russia were anxious moments for all of | us, Something might happen to make the Bolsheviks change their minds | and senda us back to Moscow Once ot the line everybody com. menced to sing. Some prayed—pray ers of thankfulness for their safe de | livery, I suppowe. Others put their heads out of the windows and look ing toward Russia, spat out on the) tracks. I was told when T left the states) not to editorialixe and to write only about things I saw and actually heard. But before I close let me say thin: Bolsheviam in the United Stater must be fought tooth and nail It| is a déltructive form of government It tears glown the rich—and pushes the poorfurther into the mire. No body benefits by it. | But the spirit of Bolsheviam must be fought intelligently, Oppression and the curtailment of free speech | won't accomplish anything. ® Honest grievances must be righted. Personally I don't blame some people for believing that communism wil! right all their wrongs. Theoretically it will, But no honest man can see Rus sia, as I have seen it. and come back and wish to have Bolshevism tried out in his own country—that is, if| he loves his fellow cithetix | CAPE MAY, N. J., Aug. 6.—Horave Corson, who weighs over 400 pounds. while clamming in the Delaware bay |the alley under the window were jat Mannesmann Tube works have || 1 to 20 DECLARES DUCKWORTH SOCIETY CROOK COT COLD BAR Picked It at Midshipmen’ Ball Recently Soclety crooks were suspected day of the theft of a $400 4 studded gold bar pin from the SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1920. HESKETH AIDS. |ELWELL CLERK Ly TINDALL BILL} IS FINED $200 Increased Scale Is Granted|/Says He Will Support Gar- | Pleads Guilty to Violation on Traction System bage Measure of Volstead Act In, order that the hotel men may! NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—William E mer secretary to Joseph have time in which to prepare their | Barnes, fe | Browne Kf 1, who has been one of Cabaret Dancer |INFANT INBOX TACOMA CARMEN Jailed on Dope | FOUND IN SHED, GET NEW WAGE Squad *s Charge | «savy in Box” Was Sign on Dot Wolfe, 24, entertainer, didn't i dance at the Breakers Cafe last Outside night, as she has been doing for - weet errant months. 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Merril, vice-presili h ocean le ‘ 6 come up, before *e other “hophead tools’ in the Woite | near a school house here yesterday| The scale ip 65 cents an hour for jibe pubile hace ve ln al thin| (he sportsman and whist expert, was |of the Merrill & Ring Logging apartment at 1311% Sixth ave, re-|Mfternoon, No clue to the parentage | the first six months’ work, 69 cents | [he | Piivic, miely muulln tne TNO Fined $200 in federal court here after| 191 Harvard hve. N, during @ fulted in the arrest of Dot, and her|8* found by officers assigned to e next 18 months and 63 cents at Weaneeday. | pleading guilty to violating the Vol-|shipmen’y and sailors’ ball ctves, the case, the end of two years, | Shopmen are raised from 20 to 40! Thome working by the afternoon, they said Anderson and Ft tic de husband, Don, Thursday Patroimen N. P. F, Baerman, the police na | wtead act. 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