East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-18
A Pictured Paintedayy
a Youthful Soldier

they promised them peace, justice for all
liberty and equal property rights.
I'm this way the Bolsheviki began ID
take charge of Russia. And the Bolshes
wiki invited the Germans in. We do noa
know now whether Trotzky and LcninS
are German agents, but undoubtedly theN
are in favor Of the Germans. But most
of all, they are in favor Of power for them~
selves, and to keep their power and to in-
crease 1t they have done what they hava-
They believe that they can retain control
of Russian affairs, but this cannot be 80.
They may keep on for a little while, bue
then there will come another revolution
The Russians want a republic, but In
their hearts they would rather have .
monarchy than the Bolshevih. If had
been willing to join the Boisheviki they
would have given me a high positions
probably they wsuld have made me gen"
eral-that is the way they do things Bus
although am a revolutionist / am not .
traitor and / would have nothing to do
with them. {
''There Is another thing that the Rue
slams will not have In the end, they viii
not have German rule. The Germans
have everything now-they have the food
the steel, the iron and the lead-every-
thing. 1t may 20 along for two nr three
years so. Bot in his heart the Russiad
detests the German and 6espiscs hiH
and eventually he will arise and break
the German. And he never viii he sao4
isfied until he has thrown all tie PruS
SLAMS out of his country.
"As for me, since would not join the
Bolsheviki, there was nothing for ere bus
starvation in Russia. Unlers | yeas viii
ing to Join them they were not wiling
that I should have anything 9t all aud
| also saw that so far as ihc Jews were
concerned the revolution has b. On Of nd
avail. With Kerensky i mai. no diff
ference whether a man was a Lew or .
Gentle. But although Trotzky * sew,
the pogroms against the Jews have beSnA
again in Russia. / had fought for Rus
sia had fought and spilled my blood
for the revolution, but Troizky. who "a
Jew himself, cares much more about bis
own power than be does about Justice u
the Jews. For that reason be am i."niua
afford no more justice TO the Ie'Ss thas
they received from the Tsar
81 therefore decided that s'ou : ieaVe
my own country and come TO he ''u'ted
States, and made my way 81
IBERIA to Vladivostok and then n"ks-
hama. There the English CO. savG
me money for my passage to Sc aSd
nfterward Jewish socities help' - q
reach New York.
Through starvation 1 was red = b
only ninety-seven poun. snd
rou can see that am much better uOS,
indeed quite well in some ways. Bu, stiD
| am not well, for / dream and wake u1
n the night. Ny fingers tighten. for
hink that ] see German. As for con.
litions in Russia, the starvation Of the
,eople, the chaos and hopeless misery. the
errible disappointment that the revolu-
ion should have brought them 81 little
# what they bad hoped for. II could
axe my heart out and give It to You Ia
cad, perhaps you could understand IL
cannSt tell you any other way.
''In Russia l have no home now, and
am not allowed freedom. My mntheH
nd father being Jews have no fr,4sloms
sut now that the British government has
ttered 10 give tne Jews 4 hiestnir. FcA
hat as a Jew wish once more 20 ghE.
would not wish TO be like beEgpr md
ike something for nothing Atrr the
Christians have spilled then 10
'alestine it is right that we j. MD
o our part ! am twcnty-t ars
ID. bot ! have lived so man, hat
sometimes feel ] cannot ing
ny longer. ! feel that hns ie 70
le place where a man ought rad."