Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-19

THE BOLSHEVLK
CONSPIR
Christian Science Monitor.l

The documents which have been made
public by Lieutenant Woldemar Svesh.
nikoff, the Russian artillery officer.
who served in the war against Ger.
many, ON the subjects of the dealings
Of German agents with the Bolshevist
leaders, eliminate all doubt, il anybody
seriously entertained any, as to the
relations between the Government OF
Germany n the government of
Ulianoff and Bronstein. If any human
being really imagined that the Govern
ment of Berlin, in conjunction with the
Government of Vienna, supplied Lenine
with the necessary funds and the neces.
sary passports, to cross Austria and
Berlin. from Switzerland, and to in.
dulge in revolutionary propaganda in
Russia, in he interests of democracy,
that person must be gifted with a re.
serve of innocence which is almost in.
c~alculable. A slightly different mode
of procedure brought Trotsky into
Russia. He sailed from New York in a
British steamer, but on reaching Hall
fax was removed from The ship by al
British man-cf-war's crew. A CORE
spondent of this paper has explained
how, when requested to go over thel
side, Lenine's future lieutenant lay
PROSTATE on the deck, kicking and
screaming, and had to be uncermonious-
ly lowered into the boat below. A howl
of indignation at once went up from
the sturdy democrats who regarded the
action of the British Government as
an interference with the liberties of thel
leading socialists. The sturdy demo
Gratis We're mildly innocent of anyl
knowledge of the fact that that leading
Socialist. Monsieur Kerensky, had ask
ed for the intervention of the British
Government, because he was perfectly
well aware of the mission Mr.. Trotskyl
was engaged upon. Further the sturdy
democrats of the East Side of New
York, combined with the pacifcist
Socialists of the United Kingdom, in
securing Mr.. Trotzky's admission to
Russia, and here he and Lenine, for
getting their real names of Ulianoff
and Bronstein, proceeded to utilize the
purse of Germany in disrupting the
Russian army, in paving the way for
the entrance of the Kaiser's troops toI
the country, and in negotiating theI
famous Brest-Litovsk treaty intended
to break up Russia in the interests of
Germany.
Now the world mas heard a good deal
of the defense of the Bolshevist move
ment from pacificists, Socialists, and
other people. There is, for instance,
Mr.. Wells, who seems under the eg
regious delusicn that q ~"Bolshevist
person, is, by some inherent virtue, al
better diplomatist than any British
ambassador can ever hope to be. Then
there are certain leaders of the indie
pendent Labor Party, in London, who
think that the Bolsheviki are mis-
understood patriots, whose only idea
is a great democratic movement en-
gineered with the help of German Soc
ialists like Mr.. Walter S-cheidemann.
Unfortunately for these dreams, it now
appears that Mr.. Scheidemann was one
of the agents Of the German Govern
ment for transmitting funds to the
Gemini-Humpty-Dumpty for their
wonderful work of social regeneration
in Russia. 1T is to be feared, however,,
that there win be people sufficiently
incredulous of the affection of the
German High Command for freedom
to imagine that Mr.. Philip Scheide.l
mann was not SO much an agent of
| Socialism in these transactions, as thel
mouthpiece Of the German General
Staff, and it will require from Mr..
+ Scheidemann quite a lengthy explana-l
ton to convince most people to the
contrary. The fact is that the docu-I
ments unyeil, once again, the perfect
network of intrigue with which the
German Government had covered all
other countries. In the present instance
these intrigues date as far back as
February is. 1914, or six months be-
fore the beginning of the war. II now
appears that in that month the Del
partrnent Of Finance in Berlin, with
the cooperation Of the Austro-Hun
gariEn Government, was utilizing the
German banks abroad, especially those
in Sweden and on the Finnish frontier.
but also in France and italy. Norway
and Sweden, Denmark and Holland
Switzerland and China, and the United
Kingdom and the United States, to
assist in the establishment Of agents,
Sin order to- maintain q more active
supervision Of the material interests
Of German stockholders It seems
that the interests which had been ccn
fiaed to these German banks were
similar TO thos which were confidedI
10 the German consulates, Legations.
and embassies, interests which had led
Herr Wassrnuss in Persia TO organize
4 German army j q neutral country;
Count Lnxburg, In Buenos Aires, to1
arrange for the sinking without tracel
of the merchant ships Of the country