The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-04
GUST BOOBIES FROM
RUSSIA, is DEMAND
League for National Unity
Says Otherwise Germans
Will Score q Victory.
WANT TERRORISM ENDED
Well Known Americans Head
ed by Cardinal Gibbons
Make Stirring Appeal.

The complete and immediate evacua-
zion of Russia by Germany. Including
the withdrawal Of Germany's political
and economic representatives there IL
demanded In a public statement issued
yesterday by tho League for Na'ioha'
Unity.
Nothing IL more important. the state
ment sets forth. than that Russia shaIl
receive the fullest consideration In any
proposal for an armistice ana IN "ns
peace negotiations The statement IN
effect demands that the Brest-Ltovsk
treaty be ignored and that the absolute
freedom of Russia from German innu-
ence must be achieved unless Germany
| is to emerge a substantial victor III 'he
wat
The statement bears the signatures Of
| Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Dr.
Frank Mason North. president OF the
Federal Council of CHURCHES OF Christ
| in America Theodore y. Vail, president
| OF the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company; Samuel Gompers presi-
dent of the American Federation OF La
| Dor; John G.. Agar, treasurer OF the rev
York Catholic War Fund.- Mrs. Carrie
| Chapman Gait president OF the National
! American Woman's Suffrage Associa :
ton; John Hays Hammond. president
| Of the National Republican League !;
Alfred Z. Marling. chairman OF
the International Committee OF Y. NJ.
| C. A.; William English Walling, DR..
Stephen s. Wise, Miss Maude Wetmore,
chairman OF the National League for
woman's Suffrage; Mrs. James w.
| wadsworth, Jr., president OF the Ma
| tional Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage. and others.
| statement of the League.
| The statment in part Is as follows:
| president Wilson has pledged the
| Russian people the sympathy and sub
| stantlal support of the American nation.
Nothing is more important than that
! Russia shall receive the fullest consid-
| Grafton in connection with any proposal
| for an armistice, as well as IN peace ne
gotiations. Russia Is invaded territory
as much as Belgium, northern France
or Serbia. Neither the United States
nor any of the Allies has ever recognized
| the shameful treaty of Brest-Litovek.
| The western front has always been OF
| supreme importance with respect TO n
! military decision. but it is in the East
that the fundamental questions relating
to world peace will be decided.
! Russia was Impoverished and eco
nomically backward before the war. Tho
actions Of the Kaiser and his Russian
! allies have put her back generation,
| reducing tens OF millions to the verge of
actual starvation and destroying a large
part Of her Industrial and transport sys-
| tenn. They have divided the country into
a dozen fighting geographical sections
| and into the Internal chaos they have in
| troduced an endless series OF class con-
| ficts in which every mans hand -
! against his neighbor.
"Gcrmany's allies are Strengthening not
merely the privileged classes of the old
regime, not merely the bourgeois plutoc-
| racy. but also the middle classes, the
small peasant owners and even the skill
| full and Intelligent worklngmen, who pro-
| test against these murderous and dla-
bollcal acts. The persons slaughtered
are chiefly the leaders of the Socialist
and Democratic parties, who propose re-
sistence to Germany and Germany s
! Russian allies,
"Mnss Terrorism'' Protested.
THE practice of mass terrorism or
wholesale massacre OF the educated and
, possessing classes in Russia, has al
| ready called forth the solemn protest OF
/ all civilized mankind, except those ma
tons within the immediate reach of the
! German armies. But since President
! Wilson called for this protest these
massacres. aimed exclusively at the en-
emies Of Germany. have reached the
point where the brain Of Russia is be-
! ing slaughtered In order that the masses
may the more easily fall under German
domination. Nicolai Lenine has re-
Gently written over his own signature
that what Russia needs is German intel
| ligence, discipline and orGaniZation--in
a word. German Kultur.
| THE American and Entente armies In
Russia are met either by forces COM
posed in part of German and Hungarian
prisoners or by mixed forces. largely
nom Russian, led by German officers or
military advisers.
Germany maintains not one army in
Russia, but three. Besides her military
force. she maintains an army of agents
and an army OF spies, each OF which is
probably more numerous and more now
erful than her armed forces. Her COM
mercial army acts largely in the open.
| Germany took possession OF a large
part OF the economic resources Of Rus
STA by the supplementary treaties fol-
lowing the surrender OK Russian terri
tory ut BrestLitovsk. Her hundreds OF
thousands OF agents taking advantage OF
the plundering and numbering OF Ger.
| many NusHiaH a4IIcS, nave purchased
Tor song nearly everything OF value
that remained, and protected from harm
by the Kaiser's strong arm are firm,
installed in possession OF the chief re-
naming resources of the country,
Even more dangerous than the mill.
tary and economic armies is the great
political army, composed in part OF vol.
unteers and In part OF paid secret agents
| Unless this war frees Russia Ger.
many will have gained a substantial vic.
tory. The one great question left by the
war is Russia, And even less than any
other or the great questions Of human
liberty invol we'd is It subject to any sor
OF compromise
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