Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-12

authority Of government in the face
of such a desperate winter as now
approaches; a winter that 100000
600 people face with little food and
starvation at their elbow"
No Traitors
The Russian people were not
traitors to the Allied cause, Mr.. Col
ton SAID. They began the war with
all but two of their ports of entry
closed and means of transportation
from the outside limited to ewo sim
gle-track railroads, one from Arch
angle, closed six months in the year,
and another 5000 miles long from
Vladivostok. Three men to one rifle
was the proportion of arms to the
soldiers, he said, and 100000 is the
manpower loss to Russia as the re-
suit of the war.
The Bolsheviki rob blind men and
cripples, said Mr.. Cotton. He cited
one case of a blind man who lives
off the proceeds of a small piece of
land he owned who was called be-
fore the Bolshevik council and de-
prived of his little acreage which
went to some covetous citizen for
nothing. because he could work 1t.
Nobody may own any land unless he
can work il. Factries and all man
ner of industries were turned over to
the workmen with the result that
nobody was in charge, nobody was
able to buy raw material, nobody
had money for wages, there was no
market for the few goods that were
turned out. The workmen were far
worse off than they were before and
they soon left the factories, thou
sands of which are idle or in ruins
all over the land. and the people are
starving. not only for lack of money
to buy food, but because each peas
ant, being unable to sell his wheat,
raised only enough for his own i'm
mediate family.
"The majority of the people are
densely ignorant; s5 per cent. can't
read or write; they are intensely de-
sirous of freedom. but they don't
know how to exercise it." They
look to America as their guiding star
and hope we will do something to
place their government on par with
ours. The Bolshevik government Is
not the government of the masses,
and il is nearing its end. Mr.. Cotton
brought out of Russia letter to the
wife of Bolshevik leader who bade
her good-by, saying that they had
staked all on a desperate idea re-
pugnant TO the masses of the people,
that their failure is in sight and
that when they go down all the
leaders will lose their lives.
Mr.. Cotton said that America must
go 10 the aid of Russia. American
troops in Russia must soon be in
creased. he said, BECAUSE the Rus
slams want American soldiers to ac-
company those Of other nations COM
ing in for the reason that from the
Americans they are always sure Of
square deal" .t
Edward w. Box Speaks
Edward w. Box, editor of the
Ladies' Home Journal, who has been
on the French front, opened his dis
course with an anecdote concerning
the passage overseas of an i'm
mense American armada of Ameri-
can troops, starting from i. .ew York.
I'm front of u.s." he said, rose a
great ball of fire, on the right were
rows of destroyers on the left were
rows of destroyers, in front was a
battleship and behind was a battle
ship. Between were three large COL
umns of transports. Those men on
those transports, he said. were Jews,
Protestants and Catholics, to the
IOlkS DaCh nome. But TO us on
board they were all Americans-set
out to prove to the world the power
of right over might.
Speaking of the unity of all creeds
overseas. he told how in q Y hut one
day the secretary asked the Catholic
priest to referee bout. The priest
thought that as one of the boxers
was a Catholic he would be preju-
diced. so he went outside and got a
referee. He was the Rabbi, and a
better referee never refereed bout"
said Mr.. Box.
Mr. Box declared that as chairman
of the United War. Work campaign:
he is a Jaw. Catholic and a Prot
estant.
81 am even Salvation Army
lassie." he said.
He declared that the only fune-