The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-04-04
BIRDS OF A FEATHER STILL IN SESSION

Roosevelt Makes No Distinction Be-
tween Mercenary Russian Bolshe-
wiki and American Imitators.
He Places Townley in the Same Glass
| With Hillquit, Haywood, Berger
and the Other Anarchists.
| Theodore Roosevelt never minces
words. He calls things by their right
names. In one of his recent articles
in the Kansas City Star he places Six
teen-Dollar Townley where he belongs.
But read the article, for like every
thing Roosevelt writes it is pithy and
pointed and well worth reading:
BY Theodore Roosevelt.
The answer Of the Bolsheviki to the
Presidents message was an example
of mean and studied impertinence.
There was no gratitude, no apology
for their betrayal of America and Of
the cause of liberty and no expression
of hostility to their German masters,
but there was gratuitous and insult
ing expression for class war in
America against what the Bolsheviki
with ignorant folly speak of as capital
ism. A couple Of days afterwards the
Bolshevist authorities definitely con-
cluded with Germany their peace Of
ignominy and treachery.
There is now no possible reason for
our government to draw the sharp dis
tinction they have drawn between the
Bolsheviki abroad and the Bolsheviki
at home. The government is prose
cutting Victor Berger and has sup
pressed the paper Of Max Eastman.
But Berger and Eastman are virtu-
ally the same as Lenine and Trotzky.
All four have played Germany's game;
all four have been the enemies of the
cause of the United States and of
liberty. The utter ruin which the Boil
sheviki have brought on Russia offers
an Illuminating example of the de-
struction which would befall the Unit
ed States if it ever submitted, to the
leadership of men like Messrs. Hill
quit, TOWNLEY, Haywood and Ber-
ger.
We have had many evil capitalists in
the United States, but on the whole
the worst capitalists could not do the
permanent damage to the farmers and
working men in America which these
foreign and native Bolsheviki would do
if they had the power. Our people
should keep steadily in mind that the
Russian Bolsheviki have not attacked
the big Russian capitalists who were in
alliance with the autocracy Of the
Romanoffs and they have been the
tools, paid or unpaid, of the German
militarists and capitalists.
They have spent their energies in
attacking the revolutionists who over
threw the Romanoffs and in persecut-
ing the peasants who have become
small farmers and the working men
who are small mechanics and the small
shopkeepers. They hate and envy
those thrifty and self-respecting work.
ers in this country who make up the
great majority of the people and who
are our most typical and characteris-
tic Americans.
| The Bolsheviki have concluded a
peace with Germany which includes
handing back to the Turks, or, in other
words, plunging back into brutal saw
agery, district in Asia in which there
are multitudes of Armenians and other
Christians. Our government has been
derelict in it's duty to the Armenians,
to the Christians of Syria and to the
Jews of Palestine, by its failure to
declare war on Turkey.
1t is a grave error to coddle the
Bolsheviki and support them in any
way against our allies unless we are
also willing fearlessly to condemn
their betrayal of us and of the allied
cause, and unless we are ready to war
to the end against both Germany and
Turkey in order to rescue from tyran-
ny and to give independence to the UNI
fortunate people whom the Bolsheviki
have abandoned to a cruel fate.
Ten Men to Entrain Saturday.
The local board has been ordered to
furnish ten men for the regular army
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