New-York tribune., 1918-09-22
rUDAS and Benedict Arnold have
been put out of the running as
traitors by Leon Trotzky and
Nicolai Leninc.

been put out or the running as
al traitors by Leon Trotzky and
Nicolai Leninc.
Anv remaining doubts as to the al
,eviance Of these pillars of Boil
shevism have been removed by the re-
,rarkable series Of seventy documents
chat have Just been made public by the
committee on Public Information at
washington. The evidence gathered by
Edgar Sisson in Russia last winter re-
veals that $25 100000 was the price
Germany paid for Russia. Moreover,
the evidence shows that Germany had
rrepared detailed plans for war of
world conquest long before the as
ssssination at Sarejevo, and that two
years before America was drawn into
the war Germany was mobilizing as de-
structive agents and observers an army
Of anarchists and escaped criminals to
operate in the United States.
The substance of the startling docu-
ments produced in Washington is sum-
married thus by the committees report:
"Thoy show that the Bolshevik rcvolu-
ton was arranged for by the German great
General staff and financed by the German
Imperial Bank and other German financial
institutions. They show that the treaty
Of Brest Litovsk was a betrayal of the Rus
sian people by the German agents, Lenine
and Trotzky; that a German-picked COM
mandcr was chosen to defend Petrograd
against the Germans; that German officers
have been secretly received by the Bolshe-
vik government as military advisers, as
spies upon the embassies of Russia's allies,
as officers in the Russian army and as di-
rectors of the Bolshevik military, foreign
and domestic policy. They show, in short
that the present Bolshevik government. is
rot a Russian government at all, but a
German government, acting solely in the
interests of Germany and betraying the
Russian people, as it betrays Russia's nat
ural allies, for the benefit of the imperial
German government alone. And they show
, also that the Boshevik leaders, for the
same German imperial ends, have equally
betrayed the working classes of Russia
whom they pretend to represent"
Through the comment of many of
the American newspapers there is a
strain of Il told you so" and eve knew
it all the time" In this vein "The
Kansas City Journal" declares:
There was never the least doubt in the
minds of the American people that Lenine
and Trotzky were damnabe scoundrels who
we're willing to betray Russia, commit in
Vulnerable murders and institute a reign
OF terror for pay. But it was hardly sus-
ctoA 4bo+ %ho 1nk Ao1i 70
cold-booded and was carried out in such
systematic fashion as is disclosed by docu-
mentary proof"
"The Christian Science Monitor
points out that
"the most ordinary intelligence and ele
mentary logic should have proved to
anybody, anybody other, that is to say, than
politician blinded by prejudice. that the
government Of Berlip was not passing revo-
lutionaries over its railways and across its
frontiers, or finding these revolutonaries
TO the imperial German government as a
revolution out of mere love of democracy.
The comrades in London, Paris, and in
New York who, a little while ago, were
so strident for peace by negotiation, may
now begin to understand that they have
themselves been the innocent tools of the
suggestion poured out by the Bureau of
Enemy Psychology, in the multitudinous
streams of peace campaign, now that the
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