The Washington times., 1918-03-20
|. R. CALLS WORST
CAPITALISTS BETTER
THAN BOLSHEWKI.

KANSAS CITY, March 20.-"Bol-
sheviki at Home and Abroad" is the
subject OF a copyrighted editorial by
. Theodore Roosevelt in the Kansas
City Star. 1t follows:
The answer OF the Bolsheviki to
the Presidents message was an eK-
ample OF mean and studied imperti-
nence. There was no gratitude, no
apology for their betrayal OF America
and OF the cause of liberty and no
expression of hostility to their Ger
man masters. but there was a Gratui
tous and insulting expression for
class war in America against what
the Bolsheviki with ignorant folly
speak OF as capitalism. A couple OF
days Afterwards the BoIshevjki au-
thorities definitely concluded with
Germany their peace OF ignominy and
treachery.
No Reason For DistInctiOn.
There is now no possible reason
for our Government to draw the
sharp distinction they have drawn
between the Bolsheviki abroad and
the Bolsheviki at home. The govern
ment is prosecuting Victor Berger.
and has suppressed the paper of Max
Eastman, but Berger and Eastman
are essentially 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 BolshevilIi have brought
on Russia offers an illuminating ex-
ATnnln ~ ka 1, S.t,
befall the United States IL it ever
submitted 20 the leadership of men
like Messrs. Hillquit, Townley, Hay
wood. and Berger.
Worst Capitalist Better.
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
workingmen in America which these
foreign and native bolsheviki would
do IL 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,
though they have been the tools, paid
or unpaid. OF the German militarists
and capitalists. They have spent their
energies in attacking the revolu-
tionists who overthrow the Romanoffs
and in prosecuting the peasants who |
have become small farmers and the |
workingmen who are skilled me-
chanics and the small shopkeepers |
They hate and envy those thrifty and |
self-respectinE workers who in this |
country make UP the great majority |
OF our people and who are our most !
typical and characteristic Americans. \
L. s. DereIIct He Says.
The bolsheviki have concluded a
peace with Germany which includes
back to the Turks, or in other
words plunging back into brutal saw
agerE, a district in Asia in which
there are multitudes OF Armenians and
other Christians.
Our Government has been derelict
in its duty TO the Armenians. 10 the
OF Syria and to the Jews
OF Palestine, by its failure TO declare
war on Turkey. It is q grave error
10 coddIe with bolsheviki and sup
port them in any way against our
allies, unless We are also willing fear
lessly 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 tyranny and to give In
dependence to the unfortunate people
whom the bolsheviki have abandoned
to cruel fate.