Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-24
The Nay TO Russia S Redemption.

Having laid. bare through irrefutable evidence
the perfdous and utterly criminal character of the
BOlshevist rule in Russia the United States now
calls upon free nations throughout the world ito
register their abhorrence of such barbsrism and
TO join in some prompt and definite action that will
impress upon the perpetrators of these crimes the
with which civilization regards their pres
ent wanton acts The proposed movement, as sug-
gested in the official statement, is TO be entirely
devoid of the atmosphere of. belligerency and the
conduct OF the war in order that ii may be open
the participation of neutrals. Whatever may De
the formal response of the neutralsA and il is not
improbable that most of those contiguous TO Ger
many will continue in the fearsome silence whlch
Prussian frightfulness and their weakness i'm
pose. there can be but one answer from mankinds
conscience and that will be condemn the
Lenine- Trotzky crew as murderOus outlaws, for
ever barred from lands where law and liberty are
priced. The Allies, representing the vast prepon-
derance of the worlds moral judgment, will be able
by their concerted action 10 bring down
eventual justice upon the BolsheVst criminals IL
is imperative however, that such action be pressed
as swiftly as possible Tor by ali accounts condi-
'tions in Russia grow constantly more perilouS and
appalling.
,gl. BoIsheyiki. those one-time Idols OF the
American pacifist and of certain school OF So
call, .intellectuaIs" have up reign OF terror
exampled in the blacklist pages OF history. Start
Ing out as hirelings of Germany, they months ago
reached a stage where they drew their full wages
from loot and murder. TO what depths OF misery
they have reduced the country, recent report
from MIR. James Kelley, representing our govern
ment's Committee on Public Information, graphic
ally suggests Says this authority:
There is neither work nor food to sup
port the population, and today the working
people simply predestined victims of hun
ger and disease Productive labor has been
annihilsted. All financial system has van
ished. Debts have been repudiated, banks
abolished, and the nations gold reserve large
~ stolen. Railroad and inland water travel
is almost a thing of the past Fuel is the cruX
OF the situation. The available supply has dis
appeared. The unburned oil fields are not
working, and the Bolshevik mind, concelVlng
the idea that the plutocrats could not create
wealth without coal, flooded the mines Ad-
ministrative stats of the railroads also were
creatures of the money devil, so they were dis
missed. As result, rolling stock and railroad
tracks rapidly going to pot. Man ltactur-
ing is at a, standstil nine-tenths OF the fac
tories having been shut down. Many are
heaps. of ruins because they were the property
Of the criminal burgeois. Only twenty per
cent of the tillabe lands of European Russia
we're put into crops this year. Such
commerce as exists is in the hands OF acqulsl-
tive soldiers who have stolen goods and army
transport trucks. These peripatetic merchants
travel the land, buying at forced sales or steal
ing when the latter seems more desirable.
We are told. moreover, that famine in European
Russia is not a possibility but a certainty,
today an actuality," and that 'pestience is reap
ing the first crop OF gigantic harvest. This pic
ture of material desolation suggests but family
the human tortures of Soviet-stricken Russia. A
correspondent of the New York World, recently
ESCAPED from the terrorized country, concludes an
account Of the wholesale robbery and murder and
nersecution nv saying that prevalent conditions
are beyond the comprehension of people accus-
toned to civilization"
Such are the consequences of the Brest-Litovsk
peace conference, where the Hun drove his in
famous bargain with the Bolshevik traitors and
fools Such is the fruitase of parleying with Prus-
sianism: such the reward of those who take Ger
manys word However deeply the of the
Russian people may have been deceived by the
German-Bolshevist peace intrigue, they now
disilIusioned. According to the most trustworthy
reports obtainable. ninety per cent of them are
ripe for revolt but lacking leadership and rally
ing point they are helpless save for such aid and
encoura cement the Allies give them. That
millions Of them will welcome every proffer from
this quarter is evidenced in the eagerness with
which Russian peasants have greeted the advance
of the CzechO-Slovak army and the Allied expedi-
lions In the basic integrity of these peasants and of
the middle class that is to say in ti-Bolshevst
and anti-Teuton Russia. lies the hope of the nations
redemption. But first of all the rule of the Boil
shevist criminals must he blotted out. So long
the Lenines and Trotzkys retain power. Russia will
be not only victim of their terrorism but also
grave menace the Allies. 1t is imperative there
fore as a matter both of military and of humane
interest that do utmost to break the hold of
Russia's betrayers and to strengthen the hands of
her patriots and friends AS moves to that end the
exposure of the Observation-Disclosures perfdy and the
apuea to all civilized States concerted action
against the terrorists are highly notable.