The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-06-15
RUSSIA NEEDS TO BE
HELPED, NOT CRUSHED
Declared DR.. George Lawrence Par
ker in His Lecture on Russia at
The Chantauoua Last Night.

Russia needs our help, not our
abuse" said DR.. George Lawrence
Parker, recently returned from Pet
rograd, in his lecture on Russia,
given last night at the Chautauqua
tent on the Seminary lot. We lind
fault with Russia, we call her traitor,
while we should be helping her to
establish a government in which all
men share equal rights.
She has not been treated proper
" by the Allies. AS much as | love
France and England, l cannot help
seeing their neglect of Russia. For
centuries she has been ruled by the
Romanoffs, and how could she be eN-
pected to accept a democratic form
of government in eighteen months?
There are two Russias-high
Russia, composed of the Car and
Czarina. their court attendants and
the titled heads of the nation; in
contrast to this there are O,OOO,-
900 peasants, who work for mere
trifle, and live in filth and ignorance.
Among the high families it is COM
mon thing for their children, at an
early age, to speak four languages,
English, French, German and Rus
sian, and speak them fiuently. In
the low families education is I'M
known. l have known whole faml-
~ to live in one room, not larger
than this platform, and in the family
would be the grandmother and grand
father, mother and father and five
children, a COW and pig, and ali OF
these slept in one ROOM"
DR.. Parker spoke of the German in
fiuence in Russia, how it reached the
throne through the Czarina, who is
a sister to the Kaiser of Germany,
and of her domination of the Car,
who was very easily persuaded. He
reviewed the revolution, how the
revolt was planned, the masses OF the
people rising up against the govern
ment, which imposed unreasonable
taxes on them, deprived them of rail
roads, kept back food from them,
and kept them in ignorance in order
that the Romanoffs might remain in
power.
He told of the part played by Ras-
putin, the Black Monk; kerensky,
Trotsky, and Lenine, the Bolsheviki,
and other prominent persons and or
ganizations in the Russian empire.
DR.. Parker has recently returned
from Petrograd, where he was minis
ter of the American church in that
city, and numbered among his con-
gregation some wealthy people from
the United States who had business
interests in Russia. The message he
brought to the Cambridge people
came direct, his church having been
only three blocks from the Winter
Palace.
Concluding his lecture, DR.. Parker
asked the people to sympathize with
xSUSS1d, uOI SOuuculn lOl. L lCSl-
dent Wilson has shown ner consid
Grafton, and it is our duty not to
call her traitor and a deserter, but
to give her our cooperation and help
her to establish the right form of
government. The people of Russia
need equality and fraternity"
Tonight robin Hood" the fam
Gus comic opera, will be given by a
cast of thirty-five people. 1t has
been produced in nearly every coun
try of the globe, in all, over eight
thousand times.
Tomorrow night DR.. Frederick G.
Coan, a returned missionary, will
preach at the tent at o'clock. DR..
Coan is thoroughly acquainted with
the situation in Armenia and Syria.
He lived through the terrible days of
the Armenian massacres, and tells a
wonderful story
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