The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-12
DEFECTS OF RUSSIA
DUE TO BOLSHEVISM
Its Sudden Rise and Stupendous Growth
Should Be Solemn Warning to Rul-
ing Class, Says Baron Rosen.

| 2e1tco anu one ol inc peace plenlpoteh-
tiaries who settled the war between Rus
STA and Japan, in an address to-day be-
fore the Brooklyn chamber Of commerce,
i his first public utterance since arriving
in America, an exile from his native
land, declared that it was the deadly
poison of bolshevism which brought on
the defeat of Russia and next of Ger
many" and that its Sudden rise and
stupendous growth" should be solemn
warning to the ruling classes in all bel
! ligerent countries.
Russia, as political entity, has tenn.
porarily ceased to exist said Baron
Rosen. "There is at present no political
party or body of men which could be
| held to be entitled to enter upon inter
! national engagements in the names of
| Russia and the Russian nation--least of
all that small group of demented fana-
tics with their following of murderoHs
! bandits who have usurped power by vio-
lence who maintain their tyrannieal pow
| er by a regime of terrorism such as the
world has never seen, who have complete
| w ruined and destroyed the social fabric
Of the state and who have turned what
was once the empire of Russia into a
wilderness of primitive barbarsim, a
! prison, lunatic asylum and a slaughter
| house"
"The germs of this deadly disease, boil
shevism, although lying dormant. were
present and are still present every
where" said the speaker. BRED and nur
| tured by the atmospere Of social unrest,
an inevitable accompaniment of the Won
derful achievement of modern eiviliza-
ton which is doing so much to en-
! phasize and render more glaring the con
! trast between the luxury and ease Of the
! few and the want and limitations of the
many, condemned to life of incessant
toll, joyless monotony and anxious inse-
curity."
The former diplomat who recently ar
rived here from Stockholm, where he
had fed with his wife and daughter, said
that "tbe appalling gravity of the Rus
| sian situation cannot possibly be eXag-
gerated," and that the official reports of
/ the British Consul General Lockhart, re-
\ Gently published, are sufficient TO make
ones hair stand on end" but they fall
! far short of the reality of affairs under
the bolshevik regime.
Defeat of the Russian army did not
cause the disease" Baron Rosen ex-
planned, declaring that "it was the pro-
longation of the war with its attendant
suffering and misery which created
among the 100000 to 100000 Rus
| sian soldiers and sailors true represen-
tatiyes of the peasantry which eonsti-
| tuted the bulk OF the population of Rus
| sia and which was the mainstay of her
power and prosperity conditions
| leading up to the revolution of March,
| 1917, which, although inspired by the
| Dumas leaders from the very opposite
motives, was actually accomplished by
| the mutinous garrison and revolutionary
workmen of Petrograd and was an ex
preston of the revolt OF the people
| against the war"
! The bolsheviki, the speaker said, prom
ised immediate peace and this gained the
support of the people. Quoting from a
letter which he wrote 10 a friend in Pc
| trograd, in July 1917, Baron Rosen said
that the toiling masses of the world were
awakening to the fact that "the awful
| crime Of the war and its prolongation
has been and is being forced on them
by their rulers as an outcome Of pol
| icies which to these rulers represent the
| tempting phantoms of power, OF hege-
mony, of prestige, of revenge, of mar
! kets and of expansion, but which to the
masses present themselves merely as
shibboleths devoid of meaning in terms
of the life of plain men and women, for
the pursuit OF which, however, they have
had and are still expected TO have to
pay with the lives of millions of their
| sons and brothers, with millions upon
millions of ruined homes and with all the
untold suffering and misery wrought by
such a war upon such a gigantic scale,
| "It further means Baron Rosen read
from his letter, "that when the day of
their final awakening shall have dawned
upon the masses, they will make it a day
| OF reckoning with their rulers and that
| the present fratricidal war between the
nations may resolve itself into fratrici-
dal and suicidal war between the masses
and the classes within the nation
Discussing the problem of the imme
date future Of Russian, the former am
bassador said it is zone of unexampled
difficulty" It's solution is required in
the interest Of all mankind, he declared,
adding that "if bolshevism be not now
extirpated root and branch and IL it be
suffered to spread any further, it might
ultimately come TO mean the doom of our
peace and civilization"
"The task of seeking such solution, I"
be said, SHOULD be approached in a spirit
entirely free from partisanship and from
! the passions OF international hatred bred
by the war."
"No one can tell when and how the
time will come when the world will again
! behold Russia reconstructed as a politi-
cal entity and able to resume her place
in the family of nations and her status
as one of the great powers continued
the ambassador.
"For the present the only glimmer Of
hope seems to lie in the evolution out
Of the prevailing chaos of a military
dictatorship such as must always be the
outcome Of prolongated state of an
arehy, if the teachings of history are to
be believed. Some indications of the
| possibility of similar development are
already discernable. Admiral Kolchak,
the head of the Siberian government,
having of late secured the submission to
his authority of General Denikine Of the
Kuban Cos5acks and KrasnofT of the
Cossasks of the Don, has, it seems, be-
gun to use in his purpose utterance the
firm language of dictatorship conscious
of his power and determination to render
his will supreme"
wHISKEY TRUST IN MEXICO.
Williams, of Temperance Board, Saws