The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-04-12
Greed Of Rulers for Power
Has Brought Untold Suf-
fering to Masses Whose
Revenge May 0yertum Ma
tons, He Says,

NEW YORK. April l2-Baron
Rosen, formerly Russian ambassador
10 the United States and one OF the
peace plenlpoten,larieS who settled
the war between Russia and Japan. in
an address today before the BROOKLYN
chamber OF commerce, his first public
utteranoe since arriving in America,
an exile from his native land, de-
elared that i, was the deadly poison
Of bolshevism which broueh, On the
defeat OF Russia and next Of Ger
many" and It's sudden rise and stu
pendous growth" should be a solemn
waSsing to the ruling classes IN all
belligerent countries
Russia Gone Politically.
Russia as a political entity has
temporarily ceased TO exist" said
Baron Rosen. There is'at present no
political party or body OF men which
could be held TO be entitled 10 enter
upon international engagements In the
name OF Russia and the Russian ma
tion-least Of all that small group OF
demcnted fanatics with their follow
ing OF murderous bandits who have
usurped power by violence, who ain
tain their tyrannical power BY a
regime OF terrorism such as the world
has never seen, who have completely
ruined and destroyed the social fabric
OF the state and who have turned what
was once the empire of Russia, into
wilderness OF primitive barbarism. 4
prison, a luna,ic asylum and slaugh-
house
Bolshevik Gems Everywhere.
"The germs OF this deadly disease,
bol'hevism, although lying dormant,
we're present and are sill present
everywhere" said the speaker, bred
and nurtured in an atmosphere OF so.
cial unrest, an inevitable accompani-
ment of the wonderful achievements
OF modern civilization which are do
ing so much 20 emphasize and render
more glaring the contrast between the
luxury and ease Of the few and the
want and limitations Of the many,
condemned to a life Of incessant toll,
ioyless mono,ony apd grea, insecure
ty."
Defea, Of the Russian army did not
cause the disease" Baron Rosen ex-
planned. declaring that IT was the
prolongation 81 the war with its at
tendant suiierings and misery which
created among the fifteen million to
seventeen million Russian soldiers
and sailors. the conditions lezding up
to the revolution Of March, l9l7.
which. although inspired by the Duma
leaders from the very opposite mo-
,ives. was actually accomplished by
the mu,inous garrison and revolution
ary workmen OF Petrogtad and was
an expression Of the revolt Of the peo-
pie against the war"
War Caused by AgsSessions.
The bolsheviki, said the speaker,
promised immediate peace and this
gained the support OF the people.
Quoting from letter which he wrote
to a friend in Petrograd in July, 1917,
Baron Rosen said that the toiIlng
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 poli-
Gle, which TO these rulers represent
the tempting phantoms Of power. Of
hegemony, OF prestige, OF revenge, OF
markets and Of expansion, but which
to the masses present themselves
merely as shibboIeths devoid Of n,esh-
ing in terms OF the life OF plain men
and women for the pursuit of which,
however, they have had and still ex-
pected 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 suit
fering and misery wroush. by such
war upon such 4 gigantic scale.
Class Wan Feared.
1T further means" Baron Possn
read from his letter, that when the
day Of their final awakening shall
have dswSed upon the masses they
will make Il q day OF reckoning with