The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-27
cHAUTAUQUA HERE NEXT YEAR.
Continued from rage ~ sa

boy who loved his family tree too much
to serve his country well, Holland
Smith, Harry Hapsworth, real Amer
lean boy, Charles Crosby;s Helen Haps-
worth, Harry s sister, a broad minded
American girl, Esther Daniels; Molly
Maytiower, cousin of Perry, with the
same faults, Elsie Peddrick Ebony, an
Italian wop, Floyd Messenger; Chris a
Greek boy, Edward Bushnell; Herman,
German American boy, Francis Hey
wood; Jeanne, iFrencfl,' wop, Helen
Bushnell; Anna, Belgian wop, Doro.
thy Piper ia Ei2 taifi1'
After the pageant the boys were put
through some amusing stunts Sby some
OF the Chautauqua crew who had been
working with them, such as pyramid
building, marching, the various steps in
learning to turn handsprings, etc u
Then for few minutes committee
appointed by Supt. Cook passed through
the audience and secured the few
names of guarantors needed, in addi-
ton to those received earlier, to in
sure the return of Chautauqua next
year.
The superintendent then presented
DIR. George Lawrence Parker, formerly
minister of the British-American Con-
gregational church in Petrograd, who
was an eye witness Of the exciting and
epoch making Russian revolution dur
ing the war.
DIR. Parker S lecture was clear, force
full and temperate. He first took up a
discussion of Russia before the war,
emphasizing the fact that Russia was
a Democratic people, before that event.
Bolshevism did not come out of the
sky, the creation of Lenine and Trot-
sky; it has grown up through many
decades. Before the war ninety-three
per cent of the Russian people were
bearing the burdens and, paying the
taxes. Seven per cent were the autoc-
raey centering around the rezar. 1t
was the ear s theory of government to
keep the ninety-three per cent of his
people as children. They were not al
lowed to learn to read or write because
the car S theory was that if they knew
how to do SO they would begin to think
and then the autoeracy would be gone
Thus eighty-tive per cent of the Rus
sian people had been living for decades
with no rights, nothing to. make for
liberty, equality and fraternity. Since
1912 however, they have tried again
and again to reach forward, but every
time they have been trodden down and
the leaders in any rising toward free
dom sent to Siberia or hanged
No one expected the rank and file of
the Russian people would fght-but
they did. All the great leaders of the
peasants, such as Catherine Breshkov-
sky, cried to them, s.Stand behind the
ear. This is Russia's war. After we
have thrown the German devil off we
will come back and make new govern
ment here. s" So the Russian people
went into the war happy. But after
six months, that part of the army and
the officials, who represented the seven
per cent of the people began to realize
that when the war was over the com.
mon folk, "Ivan IvanoTIteh. ~ would
come back and demand, as bis right for
having helped win the war, schools for
his children, railroad refiabS b8ssiiary,
etc. SO the uppen seven peri cent set
itself against the-aothersa. They tried
to make separate peace with Ger
many They kept the food supply. the
military equipment, the medical sup
plies from the Russians army. That is
why the. army went to pieces.
Following the military break down
came the political break down. DIR.
Parker told how Russia had been DOM
mated by Germany almost since the
days of Peter the Great, and that since
1896 all but one ear had married Ger
man princesses. Germany has cut Rus.
STA off from civilization. The danger is
today that the allies are doing it again.
lie pictured the court of Nicholas II.
the man who has a wishbone where
his backbone ought to be- with the
German czarina, dominated and hypno-
tlzed for nine years by the black monk
Rasputln, the worst kind of a villain.
and the various ministers. He told sthe
story of the rise of the German paid
Rasputin, of his death at the hands of
Prlnce Luvay, on the night of Dee.
ember 80, 1916, and of the joy of the
Russian people when they heard of this
news. The swing away from the car
and his autocratic government led to
Bolshevism. 81
Bolsheyism, DIR Parker explained.
as political theory, means chaos and
destruction and will have to go: but
as an emotion, and the necessary ex.
preston of Russia 8 oppression, it had
to come.
In spite of mistakes and bloodshed.
Lenine and Trotsky have something
which holds the Russian people. They
have put their fingers on the main
secret of Russia, the land question. The
Russian peasant has never owned his
land. He has been forced to move about
at his landlords will from year to year.
therefore he has never gotten anything
out of it. Lenine and Trotsky said to
him, eff you want land, the only way
you can get it is to take your pistol
and shoot the landlord
Germany is already in touch with
Russia. She is going to pay her indem-
nifty from that vast rich land. We must
save Russia by helping her to throw off
her own Bolshevism by reaching her
through the land question, by sending
her implements to till the soil and by
teaching her, how to use her land. If
we get Russia on her feet, her democra
acy will equal ours.
s.. Australian eockatoos, pigeons, and
other birds, cats, dogs and monkey
made up the exceptional actors who APP
pearedaat the tent yesterday afternoon
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