Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-13
STOPS
P0TSDAMNATI0N
This is Declaration Made by
Russian Convocation
Lecturer Here.

TT was neither Trot1ky nor Lenine
who saved Russia from 'Potsdamna-
ton but President Wilson with his
fourteen principles" declared Isaac
revolutionist, who spoke at the uni
versity c~onvocation this morning.
by the embodiment Of the term that
Germany should %evacuate all captur-
ed and occupied hostile territory Rus
siA was saved"
Mr.. Rubinstein discussed the pres
ent Russia situation very fully in his
talk. giving something Of the history
of Russia and the conditions OF or
preston of the people which led up
to the revolution. His personal
experiences and the part he played in.
the revolution carried on in the years
up to 1906, were graphically describ-
Discussing the Bolsheviks, Mr..
Rubinstein said: 1.-THE Bolsheviks are
not anarchists as some would have
ical, socialistic revolutionists I don't
believe in Bolshevikism. for the Boil
sheviks are going toe fast for Russia,
but it is q TACT sixty to seventy per
cent Of the Russian people are with
the Bolsheviks. It is tru that eighty
per cent Of the Russian people are
peasants and no party is going to
bring peace and settled conditions
into Russia unless it plays to the
peasant element"
Movement Is q Reaction.
That the Bolshevik problem in Rus
STA today Is nothing more than a re-
action against the ~unbearable prob
lens of the old regime Of the car
was a further thought Of Rubin
STEMS. He declared that the SPARTA
can revolt in Germany today is a re-
~sSYt a. D~1~IA,v3I T.
Russia-that the Russian Bolsheviks
had sc worked against German i'm
perialism that they had been able to
bring about indirectly the Spartacan
revolt. -
The Petrosrad revolution, which
permitted the imperial party Of Rus
STA to withdraw from the war, was
nothing but a ruse on the part Of the
car and the members Of his imperial
cabinet to provide some means by
which they. might stamp out the
growing spirit Of democracy in Rus
STA, said Mr.. Rubinstein. 1.-THE reac-
tionary cabinet wanted that
they might stamp out the element of
discord-the growing spirit of de-
mocracy Of the Russian people," the
speaker declared. Therefore the sup
ply of food in Petrograd was limited.
Bread lines, food riots. followed. In
SAAA0 ovSAAsAVl "AAASAA pei IAlIICu bIS
car to say. we must withdraw from
this war a. we have an internal revo-
Tuition on our hands, resulted.
Suffering From Old Vices Of C1arisrn,
Then the car, was forced to abdi-
cate. The Russian people obtained
their freedom and became intoxicated
with It." Mr. Rubinstein declared thai
the real reason why new Russia broke
down was because Of the evils and
weaknesses which 1t had inherited
from the old Russian dynasty, and
because the Russians could not be.
come accustomed to the freedom
which came 50 suddenly. -
Telling his audience something ol
the oppressed conditions Of the mass.
es Of Russia, ana why the peasants
demanded liberation from their serf.
dom, MI. Rubinstein drew. q graphic
picture of In. Russia .serf lying mo
tfonless in a pool OF his owl blood
his flesh cut into strips after having
undergone forty or more lashes at the
hands Of his master.
His own part in the Russian revo.
buttons. the tale Of his imprisonment
three successive times. and finally the
story Of his hurried escape over the
border disguised as a peasant lad
were intensely interesting and held
his auditors close attention. Al.