The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-21
5000 IN GARDEN
CHEER AS REDS
!. SLUR COUNTRY
Assertion That q. s. Is
Brutal Brings Shrieks
a of Delight.
ORATORS EXERCISE CARE
Stop Just Short of Exhorta-
lions to Violence-East-
man Quotes Polk.

The one big laugh Of the evening in
Madison Square Garden. where 5000
persons gathered last night to protest
against the raid on the bureau Of the
Russian Soviet Republic. came when
Max Eastman declared that he was an
American Citizen ~ .s
Comrade Eastman made the admis-
sion good naturedly,- and then he read
what he said was a translation. from
the cipher OF a secret cable from act
ing Secretary Of State Polk in WASH
ington advising President Wilson TO
use some Of his confidential fund to
held bolster UP the Siberian Railway.
Mr.. Polk warned the President that
tho extra session was regarded as in
evitable and predicted such virulent
attacks on the Administrations Rus
sian policy from the Republicans that
it would be hopeless to ask for an ap-
preparation. Eastman refused even to
discuss where he had got the cipher
message.
Comrade Eastman declared, that this
constituted President Wilson'S own
private war against the Soviet Repub-
lie. t
Otherwise the Garden famed into its
now familiar pale pink. The 5000 revo-
lutionists cheered when one Dennis e.
Bait Of Michigan said the Government
of the United States was the most ruth
less and vicious on the face OF the earth
They howled with glee when c. e. Rue
thenberg of Cleveland told than the left
wing of the ssOcislist party was growing
so fast that 1t would soon. sweep the
present Goyefnhieat OUT, of existence;
they gave unstinted applause when James
Larkin OF IIreisnds alluded Ito Samuel
Gompers as the lowest scum of English
Jewry. and they sweiled Into really bel
ligerent cheers when Rosa 'Pasfor- Stokes
asked what the more than 5000 hireling
militiamen 5who played stoldier In the
streets on Wednesday night would do
in the face OF their Millions when q
came to a showdown. = ="
LadAStn red subases4 3 J.
But when a couple of pug nosed cops,
merry, walked into the centre Of the mob
and removed, vigorously, a young man
who attempted TO interfere when the
cops told his lady friend to stop waving
her red hat like a red flag. the revolu-
sion didn't revolute. 1t just stopped
cheering L. c. A. X. Martens. who was
about to speak, sang the Internationally
and settled down to listen to Martenss
mild, little speech.
Always the inhammatory orators
stopped just short of the straight out ad-
vice to violence. Thus II was when Den
mis- E. Bait worked up to his peroration
The allusion to the Governments, OF the
United States as tho most ruthless and
brutal on the face o. atke-earth was jus,
his exordium. He went from that to q
prediction OF fight. a nasty fight from
the capitalistic class"
He told his hearers how they were In
bondage and slavery and all that sort OF
thing, neglecting to mention their ad.
mirable sack suits and silk gowns moi
to mention the real leather shoes, such
as do not to-day exist in Russia, and to.
tally ignoring the violently waved smart
millinery of both men and women. HI
was going in great shape, and as his next
sentence began reporters for a mere cap.
italstic press looked nervously toward
the exits.
There Is just one thing the capital.
istic class will listen to-" he Kissed over
the edge of the railing. There lie lust
one argument they can understand" and
every one thought he was going to tall
about the old Whit OF grapeshot or the
more modern mitraileuse as he made his
dramatic pause. But what he said was
Power"
And then he went on to tell all hi.
hearers that they ought to Join the lef
wing of the Socialist party. He did moi
mention either initiation fees or dues
But he said that eventually II woulC
make the capitalists tremble in theli
boots.
c. e. Ruethenberg went even further
along these lines than did Comrade Bait
Ruethenberg for the first time told how
the revolution happened in Russia.
How Russia RevoIuted.
"It was the growth OF an idea." he
said in the sweetest voice. THE idea
grew and grew until one day Il Just
crowded the ground out from under the
rotten Car and his friends and. the,
cropped.
There was never a word about the bull
lets and the bayonets and the hanging.
and the lootings that the capltallstiC
press have faxed pictures and storiei
about from Russia. 1t was all, the idea
according TO Comrade Ruethenberg. II,
never even mentioned violence except e
say that the capitalistic class in raidnl
Comrade Martens's nest in Forfeit
street had started the ball rolling b,
breaking their own capitalistic laws
The broom was Comrade RuethenberE
favorite weapon. The idea always
Swept" according to the accurate In
formation he presented of conditions II
Russia, Hungary and maybe In Ger
many. And the idea was going I,
"sweep" things out In this country. too
The secret telegram from Secretar!
Polk to Secretary Lansing. which Com
rade Eastman read, was as follows:
"CGW Green & Cipher Washington
Dated January cath. 1919. Receivet
25th, 2;25 p. NJ
Admission, Paris, 3sl, January gath
p NJ. Very confidential. ....
For the Secretary Of State. Refer
ring to my answer to 376, January u
regarding Siberian Railway plans. TAX
the liberty OF calling your attention t
the political situation here.
Critical spirit to-day is being cleari,
manifested in regard to- Russia:
y BY attacks On War Trade Boar,
Russian Bureau.