The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-05
GOLD OF RUSSIAN
REDS IS IN THIS
SAYS SIMMONS
Famous Red Cross Director Is
Sure Lenine- Trotzky Wish
to Start Reign of Terror
Over Whole of America.


At the st. Louis convention Of the
American Mining congress, George w.
simmons, Vice-president Of Simmons
Hardware company, Of st. Louis, and a
national official Of the American Red
Cross for more than two years, spoke of
his personal experiences in Siberia and
european Russia, and of Rolshevism as |
1t is practiced. He said, in part:
'bolshevism is not a political now
ment. The Bolsheviki make no attempt |
70, persuade others to their way OF
thinking nor to spread their doctrines
by education or other legitimate meth
THE Bolshevist komisar has practi-
cally absolute power even under life and
death within the jurisdiction assigned
10 him, which may be a small town, a
county or q province, or some larger
division, clear up to Trotzky himself,
THESE komisars control every ,firearm In
Russia and hold in abiect terror the
Russian peasants and workmen. Lenine
Is reputed to be n sincere but crazy
fanatic who Is willing TO use German
gold or Trotzky's method of blood and
murder or any other tool or weapon
which will enable him to achieve his
dream OF the universal brotherhood Of
man. He lives modestly, as far as his
personal expenditures so, whereas Trot-
zky is said 10 be living more extrava-
gantly than any Of the hated aTistoc-
raoy ever lived.
Germans in Trotzky's Cabinet.
"Trotzky and a large majority Of his
cabinet are not Russians at all, but are
German Jews who have adopted Rus
sian names, Trotzky's name, as Is well
known, is Braunstein.
"Lenine mad a significant remark in
May last when he said, We realize that
In an agricultural country like Russia
bolsheVism can never succeed, because
the farmers grow barely enough to feed
themselves and never leave their farms
or send their products off of It; but be-
fore Bolshevism fails in Russia we will
have kindled the fires throughout the
rest Of the world that will never be
quenched.'
THAT is the secret of the whole move
ment, 1t Is well known that Ienins
and Trotzky got control of some So, 000,-
000, 900 in gold which was in the I'm
perial bank in Petrograd, and that a
large amount, il not most of that gold.
Is being spent by them in other coun-
tries than Russia, Just as has been
stated recently by authorities In Wash
ington hat they had actually traced
considerable amounts of money through
the Lenine-Trotzky government into
America, and in and through the hands
OF agitators who today are trying to
disrupt u industry,
Hun Influence in Russia.
THE thing which surprised me most
IN all of my experience in Russia was
tho astonishing extent to which Ger
many had influence over Russia before
the war, and that the revolution of 1916,
which found Kerensky at it's head, was
a direct protest Of the Russian people
generally against a separate peace
which the czar was about to make with
l Germany. The far-sighted. good judg
= ment and unquestioned courage Of Am
bassador Francis, who within As hours
after the car had abdicated officially
> recognized the provisional Kerensky
government, held the Russian army
: fighting on the eastern front for eight
, months longer han II would haYe been
fighting otherwise. That, as a result.
. delayed by eight months the beginning
Of the German offensive at Paris, which
started in March, 1918, In this Keren
sky revolution Germany saw her great
Opportunity to accomplish by intrigue
what she could not accomplish by the
o force Of arms. She sent to Switzerland
and got Lenine, took him through Ger
9 many In u sealed train and turned hin
> loose with Trotzky and with amply sup
4 ply of German gold to destroy the Rus.
sian army and the Russian industry and
to demoralize the Russian people. These
things he did most suc~eessfully-the lat,
ter by promising all kinds of things L
these simple minded, u]neducated peas
1 "ltN9t WIN ~ OAA0 AA'AhNu w mo oAallh
ard until they found he had no idea Of
making any attempt to do as promised
once he had them firmly under thu
power Of his mailed fist.
For a Reign of Terror.
you may ask what has all this go
to do with us, Lenine has announced
his intention to destroy the American
government and constitution. and sup,
plant II with the reign of terror which
saw In Russia. Russia Is so big tht
rest Of the world could not build 6
fence around 1t and tell 1t to stew II
4 its own juice and stand Idly by Il
sec what is going to happen. AS lont
= as Bolsheyism prevails in Russia ther
can be no peace in the rest OF the world
Furthermore, In Bolshevism disease
a plague, cholera, typhus n other sucl
. things are gaining Roadway at such al
d alarming rate that despite magniflcen
It work TO check 1t ] think II likely that
unless some stable government is estab
hshed before next summer, the plague
20 may spread throughout Europe and ge
,r beyond human control. Furthermore
we have a human Christian America
Interest In helping, these people to ri
X themselves OF this tyranny, which, &C
Y. oordlng to statements of Lenine him
70 self, Is In the hands OF 900, 900 OF tn
" proletariat who now control $50, 900, OF
] Russian people.
ne "Remember, we have said the greG
war was our war, yet in the three year
we We're making up our mind that
was our war and deciding to get read
TO prepare to go into 1t, and during tht
time there were no new issues involve
p In it. Russia alone stood between Gel
ia many and the rest OF the world and lo
rh about as many of the lives Of her your
~ men as France and England combine
in the whole war. If It was our wa
we should extend n helping hand
economic help, not soldiers-to tho
nv Russian people who are honestly tryiI
to build a government Of. for and
the people,
lid PROFESSIONALLY, I am firmly convinc'
that the great majority Of the agitati,
In our industries today IL paid for wi