New-York tribune., 1919-02-12

growing resentment, especially
among the peasants whose food had
been seized. The majority were turn
ing against the Bolsheviki, and the ex
pertinent had produced nothing and
cost the whole people, in wealth, in
lives and in civilization, an enormous
price.
Free Speech Forbidden.
Under questioning by Major f.
Lowry Humes, counsel for the COM
mittee, Professor Harper brought out
that while the Bolshevik here are
demanding complete freedom of propa-
ganda, in the country of the Bolsheviki
no freedom of speech, writing or action
is allowed. The basis on which the
government continued to exist, he said,
was the seizure of private property,
the suppression of individual freedom,
compulsory military service, the dis
armament and punishment of all who
disagree with it in any particular and
the limitation of the suffrage to bar
out all who have even the least prop
erty or prosperity.
The country has kept alive through
these chaotic conditions, Professor
Harper believed because of the ac-
cumulated stocks of food and clothine,
and other manufactured goods, but
these were rapidly bong exhausted, and
he SAID those who had most recently
come from Russia feared. that the pres
ent winter would see actual starvation
for thousands in the cities and wide
spread epldemics, which would take a
fearful toll. The untrustworthiness of
the news from Russia, he said, made it
impossible to tell as yet whether these
fears were justified.
Breshkovsky Funeral Cited
AS an example of the kind of stories
that are being sent out by both sides
he cited the case Of Nine. Breshkov-
sky. The enemies of the Bolsheviki
had reported her murder several times,
with differing details. The Bolsheviki
had stated that when she died, from
old age, they gave her a magnificent
funeral. AS a matter of fact, the Lit
tie Grandmother" is alive, we'll and is
expected here tomorrow.
DR.. Huntington spoke at length from
his own experiences in Russia. lie re-
viewed the revolutions which had put
the Bolsheviki in power, saying that
the final coup had been prepared for by
eight months of propaganda, chiefly in
the army, and supported with German
money. He did not believe the Boil
shevlkl were pro-German, but said they
were equally against Germany and the
Allies, third party in world affairs.
and were entirely willing to use any
means at hand.
lie said part of the propaganda had
been directed against America, which
the Bolsheviki denounced first because
1T had joined in q "captalistic" war.
and, second, because this is not
Socialistic government. The Bolshevik
leaders, he declared, were as much op-
posed to a democratic government as
tc an autocratic or imperialistic one.
Bolshevism Is Dictatorship
He illustrated this point by SEN
tence from dispatch sent by the So
Wet government when their courers
were held up, saving that it insisted on
opening diplomatic relations mot only
with the existing governments, but
with the revolutionary groups which
are seeking the overthrow of those
governments"
The Bolshevik scheme, he said, was
at some distant time-the realization
of the Utopia dreamed of by all So
ciahsts. In the meantime, there must
be a "dictature of the proletariat" to
organize the new form of society. The
details of this were to be left tin the
proletarlat was in full control, and for
this purpose there must be seizure of
all private property without compensa-
ton, the exclusion of all property own
ers, even those who hold few feet of
land or a home, from the government,
and the leadership of the proletariat,
whom the Bolshevik leaders are unfit
to rule, by chosen few. The result,
he said, was a practical dictatorship
by very few leaders.
Leaders Chiefly Jews
The leadership, he declared, was not
predominantly Slav 1t included an
Armenian and some Let's. but chiefly
Jews, whose intellects, he said, seemed
dominant. He added that the best He
brews in Russia did not approve Boil
shevism, nor did the real radicals of
long standing and leadership. The
people themselves he believed to be
kindly, docile and even tempered, but
so simple that they were helpless
against the agitators and struck when
told to strike, often being sorry for it
within few hours.
The Bolsheviki won by promising the