New-York tribune., 1919-12-04
Document Shows ''Reds' -
Plan to Buiid Up Army
Under Cover of Treaty
and Spread Revolt
Martens Decision To-day
Every Substitute for Capt.
talistic Government Goes
Backward, Says Hanson

Soviet Russia is now trying to make
peace with the Allies so it can build
up larger army Of Red Guards and
: then attempt to extend it's social
revolution" all parts of the world,
, according to Lieutenant A. W. Klie-
foth, assistant United States military
s;tache, who spoke yesterday before
the woman's branch of the National
Civic Federation at the Cosmopolitan
Club. 1855 East Fortieth Street. Lieu
tenant kleifoth recently returned from
the Archangel front.
He produced document, written by
Zinocfii, president of the Petrograd
Soviet, and published in the Bolsheyik
newspaper "Prodva." Referring to the
peace drive being made in Europe and
by Ludwig c. A. X. Martens. head of
the Soviet Bureau, in this country. the
document says:
Signing such peace with the Allies
would rot mean that we would stop
bGildng up our Red" army. 1t would
only mean VIC would put no trust what
ever IN the piece of paper we should
sign.
1--WE Shall Conquer in End"
army and at the same time allow our
workers and peasants to draw a few
free breathS. No matter what mistakes
3 we shall make we shall conquer in the
end"
, This document discloses the hid
den motive of the Soviet governments
present drive for peace" the speaker
said. at means that the Bolsheviki
want to stop fighting only SO that they
may attempt to break down certain
economic barriers and then extend the
social revolution throughout the
world"
Justice Samuel Greenbaum of the
Supreme Court yesterday deferred un-
ril this morning his decision on Mar
tens's application to prevent the Lusk
legislative committee from further
questioning him. Dudley Field Ma
lone, counsel for Martens, had obtained
a writ requiring the committee to show
cause why it's summons to Martens
should not be vacated. Mr.. Malone
characterized the Lusk committees in
vestigation as 'iishing expedition"
Hanson Calls Government Capitalistic
Ole Hanson, formerly Mayor of Seat
tie, appeared before the extraordinary
grand jury yesterday in it's investiga-
tlon of criminal anarchy cases. When
Hc lcit tie jury TOOUi, MT. hanson Is
sued statement in which he said:
THE government of this country is
capitalistic form of government. You
may not like the word 'capitalistic,' ,
hut it is nevertheless true that there
has been no government under any
other form which functioned for two
per cent of the people.
Before capitalism, now so much
abused and derided, came to be there
was no liberty, no freedom, no SELF
government, no suffrage, no health, no
prosperity and nothing worth while
Every form now being offered as a
substitute is form which goes back
ward instead of forward Communism
was the form of government adopted
by the primitive tribes. Under this
and every other form now offered the
man who did not work received equal
shares with the man who did. 1t is
only since our present form came to
exist that the workers received even
a modicum of the fruit Of their toll.
NO individual effort, no individual
reward. means poverty. restricted pro-
duction, financial -pestilence and
chaos"
Word was received yesterday by
Harry Weinberger, counsel for Emma
Goldman, Alexander Berkm.n and
other aliens, who have been ordered
deported. that dcported Russians may
AXE their families with them. Berk-
man arrived from Chicago last night.
He and Miss Goldman are to be pro