Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-03-28
AMERICA IS SOUND
Raymond Robbins Submits Comprehensive Report Rus
sian Situation-Truth of Peasants and Workngmen's
Government Laid Before the Congressional Committee
Which is Investigating Bosheviki Movement in u. S.

But America in the mass is whole
some, and sincerely devoted to the
ideals of democracy, and we shall cure
these economic wrongs by the politi
cal weapons We now have. America
is sound at heart, and we shall meet
the demands of our workers with
measures which will give them the
better opportunity in life that the
workers everywhere are claiming"
This assertion made by Robbins
more than year ago in Moscow be-
came a plea for action when Robbins
repeated it in Washington.
Russia today, Senator's" he said,
founding it's government and its
philosophy upon this material basis
of MARKHAM socialism, challenges the
Christian world. America is the one
nation that is fit to meet that chal-
lenge. No government which cannot
meet it by establishing the freedom
and the welfare of the working classes
can survive. Over in England is the
ablest statesman of Europe-Premier
Lloyd George. Yet he dare not, with
all his power, lay the hand of the
government upon the Soviets in Bel
fast and Glasgow, nor suppress the
mutiny of Dover. He knows how des-
perate is the condition of British in
dustrial life-how easily the whole
system may be swept away.
Premier Clemenceau, the leader
of France, may survive the assassin's
bullet, but his cause is dead. France,
like England, sees her laboring mas
ses turning to socialism as the IN
strument of securing for themselves
the chance for better life which they
insist must be theirs. ----,,.
America, l tell you, senators, Is
still strong enough to grant justice
to all her people, to remedy these eco
nomic wrongs, to continue to be the
freest and happiest home of men on
the globe. But we cannot meet this
Russian challenge with bayonets, nor
with repression, nor with laws against
the display of red flags. We can only
meet it by establishing justice for
those who do the work of the world"
While Robbins was telling the story
of his close acquaintance with this
birth and growth Of the first working
mems government in the history of
the world, his statement concerning
England was being given a curious
endorsement by Lloyd George, who
was speaking to the joint committee
created by the British parliament of
employers and trade unions.
"Civilization," the premier said,
unless we try to save it, may be pre-
cipitated and shattered to atoms. 1t
can be saved only by the triumph OF
justice and fair play to all classes
alike" And he added that the en-
ployers must never again tell the
workers: "You are earning too much;
your wages must come down."
Senators Johnson of California ana
Norris of Nebraska, who listened to
Robbins testimony, are going to pre-
sent the facts to the public during the
next session of Congress. They will
not so much call attention to the blum
ders that have been made in dealing
with the Russian situation as TO the
need for meeting the challenge of
young Russia with big program of
industrial democracy in the United
States.
Will they have the eager help of
the big employers?