The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-28
NEARING'SCRY
FOR US. REVOLT
HAILED BY REDS
Calls Nation a RObber and
FavOrS Soviet Here Like
RusSia's.
HART OF HARVARD ANGRY
Comes to n. Y. to Debate
League Of Nations, but Hears
Authority Denounced Only.

More than 5000 Reds, or as Police
man McGeoghan. who in the last dec
ade has observed all things ornitho-
logical up Central Park way, called
them the geese" scurried out OF the
tenements below Fourteenth street
yesterday afternoon and filled every
seat in the Century Theatre, and the
stage too; and for an hour and a half
they clacked the cry OF their leader.
DR.. Scott Nearing: Revolution"
The red winged hats, red ties, red
sashes and red minds. blended per
rectly with the red plush seats and
decorations of the theatre, and the big
audience seemed quite at home
They paid all the way from a quar-
ter to dollar to hear a debate between
their favorite prophet and Prof Alfred
Bushnell Hart of Harvard University
on the League of Nations. Prof. Hart
unfolding the league plea and DR..
Nearing opposing. OF all the argu-
ments heard In public asainst the
League, DR.. Nearing's was most
astounding. and while he yelled "Revo-
luton again and again and called
the United States a robber nation. down
in the labyrinth stairway that leads
under the stage TO the pit of the thea
tire secret service man carefully noted
every utterance.
Calls LeaEae Advantars 10 Labor.
Prof. Hart spoke for fofvy-6ve min
utes or the advantage the league
would be 10 labor. He spoke calmly
ana In the academic manner OF a leo
turer. But when DR.. Nearing, a. was
his privilege OF debate. offered the red
rag OF revolution as a substitute for
the league, and spent his entire forty
nve minutes fiaying the Government OF
the United States and the other allied
Powers. the Harvard professor rose to
his feet, his big frame shook with emo
uon and In eloquent words OF Ameri-
canism he tried TO shame the audience
and Nearing himself for their enthusi-
asm for revolt
Revolution. is that the remedy" he
roared up at the galleries, and the an
swering cry was: Yes, yes" accom-
panied by volley OF applause. A girl
standing in the fringe OF the hundreds
or parior Bolshevists on the stage
waved her red cape
revolution is the subject TO be dis
cussed before this audience. is It? Never
would l have set foot In this house did
conceive l would hear my country
called a robber nation. that our system
OF government Is an abomina bic system
tom"
His long AIMS pointed at the Reds,
out they caught the wo~d revolution. "
and hugsed It with applause. often re-
peating 1t ike something loved.
Prof Hart stepped farther out on the
stage. and his words came fast
Russia" Arouses Galleries.
Who wants war? Scott Nearing
wants war. and the people who think as
he does. Because revolution Is civil
war and We see the results OF this kind
or revolution as has come in Russia
where"
Russia. Murray for Russia = cried the
mad galleries. and even taose seated
on the stage in back OF the speaker lie
continued
Germany has gone through a -evolu-
ton. Do we want to undergo the ex-
pertence OF Germany? didn't como
here 10 discuss revolution. had a right
TO suppose DR.. Nearing would stick to
the subject of a League OF Nations In
the United States we have all the power
and authority that could be possibly en-
5oyed by a social revolution. There never
has been time when men who work with
their hands have had as great power
and influence as at the present moment
At the head Of the labor conference at
the peace convention sat the head OF or
sanized workingmen OF this land. Sam
uel Gompera. tHisses, catcalls and
shoutingl. l see Samuel Gempers does
not represent this audience"
Rather than the League OF Nations
upheld by Prof Hart" replied Dr.
Nearing. 81 would suggest the remedy
OF revolution. Russia, Germany, Aus
tria- Hungary and certain other parts Of
Europe will form league that will be
Gar more effective as method of pre-
venting war than the league which is
now in existence,
THE league as proposed Is an or
ganixation OF rapitalistic empires. As
long as these i've empires. Great Brit
ain. France, Italy, Japan and the United
States. arc in league we shall have all
the miseries and horrors until we have
revolution. 1Great applause.l
Refers to League of HiEhwaymen.'
Labor has not n seat at the peace
table. VIII a league OF highwaymen
benefit passersby? Above the surface
the Saar Valley is German; below It
is coal. That's why the French want
IT,"
As authority for a revolution in this
country, DIR. Wearing quoted the sec
ord paragraph Of the Declaration Of
Independence and excerpts from "Thc
New Freedom by Woodrow Wilson.
lie said there would he no bioodshcd
in the revolution unless there were coun-
ter-revolutionary forces For a new
government to te set up In place OF the
present one in a country he would have
the principles OF the Russian Soviet con-
stitution adopted.
When he finished his rebuttal, DR..