New-York tribune., 1919-05-14
Sincere Leaders of Revo.
luton Are Forming a
Conciliatory Branch.
Reports U. S. Consul
just Released by Reds
Bourgeoisie and Middle.
Class Peasants May Come
to Terms, Is His Opinion
New York Tribuns
Wushtn0 0to1t Rurenx


WASHINGTON, May 13.-Realizing
that the reign of terror practised by
the Bolsheviki cannot last, numerous
Russian communities are forming COM
munistic parties, which are drawing
supporters from all classes, Roger
Culver Treadwell, the American Consul
at Petrograd, who recently was re-
leased from internment by the Boil
shevik, to-day advised the State De-
partment in a comprehensive report of
Russian conditions
Bolshevism, Mr.. Tredwell said, has
proved to be the replacing Of the
bureaucracy Of the Czar by the die
tatorship of new ana more ignorant
oppressors of the Russian people. -
The Bolshevik platform, he tersely
summarized thus:
"Our country, the whole world;
our countrymen, the proletariat;
our aim,' to demolish nationalities,
regions and frontiers; our one
enemy, the bourge oisie, with whom
we shall never make peace regard
less of the suffering entailed or the
methods necessary to secure re-
suits"
After serving at Petrograd Mr.. Tired
we'll was assigned to Tashkent, Turk
estan, where on October 25, 1918, he
was interned by the Bolsheviki. He
recently was released and proceeded to
Copenhagen, from which he is expected
to leave soon for Paris. He doubtless
will return to the United States to
make complete report to the State
Department, and be given an extended
leave of absence from the rigors of the
experience he has undergone at the
hands of the Russian Reds.
Majority Arc Indifferent
In his report Mr.. Tredwell said:
"The majority of Russian people are
Indifferent to the form of governme mt
and with their political inexperience
and the terrorism created by the Red
army any expression of democratic
principles has been stifed. The Boil
sheviki took hold of the machinery of
the government by obscuring their
playing upon the sentiment of the Rus
sian people in their suddenly emanci-
pated and naturally bewildered state
The Bolsheviki drew their greatest
support from the strong hatred which
developed in 1917 against the reac-
tionary policies of the then govern
ing autocracy. The movement of the
Bolsheviki, employing always altruis-
tic phrases and playing not upon the
Intelligence of the great mass of Rus
sian people but upon their human nat
ure, is more of an outburst against
oppression than an expression of po-
litical feeling
"The Russian people had been led on
to believe that they would become i'm
mediately prosperous in revolution
that would assume widespread proper
tions, but now this illusion has been
dissipated; the people are becoming in
creasingly discontented with the des-
potism substituted for the promised
freedom"
Got Views of Peasants
In the course of his travel from
Tashkent, in Turkestan, to Petrograd
Consul Tredwell, in peasant clothes
and accompanied by a Russian inter
prefer, mingled constantly with the
peasantry. and obtained representa-
tive point of view. He found, he said
not only general dissatisfaction with
the existing conditions, but a growing
feeling against the terrorist methods
adopted by the Bolsheviki against
those who disagree with them or who
are dCCuScu oI opposing lHeH
Significant in the present situation
Mr.. Tredwell said, is the developme mt
of a communistic party, organized by
the few leaders of the international
revolutionary movement who are sin
cere. rhis campaign is marked by a
purported greater Cancellation toward
the bourgeoisie and middle class peas
ants. This conciliatory attitude on paper
is hard to carry out because of diff
ficulty in restraining the passions of
the uneducated.