New-York tribune., 1919-07-10

SIBERIAN government headed by Ad-
mfral Kolchak, in my opinion, is either
grossly mlsinformed, or else a man
who wishes such scenes as these to take
place in America-one of the two"
Assemblyman McElligott at this point
inquired of the witness:
"Of what is the Bolshevik COM
posed?"
Scoundrels and Fools
"Lenine himself is credited as say.
ing. and believe it to be correct" Mr..
Embry replied, Chat to, one BoIshevik
there are, in the Bolshevik party,
ttnirty,nine scoundrels and sixty fools.
Now, | believe that is a right percent
age. believe one is Bolshevik who
does not mean harm to the people;
whose mind is twisted; who believes
that we can have a proletariat millen-
mum here, and that all that is neces.
sary is to overthrow capital and every
thing will be beautiful and that every
body will be happy. The other thirty
nine, believe, are thieves and men
lured on by the hope of getting plum
der and loot, and of having complete
appetite they have. Then there. are
about so per cent, l believe, plain fools,
who are too ignorant to understand the
doctrines that are attributed to them,
and who blindly and foolishly follow
any man who gets up and makes a
speech to them in which they see
chance to live without working and
have more than they have now. The
Bolsheviki as I knew them in Russia
are the greatest criminal organization
the world has ever seeh."
Reds Disfranchised Opponents
In answer to question by Senator
Lusk, Mr.. Embry said that in the be-
ginning the Soviet government granted
universal suffrage, but soon disfran-
chlsed the property classes and every
one opposed to Bolshevism.
Senator Lusk said:
Mr.. Embrey, we have in this coun-
try to-day, as has been demonstrated
and proven before this committee
large amo2nt o. agitation in the form
newspaper articles published in cer-
taih newspapers, and letters written
by indiv duals and institutions, di-
rected against the organized govern
ment, agitating against the govern
ment and advocating revolutionary
overthrow of the government. The
members of the committee are anxious
to know whether any such condition
as that preceded the overthrow of the
occurred on November 7, 1917, at the
time the so-called Soviet government
displaced the organized government? ?"
81 was in Odessa, Russia, on Novem-
Der 7, 1917, when the Bolsheviki over
threw the Kerensky government" Mr.. |
Embrey answered. prior to that time
and Immediately after that date there
was apparent in the newspapers of
Odessa inf1ammatory articles which |
parallel thearti cles read before this
committee yesterday 1t is the firm
conviction of intelligent Russians who
studied the situation and who have
gone through this horror of Bolshe-
vism. that much less than 10 per cent
of Russia is for Bolshevism at the
present time"
In his letter to Senator Lusk Mr.. |
Untermyer characterized the commit |
tees course in regard to the Rand I
School as "playing with fire." and ,
served notice that he would do every
thing in his power to keep the COM
mlttee within the law. After empha-
sizing that he is a pronounced "anti-
Socialist" the writer explains he has |
consented to give the Rand School his
aid in the discharge Of what he con- |
siders to be high public duty"
His reason for this action, as explained
in the letter, is that he considers the
unlawful acts of the committee as |
more. perllous and more a prolific |
breeder of Bolshevism and revolution
than all the revolutionary conspiracies
against orderly government combined !
The letter continues:.
II am satisfied that when the MAN.
ner Of conducting this inquiry is un-
derstood, as it soon will be, your So
called investigation will meet with !
the discredit that it deserves, and that |
the most welcome step that could now
be taken in the public interest would |
be for the Legislature to investigate
the methods and operation of its in |
vestigators.
"A few days ago 1 was appealed to
by Miss Zona Gale, the well-known au-
thoress, on behalf of Professor Scott
Nearing, whom I do not know and have
never seen, to endeavor to secure for
that gentleman the high privilege,
which you have summarily denied him,
OF being promptly heard before your
committee, so that he may by your
grace have the opportunity of answer
ing the charges affecting him that have
issued from your press bureau.
When your committee began it's
inquiry | was gratified and hopeful
that it would, by legal and orderly
means, expose the elements that are
lurking in our community, and l so
expressed myself, but your methods,
tics Of your counsel, have destroyed
an, such hope.
u herewith formally demand:
"That your sessions be hereafter
openly held, SO that the public may