Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-07
B0lSHEV!SM IS WORLD MENACE
 ROBINS SAYS
Head Of Red Cross Mission
 Has Means to Stop Evil.
LEVINE FORECASTED i SPREAD OF DOCTRINE
Premier t>>erted That American Government Was Entirely
 Corrupt.

l Washington. March 6,-Raymoni i Robins. Of Chicago, fornier head of the American Red Cross mission 70 Rus >}a. told the senate invest .gat.ag commission today there was funda- mental menace for the world in Rus sian BolSHeviSn and suggested means for com batting itS spread. The wit neSS said that 8 year ago NiEolai I.e- inle. Bolsheyiki premier had correct ly forcaSted how BolShevist ideas would take root in Bulgaria. Austria and Germany in the order named.
 MT Robins quoted Lenine as de ciarlng that In his opinion. the Ameri- can government was entirely corrupt and as adding.
 We challenge every government. We may be overwhelmed. but at the same time. We will destroy all mori- bu9d political governments"
 Advocates Opposition
 ] Cncosting opposition 10 the princi- pies of Bolshevisnl. both Tn Russia and in the United States was advocat ed by Mir Robins. but he warned against the use of military force and rhe arbitrary suppression of ideas. The witness said the United States should send an economic mission to ]. Russia 10 aid the people in obtaining the necessities of life. declaring this would be the most effective way of ssnevism III this country, Mir Robins fighting Bolshevism. To combat Bol- know the truth about it's false teach urged that the people he allowed sa ings" and that existing evils in American economic and social life be remedied by law Publicity. he added would prompt the repudiation of Bol- Ishevism
 and Allied military forces from Rus sia, Mir. Robins outlined the policies of the American and allied govern ment which he said led to interven- sending of the troops had helued 10 Ition ad told the committee that the Iprecpitate the Red terror"
 Would Resume War. 1 In this connection. the witness said the Russian Soviet government agreed in February. 1918. to denounce the Brest-Litvosk treaty and resume the war against Germany if the United States and Great Britain would assure co-operation but that despite his own efforts and those of R. A. B. Lockk- hart. British high commissioner. to induce the governments to agree no Icognition by the United States. Mr.
 The Bolshevists do not desire re- was approved at Moscow.
 response yves received and the treaty Robins testified, but thev would well come assistance in restoring the econ- iomic life of the country He explaned that the Bolshevist leaders feel their position as international revolution aries would be weakened by formal treaties with other governments. As serting that Lenine prefers co-opera- .tion with America, rather than Ger many, Mir. Robins said that unless this country took the lead in peaceable restoration of Russia, Germany in 1 evitably would obtain a new foot hold.
 Attacked Root.
 that America had failed to connect in
 The witness gave 1t as his opinion cause of the men sent to Russia to re- Ipresent the United States govern lment. He mentioned especially Elihu Root, who, he said. was attacked in Russia as having been the man who tried to make the United States safe Icording to the witness were the stories for plutocracy" Other factors, ac- told by Russians who returned to Rus sia from the United States after the revolution. These men seemed to have been living in bad spots. Mir. lwit hthem false ideas about the United Robins said. and they brought back States, which they pictured as "a heaven of capitalists and He'll for Iworkingmen."
 Mir. Robins testified that stories Iof atricities in Russia before his de- lparture were largely false, declaring he was, impressed by the lack of destruction of life" and adding that he believed it would have been much greater in the United States under similar conditions. He blamed anar- chist groups for many of the acts of terror
 I The Soviet program was denounced by the witness, who described it as being economically impossible and morally wrong," He concluded his testimony with a renewed appeal that the people in this country try to understand Bolshevism in its true light in order to combat its menace. NORRIS EXQUISITE CANDIES Fresh by express. Pines Drug Store.