Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-05
BOLSHEVIKI ARE .
WORKING HARD To
.>OVERTHROW j. s.
: '''s%:;s$I,YSTEM Of RULE
Russian Reds" Said to Have
AyaiIed Themselves of Every
Opportunity to Bring About
a Revolution Here,
HAVE BIG SLUSH FUND
TO SPREAD PROPAGANDA
Assistant Secretary Of State
Tells Why Export Licenses
to Certain Parts of Russia
Are Being Withheld,

Washington, Nov. 4.-The Russian
! B0isheviki have availed themselses of
every opportunity to initiate in the
| United States aimed to bring about
| the forcible overthrow of our present
1 form of government" Chairman
! WadswQrth of the senate military
committee has been informed by As
| sistant Secretary Phillips in letter
made public today at the state depart
ment.
The RolshevilSi, Mr.. Phillips said,
have at their disposal large quantities
! of gold, partly a revenue of the for
! mer Russian government and partly
] u reserve belonging to the Rumanian
| government, and it is considered i'm
portant not to give them means
! through commercial transactions to
| bring this gold into the United States
where it could be used to sustain their
propaganda of violence and unrea-
! SON"
| Mr.. Phillips said that while there
was no blockade of Petrograd 80 far
as the United States was concerned,
no licenses for the shipment of goods
! to BolsheVik Russia were being is
sued. This policy of non-intercourse,
| he added, could not be continued af-
| ter the proclamation of peace without
additional legislation.
| Mr.. Phillips wrote in reply to Sem
ator Wadsworth, who had asked why
| the administration had adopted a
policy Of n-intercourse with that
| part of Russia controlled by the Boil
! shewki. His letter follows;
| No Blockade Exists.
"In reply to your letter of October
| 90, 1919, concerning the so-called
| nf 70 In
| form you that SO far as the United
| States Is concerned, no blockade eX-
lists. It Is the present ppolicy of this
! government, however, to refuse export
| licenses for shipments to Russian ter
4 lito~y under BoIsheviki control, and. to
refuse clearance papers to American
vessels seeking to DEPART for Pet
rograd. the only remaining BolsheviH
port, AS you are aware, these meas
ures cannot be continued after the
ratification of peace, unless there is
new legislation
"The policy of non-ihtercourse with
| territory under Bolahevki control is
based chiefly on two considerations.
It is the declared purpose of the Boil
sheviki in Russia to carry revolution
throughout the world They have
awaited themselves of every opportun-
ity to initiate in the United States a
! propaganda aimed to bring about the
| forcible overthrow of our present form
! of government. They have at their dis
| position in Russia large quantity of
| gold, being partly a reserve of gold
belonging to the Rumanan govern
ment, which was stored in Moscow
| for safe-keeping at the time of the
German advance into Rumania. 1t is
considered. important that the Bolo-
| sheviki should not be given the means
| through commercial transactions to
| bring this gold into the United States,
where it could be used to sustain prop
aganda Of violence and unreason.
THE second consideration related
| to the control which the Bolsheviki
exercise over the distribution of neces-.
stiles. All foreign trade has been ma
| tionalized.' This means that there can
| be no dealing except with the Bolshe-
| Wiki authorities. Moreover, since the
| fall of 1918 the Bolsheviki have main
| tained a System of discrimination in
| the distribution Of food. The popula-
| ton is divided into categories along
occupational and class lines, and re-
ceives food, so far as food may be
available, in accordance with a scale
| which is adjusted with a view to the
maintenance of the Bolsheviki in
| power and the fulfillment of their
program of extinction of the middle
classes The rations given to members
of the red army is estimated, in the
official Bolsheviki Gazette of Febru-
airy 6, 1912 to be three times the aver
age Of the several categories of the
civil population. 1t has seemed alto
gether inadmssible that food and 9TH
| er necessities of American origin
| should be allowed to become the
| means of sustaining such q program
of political oppression.
THE government has not been un-
mindful of the material distress of
many innocent people within the Boil
sheyiki lines An attempt was made
! last spring to provide for the release
| of these people through the cooper
alton of neutral commission to be
| headed by DR.. Hansen. The project
| failed because the Bolsheviki declined
to agree to the cessation of hostilities.
which was considered an indispensable
prerequisite. The department of state
! has subsequently studied other means
| by which necessities might be provid-
| ed for the people of central Russia
without being used for purposes of
| political restraint and also class de-
| ception. No feasible project has yet
been found but the problem eontin-
ues to receive attention.
In the meantime provision has
been made for the immediate release
of the people in any areas which may
he freed from Bolsheviki control as q
result of current military operations.
stores of food estimated to be ade-
quate for the relief of Petrograd for
nearly one month were delivered to
Russians by the American relief ad-
miniStra ton and are now at Vihorp
Finland, whence they can be trans
ported to Petrograd whenever that
city may come under the control of
authorities with whom it is possible
to. deal Definite arrangements. have,
moreover, been made with the United
states Grain corporation to provide
further shipments of flour for this re-
gion, in event of its liberation, and for
the people in the north of Russia,
which is under the control OF demos
cratic government"