Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-11-11
RUSS REDS SEEK
j. s. OVERTHROW
Spread Propaganda in America
to Cause Political Upheaval.
BIG REVOLUTION is PLANNED
Bolsheviki Avail Themselves of Every
Opportunity to Bring About Forci-
BILE Downfall of American Gov
eminent, Senate Told.

Washington, Nov. 5.-The Russian
bolsheviki shave availed themselves
of every opportunity to initiate in the
United States a propaganda aimed to
bring about the forcible overthrow of
our present form of government"
Chairman WadswOrth of the senate
military committee has been informed
by Assistant Secretary Phillips in a
letter made public at the senate de-
partment.
Mr.. Phillips said the bolsheviki had
at their disposal a huge sum of gold,
made up partly of the Russian gold
reserve and partly of money secured
from ROumania.
1t was important, he said, to pre-
vent trade relations with soviet Ras-
sia in order to keep this gold from
coming to America to be used for the
promotion of revolt against the gov
eminent.
Ship No Goods to Reds.
Mr.. Phillips said that while there
was nc blockade of Petrograd so far
as the United States was concerned.
no licenses for the shipment OF goods
to bolshevik Russia were being issued.
This policy Of nonintercOurse, he adj
ded, could not be continued after the
proclamation of peace without addi-
tional legislation.
Mr.. Phillips wrote in reply to SEN
ator Wadsworth, who had asked why
~ L.. tod r,nI
icy of nOnintercOurse with that part
of Russia controlled by the bolsheviki.
His letter in part follows:
''In reply to your letter of October
20, 1919. concerning the so-called
blockade of PetrOgrad, l beg to inform
you that, so far as the United States
is concerned, no blockade exists. 1t
is the present policy of this govern
ment, however, to refuse export Ii
censes for shipments to Russian ter
ritory under bolShevik control and to
refuse clearance papers to American
vessels seeking departure for Petro-
grad, the only remaining bOlsheviki
port. AS you are aware, these meas
ures cannot be continued after the rat
ification of peace unless there is new
legislation.
Plan World Revolution.
"The policy of nonintercourse with
territory under bOlshevik control is
based chiefly Oh two considerations.
1t 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
propaganda aimed to bring about the
fOrcible overthrow of our present form
of government. They have at their
disposition in Russia large guam
tity of gold, being partly a reserve of
gold belonging to the ROumanian gov
eminent which was stored in Moscow
for safe keeping at the time of the
German advance into Roumania 1t
is considered important that the boil
sheviki should not be given the means
through commercial transaction to
bring this gold into the United States,
where it could be used to sustain prop
uganda of violence and unreason.
Foreign Trade Mathematical"
''The second consideration related |
to the control which the bolsheviki ex-
ercise over the distribution IF neces- |
stiles. All foreign trade has been ma
tionaliZed.' This means that there |
can be no dealing except with the boil
shevik authorities. Moreover, since !
the fall of 1913 the bolsheviki have
maintainH a system of discrimina- |
tlOn in the distribution of food. The |
population is divided into categories |
along occupational and class lines and |
receives food, so far as food may be |
available, in accordance with a scale |
which is adjusted with view to the |
maintenance of the bolSheviki in DOW |
er and the fulfillment of their program
for the extinction of the middle clas-
Ses."
Japan Will Cooperate.
Japan, replying 20 a note from the
American government last September
regarding conditions in Siberia, has
expressed a willingness to cooperate
with the American authorities, both !
military and civil, in that country. |
This announcement was made at the |
state department, but the text of the |
Japanese reply was withheld.
The American railway mission to |
Siberia is not to be withdrawn at this |
time, state department officials said. |
The members of the mission at OmSk |
have moved to Irkutsk because of |
the advance of the bolsheviki and Of |
icials said this fact probably gave |
rise to the renort that the railway