New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-12-03
England and Russia.

England ana R2tSS1Q.
A few significant points in the Eng
fish Prime Minister'S address to the
House of Commons last week deserve
more attention than they received in
general in the published reports in the
American press. Mr.. Lloyd George
assured the" House that the Govern
ment would not assume responsibility
for further financial burdens with re-
spect to Russia. If any were to be in
Cured, Parliament would have to con-
slider additional taxation for that pur-
pose. This was as much as to say
fatty that England would not engage
in any more useless and expensive
Russian adventures. Until now inter
vention and support Of counter-revolu-
ton has been continued on one pretext
or another under the sanction Of war
time powers and by stretching war
time budgets. But with the English
people in their present mood, it would
be suicidal for any government to come
forward with deliberate scheme Of taxa
ton to cover further enterprises Of this
kind. With all due allowances for polit-
ical equivocation and hypocrisy this is
therefore nothing less than an announce
ment that England is done with inter-
vention and counter-revolution. It is
no binding pledge, nor would we place
any confidence in it if it were. But it
shows the drift Of policy.
So much for the war What of the
blockade? "The settlement of the Rus
sian problem was most Imperative ;.
said. the Prime Minister, according to
| the Christian Science NJ onstor, because
Russia was one Of the great sources from
which came the supply Of raw materials,
while the present state of Russia was a
contributing cause Of the high pr es.'
Here is the belated confession that the
social and economic factors will determine
the Russian question, and in the end
will override all the political and dynas-
tic schemes Of the counter-revolut iona-
res in Paris The cost OF building
materials and the scarcity Of flax in Eng
Hand are more potent than the pleas Of
the emigres The English worker de
mands that the war upon Russia shall
| end, he demands that the blockade shall
| be lifted; also he demands houses and
clothing and food and employment
| for himself. And he knows, and his
1 government knows, that these demands
cannot be separated. The war upor
| Russia and the blockade OF Russia is
a blight upon the industry Of all Europe
England, as Lloyd George admits, can
not afford to fight Russia. Much less
I can she afford to blockade Russia. Hav-
ing raised these most practical consid.
erations, the Premier felt it opportune
to take the humanitarian view that the
civil war in Russia should be brought
| to an end as soon as possible and "on
terms acceptable to the Russians them
selves" "The Government, therefore
had always. been ready to take any
reasonable opportunity to effect q
| settlement, etc.
A man isn't even safe to 60 shopping
in St. Paul without a bodyguard. Wit
ness the disappearance Of Sanity City
grocer, who ventured into the down,
town district recently with a bank roll
of about $500. His wife notified the
police that her husband had not returned
home and stated that she feared he had
j been injured and robbed
1 The Twin City crooks are getting
! holder from day to day. Recently
they stole a small trunk, containing
1, SIS, 900 worth Of diamonds, from tht
loading platform at the rear Of tht
4 Dyckman hotel The owner Of thu
trunk, travelling salesman for a New
4 York jewelry firm, had checked ou1
from a leading st. Paul hotel a shor,
time before the robbery. "A queel
4 feature of the affair is that the. Mime
/ apolis police went over to St, Paul ii
search Of the diamond robbers, Will,
blueeoats from the Sanity City went t,
!, the Mill City on q like mission.
Ty "A a. 1882 81 Il