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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Speaks in Bitter Terms of
Lloyd George and CIemenceau

Errors-if we must talk of them-are no
crimes. And Lennes errors are the errors
of an honest man, and there has never yet
been in the world reformer who acted un-
erringly But Lloyd George, Clemenceau and
Co. acted unerringly, like real jailors. like
professional murderers, condemning the
whole Russian people to the horrors of hun
ger and cold and contributing to the pro-
Tonga ton of internecine strife that is abso-
lutely meaningless, for Russia lacks utterly
any forces outside the "Bolsheviks" capable
of governing the country and arousing in
the stricken people the energy that is indis-
pensable for productive work. In Ireland
Lloyd George is worse than jailor; he is a
murderer and liar His White Terror there
is worse than our Red Terror
But to return to V. L. Lenine. l must say
that my personal sympa for him play
no part whatever now while l write Of him.
| look upon \ as a person coming under
my observation. like all other persons and
phenomena that cannot but interest me, the
describcr of the life and lot of my coun-
The development of cvilization-if by this
is meant a continual advance in art, science.
the progress of technique cannot, of course,
be delayed by the fact that not only few
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28

Herewith THE NEW YORK HER
AID publishes extracts from the note
books of Captain Francis McCuliagh. its
correspondent, who recently made his
way out of Russia after many months of
travel and adventure in that country. BY
his DISCUSSES and his ability to speak
Russian fuentiy, Captain McCuilagh was
able to get under the surfare and to bore
deeply into BoIshevism and its works. In
paragraph form to-day Captain McCui-
lagh throws a food of light upon present
conditions in Russia.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Pictures Lenine More Human
Than Any of His Contemporaries

Lenine is human to a higher degree than
any of my contemporaries, and although his
thought naturally is occupied above all else
with political considerations, that the ro-
manifest must call narrowly practical" 1
CONVINCED that this thought filled with
battle wanders, in its rare moments Of re-
pose, far further into the glorious future and
far more than I can imagine
The fundamental purpose Of Lenine's
whole life is the good of humanity, and he
must inevitably perceive in the distant per-
spective of time the end of that mighty
process of development whose beginning his
own will serves so ascetically and bravely.
He is an idealst, if by this is meant the
gathering up of all the forces OF n mans
nature into one idea-the general good. His
personal life is such that in an age of pre-
dominantly religious moods Lenne would
have been considered a saint.
| know that this will make the bourgeoisie
furious that many comrades will smile and
that Lenine himself will laugh. Saint. a
paradoxical and ludicrous word to apply to
a man for whom there is nothing holy" as
the former revolutionary. the antique II am
of God" Chaikovsky said Of him. Lenine a
saint. This man who is considered by the
well educated and cultured leader of the
British Conservatives (sic) Lord (sic)
Churchill to be 1.-The cruelest and most re-
pulsive of men!'
But the noble Lord cannot deny that holi-
ness I'm the ecclesiastical sense has rarely
excluded cruelty and hardness. TO which the
hioodv nphte NJ the fathers NJ the Church
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
BY MAXIM GORkY.

Special Correspondence OF THE NEW YORK
HERALD
Copl,right, 1920, bv THE New YORK HERALD.
RIGA. Nov. 2.
THOUGH an adhelent OF a theory
IA that declares the role of the individ-
ual to be insignificant in the develop
ment of history, Lenine is nevertheless in
my opirion, a source of energy without
whose influence the Russian revolution
could not take on the form it has now as
si,rnad
Every one gets what he deserves--that is
Justice A people that has decayed in the
oppressive atmosphere of monarchy. in
capable of action or will, destitute of belief in
itself insuffciently bourgeois" to raise
strong resistance and too weak to kill in
itself the beggarly won but tenaciously held
striving after bourgeois prosperity-such
people is obviously. according to the crazy
logic of its history, condemned to live
through all the dramas and tragedies that
q passive creature living in the midst of
barbarously developed class war, whose most
repulsive expression was the bloody horror
of the war 1914-191S, can possibly endure.
Naturally I do not propose to compose a
speech of defence in order TO Justify V.
Lenine; neither he nor I have need of
this
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
rlys Vision of enine and the Red Chief Own Views

analysis Lenin Maxim Gorky he has permitted
leader but
depict his character he might that other
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28

Special Correspondence OF THE NEW YORK
HERALD.
Copyright, 1920. By THE NEW YORK HERALD.
RIGA, Nov. 2.
r SEE that some of the English labor
deputies, who recently visited Russia,
criticise me for not being sufficiently
acquainted with English conditions AS
matter OF fact, they struck me as being
curiousy ignorant OF English conditions
themselves. Lansbury has ludicrous ideas
about the Importance of the Anglican
Church. and some of the others take an
equally fantastic view OF the English Con-
stitution. the English King and the organi-
zation of British society. They think the
King is impartial though it is as clear as
daylight that he is inextricably allied to the
reactionaries. He did not punish those re-
dictionaries who took direct action in Ulster
six years ago, but he punished mercilessly
those republicans who take direct action to-
day in the south Of Ireland. If the miners
ebe against the exactions Of the Lords,
King George will shoot them down like
dogs.
If the reactionaries bring illegal and ex
tra-Parliamentary action to bear upon a
Labor government the King will inevita-
bly, be with the reactionaries. And I'M
Coubtedly such tra-Parliamentary action
will be taken by the bourgeoisie If ever
british labor gets a majority in the House
If Commons. 1t has been taken already
under high sounding names, and ii Will be
taken again if ever labor dares to pass
legislation which is distasteful to the con-
seryatiyes.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Russian Novelist's Pen Picture of The Maddest
of Them All'' Eliminates Catastrophe
Situation of His Country

thousand individuals but the broad masses
of the people to take part in the labor
of civilizations
Sometimes the bodness of Imagination
indispensable to a writer puts me the ques
ton: How does Lenine see the new world?"
And then before my eyes unfolds
srandiose vision OF the earth. beautifully
polished by the labor Of a free humanity
into a gigantic jewel. All men are reason
able and every one has the feeling of personal
responsibility toward everything that is
done by him those about him. Every
where garden cities containing majestic
buildings. Everywhere the forces of nature.
conquered and tanned by human reason are
working for human benefit.
And man himself is-at last-the ruler OF
the elements His physical energy Is no
longer wasted on dirty drudgery. 1t has
been transmitted into spiritual energy, and
all its strength is directed to solving those
fundamental problems of existence over
which human thought since the dawn Of the
race had pondered in vain. distracted as it
has been by the unavoidable efforts to ex-
plain and defend the phenomena of the
social struggle. exhausted it is by the
tragedy unacceptable in the world of these
phenomena, the tragedy of having to ac-
Knowledge the presence of two irreconcilably
ostile principles.
Technically ennobled, labor, which has as
come joy to man. At last human reason
has become truly free-the most precious Of
al principles-and at last reason has lost
all timidity.
A fearless mind and a sharp piercing vision
in the realm of p litics-these are fundamen-
tai traits in Lenine's character. The world
has never before heard the language of the
diplomacy inspired by him. No matter that
this language strikes with unbearable harsh
ness on the sensitive ears of the diplomats in
dress suits; it is the language of deadly
truth. And the truth will continue to be
sarsh until we human beings ourselves make
beautiful as our music, which is one
81 the good truths we have created.
do not think ascribe to Lenine dreams
that are foreign to him. / do not think I
am romanticising this man. 1 cannot picture
him to myself without this beautiful dream
of the coming happiness Of all men. Of their
future life Of light and joy. The bigger the
man is the holder is his dream.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Credits Existence of Soviet
To BIunders of the Entente

In our gloomiest moments we can al
Ger OF the Entente. Lloyd George has prob
ably committed as many mistakes as he
could possibly commit, and to these mistakes
we owe our existence. The incurable stu
pidity of England and France is the greatest
asset Of the Russian Communist Republic
which was founded by their mad policy OF
forcing Kerensky TO continue the war and
take Constantinople at time when Russia
was wearied to death and which was con
solidated by their intervention.
I was very much attracted when youth
by the noble sentiments of liberty and JUS
tice which 7 read in French and English
newspapers. I said to myself "The men who
write these articles fear nothing. Their sole
aim is to succor the helpless, TO champion
the poor and TO denounce injustice" The
speeches of foreign orators made similar
impression on me. When ! grew older and
travelled abroad ! was soon disillusioned.
I discovered that 80 per cent. OF these
orators and writer's were on sale to the high
est bidder Socialist journalists whose clar-
ion voices had reused my young blood had
now sold themselves as slaves to capitalistic
newspapers, or worse still had sold their
newspapers and themselves at the same
time. Socialist orators. having climbed into
power on the shoulders of the people. had
sold the people What worse reactionaries
are there to-day than Lloyd George. Clemen-
ceau, Millerand?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
DepIores blindness" on Part
OF British Labor Leaders

Despite the care with which the biogra-
phes and letters of recent English sover-
eigns have been censored. it is abundantly
clear that they are all violently opposed TO
the proletariat. But British labor leaders
do not read these lines.
And it is only the British proletariat which
is blind on this point Churchill that genial
gambler with other peoples lives, is by no
means blind George Nathaniel Earl Curzon
of Kedleston. who from time to time sends
us such amusing dispatches. is not quite
blind These two understand the whole
amazing imposture. They know that the
money of English people was poured out like
water in Russia during the last two years
because King George was angry with the
Bolsheviks for having executed his cousin,
Nicholas Romanoff. They know that peace
with Russia was prevented because the Eng
fish and French bourgeosie felt that a rep
resentative of the Russian workers at their
diplomatic concaves would be a spy Of the
people.
Not but that | am sure the British work
ers will in course of time establish the rule
Of the proletariat Following their own un-
necessarily cautious methods they will fire.
quently go on strike the Government will
always give way, and as the appetite Of the
worker will be rather whetted than appeased
by the sops that are thrown 10 IL. day will
come when the workers will want every
thing-and will get II.
Unfortunately the proletariat outside Rus
STA does not realize the desperate necessity
that exists for swift action on their part.
II a general rising Of the workers takes
place outside Russia the world will be
saved. II IL does not take place soon this
great experiment in Russia may fail and
the inevitable triumph Of the toilers be post
poned for fifty years. But I am in hopes
that the utter economic breakdown which |
expect TO take place throughout Europe dur
ing the coming winter will bring matters to
"A head
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Compares Boishevik Revolt
To the French Revolution

The French Revolution was denounced
10y reactionary writer's in exactly the same
languages as the Bolshevik Revolution Is
now being denounced. but in fifty years
the bourgeois II IL still exists, will hail our
October revolt as a colossal advance, just
as the bourgeolse OF to-day admits that
the French Revolution was a great step
forward. English orators weep over the
sufferings OF the poor Russian capitalist
to-day az their predecessors wept over the
sufferlngs OF Marie Antoinette, but who
kinks about the Queen Of France to-day
and who will think about the capitalist to-
morrow. except as an extinct beast Of prey?
The future is with us. We are advancing
along tho lines laid down by economic laws
and by history. The others are tagging be
hind as Prussia Jagged behind France IN
1890
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Communist Leaders Statement Admits Des-
perate Plight of the Soviet but Clngs
to Hope of World Power
BY NIKOLAI LENlNE.

The greatest difficulty OF effectinG rev
oution in a bourgeois society consists IN
safeguarding the leaders from arrest. Even
If they escape arrest their letters are inter
cepted, spies are in their midst and they
have almost insurmountable difficulties To
contend with. But here we have established
a safe centre for the worlds discomfort.
The Kremlin is our Vatican.
The Irish whom | met in Paris made on
me an impression Of weakness. amiability
and indecsion. but behind that gentle and
apologize mask is the most infleXible pur-
pose of any race in the world. They bend
easily but they never break, and to this !
attribute some of their misfortunes. The
stiff stupid Englishman notices that yield
ing nature and Immediately catalogues
them in his dull mind as soft because an
Engishman of similar manners would be
soft" When he discovers his mistake he
is furious with them, as If they had grossly
inisled him. whereas he has only got his
own lack of imagination to blame. The Brit
sh could easily be assimilated by foreign
conqueror, but the Irish never. They are in
digestible.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Predicts Lasting Results
Even IL Experiment Fails

IL this great experiment fails the children
at least will be grateful to us. for we have
done our best for them; we have planted
seed which will grow into a forest beneath
whose shade capitalism cannot live We
have constituted for the first time in history
a government of the poor and of the OPP
pressed. We have turned the minds OF all
the world proletariat toward new ideal
which could never have been so wildly i'm
pressed on them by whole libraries OF Com
munist literature. The great French Revolu-
ton placed the academic theories about the
rights OF man on a pinnacle from which they
can never be displaced our Bolshevik rev.
olution has craven forever on the heart Of
humanity the words Dictatorship Of the
~ oleta riat"
The workers OF the world will never again
be the same They will tend TO unite all
over the earth: they will grow i'm strength;
they win prevent anything like the great
blood bath OF 1914 from ever being repeated.
The capitalists. the militarists and the kings
have now a new force 10 reckon with. For
merly they declared war without consider
inr the worker at ALL They will have 20
take him very seriously into their calcula-
tons during the short time that still re-
mains to them Of curtailed and frightened
rule. For the prolctariat knows that it is ex-
pccted to die in millions while capitalists,
generals and kings yell encouragement to IL
from some safe retreat in the rear.
That sort of thing is now gone forever
The miner of the Trials has no earthly rea-
son for shooting the miner OF Westphalia
or the miner Of Yorkshire, but every reason
to join hanus with him. No war lord can
ever make the workers fight again. The spell
il broken The chains are smashed
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
By CAPT. FRANCIS MecULLAGH.

COPYRIGHT 1920 bD THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London. Nov. 49,
The Dolores star., 1920-11-19

1G:l had been gathered, the "Tercentenary of the
Pilgrims now being observed is also properly
the ''rereentenary of Thanksgiving
The Pilgrims as every good American knows.
landed at Plymouth in December. Their hrst
winter hard AT one time only Brew
ster. Standish and five other hardy ones were
well enough to get about. Hardshps. hunger
and sickness took heavy toll from the little
colony.
But in the spring and summer that followed,
their fortunes improved, and by autumn they had
cleared twenty-sx acres and made it ready for
cultivation. This industry, too had been re-
warded by bounteous harvest. Now food and
fuel sufficient for the needs of the winter were
laid in. Then Governor Bradford ordered
Thanksgiving the first in America
With a little help from the imagination 1t is
easy to reconstruct the scene in part The his
torians have recorded that the first Thanksgiving
Day bright and fair OF course there the
riot of autumn color that gorfes New
England falls today. Red, gold and bronze leaves
hung on the trees and carpeted the ground Purple
wild grapes hung from the tree-climbng vines
Red cranberries were thick on the marshes. Blue
gentians starred the meadows. and the uplands
bright with gOldenrod. Over all lay the haze
of the Indian summer" and, the browning
touch, rose into the still autumn air the smoke
from the seven log cabins of the colony
1t yet early in the day when yell rent
the air, and Massasoit and his lighters arrived
Hastily peeking into their ovens the women joined
the men to welcome the guests. They lined up
along the path leading to the government house
and cheered with the redskins. Ninety Indians
had accepted the invitation. The women rushed
back to their kitchens, while the men of the colony
were exchanging health greetings with the Com
pany."
Came roll of drums. and the colony made its
way devouy to the meeting house for worship
1t was a simple, short service. At the door as
was the custom. stood guard watching over the
little settlement Eternal vigilance, even with
friendly Indians present, the price of life
Then when the benedicton had been spoken all
made their way the tables of rough boards
hand hewn from trees, set trestles In the open
air.
1t is possible to give good guess at the good
things that graced the board The harvest had
been bOunteous. The hunters had been success
full. And doubtless Old Mother Nature who had
been merciless to the colonists, was now gen.
So here Is the possible menu:
Meat Soup Vegetable Soup
CHM Chowder Oyster Stew
Sea Fish Lobster Brook Trout
Fried Oysters Steamed CLAIMS
Wild Turkey Venson
Wild Duck Wild Goose
Game Pastry Blackbird Pie
samp succotash Cranberrles Turnips
Hominy Beans Jams Jellles
Pumpkin Pie Hickory Nuts Beech Nuts
The women in their dark gowns set of at the
neck and cuffs with bits Of white, with wisps of
hair peepng out from under their white hoods
The Dolores star., 1920-11-19

Of my head at times. NV bow.I.
not move for days and / could " nas
without suffering. The doctor co nJ.
help me and one day | told nv hu.S
that l could not stand the n .Gs0
longer and sent him to the drno :.
to get ne a bottle of Lydia FEE
hams Vegetable Compound and a.
the Doctors medicine away AZ
taking three bottles of Vegetable q
pound and using two bottles of Iva.
Pinkham's Sanative Wash / ccmis
my own Homework. If it had nv.
for your medicine don't know WIZ
would be today and | am never NH NH
a bottle of it in the house. yon
publish this if you like that it NAV
some other woman. Mrs NJ.
SLENDER, 100 Orange ST., Wyanso,I
Mich. '1id'V
The Dolores star., 1920-11-19
COMMANDERS OF MOST OF
WRANGEL'S UNITS ARE
KILLED.
.PILLAGE RED CROSS
AMERICANS LEAVING CITY Or
SEsASTOPOL TO ESCAPE
MODS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Constantinople, Nov. l5.-The army
of General Wrangcl, the anti-Bolshevist
leader in South Russia, has been wiped
out and number of his generals have
committed suicide. 4 mob in Sebasto-
pol has pillaged the American Red
Cross stocks
The United States transport Fnraly
has arrived with 300 sick and wounded
who were cared for by the American
Red Cross.
1t is said the Reds were joined by
some ukruinians in spreading terror
among the population in the Crimea.
The American torpedo boat destroy
ers ut Sebastopol are cvucuatlnS Of
ficerS and their families.
The American destroyer Humphreys
has gone TO take off the Red Cross sup
plies at lalta.
The resistance of General Wrangcl's
army in the Crimea has been broken
and his troops are fleeing in utter con
fusion after fighting hcroicaIly on the
lines about rcrrkop.
The fighting ut Pcrekup was Of the
most desperate character. The Boishe-
visits, according 10 latest adviccS, aid
init they had 10000 men Killed.
They claim to tavc taken 10000 pris-
oners. They owe their success largely
to the use Of poison gas.
1t is stated thal NJ the request OF
the French representatives attached TO
NrnngeIS headquarters, the buishe'
vislS have granted elShI days I"r eNa'-
uatiOn OF 'rlihea.
The BolshcNiki nave taken pom Nai-
tn ana EupHioria, ana their cavalry IS
approaching SebaStppol, according L"
the latest adNiceS.
Headquarters here OF General Nrnn-
gel confirm reports mat ms Mlllte
army cannot h"ld the 'riihea.
Inc nliied authorities are feHuls'-
The Dolores star., 1920-11-19
Diagnosis.

The telephone rang, and the O0
keeper answered it.
"Yes, madam, this is WILKES U
ket."
This is Mrs. Blank. | want you
know that the liver you sent ne
most unsatisfactory. 1t is mol y
liver Mt all; calfs liver Is 'e''
and"
Just n moment, madam anu
call the proprietor.
"What is it,' wilkins asked
The bookkeeper surrendefeu
phone.
Mrs. Blank" he said, Lne y
plant. "-Boston Transcript
The Dolores star., 1920-11-19
Ships Crash In paxIioh.

New fork.-Close to the statue Of
Liberty several hundred Immigrant,
aoo"rd the Spanish Royal Mail steam.
snip Montserrat were thrown into a
pune when their vessel and the steam
er San Marcos from Galveston mot in
soli's'oh while they were moving in
IRON IRON quarantine in bright sunlight
Snp,aih Mnslera Of the Montserrst
"s eaueu ms vessel for the Brooklyn
more and beached her before she
The Dolores star., 1920-11-19
Something Similar.

An English tourist was on yisl1
Arran and decided to have ID
fishing. He made inquiries Of local
perts, and being told that the d
or horscily, would suit his purpose
lure, he sought the highland servI
girl at his inn.
Il say, my girl, can you get
some horsefiieS? q he asked.
The girl locked mt him stupidly.
He repeated his question and add
"Why. girl, did you never see
hOrsetly?"
ma, sir" replied the girl, shak|
her head, but vance | saw q
jump over n cliff.-ChicagO %
News.
The Dolores star., 1920-11-19
Pay Roll Stolen.

Steubenvillc, Ohio-The pay roll of
the Weirton Steel Company, ut Weir
ton, w. Va, amounting to 500, 900, was
stolen from II registered mail bag. The
currency was taken from Pittsburgh
bank to the postoffice, placed in reg
istered mail bag and sent to Weirton,
according to officers When the bag
arrived at Weirton, it was found to
contain bundles OF paper, instead of
the money.
The Dolores star., 1920-11-19
Kings Marriage Valid.

Athens.-The late King Alexander's
marriage with Aspasia Manos was de
clared valid by the court which dis
missed the opposition of former King
Constantine and ordered the seals on
the apartments of the late monarch
broken. Madame Mancos will inherit
AleXander'S personal property.
The Dolores star., 1920-11-19
Aviators Given I'm

Chicaso.-All hope of finding the
three missing aviators from Great
Lakes naval training station, lost with
their seaplane, has been abandoned by
Lieut.. Com. Eugene Wilson, command
ant ut the aviation mechanics school.
when wreckage of the missing aIrsbin
washed ashore near White Lake, Mich.