Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-25
OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS.

lHtcalled attention to the verification OF
4 statements which it has made con-
5 corning the management of the Town
4 least upSto the time of the making Of
their statements, had been closely as
\ ISOLATED with the management. A
! dozen different men who have been
: of the inner circle nave at different
4 times made public statements which
\ c~orroborated the charges of extrava-
y gance and dictatorialism which The
/ Herald has made against Townley
and those immediately associated
i with him.
\ In a similar way, the activities of
I theA ;olshevist regime in Russia have
! been set forth in the blacklist colors
7 by men who, whether associated With
their known Socialist tendencies, been
disposed to regard the Bolshcvist
4 movement with favor.
Z Quite recently there was published
I remarkable description of condi-
I tions in Russia by NJ. Schwartz, a
J prominent Asw York Socialist, who
4 went to RusSl last June to study con-
ditions there. MIR. Schwartz was ac-
4 companied by his wife, who was
| known for more than twenty years
1 as a Socialist worker under the name
of Jessie NJ. Noble. The following
4 paragraphs are taken from the state
! ment recently made by Mr.. Schwartz:
Z Conn m y,nisrn in 2,yssia iS rohher.
i ism; it t%olerates imprisonment, per-
I secution and execution without trial:
! it has brought Russia starvation, dis
ease and death. There is no govern
.ment. II is worse autocracy than the
czaristic government, and I lived there
for o than twenty years under
\ the gar and had the experience nee
!! essary to make comparisons.
I Everywhere in Russia we were
3 met bysbrass bands and crowds wav-
! ing red flags shouting for the Soviet
i government. But we weren't fooled.
= From the moment we landed in Petro-
: grad w saw misery, dilapidation and.
! s4ualor there. We suspected that
= something was vitality wrong, which
: could rot be explained merely by rev.
olution. B.
4 instantly began talking to per-
J sons Of all classes aud broke away
\ from our Bolshevist conductors, who
\ were showing US only what they want
Y ed US to see. l soon found that the
: shouting crowds had to shout, or their
J food ration would be reduced or en-
tirely taken away. I can truthfully
\ say that I never talked with a single
person, outside Of officials, who had
"a good word to say for the Soviet
government.
We asked for our baggage and
money and papers. We were old they
would be given to us at the station.
I'VE carried more han $4,000 of
American gold into Russia which had
seen taken from us, and we refused
to move without it m were thrown
into prison, where my wife vas the
.orly woman in a cell twenty feet
men.
4 FINALLY the situation became so
! desperate that she said she would go
ON a hunger strike and advertise to
fellow-workers in America our
wrongs through her death rather than
continue to suffer such indignities.
Then. h wrote to Tchitcherin,
Trotzky and Lenine, all Of whom we
knew personally, saying: =
w have worked twenty years to
help you. The least you can do now
Isl TO help us. I shall declare a hun
ger strike today and will gain either
death or liberty .
Five days later we were sent to
Reyal, pennies. There the Ameri-
AN =. N. G. A. gave US shelter and
cared for US, but my wife had suffer
ed too much to recover l buried her
there, assisted by the American con-
sIi. and Y. NJ. c. A. workers, and
carrying a picture of her grave
4ksgto our children in America and
American workers. who know
gshpws devoted she had been to their
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