Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-08-01

Secretary Hoover has cabed the director of American
relief administration in London proceed Riga and
ate with Russian soviet authorities preparatory to food
relief work in Russia.
From this apparent that the Russians agreed
to comply with the terms Of the American that
Americans held in Russian prisons for other than
that they Americans be released Presumably also,
of kind has been Forthcoming that American
relief workers will not be officially molested~
Heretofore has been the Russian custom to imprison
American Red Cross and other relief workers. seize their
supplies for the personal of the Soviet bureaucrats and
when Uncle Sam protested Lene associates fguratvey
put their thumbs to their and twrled their fingers in
derison.
No government in the worlds history has treated
other nations with the sneerng contempt and destructive
meddng that Soviet Russia has displayed There scarcely
nation rich and powerful poor and mpoten whose gov
Lenne and associates have not sought to destroy
Propaganda and emssaries have invaded the remotlst
of the earth and the stolen wealth of the Russian
people has been suandered in the effort to create discomfort
and breed revolution in every country
Revolutions in Poland, Germany, Austria Hungary and
ether European countries trace their origin to Russian n1
reference and Russian gold is Russia that inspired the
italian industrial crisis the British coal and other strikes
the French and Belgian labor turmoil It is Russia that is
fomentng trouble China revolt in India and Egypt and
seeking everywhere the destruction of existing society
In our own country from the logging camps of the Pacific
to the industrial plants of the Atlantic the Russian red has
preached his gospel of by anarchy loot
futile effort to desroythe American republic Paid agents
are everywhere and the land has been flooded with the
literature OF revolt.
Their red and their lost with famine and
disaster threatening result of incompetence and nef
ficiency of administration conclusion warfare upon
intelligence and general herasng these Ishmaels among
nations whose hand against every nation appeal to the
world for aid hoping thereby to proong their regime power
and avert ereckonng in store when the aished mons
move Moscow
III Lenne had kept his stolen gold to Russia instead
OF squanderng it to wreck other governments if the Rus
sans instead of fighting, had been working if instead Of
repudating obligations of others nations Lenne had kept
the faith the recognition of Russia would long ago have
taken place Uptodate, however, Russia has not shown
that the Soviet government worthy of recognition
an international menace.
In self preservation well from humanitarian motives
the world may the relief of Russia because Len
ines promises worth anything for they only made to
res promises worth anything for they only made 20
be broken, but because when millions starving they
desperate and fove in armies seeking food All the great
mgaons of history originated in failure of crops and lack
of food and If deuge of tens of millions of desperate Rus
slams invade Europe, civilization will collapse Il
At the time the American nation with some five mil
ions of men idle will not respond very cheerfuy drive
10 aid idle Russians and there every indication that this
what Herbert Hoover has in mind The nation saving bust
ness has become profession we'll as habit with relief
workers, "