Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-28
RED TERROR HIT
BY c. R. CRANE
Ex-U. S. Minister to China Gets
Back Home.
RETURNS FROM LONG TRIP
Chicagcan Made Notable Journey
Across Northern Asia, Siberia and
Red Russia-ImpossibIe to Rec
oenize Soviet at Present.

notable journey across northern ASH
and Europe, through Siberia and Red
Russia, Charles Il. Crane has brought
intelligence that is of vital impOr-
lance. On his way home from Picking,
where he was United States minister
to China, he saw, in what was former
ly the Russian empire-aId a strug
Cling republic after the empires fall
a nation that is imprisoned, that does
not know what other nations are do
ing, that does not even know what is
occurring within its own borders. He
saw stockaded Russia, ruled by a
ruthless autocracy, a land of terror
and of hunger, of starved bodies,
starved minds and starved souls. The
civic leader and diplomat beheld dis
illusioned country in which both the
peasants and the workingmen have
awakened from their dream and now
are aware that their liberty and their
aspirations have been exploited
Having seen these things, more init
mately and with better opportunity for
understanding than has been accorded
any other American since the rise of
the Red power, Mr.. Crane has a mes
sage to the well-wishers of Russia. 1t
is this: First, the scattered and
broken Russian refugees outside of
Russia must be taken care of, to the
end that Russian culture may not be
destroyed entirely Second, it is inn
possible for any civilized government
to have official relations with Russia
while the terrorist commission (the
extraordinary commission, or the
cheka) continues in power.
World Needs a Free Russia.
'The world needs a free and pros
porous Russia" said Mr.. Crane in his
room at the Blackstone. "But Russia
is at the present moment at it's low
est ebb in both these respects. That
country is at the present moment
vast prison and the people are living
under prison conditions. There is alb
solutely no liberty. AS production is
becoming less every day, both in agri-
culture and in industry, the economic
pressure is constantly increasing.
There is no social life. The people
see very little of their families and
practically nothing of their friends.
How shall we get through the next "a
hours? That is the problem that pre-
sents itself each day to everybody.
The new bOurge&se and the new aris-
tocracy have stolen an empire right
out from under the eyes of the world
and not only have reversed all natural
process of revolution but as regards
liberty and progress have pushed Rus
STA back to the darkness in which she
lay before the time of Peter the Great
''The dictators of Russia have classi-
fed as counter-revoluti0nist all who
did not agree with them. BY so doing
they have in their own eyes justified
their most hideous acts. But by this
process they have betrayed the work
men of the world, when the workers
had nothing to do with what took
place.
: AS a Prison.
1.-THE intellectual starvation of Rus
STA is quite as severe as the physical
staryation. In a great university there
] saw old professors trying to go
through the motions of conducting
their institution 1t was sad and
shocking, We know nothing what
ever they told me, concerning the
events that have occurred in the out
side world in the last four years and
very little of what has happened in
Russia
suppose a commission like that
which the United States sent to the
philippines to straighten out the af-
fairs there after we had taken over
the islands were to be sent to Russia
to help that country What would
such commission find to work withP
1t would get no aid from anything left
alive in that country today. The few
:ntellectuals left alive have been
Starved for several years. They have
been perpetually shaken in spirit by
the terror. They have been deprived
of the benefit that IS found in intel
lectual society and communion. They
are therefore In no position to take
0ver serious tasks.
THE Bolshevikl have been deter
mined to destroy every trace of Rus.
sian culture and IN this respect thew
have succeeded. Under tie Red regime
there has been no religious instruction.
of any kind and even instruction in.
church music, the most wonderful in
III the world, has been stopped. The
only hope of new Russia rests in the
refugees who have been driven outside
of Russia. because they have in them
selves the elements of Russian cuI-
ture."