COOL EFFRONTERY.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 278, 20 August 1919, Page 2

COOL EFFRONTERY.

AMERICAN SNUB TO BOLSHEVIK

OVERTAKE

SOME ESTABLISHED FACTS

At a recent session of' tho Joint Legislature Committee on Seditions Activities in New \'ork State, the following letter, addressed to the Russian Soviet Bureau in New fork was cited as "an illustration of the reaction of some of the business men that were approached by the bureau'' (states the "Christian Scienco Monitor")

' "Yours of the 25th inst. is at hand enclosing for publication in 'Textiles' (a trade journal) an article oil trade with Russia, in which the statement is mada that 'the Russian Soviet Government is ready to place ilifl,COO,ooo dollars in gold iu banks abroad as souil as trade relictions are established' to pay for Americans goods which, your statement adds, 'should not retlect improper working conditions, for example, cliild or convict.' While the iniorination is confused regarding conditions in Russiaan<i tlie. movement that has resulted in the control of a part of that, country b£ what is known as the 'Bolshevik' socalled Soviet Republic,' there are certain facts have been' established. These _i will ■summarise, being . careful to e.xcaido reports, apparently well authenticated, . as to -massacres and outrages; by tne Bolsheviki in that part oi Russia- under their control ' "First, the Trotsky-Lenin regimo obtained power by the aid of Germany at a time when tlie United States was at war with that nation.

"Second, the Bolsheviki immediately withdrew this Russian Army from tho ..German front, and made ;{ peace' with Germany by which Russian territory w surrendered, Russian resources; placed at the disposal of the enemies of the United States, and a large German and Austrian army released, for operations against the United States and out allies.

"Third, the Bolslieviki resorted to a wholesale' - repudiation of .the debt of llussia.

"Fourth, the Bolslieviki disregarded the rights of property, have been engaged in an attempt to establish a soviet government, and have succeeded ill establishing anarchy in a section of Russia surrounding Petrograd. ' * "Fifth, supporters and apologists of the Bolslieviki have been engaged in a propaganda in- the United States ' iu which they have shown not only lack of sympathy, but unconcealed Contempt, fo"r American institutions, and have denounced our form of government g's a plutocracy, scoffing the idea that it is'a democracy. "111 tho face of these facte, your request that we publish an offer from tho Bolshevist regime to deposit 200,000,0001 dollars of tho gold it has seized as security for tlio purchase of American goods is. a piece' of effrontery that demonstrates the wide gulf that- separates the Bol' siieviki from Americans.

"There is evidently 110 provocation for your offering me an insult, and so I aui compelled'to conclude that'your letter is duo to ignorance of American character. 1 am strengthened in this conclusion by viie fact that yon have attached to your proposition a statement which, if not due to ignorance, would.be a piece, of hypocrisy that would mako Pecksniff himself green with envy. I refer to your statement that the American products you purchase 'should not reflect improper -working"conditions; that you will hot buy anything made by child 0i convict labour.'.

''Really, you ought, to confine youi puwhases to goods made exclusively h] fofc-wers of Lenin and Trotsky,'payiuj for iliem exclusively in the paper monej issued bv the Bolslieviki. (Signed) "SAMUEL, S. DALE.".