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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY. OCTOBER. 27. 1919.

Dr. pis' fifth Ceciurc jflpiim forms of Radicalis nine and Trotzky with their Bolsheviks, have killed every chance. Trotzkv fiow Bolshevism Ruined Russia; Che men Who Oe Rw. Albert made America; bv 1 Edward Bentley. Che Rcc.

Dr. newell DwiaM Rillis. his friends, whom he had brought with bim from New York, in all the official positions in the various Russian prov-tnees. Kodak Vi-w of Property Owners Murdered by the Bolslievlks. Slide 23 Look at this group of Bolsheviks, who have just shot a larger group of men, simply because they held the title deeds to a house, a factory or a farm.

Remember that these murderers are quite unafraid, for the simple reason that there is an ex-Bowery sergeant in- charge of the police, an ex-Bowery friend serving as sheriff, another ex-Bowery friend holds the otpce of Judge, to clear them of any charges. The agent of the International Harvester tells us that there was a day. when the Bolsheviks threw sp many victims into the canal in Petrograd that he could have walked across that canal on th dead bodies of the best men who had equal division of Income, namely the millionaire class and the labor unions. Nationalization of Women. Slide 36 But if everything else about Bolshevism were good, its nationalization of the women has doomed it forever.

That proclamation of the Soviet posted on the door of the City Hall of Soutow, directing that it girls and young women be registered for the use of the military and the "Reds" in a town of only people, convinced even the most stupid. We laughed at Trotzky when he told our workingmen to throw away tho spade and buy a gan; urged the mob to follow him and he wod make them rich before dnrk, and tried to pledge his audience to destroy this dirty, rotten Government of the United States, but there. Is one thing that civilised men will not stand for, namely the nationalization of the wife, the sweetheart or the daughter. The American people, therefore, have set OOSEVELT Memorial Sunday was observed in I civilization's onward march Here the of earth walk down tho Grace I.piseopal nniv to rmerge into In the sidewalk out of its place, and the forces of liberty in Russia, long repressed, at length burst forth in the Revolution of 1917. The Russian Republic Slides 13, 14 and 15 The explosion came in the spring of that year.

One morning on the royaL train at the battlefront a group of Russian officers presented to the Czar for his signature in mat Cliy. DCHtune lilt! sians were a gentle people, averse to this form of crime, Trotzky ordered the release from the prisons of ap-guilotlne, proximately 60,000 criminals mur-Czar derers, thieves, counterfeiters, rapists and, selecting the most hardened. vicious and cruel of these criminals. told the Russians that by killing the capitalists there would be treasure enough left for everybody to live in luxury, without a stroke of work, for tne next ten years. -In this country back of every strike in the steel regions, among the longshoremen, in the iron foundries, in the cotton and wool mills, in the lumber camps, stand a group of lying Bolsheviks, telling the people that revolution will transfer the wealth of the rich Into the hands of the workers, and that henceforth they can live in luxury, wear silks, ride in automobiles, feast on dainties, without doing a stroke nf work for years to conic.

The Hol-shoviks have been false guides. They led their followers, not into a garden but into a desert with thorns and thistles and hunger and cold. Today the Bolsheviks In our country have penetrated the American Federation of Labor. It is the boast of Hayward. now filling a sentence of twenty years in the penitentiary for crime, and of Foster, the syndicalist, whose watchword Is, "To hell with God, government and property," that they have at last obtained control of the federation of Labor.

They claim to want all property taken over by a State government, and divided evenly, if by one Biroxe or tne nana ineir plan eould be carried out. It would reduce the annus) income of the labor unions of the country several hundred rtol! lars a year. By strikes, force and Intimidation. the three largest labor unions of this country evcrage not far from a year; the clerks, the office men, the physicians, lawyers, preachers and wage earners, not over $1,200 a year. If the handful for they aro only a handful of very rich men.

were peeled of their Incomes, down to 2,000 a year, and then, the three labor unions peeled down from $2,600 to $2 000 a year, and the two sums added to the a vear In come of the other classes. It would bring these wage earners up to the level of about $2,000. There are two classes of people In this country, that, from a selfish viewpoint, should avoid any movement that would bring an Church, West Fauns, New York City with a sermon by the rector. the Rev Albert Edward Bentley. on "The Men Who Made America." Tho text was from Hebrews S8 "These all died in faith, of whom world was not worthy." Mr.

Bentley said: The theme of this evening "The! I Men Who Made America, is sug- I th'e (, 1 Roosevelt Memorial Association has requested that ministers of religion shall tins day pay tribute to one of the illus trious sons of the Republic. The character of Roosevelt reveals many brilliant, overmastering virtues which muko manhood strong and attractive, a man of honor and honesty, upright. 1 1 I kindly and righteous. These are tbc 0 moro t.lm;.lllan. no mete ad-qualities of the fine-grained soul, the venturer, ran ever rise to the highest qualities of the full-orbed man.

It is eminence, political or otherwise. In the men of these qualities that have I country. To bo great in Anier-niade America wil" "Peech and great Institutions, a man must possess sl it is not my purpose to call the powers. In other roll of America master men. VS eie Hn, man may I to call that brilliant roll I would rls hv pandering to tho whims of find that In It were names of the long I mgS an(1 tyrants; but in our country HuuitiiiiK out upon hp must have that magnetic Intlu-tliut roll would be the name of John which wins the hearts of mll- themselves against these alions who believe in bombshells, firebrands and nistols.

The onlv instruments the re public will consent to use are those based upon intelligence, industry, obedience to law and sound morals. The conclusion of the whole matter, therefore, Is In this New York Is over against Petrograd today as an oasis is over against tho Sahara Desert. The United States 1 like a family feast ing in a great banquet hall, in a warn rm room, on a Christmas nignt, wnne Russia, under Bolshevism, is like unto travelers, freezing to death under snowdrifts, midst a January blizzard. Because we love light rather than darkness, food rather than famine, home more than a poorhouse, heaven more than hell, the, people of the United States have docided to destroy Bolshevism and to rfreserve unimpaired the free Institutions of this republic. All inquiries concerning the use of the Hillis lecture sets by ministers, lecturers nnd organizations, OUTSIDE of the Stato of Michigan, should he addressed to "The Secretary, Plymouth Church.

Orange Brooklyn, N. ever terms duty, loyalty to a cause, the development of pure, scrupulous, sacrificial character and obscurity becomes a boon, a matter of no complaint, a pavilion of contentment, a happy renunciation. So grent is the attraction nnd' conquest of the hunger for moral perfection that all tho shrill clamors of self are subdued to silence. I have spoken of three ways by which obscurity can bo glorified, righteousness not forgotten; the doing of a hard duty, such as devoting oneself to an invalid or an insane person for a lifetime If such is required; loyalty to an altruistic causo, a generous vision; but let me lay most emphasis upon the glorification of our humble lot and calling through the effluences of nohle personality. Who are the truly distinguished folk of your own memory your life experience? The Presidont whom you once saw or heard, the general you saw parade, the author who autographed your book? or are they those whoso simple goodness and purity persunded you of their worth, engaged you by their ingenuous trust in your finer self, and whose spint glows In your noblest orflotten Benefactors; Cbe Charles B.

Cyitle. rvuoA, ocuiiuna niiost le or ineriv. in whoso magnificent utterance. "If princes exceed their bounds thev should be resisted by force," were crystallized the prmc pies that found undying ex- presslon in America's Declaration of Independence. Side by side by the name of John Knox there must be placed that of Oliver Cromwell, to whom no lnstltutionallsm was sacred that stood in the way of the rights of mankind.

Then came the names of John Hampton and John Milton, God-gifted organ voice of England, tind the man who, in turn, advocated tho rights of the people against thu twyr-anny of the crown. To name the men who have mado America we would have to go back to the parish roll of the old Church ut the Cradle of Liberty. On that were such names as those of John Robinson nnd William Brewster and William Bradford. The mention of those names brings forth others. John Win-throp and Roger Williams and Thomas Cooper.

These men brought the seeds of radical Americanism across the sea and planted them In the fresh white fields of freedom. First and foremost ninonif tho men who made America In the time of Hie Revolution was Patrick Henrv. the first man to he railed with tho title nf traitor. His great speech In old Johns Church was the bnttlo-rrv ot irl.reW,', RmMW- Wi'H Patrick Henry there stands the man who got his inspiration from Patrick Honry, Thomas Jefferson, tho apostle Tllcn George Washington, In whom was Incarnated the American Revolution and Hepuh-r7ha James Madison, (he rather of the Constitution. Then the Lincoln, the sweet mar- hL.o.u'"'0' Hnrt Illustrious nlt' A wonderful lino of wonderful men.

To continue longer would be to Ignore Jhe purpose not nnmes of all the men who have made America. "These all nofworth'ylf Wh'n th 1 ouM speak of tho 1 "umi iuuk or iQRQOTTE.V Benefactors" Ifltt? I was the title and theme I of the sermop preached by the Rev. Charles H. I Lyttle at tho Second Unitarian Church, cor ner Clinton and Congress yesterday rooming. The text, from Ecclesi-asticuB, "There be some who have no memorial but their riglitcousl ncss has not been forgotten," had special reference to All Saints and All Souls Day, and the sermon was supplemented by a reading from the discourse by Sir Leslie Stephen of the same title as the sermon.

Mr. Lytllo said In the course of his sermon: The season of All Souls comes with the falling leaves, the saffron mellowing, the russet and purple somberncss of tho receding year, and every vernal token we receive rom Nature stresses with tender gravity the lesson which religion conserves In the ancient and solemn festival of All Hallows the recollection of all holy and humble men of heart who in ways heroic and ways homely and obscure have praised moods You never think of them In the Most High by serving their kind, connection with tablets or titles or de-Todav I leave to others tho rite of sa- fe8 yu think of them In connec-luting the remembered benefactors of 'lon wit" your own soul. I beg of you in rnmll- to considor, in these davs of blatant this aspect, this opportunity of inoiiinv statesman nan; ami ny ho; men who qu.n",lcH which mado the Why, because he was the very soul of nnv statesman had; and why so? I I martyr soirit become the tocsin of the. light of the progress of ideas and expansion of nohle brotherhood, rers? What is It that vitalizes pain, glorifies sorrow and makes dead men bones to walk the tremendous Infw- Mountain of transfiguration with the Son of God! St. Paul answer timid tribulations, let Lincoln and McKtnley answer amid the agonizing Ju'he7i" he "T1 np lost the boy dear to his heart.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt, whom wo as a nution would honor through a public testimonial, was man of commanding personality, of dauntless courage, and virile manhood. He has exercised a paramount influence in the public life of America that can never die. I A lions, or else he can not possibly And it was In this that our great statesman excelled. He 'held up tho romiing ircii of pure Americanism to llis aJ) no man.

It ws.i him thev turned for wisdom and Kindanec on the great issues- upon which the future, not only of thi.s country, but of mankind was at stake. Millions of his fellow countrymen regarded him, and still regard him, with intense, heartfelt love and affection, and our real memoriul to him Is not in brass and stone or towering monument, hut In tho fact that, like him, we uro willing lo live and dlo for America. In h's iiniqun statesmanship ho is lost lo us altogether and has not left a successor. Cnllkrt Moses, he ha i died, but has not left, a Joshua. We have many ambitious men, men with great and varied talents, but not one that ran magnetize the multitude ns Roosevelt did.

Rooscvrk was Indeed a great man. "I count lilni a great iiiiin," said Kmcr.son, "who Inlinlilts a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise Willi labor and difficulty." And thai seems to me to give, an exact desrifption of tins man's greatness in the making of America. To formulate great plans and to think out great desigim seemed ns natural lo him ns eating and drinking. His policy and his policies encountered great opposition from his political opponents, but even these opponents acknowledged that these plans were conceived with grasp and a ninsti ry of rciil Americanism truly wonderful. Hut great ns he was ni a statesmnn, unrivaled ns he was ns a patriot, ho was greatest of nil oh a man.

His fauita indeed ns a statesman, were dun to his greatness as a man. It wns often noticed how ns a statesmnn bo failed to make uno of bis opportunities. how he, by his consclentlou scruples, refused to tako the lino of conduct thHt seemed and clearly Indicated by tho circumstances of tho case, and how ho thus fre-oiiently wrecked the finest miilorlttoH honor. Ho craved power, but that power came from what was right and Just. Ho wns the rno.d conscientious of men, and therefore appeared some, times to the superficial politic an tho nioi-i I iiiucrcui oi Mai'-siiieii.

imii 1 1 not iilnv false with his country, and he could not play the weakling In the face of disaster and ruin. Roosevelt's character ns a Christian, a. man of God, wns above all suspicion. He whs great as a statesman, still greater ns a patriot, and yet still greater ns a man; hut ho was greatest of all ns a Vbristian. It was this power fif God that gave hlin his noble Ideals.

It was tills that mnde him so earnest, no for righteousness, so conscientious In bis work for what he conceived to be the prosperity of his country; nnd It was this, especially, that made him such a builder in the mnklng of a better America He wan for peace peace wns right, but if to win right for right's snke It was necessary, then he wns for war. Through all. arid above all. ho was for America otortially. nnd there he was tho severest partisan.

On tho day of Col. Roosevelt's funeral two newsboys were heard commenting on. the occasam. lino of them salil: "Well, ho is dend. and now I can never vote for him." The other replied: "Naw.

but vou can be like, lilm. can't yer?" The little newsboy eloquently Interpreted the message of Koosevelt's life. We ran be like him. W'! can be loyal lo Church and State. We can be loyal to God.

I.Ike all tho great heroes who hnve mnde America, we call fight best when the battle is going against us, wo can conquer through Him who has given us tho rich heritage of freedom and democracy. Beloved, let us remember that no Washington or Hamilton or Lincoln or Roosevelt can save our liberties unless tho people of this great country are inspired with their courageous, noble and intelligent pntrltism. The real monument to our heloved countrymnn must be a country In hich righteousness ami Justice are the cornerstones, and where God is recognized as ti alpha nnd omega of life. To such monument every ono of us con contribute something by his life and influence. At this hour Roosevelt Is unconsciously Immortal In that he hn.i repeated himself in the-millions of young minds and hearts who lov their champion and leader.

No Amerlenn offers tho coming cener- try, bis love, his devutiun for Amtnca. CHIPS An organization which will bo sup. norled with characteristic Ami the some may be said of til American Legion. Wee to that land whose citizens fail to honor the heioic duds of their countrymen. This Is a creative peri.

id in Hie his tory of tho United Mintcs Keep tile Roosevelt doctrine o. "Square Ileal" ami achiex erne worthy of our country will iucviljij. follow. A new American Mecca: The irrave of former-I 'resident lioosevelt. Salutations to unseen spirit; also a solium pledge of fidelity to his unool'i.

pi Amc: currLAa R. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS. pastor of Plymouth Church, last night gavetht fifth in the scries of illustrated lectures before large and enthusiastic audience, and there was frequent applause. Dr. Hillis's subject was "How Bolshevism Ruined Russia and Why It Works Ruin Wherever Tried." Dr.

Hillls said: Napoleon once said that Russia was too large a land to exert lasting influence upon human progress. Thereforo over against Russia, that controls one-sixth of the earth's surface, oe placed the little lands and peoples who have built, civilization. Strangely enough, It Is these smaller lands that have made the largest contributions to human progress. Little Palestine gave us the laws of Moses and Jesus's teachings as to the equality of the races, the equality of the classes and the equality of the sexes. Little Greece gave us art, poetry and philosophy.

Little Venlcef and Florence started the Renaissance, just as little Switzerland Rave the world the first pure democracy, as brave little Holland started the revolt against autocracy, and as little England became the greatest force for progress during the last century. The Vastness of Russia and Siberia; Map, Slides 2. 3 and 4 Over against Russia our country seems very small. The American war eagle plumes its wings for a flight of 3,000 miles from New York to San Francisco; the Russian eagle, leaving the Baltic Sea behind, flies 7,000 miles until it alights on that rocky point that looks across upon Alaska. Even at the moment when Caesar Augustus ruled over his world empire, the Roman eagles at the north rested upon York, England, end on the east upon a fortress near the Euphrates.

But Russia's realm dwarfs the empire of Caesar. Already the has 180,000,000 of people, representing ten races and thirty dialects. At her present rate of growth she will Boon have 600,000,000 of people. A Western city recently witnessed the coming together of a great throng of descendants, who celebrated the 125th anniversary of the birth of the founder of that family. Should any child born In 1919 live to celebrate his 125th anniversary he will, under normal conditions, find 1,000,000,000 of people living in Russia and Siberia, within the limits of a country that includes three times the farming land of the United States.

Peter the Great, the Builder of Modern Russia. Slides 6, 6 and 7 Tolstoi once said that "Russia was not a state of souls, hut a world of land." Tolstoi doubtless quoted his sentence from that builder of Russia, Peter the Great. All that King Alfred did for England, all that Napoleon tried to do for France, and all that Washington did do for the United States, Peter the Great did for Russia. He found a multitude of races differing In blood, language and religion, and he compacted them into a nation. His life was as full of romance and adventure as that of David, the shepherd boy; of Robert Bruce, the fugitlvb, or of Dante the exile.

Com. lng to the throne of Russia, Peter called a meeting of the ambassadors from foreign countries and soon decided that these men represented nations superior to his own people. Putting on a disguise of a Russian student, he traveled from city to city, through Austria, Germany, Holland, France and England. Returning to Russia, he took with him Dutch shipbuilders, English architects, Scotch builders of looms, French physicians and surgeons. From Sweden he obtained military experts to drill his Russian regiments.

He realized that Russia must have a harbor and develop foreign trades. He found the mouth of the Neva a vast swamp; but with an army of flat boats, he drove piles of B0 feet in length; upon these piles be placed slabs of granite and for vears he kept a hundred thousand picked men in that swamp, laying the foundation of the city of St. Petersburg. Not until 100 years had passed was Peter's dream for a Russian harbor at the eastern end of Russia and Siberia realized in Vladivostok on the Pacific. Alexander, the Emancipator, and Nicholas With His Prisons and Exiles.

Slides 8, 9 and 10 The work of Peter the Great ana nis wunucim. Empress Catherine, culminated when Alexander II came to the throne in 1855. For several years, Alexander was kept in ignorance of the condition of his serfs. Whenever he visited any city soldiers pushed the well-dressed inlo the receptions and kept the poor at a distance. One day the Emperor put on a disguise and went forth to 6ee bow things fared with his people, and lo he found them naked, shoeless, furnishing, bitter, wretched beyond words.

In that hour the scales fell from the eyes of Alexander. It became impossible for him to feast ii. bis palace while the peasants famished. In 1861 he emancipated 20,. 000.000 serfs.

Then he wrote the draft of a new proclamation, breaking up the vast estates and distributing the land among the poor. But when the aristocrats discovered these plans thev killed the Emancipator with a bombshell. From that hour the reactionaries determined to control the next r-zar. Thev deceived him by lying statements; put the most cruel men into the Cabinet positions; censored the printing press, exiled the reformers, crowded the dungeons with liberal thinkers, sent thousands of captives into Siberia. The tragic story of this epoch in Russia has been fully told by writers like George Kennan.

The Agitators, Tolstoi and Bresh-kovsky. Slides 11 and 12 But the blood of the Russian scholars exiled to Siberia became the seed of the Republic. The Czar and his followers found it impossible to build a wall so high as to keep out all newspapers and magazines from New York and London, from I'aris and Geneva. Traveling in the United States, or settling in our country as farmers, or factory folk, these Russians were amazed by our free schools, free press, the large wages, the good houses, the amazing prosperity of the working classes. Soon secret societies were formed in Russia.

The story of the good fortune of the millions in free countries excited the JPu-ssians. Copies of our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were printed in Russia, and secretly distributed. Thousands of educated Russians Joined the Secret Reform party. In vain the prison doors opened, in vain the chains rattled, in vain the police cracked their whips above the Siberian exiles. Then Tolstoi entered the scene.

He became so influential, and won such a host of friends in other countries, that not even the Czar dared imprison, exile or hang that distinguished author. A patrician woman, Mme. Breshkovsky, spent thirty years in prison or in Siberia, but not even the dungeon eould lessen her A few seeds beginning to swell during May fead. beezk known to lift a stone slab IB me by direction of Trotzky and Lenine, after the Bolshevik! had destroyed the young Republic. The first President was Professor Milukoff, a Russian exile, who was for a long time a member of the faculty of Chicago University.

He was a man of acute intellect, sound judgment, a profound scholar, a true statesman and wise jurist. Associated with him was the flery orator and agitator Kerensky, who became the Prime Minister. Unfortunately, Kerensky was the victim of tuberculosis, an invalid who had to safeguard his health. He guarded each drop of blood and eounted'each atom of force, and had to spend his nervous strength with caution as a miser doles out his gold. Unlike Cromwell and Hamdon, unlike Washington and Hamilton, Kerensky had no physical reserves upon which he could draw.

A crisis came, and the emergency found Kerensky too 111 to speak or plan. Another crisis came, and Kerensky was not there to meet it. Taking advantage of the Premier's illness the radicals organized the Red Army and prepared for a revolution. Russian Bolshevism Born in New York Slides 16, 17 and 18 The whole hu. man race suffered an immeasurable calamity wben the Bolshevik! over-trew the young Russian Republic.

It is now well known that the constitution that was being prepared was practically a replica of the American Constitution. The Russian Republic was to be a representative Government like our own, and not a pure democracy like Switzerland. From every viewpoint it was a noble political document, well calculated to safeguard the lire and the property of the Russian people and to manufacture a manhood of good quality. Midst the confusion incident to the overthrow of the Czar the delay in preparing for the first election, the Reds had their chance. When Chicago was on fire the burglars enjoyed a unique opportunity, just as thieves ransacked at will the rich homes in San Francisco when their city was burning.

While the sober, serious men of Russia were sowing the good seed of liberty by day, enemies at night went forth to sow tares. From one viewpoint the Bolshevik! can be understood. Long before, a handful of Russian autocrats had or-ganzed pogroms against the Russian Hebrews. The outrages committed upon Hebrews in cities like Kiev, Russia, 20 years before, outraged the whole civilized world. Fleeing from Russia, these refugees reached New York.

Remembering the crimes committed upon their fathers, certain exiles here swore undying hatred of Russia. They determined, when the time came, they would have revenge. That hour struck in February of 1917. Breaking with the religion of his fathers, Braufastein, the Russian Jew, took the name of Leon Trotzky and became an apostate to the teaching of his Hebrew fathers. He surrounded himself with 460 other apostates.

A certain powerful Influence in Washington secured passports for these Reds the protest of the governments of England and of France. It is now claimed by some that Kerensky cabled a request for the passports. On the other hand It is asserted by Kerensky and his friends in London that this Is absolutely false and that the He was Invented by certain men who wished to escape their responsibilities for having kindled the sparks that became the Russian conflagration. One thing Is certain, the official statement of the present Bolshevist Government of Russia shows that Bolshevism Is non-Russian and nonnational, and that a handful of aliens who hate Russia tinto death have from without imposed their rule upon Russia just as the Manchus once entered China and established their military rule over China; just as the Swiss guards in Paris became for a few days the rulers of France; Just as the Saracens once got possession of Spain. In April of 1918 the Bolshe vist government id Petrograd includ ed 384 members exercising authority from various towns and cities.

The list begins with the name of Lenine, Premier; Trotzky, Secretary of War; It includes 2 negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen holding the office of executioner, one Englishman, a notorious murderer named Peters who had broken jail in London, 22 Armenians, 68 Russian Hebrews and 264 Hebrews from the Bowery district of New York. Plainly, if Russia sowed cruelty and injustice toward the Hebrews of Kiev and Sebastonol she has now reaped at the hands of Trotzky a like harvest of bloodshed and crime. If any one thine. therefore, argues the necessity of making reparation to the Hebrews of Russia and of Europe and the restoration to them of their own country and their nationhood, and possibly the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates, the orirlcs of Bolshevism in Russia as the reflex result of the Rus. slan pogroms argue that world consummation! Bolshevism As Stated by Karl Marx.

Slides 19. 20. 21 Now the men who have a right to tell us what Bolshevism is are Lenine, the Premier, and Trotzky, the Secretary of War. They declare plainly that Bolshevism is Karl Marx's theory of State Socialism, enthroned by killing off all who favored private ownership of property. Arresting all men who held title deeds, farms and factories, stores and banks, Trotzky stood them up against the wall and shot them.

Bolshevism was launched by a proclamation abolish-ing all private property. Later came a proclamation denying the right of suffrage to any man of any class or profession who concealed his property from the Bolshevist leaders. The Method of Trotzky Copied From Certain Criminals In Alaska. Slide 22 Trotzky's method of Breaking down opposition was borrowed from a group of criminals who organized a scheme to Jump the best claims in the gold mines of Dawson and Nome. When these criminals reached Alaska they found that the pioneers who had discovered the gold-bearing sands had located the richest claims.

Unable to buy the claims, these criminals who had escaped to Alaska worked out a scheme for getting possession of the treasure. The gang elected one of their number mayor, put In a second as sheriff, made a third Judge, and thus made it certain in advance that when later one of the gang went out and Jumped a good claim and shot the owner, the murderer would have a friendly policeman, to take care of him and a friendly judge to clear him, and when the time came to clean up the spoil tne criminals divided the treasure Trotzky began, therefore, by locating a bill Or abdication. dUBL French Revolutionists in 1789 seized Louis XVI and Queen Marie An- toinette and later carried them to the so the revolutionists sent the and his family to a place of con- flnement, where they were held by the Cabinet for -a time, but later were shot i ne maae mem omcers over tne army of "Reds." Remember that during the French Revolution 10,000 people were slain. But do not forget that ioi nearly a year the Bolsheviks shot per month about 100,000 Industrious and worthy citizens, who uad put the savings of a lifetime iato the home, shop, or farm, as a safeguard against old age. In his book, "The Agony of Russia," Wilton, the diplomatic correspondent of the London Times, who spent 20 years of his life In Russia, characterizes the last two years as a wild orgy of crime and murder, carried up to the nth power.

How Bolshevism Took Over the Great Hospital In Petrograd. Slides 23 and 24 An escaped surgeon, as a refugee in Switzerland, has told the story of this hospital in Petrograd, under the reign of the Bolshev-iki. These buildings of mercy held beds for 2,000 invalids. Under the rule of the Czar and Kerensky, Russian soldiers fought with unexampled bravery. Again and again German agents who had gotten into the Russian gun factories, tampered with the powder, ruined the shells, blew up the arsenals.

But the Russians fought on with spirit that could not be broken. After the great battle of the swamps of Poland, the trains brought wounded men back to Petro grad, and soon all the hospitals were overcrowded. One day the Bolsheviks took over the hospital. Understanding their peril, the surgeons and Red Cross nurses fled Into hiding. Holding a public meeting, the Bolshevist leader asked what man in the hospital had received the lowest wage.

Investigation showed that a man with a mop and a bucket of dirty water had received the smallest number of rubles per month. By acclamation the head scrub man was made head surgeon. Unable to read or write, this Bolshevik conceived the idea that all he had to do to fulfill the duties of head surgeon was to sharpen a wood saw and butcher knife. That night the wounded soldiers crept out of their cots and on their hands nnd knees crawled away from the hospital, preferring death in the alleys to being killed by tho scrub man. Ruined Stores and Factories.

Slides 25, 26 and 27 The Bolshevist regime began with an era of looting, when all the upper and middle classes fled in every direction for their lives. Headed by the newly released criminals, they looted the great department Rtores in such cities as Petrograd and Moscow. A refugee in Berne, Switzerland, at daybreak, the morning after his great department store had been looted, took a kodak picture of the ruin. The plate-glass windows were hroken; all the doors were smashed in; on the floors between the counters were goods of every description, covered with mud and filth from the feet of the mob. Here and there were tho dead bodies of his clerks and friends.

And this kodak view is typical. Look at this factory, that Is a blackened shell. Remember that the Englishman who moved to Russia and spent a lifetime in developing that factory hud given work to thousands of the poor and by his tools enabled the Russian farmers to feed their people. The Bolsheviks locked tho inventor in his house, seized his factory, drew his deposits out of the bank, collected the bills due him, distributed the treasure, reduced the hours of work from ten to five, doubled the pay, made shoddy goods, and within a year the factory collapsed. Then came the utter collapse of the Siberian Railway ruined by the incompetence of the Bolsheviki.

The workmen began to starve. Vicious, ignorant, incompetent Bolsheviks invent no tools, build no factories, but they ruin the factory through which they had their support. The Bolshevist War Against the Higher Life, Through Art and Architecture. Slides 28, 29 and 30 Some men have called Bolshevism "an industrial experiment," "a social reform," "a forward movement toward tho Golden Age." This is like pronouncing a eulogy upon a tornado and cyclone, or christening with fine words an epidemic of cholera, praising the Black Death, eulogizing the earthquake and tidal wave that ruined Lisbon. What has Bolshevism done for Russia? Bolshevism found Petrograd a city of 2,000,000, and in two years the capital has it found Moscow a city as large as Chicago, and leaves it a secondary town, with the Lpeoplc in rags, and untold thousands starving to ueain.

svisnevism nas put out the fires In practically all the factories of Russia, blighted all trade and commerce, burned the churches, looted the galleries, carried the art treasure of innumerable homes to the frontier towns. It has destroyed the credit of Russia through billions of rag money. It has destroyed the cul ture of Russia by killing its professors, editors, and authors. It has destroyed the wealth of Russia by-shooting the owners of the houses, shops, banks, factories and farms. For trade, commerce, art, science, liberty, law, it has substituted Famine.

Pestilence, Hunger, Lust, Murder and Death. Any man who prefers Bolshevism to this republic would prefer hell rather than heaven, death rather than life, and worship tho devil rather than a loving Father God. Russia a Rich Land But with a Starving People. Slides 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 Owning one-sixth of the earth's surface, with 90 per cent, of the world's platinum, her most valuable metal, and 60 per cent, of the world's forests, with gold mines that have yielded $300,000,000 of treasure with a score of years, with rich cotton lands, with wheat fields that could raise bread for 600,000.000 people, Russia Is a bankrupt country her money worth five cents on the dollar, her people starving, in the midst of wheat fields, freezing In the midst of vast forests, ragged midst herds nf sheep and a land of cotton, brokenhearted, wretched and bitter, but helpless. The Bolsheviki have gotten possession of all the weapons and tho Russians have only their naked hands Foreigners have established an anti-Russian government, Just as the Manchus established a government over the Chinese and the Mohammedans for a little time ruled the people of Spain.

Gazing at the bloody spectacle in the East, the civilized world stands aghast. Trotzky's experiment has horrified the world. Them time when Karl Marx Socialism had working chance to make IU way! Le- fo be built on the basis of material vnlues. If the history of the nations proves anything it proves that the strength n--g STh" a.nd of the State An none do not lie In material forrns a in 1 with material forces has everywhere and always been covenant with cor- ruption and death. Not in physical resources, not In commercial powers, not In diplomatic of na- In "Irength of a nation lies in Its faith Clod, and the character of ita people.

We need to put tho accent on this fact today, when tho spirit of unrest is so overwhelming and when the mnterial is so ohstruc-tlvo and aggressive. It will not do to theorize. It must not be our national policy to put emphasis upon strong armament, or favorable alliances or leagues with other nations, to rest upon material resources or commercial leadership, it must be our national policy to put the emphasis upon the mental and moral development of the people. It must be our supreme end to make men, men who love God, and one another, for ono kuuii. mis is tno great secret of national strength and there Is none other.

We hear much about a League of Beloved, we need a League of Righteousness, a BaptlHm of the Holy Spirit. Even though this Leaguo of Nations should speak with the tongues of angels and should have power to remove many mountains of material difficulties, even If It should give food and raw material to a vast number of the poor, unless It Is founded on righteousness and directed by love It will in tho end profit the world nothing. You cannot make the world righteous by machinery. Politicians hold no golden key to tho Infinite. Everything depends upon the disposition of the heart.

Without the new heart all our pet schemes will break down and all our promising programs will come to naught. Without a live church we arc on the quicksands, wilhnut love we are lost. I always hold that the greatest gift God can possibly bestow upon a nu. tlon or a people or a generation Is a man of transcendent genius. Woe to that nntion who has no great A nation may be rich In material wealth, may ho prosperous In trade and commerce, may bo nblo to exult in brute force, but if it has no great men It Is poor Indeed.

It mnv be ing to 'our grateful spirits the gotten benefactors of the past tnose who have left no visible memorial, have never been acclaimed, distinguished, eulogized or canonized, yet have bravely and cheerily borne the burden of the duties of thoir lot in life and so In obscurity, even nonentity, have achieved the honor and love of their fellows the "righteousness indeed that has not been and shall not be forgotten." The correctest criterion of human values is the contemplation of human history. Had we all a Just and comprehensive knowledge of history, its enduring triumphs, its permanent renowns, its ironic tragedies of human egoism, once so prodigious, now so petty, we would have a Juster estimate of what is reauy great ana reiu in the life and days now passing. A thoughtful consideration of historical perspectives snouia do me nrsi. property of every citizen-statesman. Much of the thinking today is shallow, many of our programs abortive, because our radicals have no sense of the ponderous immensities of human forces, and our conservatives no feeling for the ghastly bigotries of that "danse macabre" through which our race has been reeling since the dawn of time.

When therefore I summon you this mnrnini- to contemplate the forgot ten and obscure benefactors of our kind, I am the more connaent in my plea because I know that such reflections alone can make us wiser and nobler for the present hour. It is the feverish up-to-dater that shouts: "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name." It is the conscientious thinker who decides: "The happiest heart that ever heat was in some quiet breast that found the common daylight sweet, and left to heaven the rest." Grand are the possibilities ot ooscurityi When one advances to the summit of i hundred years nence ana iooks upon today, now piuttuie aemn kless erroris oi men ana women for a tawdry renown, a lime cneap distinction. A modern poet has put nto stinging lines nis storm ot reel-iiit as he stood in front of the offices of a great London newspaper and watched the announcers move to and fro the various buttons on the war niap, which represented whole dlvl- ions. And yet, upon me map or nis- tnrv. vour generation, my generation, yvill have no greater prominence than such a red or black button, and our own individualities submerged in tens of thousanns.

jjo you protest that such nulltflctaoin of the ego lends to produce moral paralysis? On the contrary, I declare that until and unless one finally accepts this good fortune of modest worth, Incon spicuous runciion, not one act oi ours will be thoroughly good, nor one hour our life deeply content. It Is a sane and salutory thing to discover the insignificance of the self in the vast scheme of life, and to go about the problem of incorporating ourselves with and Into the great spiritual veri ties anci moral powers in wincn only may receive our memorial. jne nf the ricnest, most gmea poets or our land was a woman who lived on the borders of the campus at Amherst, unknown even to her town neighbors, nnd yet whose poetry re-veals majestic vlstaji of sympathy, ln- ighl, nobility, nne nonestiy re joiced in oeuis VL uuuuuy. IPuv rlrenry to somebody. Itnw public, llkt a froit.

To tell your name tho Itvelonf day To an admiring bof. fir-md are the uses and possibilities nf obscurity! Said Leslie Stephen: -Obscurity is a condition and by no means an altogether unpleasant con-dition in which very much of the i.t work is done." It is also, I may add and "ich ls prime concern the cnnnmon ill ycij utucu ui the best life is lived. Once let a man or woman glimpse tho enrnvishlng beauty, the pairicmn koicv. uie hih- Ic tic alio power hi mu iiioi.i ideal, couched for him In whatso- obscurity. The "Spoon River An- moiogy- is a sodden, sinister book; only two of the fictitious epitaphs therein are words of light and faith; one is the verse of Anne Rutledge, the boyhood insplrer of Lincoln; the other is the epitaph of the old school ma'am, with its pathetic appeal to the manhood of the brilliant youth who had been her favorite and who was enmeshed In the -Bohemianism of Tnris.

Then a few pages further on the boy's admission "It was vou who turned me back." Ruch Is Leslie Stephen's meaning In the phrase "Forgotten and.it seems to me deeply significant, as I read his lucid, serious words, that the world's greatest biographer a man who had perused the chronicled fame of thousands of the mighty ones of earth should, in this exquisite valedictory address, have left all the advertise ments of distinction unnoticed, and have spoken with the deepest, emotion of two benefactors of his own soul forgotten by the world, Immortal with himself a simple-hearted, clear-eved young' pupil, whose frank, bovish admiration had kept the mettlesome tutor true and straight: and a "perfect woman, nobly planned." who had forever confirmed her husband in the sterling manhood which she had never hesitated to trust or failed to expect. PRESBYTERIANS HOLD ALL-DAY CONFERENCE An "All-Day Inspirational Conference" was held at the Prospect Heights Presbyterian Church, 10th st. and 8th yesterday. George P. Conrad resided.

The conference was opened by the Rev. T. G. Roberts-Horefleld and a corps of converts and helpers from his Coney Island Mission with talks on "Open Air and Rescue Work." The Revs. Robert W.

Anthony, U. L. Mackey and Frederick T. Steele outlined the church extension work of the Presbyterian Church in this city, and a check for $50 was donated by the Prospect Heights Presbyterian Church. The Rev.

W. E. Weld, a returned missionary from India, talked on "Foreign Mission Work." Mrs. I. A.

Bingener, Mrs. J. A. Heissenbuttel and Miss Anita Rau told of their experiences visiting churches in various parts of Brooklyn. Dr.

Thomas H. Dinsmore spoke In behalf of aged and retired ministers and missionaries and their families, and the duty of giving them an adequate support in their old age. Roy M. Hart explained the plans for establishing a Presbyterian Home for the aged in this city and made a plea for funds. Tho Prospect Heights Presbyterian Hhurch responded with a pledge of $1,000.

Then followed a fellowship meeting, which alms to bring together pastors and people from neighboring churches. The Sunday School rally at 4 o'clock was participated In by some nine organizations and was addressed by the Revs. Herbert H. Field, Fred erick T. Steele.

John R. Campbell. S. L. Testa and Tracy B.

Grlswold- The Christian Endeavor rally at 7 o'clock In the evening was addressed by the Revs. Robert W. Anthony, Dr. Edwin Dunton Bailey and others. The topic, of tho evening service was "Tho World Problems Before the Protestant Churches," tho speakers being tho Revs.

Andrew Maglll of Jamaica, L. and Bedros K. Apelian of the Syrian and Armenian Relief Committee. A check for $50 was donated to this cause bv the Prospect Heights Presbyterian Church. Dinner and supper were served to the out-of-town guests by tho women of the pariah true that the great work of this world ation a higher ideal, a loftier standard has not been done by Individual men a truer courage, a wider hiimmitv of genius, buj, by the aggregate of men 1 His curliest, his latest Ins profound-of ordinary talent, but It Is none the i est thought, was the thought of conn- ies ue mm urn inipeius or impulse oi iiiwi wum ims oeni nuppnen oy in- dividual men ot genius.

It Is they who have supplied the fire and force: It Is they who have made possible the victory, it. is iney no nave nated the bright, progressive Idea und lesser men have realized It and carried it into practical effect. I sav again, woe to that nntion which can. not boast of great men, men of leader. spontaneity: The Rooseve Memory-ship, men of gigantic courage, and I Association.

men of God. Why did Greeco of yore cease to exist as a power, and why did Rome perish? Why, because Greece and Rome failed to produce great men because Greece ceased to produce Themistocleses and Perlcleses, nnd Rome ceased to produce Gracchi and Ciceros and Julius Caesars. And It Is when we cease as a nation to pro- duce Washlngtons and l.lncnlns and Roosevelts that we shall he our prestige among the nations of the enrth, and no league ran save us from disruption and failure. Tho next hist thing to the possessing of great men Is the power to appreciate them when God sends them to us. The great doers of the world have been the great sufferers of whom the world was not worthy.

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