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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1918. 14 THE REPLY OF ONE WORD. Germany Supplied $27,250,000 a titi fArmai ctfltA ntnr sueeests a "non-bind- inir" discussion of peace. Germany has again offered Belgium a separate peace on terms stipulating many ob ligations on the part of Belgium to Germany dui none SI LOUIS POST-OISPATCH Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER Dec It, 1S78.

Tnblished by the Pulitzer Publishing Co, Tvxlfth and Olive Streets. POST-DISPATCH CIRCULATION Average for entire year, 8UXDAY 361 JIM DAILY AUD SUNDAY 134.59. nn the nart of Germany to wronged Belgium. One single hyphenated word Is the answer to all such overtures of Impudence Brest-Litovsk. In the new light to Trotzky, Lenine and Other Bolshevik Agents of BeriL Reichsbank Memorandum of January, lgjj Called for Big Credit in Stockholm Second Series of Secret Documents.

on how the Deace of shame that dragged the Russian name In the dust was brought about, proffers to the other enemies of Prussianism are a mockery. Original docu THE POST-DISPATCH PLAT- ments and photographs of other documents have come into the possession of the United States Government whose sinister text should be read immediately after the latest Hun plans for ending the war. They show the abject Lenine-Trotzky junta working the will of the war machine as servilely, though more secretly, in Russia as avowed agents in Belgium receiving German officers FORM I know that my retirement will make no difference in It cardinal principles, that It will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate Injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and pobllo plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically Independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty. JOSEPH PULITZER. April 10, it07.

to command Russian troops. Installing German bureaucrats as official advisers of the Cabinet departments, sending to allied countries German spies safeguarded by Russian passports, a possibility of peril that should be looked by the Governments of those allied countries. The presumption of bribery is of course made most strong by the disclosures of activity in the German interest But the charge Is not left to rest on mere presumption. Documents show the clandestine payment from Gen. Hoffman to stop this fa gerous agitation by all mum po ble.

2. A stenographic report cf conversation of Gen. Hoffman Comrade Trotzky, whereby it posedly was proposed to the Utter! make peace on conditions of jm erable concessions on the part of Central Empires, but on the tion of the Russian Government stop the socialization of the life the state. Comrade Trotzky mi posedly offers the termination of tl war without peace and the demob Ization of our army. When Hoffman announced that the mans would continue the advtm Trotzky supposedly replied: Thi under the pressure of force, we thi be obliged to make peace and ful; all demands." This document has created inl nation among the troops.

Anii the Council of reople's Comrataa through Swedish banks of $25,000,000 in gold to Lenine WPT" Hi' 1 JIM jj 1" mmfM mil jfv fe-- 't LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. and Trotzky and J2.500.000 more to enable them to bribe the Red Guard. The mere suspicion of action in a foreign interest sufficed for the downfall of the most powerful leaders during the French Revolution. It explains some of the bloodiest work of the guillotine. What will be the effect of these disclosures based on fact in Russia? Whatever the effect there, we know what the effect will be in the allied countries.

What responsible citizen of those countries, to say nothing of responsible officials, will receive the peace tenders with anything but scorn? What pacifist can afford to receive them without at least the appearance of scorn? asa During "Safety Week" there should be a large illus By th Asseelatsd Press. WASHINGTON, Sept J8. The part played by the Gentian Imperial Bank in -financing the Russian Bol-sheviki movement, the care taken by the German military authorities to prevent spread among their own people of the Socialistic preaching of their Russian tools, and the plans laid for German control of Russia economically and financially during and after the war, feature the disclosures In the second installment of the sensational series of secret documents which the American Government is making public Copies of the documents, given out last night carry the file numbers of the Reichsbank or of the German General Staff, and in some instances notations by Lenine or Trotsky, the Bolshevik! leaders, now shown to have been in the pay of Germany since long before they overthrew Russia's new democratic Government and virtually turned the country-over to the Teutons. There are illuminating explanatory notes by Edgar Sisson, of the Committee on Public Information, who directed the Investigation which resulted in the disclosures. $25,000,000 Credit.

One of the Reichsbank memoranda, dated last January, announces to the Commisar of Foreign Affairs (Lenine) that 50,000.000 rubles of gold (125.000,000) had been placed to the credit at Stockholm of the representatives of the commlsars to cover the cost of Red Guards and agitators. Another of a few days later tells of a credit of 5.000.000 rubles ($2,500,000) for the assistant naval commisar in the Far East, who was entrusted with the task of carrying off or destroying the great American and Japanese stores of war material at Vladivostok a scheme that probably was well under way when Forewarned Is Forearmed-To the Editor of tha rost-Dfapatch. Your editorial of Sept. 7. In reference to the valuation of the street railways by the Public Service Commission, is both pointed and pertinent; yet, after all, if the commission does this, is that not a confession of the inaccuracy of 'Valuations" previously made? And if another is made, how is the public to know that It Is correct? How is the public to know.

are heard cruel accusations Car missar S. Kalmanovlch. liTttcr or Wanting. Note This letter is a warnini the slow-rising but coming to that will sweep these boldest pint among- so many of them, which "valuation" is the right cne? We believe that it would be better if the Public Service Commission would leave the street railway problems alone, as, according to article 12, section 20, of the State Constitution, these matters are the concern of the cities only in which the street railways operate. It is true that our city fathers were tration of an aged gentleman skipping along a crossing hastened by the frightful squawk of a rushing speeder.

PUKE MTT.K SAVED THE BABIES. ilealth Commissioner Starkloff, commenting on the fact that the infantile death rate in St. Louis is less than that of any other large city except New York, gave credit to the hospitals, the general sanitary condition of led to believe that the street railways had a certain "value" (see IT. R. com the city, the playgrounds, the health instruction in schools, "and many other mediums through which the promise), but it is quite likely that the or history from the country th temporarily have stolen.

To let real understanding of the rneani of the second and most Import section of the letter. It must pointed out that until Feb. Russian calendar was 13 days hind the Western European ctl car. The real date of this leu therefore. Is Feb.

10. This is date Trotzky's "no peace, no wi pronouncement was made at Bre Litovsk. The news of it did not ret even Petrograd until the next 4 Yet, on that day printed clrculi were being distributed at the fn stating that Trotzky had agreed to the very thing he did do, and gtvl an augury of events that did ti place a week later when Gernu did begin its advance, and when I Bolshevfkl did fulfill all deman The fact is that simple truth wail Ing told. Nor is the means by wh it was obtained at all obscure. Sic ful and daring Russians had foum means to get Information fn WAITING.

voters at the November election will cause them to change their minds, unless, of course, someone causes someone else to steal the election, which would not be the first time that such an "irregularity" occurred in St. Louis. Rumors have been heard that this is possible, but will the public stand for this? And is it possible that any of our Judges and clerks of election can be thus influenced? We believe not, nor do we believe that the public will stand for such foolishness. No doubt men who will employ sluggers and burglars will not hesitate to corrupt the election, but we believe that they will not be any more successful with this than with the other "jobs." "Forewarned Is forearmed." L. H.

PROSKE. Secretary-Manager. Citizens' Referendum League, 607 Pontiac Bldg. the landing of American and allied forces at Vladivostok ended the sway of the Bolshevik! there. A resolution adopted by the German commercial banks under the auspices of the Reichsbank, outlines an elaborate program for control of Russia by Germany and the barring of America and the allies from the Russian commercial and industrial The 3IIE.R0E of PUBLIC OPINION JUST A MINUTE WrltUa for tie POST-DISPATCH by Clark McAAawis Brest-Litovsk.

Document N'o. II. This column it designed to reproduce without bias the latest comment by the leading publicists, newspaper and period-icais on the questions of the day. Getting out of bed the morning after the Americans launched their big attack, we were greeted in one of our contemporaries by this headline across the top of the front page: DELEXDA EST CARTHAGO. Prom tho Boston Transcript.

T. is entirely proper that the allies field after the war. What has happened to this scheme is not definitely known, but it is suggested that it may be the subject of one of the secret sections of the German-Bolshevik treaty. Socialist Friends Betrayed. How Lenine and Trotzky were be-' traying their Socialist friends along with Russia is disclosed by a sharp note to Lenine from the Nachrichten Bureau demanding to know what steps he would take to make good his personal promise that Socialistic I Germans In St.

Mihiel Bend Face Envelopment by the Americans. should threaten the destruction of health of St Louisans is safeguarded." One of the most important of these other mediums i9 pure milk. Ia fact, as far as babies are concerned, it is the most important of alL Babies will not grow up to enjoy the playgrounds, the schools and other good things unless they have a sufficiency of pure milk, such as the Post-Dispatch Pure Milk and Free Ice Fund insures to he babies who otherwise would not get it The Fund is not yet complete. The almost prohibitive price of milk makes It necessary to provide the pure, modified milk all the year round. And the Pure Milk Commission depends in large measure upon the Post-Dispatch who are asked to make up this Fund.

Who will give something to bring the Fund up to the necessary $6000? The Bohemians may not have much money to put into the war, but we are recognizing their Czechs. aaa THE TAKE ARMY HERO. Nearly 400 Canadian and other British impostors, a large per cent of them army deserters, are officially declared to be in this country, representing themselves as var heroes and abusing the hospitality and depleting the poeketbooks of credulous Americans. The British are themselves preparing to limit drastically the fakers' opportunities for profit and for the free entertainment to which they are so partial. Suspicion should not, of coarse, be permitted to cause humiliation to the really worthy, but if anyone about whom you have your doubts appears in your town with a very healthy appetite and begins telling extraordinary tales about his service in the British army in putting down the Hun single-handed, write Arthur Vincent Room No.

927, Edison Building, Chicago. Doubtless pretenders to remarkable exploits in our own army will begin to make their appearance later. We shall be fortunate if we prepare to deal as systematically with ours as the British have with theirs. Three Butte newspaper men have been arrested for Unfair Taxation. To tbs Editor of th Post-Dispatch.

In all this vast city go over it once and you will see that it is vast license is paid on only 19,727 dogs. It is now proposed to raise the dog tax to 33. This would make it harder for the honest dog-owners. The dishonest would pay no attention to it. No administration has ever succeeded In collecting the tax.

We have no statesmen, apparently, capable of the work. WAKALLNITE. and agitational literature would not be circulated among German troops. Trotzky wrote on the margin "I ask (Reichsbank, No. 12.378, Cerl Dec.

28. 1917.) Resolution of conference of repi sentatlves of the German commerc banks, convened on proposal of German delegation at Petrogrtd the management of the Imper Bank, to discuss the resolution of Rhlne-Westphalian Industrial Syc cate and Handelstag. 1. All loans are canceled. bonds of which are in the hands German, Austrian.

Bulgarian a Turkish holders, but payment mi be realized by the Russian Treasi in the course of a 12 months' te after the conclusion of sepan peace. 2. The purchase is permitted of i Russian securities and dlvidM bearing paper by the representatii of the German banks at the rats the day on the open market 3. After the conclusion of se part peace, on the expiration of 90 da: there are re-established all shares of private railway companl metalurgJeal industries, oil comp nies and pharmaceutical works. Tl ratings of such papers will be by 'the German and Austrian slcx to disuss it L.

The concluding document of the installment is a German warning on Hamburg or Cologne or Berlin if the Germans, in withdrawing from the city of Lille, as evidently they must, destroy that city as they have destroyed Lens and other large towns. They should now be made aware that their violations of the laws of war, if they continue them, will bring, about a full retaliation in kind, and that the unauthorized wiping out of the potential wealth of the French people, their future means of livelihood, will be answered with stone for stone and brick for brick; that every mine flooded and rendered useless upon their withdrawal will be paid with a German mine bo ruined; and that to balance this bargain the allies will fight on and on, no matter what smooth terms of peace the German Power may offer to save itself Jan. 29 to Lenine that unknown agitators were circulating propaganda telling in advance of the plans of the BolishevikI to openly surrender Sir About 20 years ago, while in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, I copied the following from a tombstone: "James E. Valentine, Locomotive Engineer. Killed in a collision, December 20th, 1874.

Age 32 years. In the crash and in the fall he stood Unmoved and sacrificed his life That he might fulfill his trust. Until the brakes are turned on time Life throttle valve shut down. He wakes to pilot in the crew That wears the martyr's crown. On schedule time on upper grade Along the homeward section He lands his train at God's roundhouse The morn of resurrection.

His time all full, no wages docked His name on God's pay roll And transportation through to Heaven A free pass for his soul." The stone stated that it occurred on the C. O. R. II. X.

Y. Z. Pa is A. A. Aal, who died recently, had considerable fun out of his unusual name.

He had the distinction of answering to the first name in the directory for years. At one time he called a man up on the phone. This is A. A. AaL Who? A.

A. Aal. Spell it. A Yes. A Yes.

A Yes. A Oh, go to hell! R. OTTEN. fa Si Rl A sign at Beaumont Texas: Beaumont Destruction Com- pany. Our sign hunter thinks it is probably an automobile repair shop.

On a moving picture house. Orange, Texas: Tonight "To Hell With the Kaiser." RS TODAY'S BKST to the Germans as they actually did later. Documents follow: Docupment No. 8. Reichsbank No.

2. Jan. 8. 13 IS. (Very Secret) To the Commisar of Foreign Affairs: Information has today been received by me from Stockholm that 50.000,000 rubles of gold has been transferred to be put at the disposal of the people's commissars.

This credit has been supplied to the Russian Government in order to cover the cost of the keep of the Red Guards and agitators in the country. The Imperial Government considers it appropriate to remind the Soviet Of P.nnU attacking with ridicule the Montana Council of Defense. Is this a er er a warning to speak softly in talking about politics in our own Missouri Council? That puzzled us. Did it mean that the American army had gotten its face pushed in? We pinched ourselves, not being sure we were wholly awake, and looked at it again. The thmg that seemed emphasized was that the Germans had bent somebody's face.

Not our face, surely. They couldn't do it. Anyway, our wife came in. She looked at it. "What has happened?" she asked.

"I am not sure," I answered. "Somebody's face has been pushed in, but Ian't be sure beyond that until I read tms story." Well, as it turned out, what really had happened was that the Germans in the bend faced envelopment. One got that with working at it. "It is like this," I explained, holding the paper up. "The Germans are in the St.

Mihiel bend. They face envelopment." She looked at It for awhile with light breaking on her face. "Why didn't they say so, and not scar us like that?" she asked. I The Kaiser speaks of the "sorrows and cares which have spared no home." in Germany through the course of the war. However, we know of one German family circle that hasn't been very badly shot up.

ft Hillsboro. 111. In a German report of last week is the statement are everywhere in our new positions." Before this report is accepted. I move that the word "new" be stricken out and the word "old" inserted. fcl Pr.

GERf.iXS, GEKMASS! "We came to a little chapel where nine little boys were kneeling. Looking at them I found that not one of them had his right hand. All were under 12 years old and the youngest was 4." Lieut, E. M. Koberts, R.

F. in "A Flying Fighter' p. 76. TTonor the Tfome Guards. Vto the Editor of the Post-Dispatch.

The letter in last night's paper, written by a Corporal of the Home Guards, expressed the opinion, I am of many others. As a wife and mother of Home Guard men, I felt indignation and humiliation at having to sew a piece of gingham on the sleeve of a Government uniform. To be sure the gingham costs 75c a yard now; but the absurdity of a gingham patch (no more, no less, for it does not circle the arm) on a U. S. uniform Is the step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

I do not mean for one minute that it makes our Home Guard ridiculous, for they are the same sort of men as those doing so bravely in France now. Were not many of them in our Home Guard once? And under the new draft law, will not many of our Home Guard men be standing shoulder to shoulder with our men in France, before long? What difference if a Home Guard man is mistaken for a soldier? Is he not made of the same material and ready to do as much as any soldier? Did you not learn in a letter from a soldier in the front line trenches only the other day that doing the big thing "over there" consists in a doing of commonplace detail work from day to day and depending absolutely on the man at home? Is not the Home Guard doing more than the criticising civilian? For he is a civilian doing civilian work and a Government servant bound by oath and serving his Government at the sa.ne time. Our Home Guard Is indeed a noble and honorable organization, and anyone sneering or ridiculing them is surely a slacker and lacking in patriotism. This gingham patch is surely only a thoughtless affair from the treatment that it has itself visited upon the people of France and Belgium. It was the German soul which invoked the specter of Frightfulness.

"We must do it to win," the leaders, even the intellectual and spiritual leaders, of the German nation said. "At all costs we must win, and if the laws of humanity as well as those of civilized warfare have to go, we may plead the supreme necessity of the victory." Our necessity, that is, is above all human right. Well, as the battle now seems to be going against them as, after all. the Almighty does not seem to see the necessity they must not wonder if their own reasoning is turned against them. Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, have earned their destruction.

Delenda est Carthago. But, after all. the nations of the Entente have bowels of compassion. Let the Germans, admonished by the imminence of retribution, spare the torch and the bomb now; let them leave the French towns and villages behind them as they are, and above all let them spare the wealth and business and homes of those fine modern cities. Lille and Roubaix and Valenciennes, and the righteously avenging torch may be withheld from the rich cities of Northern Germany, provided tht? THE CHINK AND BOOZE.

Consider for a moment the new light in which China is made to appear not because it is vitally Important, but because it presents a variation from other subjects worn thin by discussion. We have always thought of the Chinese as particularly abstemious in the matter of intoxicants. We have looked on it as the result of an experience of ages which had settled down on the tea that does not inebriate as a preferable beverage and have even suspected that tea, consumed In enormous quantities, through long intervals of time, has effects on the national temperament incompatible with the use of Intoxicants. On the whole, we have not given the Chinese much credit for their abstention. Reflecting on their use of opium, we have been inclined to plume ourselves on our own generous use of liquors.

But medical men who have been getting Into the life of interior China tell us our ideas have been all wrong. It seems that China is a sort of "secret souse" among the nations. The Chink and booze have a distinct prediction for one another. Habits fixed by centuries make him rather secretive about it Because of a loss of prestige in the social viewpoint he is particularly anxious to keep it dark If he gets too well "lit up." That is one reason we have had small suspicion heretofore about his perpetual thirst. But he takes his redeye with a good deal of regularity.

China's farmers make more liquors of domestic manufacture for family use than those of any other country. Breweries and even dis exchanges. 4. There are banished and for ft years from date of signing peace a not to be allowed English, Prem and American capital In the folio' Ing industries: Coal, metallurgy machine building, oil, chemical ai pharmaceutical. 5.

In the question of developme in Russia of coal, oil and metalla gical branches of Industry ther be established a supreme advlaoi organ, consisting of 10 Russian ap ciallsts. 10 from the German Indu trial organizations and the Cenw and Austrian banks. "lluaa Must Not InterfcTe." 6. The Russian Government ma not interfere In the region of tlons connected with the transfer' the benefit of Germany of two ml' ing districts in Poland Pombrosl and OlkUshky and to Austria of oil region of Galicla. The traaaf of the latter will be only In the tor of limitations of the right of makli claims, land allotments and appl cation of capital for the productK and refining of oil.

7. Germany and AustrU enjoy unlimited rrivilepe of sending Russian mechanics and qualifi workmen. 8. Other foreign mechanic a workmen during the five years aft the conclusion of peace between F.u ia and Germany are rot to be 1 lowed to enter at all. 9.

The statistical department producing and manufacturing lnd tries, wtih the corresponding ernment organ, muM te control by German specialists. 10. Private banks in Russia arl only with the consent and aeeoroli to the plan of the union of and Austrian banks, whereby ralng of the stocks of tho baokf all exchanges of the New and World will hm handled by tho tT0' of tho Deutsche Bank. 11. At the ports of rtroc Archangel.

Vladivostok ai Batum will established, under leadership of specialists from many, special atatutlcal oconoa committees. wm Df seen as such and corrected in OTT trill you look the future time. P. M. in the face.

When plainly icritten cfotra to vy.jj wuniniui.siirs or tne necessity for increasing their propo-ganda in the country, as the antagonistic attitude of the south of Russia and Siberia to the existing Government is troubling the German Government It is of great importance to send experienced men everywhere in order to set up a uniform government. Representative of the Imperial Eank, Von Schantz. Members of the Red Guard were paid from 12 to 15 rubles a day whereas soldiers were paid hardly that number of kopecks. This letter shows where the money came from. The Bolshevik Government also required factory owners to pay regular wages to their workers while the latter served in the Red Guard.

The notation on the letter Indicates that it was referred to Menshinski. he Financial Minister, whose expert counselor was the German. Von Toll Menshinski personally conducted the wrecking of the Russian banks, a maneuver that deprived all opponents of Bolshevism of their financial means of warfare. It was a classic ob of destruction, done in the name of reconstruction. Document No.

13. (The counter efpiontge with the Stavks, No. 311, special section. Jan. 29.

1918.) (A warning.) To the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars: The counter espionage at the Stavka advised that at the front is being spread by unknown agitators the following counter revolutionary literature: 1. The text of circulars of various German Government institutions, with proofs of the connection of the German Government with the Bolshevik workers before the passing of the Government Into their hands These leaflets have reached also the German commanders. The supreme commander has received a demand Germans are ready to give full compensa tion in gold for every act of destruction tilleries supplying the public trade abound throughout tnv hav wrought the empire. Distlllerfes? Where did they learn the art of A Worker's Suggestion. Ta tha Editor of tha Post-Dispatch.

It is a well-known fact that there exists in this city a shortage of labor, which condition has recently become acute. This undoubtedly hampers our war work to some extent, and should be given serious thought. There are. no doubt, plenty of men at present permanently employed who would welcome an apportunity to work a few nights each week' in any of the essential war Industries. In fact, the writer knows personally of quite a few men who would respond quickly to the call and help to ameliorate this deplorable labor shortage.

The writer can also mention one specific case where a young, able-bodied man has been trying to get work of this nature, without success, for the past two weeks. Is it not ridiculous to think that a man looking eagerly for this kind of work is not able to procure it in a city the size of St. Louis? What is wrong? Somebody start the ball a-roliing. Help Uncle-Sam to turn the Work OUt. in nrrfor tn lh.

all your aham. Tour crimivo for which, our language ha no ruzmfij So bloody fmtl and so inhuman bane? Through centuries to come of your diegrace Children at school trtflt read, and asle how came Upon thi sun-lit earth of fairest fame So barbarous and treacherous a race. Sot in a thousand years of human fat Can you ripe out the blood upon your hands, Sor turn again to innocence and mirth. Tour heritage sJiall be a world of hate. Writ in the bloody wills many land.

Tou are a nation cursed throughout tho earth max rnnstAxx. alcoholic distillation which we got from the alchemists? Did the Chinese get it from us or is this another of the many things the Chinese saw first? Since the effort to suppress opium's use in China, use of Intoxicants in excess Is said greatly to have Increased. What a complex problem these unapproved habits of mankind present: With prohibition of opium in China, the Chink takes with alarming avidity to more drink. Huns Lose Faith In Gott. From th Chicago Tribune.

Mrs. Lucille Babbitt of 104 2 Argyle street furnishes the bon mot of the war's turning point in a quotation from a letter from her brother, Sergt Howard F. Colt of the Twenty-ninth Engineers. The letter was written in a French town which a few days previously was held by Germans. A German prisoner was being questioned by a Frenchman.

"Do you still think God is with you?" asked the Frenchman. "Yes," said the prisoner. "God is with us but the Tanks are with you." With prohibition of drink in this country, the use of narcotics spreads. A Treasury report just made shows that in the past two years the narcotic habit has increased by leaps and bounds, enslaving even enlisted men and many officers of the army, and urges even more drastic antinarcotic legislation. r'irlng ths first elbt monies ltf.

the rln'4 tal or "Wants" Is 3S more tr.i KOrrt other fu LojIs combined. rout i E. II. GOING FAST. Crcen In Xew York Telegram..