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Show BARON WARNS RULERS Bolshevism Brought De-! De-! feat of Both Russia and Germany. REVIEWS SITUATION Germs of Social Unrest Are Nurtured by Want. NEW YORK. April 12. Baron Rosen, formerly Russian ambassador 1 It Ihu 1-liltnH CJtilnt n m f , 1, - peace plenipotentiaries who settled the war between Russia and Japan, In an address before the Brooklyn chamber cham-ber of commerce, his first publi utterance ut-terance since arriving in America, an exile from his native land, declared it was "the deadlv poison of Bolshevism Bolshe-vism which brought on the defeat or Russia and next of German," ana I tbat its "sudden rise and stupendu-fOtts stupendu-fOtts L-rov. e rV-uld be a solemn warning to the ruling classeS ir all belligerent countries. "Russia as a political entity has temporarilj ceased to e.tirt," soid Baron Rosen. "There is at present no political party or body of men which could be held to be entitled lo enter upon international engagements in the name of Russia and the Russian Rus-sian nation least of all that small group of demented fanatics with their ' following of murderous bandits who have usurped power by violence, who I maintain their tyrannical power by a ; regime of terrorism such as the world ! has never seen, who have completely ruined and destroyed the social fabric fab-ric of the state and who have turned what was once the empire of Russia into a wilderness of primitive barbarism), bar-barism), a prison, a lunatic asylum and a slaughter house. "The germs of this deadly disease, Bolshevism, although lying dormant, were present and are still present ev-crywhoro, ev-crywhoro, ' said the speaker, "bred and nurtured by the atmosphere of social unrest, ?n inevitable accompaniment accompani-ment of the wonderful achievements of modern civilization which are doing do-ing so much to emphasize and render more glaring the contrast between the luxury and ease of the few and the want and limitations of the many, condemned to a life of incessant toil, joyless monotony and anxious inse curity." Defeat cf the Russian army did not cans.- the 'disease." Baron Knsen explained, ex-plained, declaring that "it was the prolongation of the war with its at- tenuant suirenngs and misery which created among the fifteen million to seventeen million Russian soldiers and sailors," the conditions leading up to the revolution of March 1ft 7, which although inspired by ihe Duma lead crs from the very opposite motives Duma leaders from the very opposite oppo-site motives, was actually accepted I by the mutinous garrison and revolutionary revolu-tionary workmen of Petrograd and was an expression of the revolt of I the people against Ihe v,ai " ) Tho Bolshevik!, said the speaker. promised immediate peace and this! gained the support of tho people. Russ Problem Difficult. Discussing the problem of tho immediate imme-diate future of Russia, the former am-1 bassador said "it is one of unexampled 1 difficulty." Its solution is required In tho interest of all mankind, he declared, de-clared, adding that "if Bolshevism bet not now extirpated root and branch j and if It is suffered to spread any tur ther it might ultimately come to mean tho doom of our race and civilization." "No one can tell when and how tho j time will come when tho world a. ill again behold Russia reconstituted as a political entity and able to resume her; placo In the family of nations," continued con-tinued ihe ex-ambaBsador. Only Glimmer of Hope. "For the present the only glimmer of hope seems to lie in the evolution out of tho prevailing chaos of a military mili-tary dictatorship such as must alwaj c be the outcome of a prolonged state of anarchy, if the teachings of history are to be developed. Some indications indica-tions of the possibility of a similar development de-velopment aro already discernible d mlral Kolchak, the head of the Siberian Sibe-rian government, having already se-cured se-cured the submission to this aiithorit of General Deneklue of the Kuban Cos-Backs, Cos-Backs, and Kransoff of the Cossacks of the Don. has, it seems, begun to use in his public utterances the firm lan- guage of a dictator hip conscious or his power and determination Lo i u-der u-der his will auprjiuu.'' |