GERMANY AFTER
HIE RESOURCES
OF RUSSIA
Rye BEACH, N. H., June 21 (by
Associated Press).—Warning that if a
stable government is not established
in Russia, Germany will utilize Rus
sian resources and man-power and
again become a great menace to the
people of Europe was given today by
David R. Francis, American ambas
sador to Russia. Mr. Francis Is re
cuperating here from illness which
compelled him to undergo a surgical
operation in London on his way home
from Archangel. He is awaiting orders
from the state department.
Mr. Francis was prompted to make
the statement by the recent speeches
of Frank A. Vanderlip, formerly presi
dent of the National City Bank of New
York in which Mr. Vanderlip gave his
views of the industrial situation in
Europe and told America that she
must be prepared to extend her credit
to put European business on its feet.
“I have read with great interest,”
said the ambassador, “Mr. Vanderlip’s
note of warning delivered before the
Economic Club in New York several
days ago. Mr. Vanderlip had unequal
led factilities for studying conditions
in Europe during his four or five
months’ visit and his address, coming
as it does from the recently resigned
president of the largest financial insti
tution in America, imparts most valu
able information. He is not in the
diplomatic service; if he were he
would have thought a second time
concerning his utterance about labor
conditions in England. Those condi
tions are more or less serious in every
European country and merit attention
even in the United States.
“The Bolsheviw spirit which is now
manifesting itself in the Canadian
strikes, I am glad to see is frowned
upon by the labor unions in that
country as well as in our own. If that
spirit should dominate in the new
world or even if it should permeate
labor circles to the extent it did in
Russia in the beginning of the Bolshe
vik revolution, it would as it did there
attempt to appropriate the lands and
that would be very deplorable for the
labor unions - of Ameriea. Here the
public domain immense as it was has
practically all been taken up by set
tlers who own the soil they till and
would not listen with any patience to
the Bolshevik doctrine of nationalizing
the land.
“Lenine has realized this as, before
I left Russia, he said Bolshevism had
no cause to fear the large land owners
or feudal barons as he called them, but
the small holders among the peaasntry
wore the most powerful enemies of
Bolshevism.
“1 did not intend to digress, how
ever, even to this extent from what
I wished to say concerning Mr. Van
derlip’s address. While he visited al
most every accessible country in Eur
ope, belligerent and neutral, he did not
go to Russia nor mention the resources
of that afflicted country in his com
prehensive statement. He did not
even take into account the productive
capacity in Russia when he stated that
the population of Europe had grown
from 110 million to 440 million and
without Increasing Its productivity
nearly ii* the same ratio.
"Russia during the five years ending
with 1915 produced an average of 784,
329.200 bushels of wheat as compared
with our 802,055,800 bushels during the
same period. The year before the war
began, 1913, Russia produced 960,000
000 bushels of wheat as compared with
our 763,300,000 bushels. During those
five years the average production of
oats in Russia was 1,045,095,800 bush
els as against our average of 1,224,
188.200 bushels. Likewise Russia’s av
erage production of barley for this
five year period was 492,551,000
bUBhels while our average was only
198,777,600 bushels. The disparity of
rye production is still more startling;
Russia’s average for the live year
period waft 935,124,000 bushels and
ours was only 39,424,400 bushels. The
Russians eat more rye bread than
bread made of wheat.
‘‘The grand total for the five years
1911-15 both inclusive for the crops of
wheat, oats, barley and rye was as fol
lows:
Russia—16,285,500,000 bushels.
U. S.—11,322,230,000 bushels.
Average of Russia for five years—
3,247,100,000 bushels.
Average of United States for five
years—2,264,446,000 bushels.
“It will be seen from these figures
that Russia notwithstanding her popu
lation of ISO million people can-furnish
enough surplus to feed all of the re
mainder of Europe. These figures
show only the capacity of Russia for
growing those grains which sustain
European life—Europe has not yet
learned to eat corn bread.
“I shall not tire your readers on this
occasion to mention other immeasur
able resources of Russia except to say
that that country has boundless for
ests of timber, enormous deposits of
coal, copper and lead, to say nothing
of her deposits of the precious ores,
gold silver and platinum.
German Influence in Russia
“Germany has not only been study
ing the immense resources of Russia
for a half century but during the past
several decades has given careful at
tention to the Russian character going
so far as to place German teachers in
Russian schools. As I said in my tes
timony before the Overman committee
of the senate and on various other oc
casions, if Germany had deferred the
war a decade or five years even, she
would have had such a strong foothold
in Russia that it would have been im
possibleto dislodge her. I have also
expressed the view many times that It
would be difficult if possible to estab
lish peace in Europe with chaos pre
vailing in Russia or even with Bol
shevik rule dominating Russia. It is
also my conviction if a stable govern
ment is not established in Russia that
Germany will utilize the resources of
that country, organize its man-power
as Germany knows so well how to do
and become as powerful and as great a
menace to the people of Europe at the
end of one or two decades as she was
at the beginning of the world war.
Lloyd George said to one of his col
leagues at the Paris conference ‘any
peace which we negotiate here with
Russia left out' would be a travesty
for Russia, comprises half of the dry
land pf Europe and half of Asia also’
—and he might have added over one
seventh of the dry land of the earth.
"Relations between our country and
Russia have always been of the most
friendly character and were not in
terrupted by our abrogating the com
mercial treaty with that country as we
did in 1912. When I went to Russia
as ambassador early In 1916, one year
before we entered the war, my first
or main object was to negotiate a new
commercial treaty. I broached the
subject to Sazanoff, minister of foreign
affairs, under the empire at our first
interview, and was greatly disappoint
ed when he said to me that ‘Russia
would make no more treaties until her
commercial relations with her allies
were defined and determined.’
"That conference was April 29,1916;
the treaty with Japan which was then
being negotiated was consummated
within two months; that treaty was
signed by Motono, the Japanese am
bassador, who was also at that time
dean of the diplomatic corps and Saz
anoff, the Russian minister of foreign
affairs. The secret provisions of the
treaty were not divulged until the Bol
shevik! came into power late in 1917
and published all of the secret treaties.
That treaty was hailed with such de
light in Japan that Motono was re
called and made minister of foreign
affairs and vlscomte and there were
numerous banquets and bonfires
throughout Japan to celebrate the
treaty. It was not received with such
acclamation in Russia. Sazanoff who
had been minister of foreign affairs
since 1910 was succeeded by Sturmer
and the people attributed Sazanoff’s
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