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TIIK KKVOMTION.
It has quite evidently taken time
for those of tor* tendency in every
country to realize that the Russian
revolution was actually conducten
and is now controlled by revolution
ists.
That it has had its origin in a pa
< ifiieist move is not correct for the
soldiers and workmen's council in
its manifesto to the army has shown
that it is not necessarily committed
to peace.
They began by declaring that “we
speak to you in the name of the
revolutionary democracy of Russia".
They distinctly asserted that the war
was begun by the imperialists and
the capitalists. Hut they called
upon the soldiers to remember that
the soldiers of the emperors of Aus
tria and of Germany were committ
ing the destruction of revolutionary
Russia.
They pointed out that Ger
many had a revolutionary
army and until they had the frater
nizings with those devoted to the de
fense of an imperial throne and ot
capitalism was out of the question.
The simple fact is that the revo
lution has got beyond the moderates
of the Duma who would establish a
condition of industrial absolutism
for the political absolutism of the
Tzar. The natural class instinct ot
the masses has asserted itself and
the revolution is conducted by radi
cal revolutionists who mean busi
ness.
We have no doubt that it is fer
vently hoped in the powerful inter
ests of this country and in England
and in France that the Russian re
volt will become a means of estab
lishing a staid capitalist republic
wherein the immense aggregations
of capital could acquire all kinds ot
privilege and all kinds of wealtn
through the exploitation of the
country and its resources.
That this will be more difficult
than is realized is due to the fact
that rebellion. Open or disguised
has been carried on in Russia fot
over a century. Hardly a great Rus
sian writer but has at one time
come under the influence of the re
publican movement in Russia and
the socialist movement as well as
the rest has been of the most radical
and far-reaching of all in Europe.
The result of that agitation has
been that it has permeated everj
walk in life and although education
has been stricly limited, it passed
from person to person In a direct
if illiterate way that was none the
loss earnest because of its illiteracy.
It is difficult to see how therefore
the Russian people will appreciate
the visit of a Root. Some time ago
Root acquired in Russian circles con
siderable notoriety when there was
a determined effort made to send
two Russian revolutionists back to
the land of the Tzar to suffer death
for political crimes and they were
to bo denied here the right ot
asylum that vas not even refused
such as they were in Great Britain.
It will be somewhat hard to satis
fy the Russian revolutionists that
the United States is wholly
a -free and^ democratic coun
try. Russian criticism ot
the United States postal laws have
been intensely bitter and this has
been made mu ii of by German agi
tation during the present crisis.
It is not generally known that
some of the radical Russian publi
cations in the United States seldom
advocated anything favorable to the
Tzar, just as several Irish publica
tions seldom boosted along the plory
of the British empire. In order
that offense might not be given the
bureaucracy in Russia the depart
ment required one labor publication
to submit a translation of its ar
ticles from the Russian into English
before any issue containing such
could pass thtough the mails.
Considerable disgust was mani
fested at this ruling in Russian pa
per9 and if is therefore quite fami
[ liar with the Russian revolutionists.
Hence it would be a mistake to ima
gine that they are not to some de
gree as familiar with men and
tilings in this country as in their
own and that they understand that
Hoot has been always connected
with reaction and privilege and tory
ism in the i'nitcd States.
It is highly improbable however
that there will be effected any alli
ance or a peace with the Central
Powers upon the part of Russia as
long as the Kaiser stands there.
That is made quite clear by the re
volutionist manifesto to the soldiers.
They know that this war began with
the imperialists and capitalists and
they know right well that the very
first thing that junkerism and prob
ably capitalism would endeavor to
do if triumphant in Germany’s tri
| umph would be to return the old
I system of imperialistic bureaucracy
| to its throne in Russia.
| Indications are however mani
I testing themselves that the Ger
I mans themselves are slowly becom
ing revolutionary anti have no mind
to be sacrificed much further in the
interests of the Kaiser or the capi
talists. A letter from*a socialist in
Zurich makes this clear enough
after a visit to Or. Liebknecht who
was doing hard labor for treason.
The Russian revolution has made
it clear to the German masses, that
a time Is coming when it will be the
easiest way of ending the war by
making common cause with the
Russian revo'utionists and establish
ing an industrial democracy in
Germany.
That such a condition would be
as displeasirg to the capitalists ot
France, Kngland and the United
States is without doubt quite likely.
But that the masses of the people
would support a war against a Ger
man republic is literally unthink
able. There has been no spelt en
thusiasm f >r the present war that
it would warrant the belief that it
is strong enough to carry the mas
i ses beyond all bairiers and make
them attempt to justity the destruc
tion of a people who have taken
the government into their own
hands.
As we see it .this war begun by
capitalists is to end in a workmen’s
revolt. The Russian proletariat has
shown the way. The middle classes
began it with objections to imperial
autocracy and they were engulfed
in the revolution as soon as real re
volutionists asserted themselves.
The German socialist Adolphus
Fureer. writing from Switzerland
says: We do not expect a sudden
overthrow of our monarchy. For a
time for weeks, perhaps for months
we will proceed slowly. Cooler
people have prevailed. Germany is
not Russia. The Russian people
have been trained in rebellion. We
are not. We are only two years old.
A little schooling and then we will
come up to the measurement”.
This is the same Fureer who now
cannot return to Germany but who
let out the ominous fact that the
great number of soldiers stationed
upon the Swiss borders are those j
who will not fight. That at Aachen
four trainloads of soldiers were
brought back from the front in Bel
gium where they had mutinied and ,
large numbers of whom were shot.
The beginning of the new inter
national is tinting the sky witn red
in German and Austria as well as in
Russia. That it will extend to all
countries before normal conditions
return seems certain. It begins to
look as monarchists and imperialists
had bitten off considerably more
than they can chew.
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(I'nlted Press Staff Correspondent)
LONDON, April 29, (By Mail-.—
"Kultur”. That, so Jan Jansen de
clared, is what Finland hopes to win
from this war.
But Jansen, let it be added hastily
was talking in Finnish and he didn't
mean the thing which German Kul
tur has come to mean to everybody
except the Germans. The boss of the
Russian branch bank, in which Jan
sen is a clerk, and the bank’s Eng
lish interpreter explained what it
meant.
Finland wants Finnish school
houses—with Finland’s flag floating
above them—fjlled with Finnish
children learning ther own language,
literature and history. The Finnish
people want the right to pursue
their own way unmolested. They are
ready to believe that the war not
only will give them the right, but
that, through the Russian revolution ;
it has already done so.
Full freedom from Russian rule I
is not expected: but self-govern
ment in all affairs that solely con
cern Finland is part of the people's
demand. They wish to manage their
business affairs, to continue the de
velopment of their country, their
road and harbor building, for the
benefit of themselves. Above all they
i want their nationality preserved.
Any American city or community
that has its Finnish colony will
understand aP this for in every such
community the center of the people’s
I life is Finnish Hall, an institution
devoted to culture rather than hi
larity. Finnish Halls keep the native
language alive as far as possible,
even in America. It is easy to un
derstand the implacable attitude ot
the Finns at home toward Russian
efforts to stamp out their mother
tongue.
Finland's complaint against Rus
sia, now happily dissolving, was only
a dozen years old, said Mr. Jansen.
It dated from that extra-reaction
ary regime which following, and ap
parently regretting, the Czar's con
cessions to the people in 1905,
sought to upset all the benefits
granted Finland. Since that time,
Jansen declared, Russian governors
sent to govern Finland have devoted
themselves largely to the difficult
task of stamping out the identity
of the Finns as separate people.
“Von f?eyn concentrated on the
job of making Russian mopjiks out
of the Finns.” he said.
“The Finns are a peaceful, pa
tient people. It is hard to see what
the old regime feared from them.
Possibly It wSs simply a way of ex
torting more money, thrity million
marks has been taken annually in
taxes for the Imperial government
in recent years, part of this being
spent in the maintenance of Russian
officials and troops in Finland.”
Finland, if all goes well with the
war from this time forth, stands to
gain a great deal at comparatively j
small sacrifice. It will have its au
tonomy assured without ever having
put a soldier in the field.
But the Finns have felt bitter,
nevertheless. The men have not been
slaugthered, the women and child
ren have not been brutally mistreat
ed. Only their language, their lite
rature and their cherished institu
tions have been put to the sword.
The Finns accepting such suppres
sion outwardly probably would have
continued secretly their loyalty to
their own for many generations to
come, had not the revolution inter
vened to make secrecy unnecessary.
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