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(.KIM HIMOl U.
There’s just a ray of a smile in
the Russian revolution which might
be overlooked very easily.
That is the difficulties in which
♦ he reactionary interests of this as
well as other countries have in
making a pleasant face when swal
lowing the really revolutionary fact
of that Russian revolution.
The revolution was not such a
simple affair as at first believed and
that it is still going some has been
clearly enough evidenced.
Moreover, it is a terrible blow to
realize that the flag chosen to carry
through that revolution was above
ail others: the red flag!
Quite a few of the most candid
01 tlie reactionary papers have de
livered themselves of a candid opin
ion, not at all favorable to the Slavs i
and their flag, and it has been al- |
most a painful duty to praise flu:
democracy of a revolution which j
had actuall;- to take the symbol oil
human brotherhood as its standard,
upon the part of other journals not
quite so candid.
All instinctively feel, and trv
hard to conceal, that there crumbled
much more than the throne of tic
Tzar in that revolution. All endea
vor to conceal their real feelings
under carefully worded hopes that
lht> will be moderate and that the
revolution will stop with the work
half done.
Russia is above all an attractive
country to the plunderbund. Its
wealth boundless, its resources unli
mited and it awaits apparently only
the advent of "capital" to develop
billions as freely as billions have
been developed in this country.
It is therefore most awkard at
this juncture that the people would
allow themselves to be misled by j
foolish theorists who have a j
quaint notion that the best tiling
for the people to do is to develop
the country for themselves by them
selves with themselves. If s not in
the game. Or it has not been the
rules of the game as heretofore
played.
So it is that this red flag business
is all wrong; it upsets alt arrange
ments. Why, just a short time
before the revolution. the Wall
Street Journal, that organ ol the
inner circle of privilege, was urging
the monied men not to be alarmed
about the Russian loans. It argued
that an, autocratic country must be
regarded hv American bankers us
the safest of all countries for In
vestment. The exact words were:
“There are four systems of possible
governments in the world and they
progress in the following order:
namely an autocratic government, a
limited monarchy, a republic and
lastly a socialistic government. The
scale represents the proressive as
sertion of the will of the people.
There are three evolutions the
Russian government will have to go
through before it reaches this stage
of socialistic government from
which the autocratic government to
day is a long way removed. it
there is a change in Russia it will
be to a limited monarchy as in Eng-,
land, where a true state ot repre
sentative govronment exists and
order and property rights prevail.
That is why 1 consider our loans to
Russia the safest of any we are
making.”
rile banker-writer was thinking
about evolution when considering
the safety of "our” loans to Russia.
Apparently the possibility of "revo
lution" did not take his mind’s at
tention for a fleeting minute, and
hence that Russia could ever reach
the final stage in the “progressive
assertion of the will of the people"
seemed to him utterly impossible.
So there has been some amusing
concern over the state or affairs in
Russia. Surely that concern was
manifested wholly for Russia. It is
wonderful how all the reactionary
'■interests” have been unselfishly
thinking of the well being of tie
Slavs when they cautioned prudence
ind general conservatism.
Moreover that the revolution is a
-oal revolution in Russia is dawning
ike a shock on the predatory inter
•sts that have been not slow to te
•ognize the value of a "Russian au
•racy". as above outlined in the “de
mocratic" Wall Street Journal And
Lhere is lots of material coming out
}f that country which makes many
jf the privileged interests in this
land sit up and take notice.
Among the Everett prisoners who
were released following the acquit
tal of Thomas Tracy when the
Snohomish county officials treated
the I'nited States constitutional
guarantees of free speech and free ;
asembly as scraps of paper was one :
Nick Conaief. He was a Russian j
and fi" returned to his native land i
<s soon as !>•• got his liberty. He j
write lack new and tells all about
it. It is dated .May 4 and it reads j
as inti resting matter and matte! •
that is or ought to be instructive
these days by all wise enough to
take in ed lie thus describes his
recept ion:
“We were, lirst of all. invited to
the palace of the rormer governor,
which is now occupied by the Com
mittee of Public Safety. Here the
committee met us en bloc and the
chairman delivered a speech in
which ho invited us to take our old
places in the fighting ranks of labor
to continue the tight for real econo
mic liberty. All committees are
composed of workers representing
different organizations. We were
invited to make our homes, tempora
rily, in the “Ochrana” building,
which has been heretofore the head
quarters of the Russian political
police and the scene of much suffer
ing and many tears of the fighters
for freedom. And now the whole
happy bunch of us is here, eating
and drinking, finding out more
about how everything happened
and discussing the future problems
of the tight tor freedom in which
each of us will be able to do his
share.
"We arrived here on May 3rd and
learned ttiat since May day all
labor in Russia has ceased to pro
duce profits for the parasites. Every
where there were parades with
hundreds of thousands of workers
participating in every part of Rus
sia. Most every branch of industry
is organized and what is not is in
process of organization. And these
organizations are nearly industrial
in form; I say “nearly” because
they are not divided by crafts, but
follow roughly the industrial form.
They are class organizations any
how, though with some defects due
to lack of experience and the fact
that workers here have been denied
the right to organize openly for so
long.
“Even the army is organized, and
organized on democratic lines. Of
| fleers are "technical workers" in
command of this organization and
responsible to it. 1 witnessed, while
visiting the Soldiers’ Council, how
generals were compelled to report
to that body. The soldier is as
great as the general. They are co
workers. Provisional .governors ex
ist nominally with the power rest
ing with tlie Council of Workers
and Soldiers.”
It is not likely that those who
have taking a lead against radical
ism in this country are going to get
much consolation from Russia. Not
any privileged class is going to pro
fit by Russia to a great extent.
No doubt the Wall Street Journal
spoke the truth when it described
the forms of government which
were “progressive assertions of the
people’s will”.
The people are going to have a
whole lot more to say than they
ever had before . There is to be
more response to their demands:
they will actually wipe away the
j Tzars of finance and industry and
I political states one with another in
■that country of Russia—that land
>f idealism, ' mystery and earnest
ness of purpose.
The question is can the movement
be confined to Russia. Just now
their agonized efforts to caution
moderation, betrays the belief in
many other nations that it cannot.
The movement that caused that
upheaval ih Petrograd apparently ■
left every throne in danger. The
Kaiser suddenly will develop a pro
found interest in his “dear social- !
ists’. The red flag will become an
estimable standard—and people will !
begin to see that “there is lots ot !
good iu socialism”.
JOHN BULL’S STOMACH
HAS TRYING ORDEAL
LONDON, June 23.—By the enct j
of this month it will be possible to
:ay whether the British stomach has
i sense of humor.
Said stomach has been on proba
tion now for several weeks. Juiy
1 the answer will be known. If it
is affirmatve John Bull may eon
lintie to live on voluntary rations.
Otherwise, compulsory rations and
food tickets. '
The honor system is the idea of
Lord Davenport, some times called
by owners of impatient tummies,
'the glorified grocer.” The cam
paign of honor is on in full blast.
There never was any idea that the
national stomach should fight out
its battle alone and unaided. It is
supported by billboards, by pamph
lets, by dodgers and newspaper re
minders. Kennedy Jones, the adver
tising genius behind the big and
successful "Win the War Loan”
campaign, is sitting at Lord Devon
port's right hand.
Jones has bombarded the nation's
conscience with such phrases as “If
we eat more than our share we eat
somebody else’s share." “Save the
bread and the bread will save you.”
The honor system Is applied to
the family only. The food controller
issues orders—which are law—for !
hotels and restaurants.
MESSAGE CONGRATULATION
SCARED FLY DULLS
LONDON, June 23.—Borah plots,
up-risings and betrayal of the Em
pire, Hashed throuhg the mind of
the London postmaster When he re
reived a message addressed to “Prit
J- Weinidog, Llundain” and com
posed mainly of mixed consonants.
“Ha-ha. Secret rode. Maybe an
other scheme to blow up the house
of Parliament. Call Scotland yard .
Code specialists, wagged tin ir
whiskers and applied the theory of j
one-in-four without result. Just J
then a Welsh detective happened in. |
“Oh, sure; that's alright,” he |
said ‘Prif Weinidog, ‘means Prime j
Minister and ‘Llundain’ means Lon- !
don. That’s just a message of con
gratulations to Premier Lloyd
George from the Mayor of Pwllheli.
Wales".
SLAYER ADMITS KILLED
RUTH KRUGER, GOTHAM
BOLOGNA. Italy, June 114.— I
Alfredo C’oochi, the king cl the j
macques. who was arrested in Rome j
charged with murder, today to the i
police in whose custody he was .
placed while being extradited, con- j
fessed to the murder of Ruth j
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