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Exchange s fair:.' well indicate
that sinc e the return of Mr. Root
ami Mr. Russell from Russia they
have no reason to believe tiiat they
should hail the result of that mis
sion as an unqualified success.
Moreover recent events, even mak
ing allovvanc • for such censorship
as obtains, more or less justify what
is rather a pessimistic optimism at
its best as far as that mission is
concerned.
Indeed tlie attitude of all Amer
ican papers show clearly' that be
wildermc nt is < veiled by the hap
penings in Russia and tin extent i
■:,mi tile swi :■ I. tin- gTear. r vclu- i
7ion that lias taken platjiey do;
in;1 unc’.erstand in tin- least.
Russia is m entirely new vision
of society and frankly those who
have obtained ideas as to present
day things from every clay histories
will never understand it.
There i> almost something l athe
tic in tin- expressed hopes that out
of the ferment of revolutionary
Russia will come a “leader", a new
Napoleon, a Man on Horseback,
who wlil lead liis people again in
iv>e aii.ric . of war ami triumphant
law and order, at any price. It is
jistonishing tlie hopes in this direc
tion tint! ring like moths around
:i candle, that rose in the brenMs of
American writers centering around
Kerensky. And the applause that
re., ii many papers when the re
port said that he was to institute a
roign of blood and iron and discip
lini apparently struck many writ
ors in this land of democracy as
just about right.
But suppose we approach Bos
nia from the point of view of the
materialist conception of history,
from the standpoint of economic
determinism, is it not possible that
if that theory has been found
sound in interpreting other phases
of human history, we may also get
a clear grasp of things as they arc
occurring in Russia.
The Old Russia is dead. Tha.
old Russia was built upon the
bureaucracy, a v ry complex orga
nization establish'd ■ >'•' . rohy
jo keep the rest su'od : . for their
benefit. I'nder their economic su
premacy the religion, the laws and
the moral system that prevailed,
from Siberian exiles to pogroms,
all partook of the class interest ot
the oligarchy.
Kven the most enthusiastic pro
ally will not believe that any other
consideration than the interest of
the ruling class in Russia supported
I)ie small nation of Servia against
Austria. So the war broke out ami
lie greater honor and glory and
power and wealth of the bureau
cracy was to he attained thereby.
Ksucn Dally that this might be so.
the victory of the Tzar's forces must
he assured and failing such a vic
tory seeming possible, there would
be no continuance of the war.
With defeat there arose a strong
nationalistic sentiment in Russia,
as apart from the bureaucratic na
tional sentiment of loyalty and al
legiance to the controlling powers.
This was the begining of the dis
integration. Moreover the old stand
ing army had been killed off. That
was the main support of the Tzar
and the bureaucracy.- The new
array was made up of workers,
scholars, professional men, all
sort and conditions of men with ra
flicalism predominating. There was
irrowlng up a kinship between the
soldiers and the workers that had
not beer, approached in any other
country. Thus was the disintegra
tion well prepared. In the mean
time to save themselves advisers of
the bureaucracy bethought them of
peace, and this was the beginning
of the end for they tints countered
the growing sense of Russian na
tionality.
The workers went on strike in
Petrograu The police, still loyal,
went to riii them down and the>
were cut down in turn. The revo
lution unn about through the
working classes and although it had
been not wholly unpleasant to the
Milukoft's and the like, it essenti
ally placed the workers in power.
They simply tolerated a make
shilt government. For themselves
they form i the real government.
The theory put forward by Ger
mans and upon which they have
been actinv that the revolution was
brought :u it by workers who were
sick of t:. war because it was vat
is not 1 correct. It was di
rected tin Bureaucrat' and
tie- Bun r.i > was the most will
ing c
>r peace. It was in
spired i ndastrial condition - amt
tlie desit. to build the new socict..
be-ause tin old was rotten ripe.
The itn inn indifference to the
war is certainly to be admitted.
They have little or no time to think
of it. Acute observers report that
Russian workers now practically
control the industries. They dictate
terms u: working and wages and
seldom or never leave anything foi
the employers in the way of divi
uemts. 1 in*\ niivt* uiuiiKuraieu
wa«:v*si 'll1' varying from two bund*
red to a thousand per cent higher
than before -.mi tome owners of
plants although they are still ope
rating admit that they do not get
a rouble from them.
This has to be sure greatly inter
fered with efficiency, rt lias great
ly interfered with business ideals
as well as it has interfered with
tire matter ot prosecuting the war,
and it is because the interests of the
working classes are not so evid
ently inextricably united with the
successful prosecution ot the war
as were the interest of the bureau
crats.
in other words the working class
have attained supremacy iu Rus
sia and those things that obtain
their attention first of all are work
ing class interests.
Against the logic of events, then
it wa difficult to see how even the
unquestioned ability ot Root, could
make serious headway. Alaehiavelli
himself would be lost in the bewild
ering new conditions which are set
before liirr.. His people are not
their people, nor are their ways has
ways. They act in a different man
ner. animated with ideals totally
unknown as would be the new civi
lization of a Terra Xova.
Anv nerson who has taken the
trouble to observe conditions in the
United States may have easily ,
grasped the fact that one condition
of things obtains as a general ideal.
This ideal has pervaded human
thought, the public press, the lite
rature and the public mind for
many decades.
This ideal is that here is a land
of opportunity. Capital arrives in
generous quantities making the
place hum with industrial activity.
Big payrolls are the order of the
day. The corner grocer becomes
the merchant prince. The master
of the mosquito fleet, becomes the
steamship magnate. Steady work,
good wages, active operations in
all directions, fine buildings being
erected everywhere, new residences
and real estate deals of dimensions
the order of the day. Great monies
made in buying and selling and
never such a chance for wealth.
Banks springing up in opulent ri
valry. new railroads, great boule
vards, and an immensity of men
working and toiling and moiling
and newspapers leaping as lo circu
lation with giant bounds expound
ing. lauding and boosting the suc
cess and the opportunities still ex
isting.
That is the story written over
many a wide area of the United
States. In itself it is an epic.
Flashing through it are industrial
Achilles, and Hectors with ittelr
waving plumes, and Ulysses crafty
and shrewd, and Agamemnons and
Trojan Dames and Helens adding
to the romance of things
* That’s the world of capitalism.
Many colored, possibly a little vul
gar, intensely self concentrated and
I certainly understanding only itself,
i it has its own ideals, its own sy
| stem of morality, its own system of
etiouettes, its own conventions and
its own unforgiving laws which
wdll tolerate no disobedience. It
has its own hypocrisies and it loves
to hide its cruelties, tyrannies and
indencencies. It sets its slums
away back from the residence sec
tion of its cities, it keeps the push
cart off its boulevards it encloses its
tenements ard it stuffs its ears
against the claims of labor.
Now we know very well that
into such a world Mr. Hoot would
go the most expert of modern
j statesman. He would be irresist
| ible for lie would possess the same
• ideals, understand the same rang;
; of thoughts, meet the same matters
! of fact, and uphold the identical
onventions oi such a community.
Quite clearly those idea's would
| be ideals of development along tin
iin • • ot personal enrichment, pro
, fits, exploitation of raw material
abor, natural resources for the per
sonal benefit of property owners
as distinct from the indirect general
i benefit might accrue even therein
to the collective well being.
The interests of such a society
are identical in all respects with
i the interests of property and au
thority in the main is devoted to
the upholding of those propertj
rights.
Now that sort of a society is
astonishingly general throughout
the world. It is the only one hu
man society lias up to this known.
And with a knowledge of this
form of society. it is very easy,
even for the stranger io venturi
into a strange laud and measurt
up the standards by that know
ledge that is his.
It is a condition of society that
I does not exist in Russia with any
: degree of security. What there it
of it is sporadic and uncertain. It
is coming into contact with another
Russia, a revolutionary Russia
■ where profit and property and
l wealth building ideals are no long
er in power. That the remains of
it still exist, disconnected, uncer
j tain of its position, hazardous, and
! changeful is quite true, but the
j uppermost force just now is ur.
i ill'1 of things founded first of all
upon working class interests which
do net respect private property in
things necessary to human liveli
hood. iicl which in itself is opposed
ou* and out to exploitation.
The Xew Russia is endeavoring
to give expression to the ideals of
j proletarian supremacy and as yet it
is no; quite sure*, withal the efforts
to prove it. that this war is in its
interest or not. About this war
propertied Germany, propertied
England, propertied France has r.o
BOARD OF TRADE
Restaurant
and
lunch mm
George Modini,
_Proprietor
doubts. 'About this war New Rus
sia has all kinds of doubts, and be
cause we insist upon looking at
New Russia as we looked at old
Russia we fail to understand it.
Without understanding there can
be no sympathy, and there is little
sympathy and less patience mani
fested with Russia by the Amer
ican press. They simply do not
realize what is happering and they
will r.ot turn to the radical | apers
where there is both sympathy and
understanding and very fervent
bore strongly and generally mani
I
tested.
RUSSIAN WATCH MAKERS
PKTROGRAD, July 23, (By Mail)
—The watch repairers of Petro
grad have won a strike that is re
cord breaking in its demands
Every watch repairer who re
ceived 200 roubles a month has
been raised to 300. Those who
received over 200 have had an in
i reuse of 30 per cent. These in
creases are retroactive and go back
to Jan. 1. 1917. Every watch re
pairer in Petrograd, therefore, has
received, in cold cash recently, at
least tiuu rouuies.
E\ery watch repairer from Hence
forth, will receive a months vaca
tion on full pay. Every year his
annual wages will he increased the
| size of a month's pay When he Is
| sick he will receive full wages fo:
three months. If he is called to
war he will receive a month’s
wages and also a bonus of on •
month's wages for each year he
' has worked with the firm.
gf the jeweler who employs him
decides to go out of business he
must pay each watch maker a
year's wages.
The workmen will have a hoard
through which they '.ill make all
contracts with their employers, in i
workman who is elected to tliis
board will receive full wages from
iiis employer, without being called
upon to do any work
The last clause is that, in •casc
of strike, the employers must pay
the full wages of the strikers for
; at least six weeks. Beyond that
tine the workmen can strike wilh
j out pay.
Hit; DISBI.AV OF DRESSES.
\V<‘ will display and offer for
sale our entire line of Dresses.
!’rices reduced so as to cover cost
only. Sale begins at 10 o'clock
today Tuesday, Inst ill" tiiree day's
or until the arrival of Umatilla.
Everything reduced. Display and
sale moved to Freeding Store, foot
of Steadman Avenue.
.N'OMK (JKOCEKY < <).
A. K. OKSTHKICH. Mgs.
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