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NOME, ALASKA TUESDAY, AUGUST, 27, 1018.
THE RUSSIAN1 QUESTION'
!ii! answer, it were, to the dec
laration by this paper, that the Rus
sian question was so involved, and
the news and views so conflicting,
that the result was the average man
■was confused and confounded, comes
now a Mr Raskin whose communica
tion is published on another page,
to make the whole situation clear—
as mud.
Mr Raskin cites two instances of
Bolsheviki atrocity, namely the order
denying permission to advertisers to
patronize any but Bolshevist news
papers or to engage any nut Bolshe
vist lawyers, and while we have
known similar acts done nearer home
Uy organized capital, we do not ques
tion their shocking barbarity and
outrageous infamy.
The impressive list of names in op
position to the Soviets may well give
the average man a shudder and long
ing for the good old days of the Holy
H nod and the charm of the now de
funct pogroms. Surely we ought to
venerate Pleckhanoff, the man who
m pre-revolutionary days, even made
><:• socialism an attraction in the
salons of the noblesse, of Chernoft
t- rmse ability as a blind leader of the
Wind no one can question, of Prince
"Kropotkin who delighted the London
ilrawing rooms with his propaganda of
anarchism, while weaker minds sup
plied the stimulus and firmer bands
held the stilettos that put the vicious
propaganda into practice, Burtzeff
i hose opposition to the Romanoffs
did not prevent him acquiring some
what of a competence or Maxim
Gorky whoso authority as a master
of sexual promiscuity was regarded
as the privilege of genius but when
America objected to his Phryne, he
In return plastered the reputation of
the United States with handfuls of
his own mud.
On the tother hand we may quote
a move recent authority on the Rus
sian situation: Professor Lomonosoff,
head of the Kerensky railway com
mission to this country. He published
a statement in the New York Times,
in answer to the latter’s propaganda
of intervention and warning that it
was playing right into the hands of
Germany. Indeed we may say much
of the subtle anti-Soviet propoganda
in America, we are convinced, is in
spired primarily by the stealthy pro
Germanism, that has for its purpose
the utter alienation of Russia and
Russians from the Allied cause, and
that is one of the reasons that we
any well suspect and fear it for its
consequences.
Non for the Professor (New York
Times statement).
‘ Among the Russian intellectuals
has. been created a strong Germano
phile movement. The softer and the
more characterless part of the Rus
s',an intellectual class, fighting for
its own schemes, prefers the Prus
sian autocracy to those uncultural
forms into which the Russian revolu
tion with its deeply democratic ideals
has drifted.
“Revolution, according to its own
nature, is a ‘barbarous form of pro
press.’ Revolutions never have been
made in evening dress. A revolu
tion always smells of sweat, blood,
and iron. That which is taking place
in Russia now is not worse than that
which took place in the times ot
Cromwell in England or in the times
i\1 the Jacquerie and Robespierre in
France.
‘If I am to choose between a per
■.v'i;:tton of the Russian bourgeois
.inf! intellectuals and the horrors of
anew foreign Invasion from the east,”
says the professor, “I prefer the form
er,
“1 have actually been answered
that there will be no horrors, that
the Allies will invade Russia as
friends of the Russian people in or
tier to save it from the, Bolsheviki.
First, the Russian people, the real
people of Russia, has not asked you
to do this thing. You have been asked
to do this only by the immigrants of
the new type who have fled the hor
rors to America. Secondly, the Bol
sheviki are strong only in as much
as they do the will of the people, and
the results of this which especially
are horrifying to us must be laid at
the door not of the Bolsheviki, but
of serfdom, or absolutism, and of
hunger. The serfdom and the absolu
tism fell, and they fell without foreign
help. If you really want now to help
Russia, you may help her not in a
struggle against the present govern
ment, but in a struggle against hun
ger and,the economic disintegration
in general.
“I AM NOT A BOLSHEVIKI”
“I am not a Bolsheviki. Neverthe
less, I prefer the present govern
ment to* the government of Nicholas
i II., and although I believe that the
political 'ideas of the Bolsheviki are
absolutely unattainable at the mo
ment, I realize that humanity irre
sistibly is driving in their direction
and not in the direction of the ideals
of German and Russan feudalists. 1
therefore have confidence that this
democratic country, which, in the
name of the principle of non-inter
ference, did recognize the Russian
autocracy, will now continue to re
fuse. as it has in the past, directly
or indirectly, to participate in the de
struction of Russia’s present gov
ernment.”
The Worker will not attempt to
affect an intimate or correct know
ledge of conditions in Russia, but we
think that the Professor is just as
reliable an authority as Mr Raskin.
The Worker is not going to quote a
single radical authority on the So
viets. but contents itself with cita
tions from those who cannot be con
sidered in sympathy with them. Mr
•Ransome, the New York Times cor
respondent, cabled in May from Mos
cow to the effect that “The nation
alization of certain undertakings have
been so far successfully worked out,
that the local Soviet government is
ready to nationalize others and is only
awaiting instructions from the Cen
tral government. Forty-five thous
and hands are actually employed on
the construction of the southern Si
berian " railroad.It is pro
posed to establish a number of steel
foundries and engineering works for
which are needed chemists and spec
ialists of all kinds and also labor of
which there is a marked shortage.
It is also intended to establish
polytechnics and to widen the activi
ties of the already existing t'oinsk
Technological Institute.”
That was on May 16, yet to under
stand the herculean task which the
Soviets had undertaken one must
realize that one month before, Guk
ovsky in reporting to the Central
Executive Committee of the Work
men's and Soldiers Delegates on the
financial condition of the country
said that the semi-yearly expenses
would reach forty billion roubles
while the income for that time was
not three billion, three hundred mil
lion roubles. No other sources of
revenue were in sight nor were loans,
of course obtainable. He added that
“a third of the national income was
from Vodka which was now abolish
ed”. He urged “a better administra
tion scheme, greater co-operation and
the reduction of expenses by decreas
ing the number of officers, officials
and highly paid clerks.' He insisted
upon securing the co-operation of in
dustrial and financial specialists
without whom the efficient organiza
tion of State machinery was impossi
ble.”
Ariadne Tyrkova, a Russian writer
of repute, in a recent article herself
blames not the Soviets with whom
she is very far from being fa sym-|
pathy, but the intellectuals to which j
she herself belongs. “It must be ac-j
knowledged” she says, “that in this
case as in many others the Russian!
intelligentsia dealt inefficiently with
the problem but also proved a poor
leader.” And Professor Harper
quotes from a Russian woman who
was “twenty years an intellectual
revolutionist” who says on March 18,
everyone in Petrograd, “except thei
Bolsheviki, were ready to welcome
the Germans as saviors.” This same
lady says that the tyranny of the
Romanoffs was perferable to the rule
of the workmen and soldiers dele-|
gates.
It is strange that no one who'
.charges the Bolshevist leaders with I
being bot with German money ever !
mentions the Ukraine, or attempts j
to explain how the identical local in
terests which are fighting the Red
Guard in Finland and the Bolshevist
revolutionists in Great Russia, are
also welcoming the German forces
with open arms in the Ukranie, and ]
are responsible for that bastard gov-j
eminent at Kiev, conceived in the
womb of Prussianism and still nursed
by its lupine mother on the heavy
milk of blood and bayonets.
Frankly to our thinking the Bolshe
vist government has set itself an im
possible task. It is endeavoring to
establish a socialist organization of
their society with only communist
materal to hand ,and there is an es
tablished nationalism which itself is
a sure sign of weakness. Neverthe
less, we must believe with Professor
Lomonosoff. It is true that they are
tending in the direction that all pro- i
gress is tending.
How subtle is the propaganda
against a government by the workers,
we need not cite any authorities to
show, yet on the authority of the
London Nation, a liberal paper, “we
may rest assured that the Bolsheviki
are indisputably the most anti-Ger
man of the Russian parties, even if
they are not pro-Allv.”
The responsibility for the Brest
Litovsk peace certainly is the great
crime to be laid to the door of the
Bolsheviklst government. But what
element made possible that fiasco?
The withdrawal from the Russian
State of the Ukraine, when the
Ukranian noblesse, industrial and fi
nancial overlords and landlords, uni
ted to make a separate treaty with
Prussianism, and practically smashed
the power of Russia to meet on an
equal footing its remorseless foe.
Surely Germany can never be for
given. least of all can the majority
socialists of Germany be forgiven, the
rape of Russia: and that the Bolshe
vikist trusted in the latter to secure
a peace without annexations and with
| out. indemnities, is fruitful enough
warning that there can be no peace:
wttH junkerism until junkerism is
clutched by the throat and its gasping
breath and lolling tongue evidence its
dissolution.
Germany stands for reaction, body
and soul it is committed to an in
human tryanny and it is significant
of the collapse of the Red Guard in
Finland that one of the first formal
acts of the Germanized Diet at Hel
singfors was to expel the jews and
admit their existence only on suf
france, the days of the gaberdine to
be returned so that they could be
easily marked men.
NEWS NOTES
A1 Winkler arrived from Dime
creek on Sunday and is again return
ing down the coast today.
Mrs Dave Kristan and Mrs Seiden
verg with their families, who have
been camping down near Hastings
returned to Nome after an enjoyable
outing.
Bob Jahnke is suffering from a
slight touch of plurisy contracted
while down at Solomon.
Income Tax Inspector Hill has been
looking up those liable for the tax
who failed to file returns. He even
paid this office a visit, but the staff
while appreciating the compliment
had not the pleasure of reaching the
prescribed figure.
William E. Hubbard upon motion
made by Ira D. Orton in the District
Court was admitted t,o the Nome Bar
yesterday by Judge Holzheimer, the
usual formalities having been com
plied with. Mr Hubbard hails from
San Francisco.
FRESH FINNAN IIA DIES AT
LEHMANN’S
The official count of the primaries
for the delegateship as returned
from Juneau are as follows:
Democratic:
Sulzer.3,450
Maloney.1430
Republican
Wicekrsham.1G46
The Valdez had not been heard of
before noon today, altho the steamer
is expected sometime today. It is
stated that when leaving Seattle the
wireless of this boat was not work
ing very satisfactorily and it is with
in the bounds of possibility that the
boat may be here before this paper is
in the hands of the reader.
Charles Goetzeberg .the Dime cfeek
magnate, was delayed here by busi
ness after the Nokatak sailed, and
was obliged to postpone his depar
ture on that account.
PA 111 AI >V ERTISEM ENTS
WASHINGTON STATE
FEDERATION OF LABOR
EXECUTIVE AXD LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
EVERETTE, WASH. Sept, 9tli, 1916.
To Trade Unionists of Alaska,
Greeting.
Ordinarily we would not think of making any sugges
tions to you concerning political candidacies in your Territory
but in the present situation we feel justified in doing so. Tho
interests of labor in the entire northwestern group of states
and particularly Washington, is closely allied with the interest
of labor in Alaska. We have watched with growing concern
the efforts of large corporate aggregations to tighten their
hold upon the wealth of your country and have watched the
splendid fight waged in Congress by your Delegate Mr Wick
ersham.
It is because we believe Mr Wickersham is fighting In
Congress against the exploitation of labor and. the great nat
ural wealth of Alaska by powerful private interests, that wo
are taking the liebrty of urging our fellow unionists in Alaska
to rally to his support in his campaign for re-election.
Knowing that you will accept this communication in the
spirit in which it is written and assuring you the continued co
operation and good will of your fellow trade unionists, we beg
leave to remain,
Fraternally Yours,
E. P. MARSH
President Washington State Federation of Labor.
CHAS, R. CASE
Chairman Legislative Committee, Seattle Central Labor Council.
J. G BROWN
President International Shingle Weavers’ Union of America.
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