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NOME, ALASKA THURSDAY, MAY, 16,1918. .
ABOUT TOE RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI”
(Continued from last Saturday)
Muliukoff and f’riuc.e Lvoff ig
nored these demands. It had been
the intention of the Workers and
Soldiers to let these gentlemen run
the Government, only making sure
that a Socialist, Kerensky, had
charge of the Department of Jus
tice, so that their political pris
oners would be freed and their life
and liberty secured. But Miliukoft
and Lvoff soon demonstrated that
they had nothing in common with
this voice of the masses, so the
Council forced them to resign and
placed the Socialist at the helm.
Upon Kerensky, then, there fell
a problem which would tax the re
sources of a superman. Russia's
worst enemy seemed to bn German
militarism; there must be no com
promise with that. The United j
States had just entered the. war "to j
make the world safe for democracy.”
That itself help* d to stiffen up the
Russian ranks. But how about the
other countries? Was it certain
that they did not have imperialistic
or capitalistic (resigns? So the now
Government, acting upon the man
date of the Council, appealed to all
the Allies to restate their war aims—
to come to a general agreement as to
the acceptable terms of peace.
The Diplomate of the Allies denied
their request. The United Stales
then sent a "fraternal” commission
to Russia. We sent Elihu Root.
Failing to get any statement ol
war aims from the diplomats, the
Council called for an international
Socialist conference in Stockholm.
The Socialists of the world agreed.
The Allied Governments desented.
The Government which sent Root to
Russia was first to deny passports
to the elected Cocialist Delegates.
WHKRK KERENSKY FAILED
The Stockholm Coni' pence was
said to be a German tr ek. In j
Russia they don't believe that, and j
they don't believe that the capital
ists of England and America believe
it. They thing, rightly or wrongly,1
that international capitalism op-,
posed such a conference, not for
tear it would be a fizzle, but for
fear it would be a success . They
don’t want the Socialists to have
tin prestige of bringing about peace,
was the Russian conclusion. Such
prestige might lead to social revolu
tion in other countries, including
Germany, and they would rather
have the kaiser keep his throne
than to have him lose it to the
Socialists
Suspicion of the aims of the Al
lied Government grew apace. And
the democratic countries upon whom
the Russian revolutionists had bank
ed the most were always the first
to oppose their revolutionary moves.
Kerensky still strained with the
Allied diplomats, but no doubt
was expressed as to his aims. He
vas a tried Socialist, a tried revo
lutionist . If he had an ambition
t.o be dictator, it was for no per
sonal aggrandisement. Thus lie
seemed to retain the support of
the workers and soldiers, while dis
tinctly not carrying out their pro
gram.
Tho Russian troops had b eri
fraternizing with the Germans, try
ing to stir up across the border.
Kerensky put a stop to that and
personally Id the first offensive.
Just what reward did he receive?
Th Korniloif counter-revolution.
Korniloff, who stood for capital
punishment, tin "return of the hated
discipline In the Russian army and
'the abolition of the Soldiers' com
mittee. And the very day this
counter-revolution was launched it
was hailed by the press in England
and America as the solution of
the Russian problem. Bolsheviks
and Mensheviks united to put down
that revolution. But with each new
development which 1 have recount
ed, the ranks of the Bolsheviks
grew and the ranks of the Kerensky
followers dwindled. Kerensky had
worked like a superman to keep
up the war until such a time as
New Russia could come to complete
agreement with her allies . In the j
struggle, however, he had not only
alienated most of the Russian rank
and file, hut he had proved to
radical for the Western diplomats
to fasten to.
Kerensky’s despairing interview,
given out a few days before the
Bolsliviki uprising, tells the story.
It was a charge that the Allies
had failed Russia and that Russia I
could do r.o more.
< Ol .M il, REPRESENTING THE '
WHORE NATION
Now as to that Bolshevik! upris
ing, what was it? Was it acase of
sudden conversion of the masses to
the economic theories of D-nine? It
was neither.
From the time that Kerensky as
sum,! d command, the Council of
Wjorkcrs’ and Soldiers’ Deputies
was the real governing body of
Russia. Kerensky ruled by permis
sion of the Council. From that
body alone he had his real creden
tials. The Constituent Assembly
had not yet been elected and the
organization of the Workers and
Soldiers was the nation’s only rep
resentative voice. The Russian peo
ple wanted peace. They had not
entered the war as America did by
representative deliberation; but they
did not want a separate peace.
They wanted a general peace and
they wanted Russia to take the
iniative in bringing it about. So
far, however, the Russian Govern
ment had accomplish’d nothing to
this end, and tho representative of
the Council of Workers’ and Sol
diers’ Deputies who was sent to
Franc > to participate in the Allied
conference was not permitted to
take his seat.
St’PPOSED KERENSKY WOl’l,lJ
RESIGN
So Leer, l’rotsky introduced a
resolution in tho Petrograd Coun
cil urging upon the Government to
take immediate, aggroseive action in
bringing about a general peace.
This resolution was d feated in
the Evecutive Committee of tho
Cjuncil. Trotsky carried it to tho |
v, hole Council, comprising 2,000 |
members. There it carried, and 'ho >
Executive Committee, compc cd of
Kerensky’s main backers, automati
cally r -signed. By c’.ue process of
election, a new committee favoring
L» nine's and Trotsky's attitude to
ward peace was installed.
It was assumed throughout Rus
sia that this action carried with it
the downfall of the Kerensky Gov
ernment. This Council was thi
recognized voice of the mass of
the Russian people, and it was ex
pected to exercise the powers it
did exs.reise until the Constituent
Assembly was duly installed. Ker
ensky who had persistently post
poned thi- calling of the Constituent
Assembly, had never questioned the
power of the Council. But he did
not resign and so another Provision
al Government was installed.
There was o war and comparatively
little disorder.
It does not seem possible to me
that extended civil war can result
from such a situation. As far as the
Socialist factions led by Lenlne and
Kerensky are concerned, it Is a
battle of ideas and not a conflict of
interests, while the parties who do
represent interests in oppositor. to
the working class are to small num
erically to wage successful war.
The only fighting opposition so
far has not come from the demo
cratic groups. It lias come from the
Cossacks, whoso heritaagc it fcas al
ways been to keep down revolutions.
If we look at Russia as a mob
of 180.000.000 people at the mercy
day by day of the particular bad
man who makes the biggest noise,
we can only arrive at confusion
and espair. But If we conceive
of this as not merely a political
revolution, but as one hitting at
the very structure of modern eco
nomic and socal Ufo and paving
the way to an entirely new order,
the events take their place, in most
logical sequence.
SEPARATE PEACE NOT THE AIM
The Czar interposed his stupid
tyranny and they deposed the Czar.
The progressive capitalists sought
to set up a limited monarchy in his
place, and they overthrew the Gov
ernment which made tlio attempt.
They put a man of their own in
powier with quite definite instruc
tions as to what he should do. He
failed to do it and they deposed
him. New they have given the
same instructions to another group
of representatives, and to all ap
pearances those instructions are be
ing carried out.
But the will of the Russian people
is not and never has been to make
a separate peace. They have want
ed a general peace, and have held
the belief that a temporary armis
tice would make it possible. They
do not believe tile German people
want to fight the Kaiser’s war, any
more than they wished to fight for
the Czr.r. And even while their
representatives are in conference
with the German envoys, th>y are
bombarding Germany by air with
appeals to rise against tlie Kaiser.
They htppe sincerely that the
Gormans will do this, and it must
bo remembered they know more
about what is going on in Germany
than any other nation on earth.
All we are permitted to got here
is the occasional dispatch tolling of
mutiny in the German Navy, or
some overwhelming Socialist election
liko that in Leipzig, whore the In
dependent Socialists, the Liebk
aecht group, polled 04 per cent of
the 78 per cent S >cialist Vote s. But
the Russians have been ge* ing
first-hand information. They have
fraternized for months witht he
German troops, and they believe
that the German people are ripe
for revolution.
One thing is certain. The Rus
sian people represented by the
Council of Workers’ and Soldiers’
Deputies, do not want a German
peace. They said so to Millukoff.
Thoy arid so to Kerensky. They
h<\ve said so to Lenin©. Trotsky
has given his- message to the world
and was only voicing the consistent
ly stated will of the Russian peo
ple when he announced that, if
the German Government stands in
the way of a democratic peace, as
promulgated by the Revolutionary
Democracy of Russia, the Russian
people will prosecute the war against
the Imperial German Government
as it prosecuted the revolution.
ANOTHER BOOST FOR RUSSIA
Can you imagine, my follow-coun
trymen, a more inspiring thing than
j to live in a country and move
among men every one of whom has
the right and the opportunity to3ay
v. hat he thinks?-President Wood
row Wilson in Milwaukee.
OFFER A COMPROMISE
If the capitalist legislators will
completely abolish the law of grav- j
itation, the I. W. W. will thereupon
suspend the class conflict between
employers and wage slaves.
A SQUARE DEAL
The current issue of “Sunset”
runs an article attempting to prove
that “a square deal will benefit
both labor and capital.” Sure!
Deep down in our hearts we have
always believed that it w'ould do
the bosses good to go to work.
DOMESTIC CRITICISM
His Wife—How forgetful you
are, John! Everything I say to
you seem to go in one ear and out
at the other.
Her Husband—Yes, and every
thing you hear goes in at both
cars and out at your mouth.
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BOND with a 25c meal.
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dough Hotcakes, Ham and Eggs,
Warm and Cold Lunches, and Fresh
Ice-cream Daily, made ofFresh Dairy
Cream at
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ELITE
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OPEN DAY AND
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Steam Baths in town
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PHONE, BLACK 171.
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Milling, Lumber, Contractor
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