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NOME, ALASKA SATUBAItY AI’IIIL t!», l!>tf).
IE vvs may accept, as true the most,
recent report from Paris a genera! j
agreement with respect to an Allied!
policy in Russia is be ng reached.
French and British statesmen have
ahondoned the plan for sending info;
Russia ar. army of American, English
or French soldiers large enough to!
overthrow the Soviet Republic. The
opposition which additional military:
intervention incurred both from thej
American government and from
French and British labor r adored
it undos.raid-' to press tbiS drastic
method of restoring order in Russia.
An altciriiati.e plan M apparently
being worked out, which se< Us ihe
same purpose by slower but not less
olhc: ion: means. The Soviet Re
public i- to he isolated, surrounded
by a cordon of hostile states and
starved into submission.
The execution of this plan is al
ready well under way. Allied armies
have ccciinied all the worts the,wo*1
'which Russians can communicate with
oilier nations. Archangel. Koia and
Vladivostok are already held in force.
Pr 'itch marines have recently landed
)i. Odessa, and preparations are being
nude to support them with a larger
Ficnch force. Finland after having
accepted Gorman domination Is io
is forgiven and to l>a organized into
an anti-Soviet Republic. Poland and
Imsinufiiia. w II bar any direct com
munication between German and cen
tra • Russia. All these enclosing ter
ritories in K Aland, Poland, the
I'kvalne and Siberia will lie used as
baas for anti-Soviet miiitarv and
other operation:'. de
prived of contact r outside
wo'id and of food supplies from Si
ll rin and the Ukraine, helpless ii-|
seif to r .'.fire the material ciu p-j
ment needed for industry and agri-j
culture and beset by ! inn-.. Cossacks, |
Siberians, emigre Russians, Czechs
ah;' the various Allied forces will be I
unable to sustain a prolonged res'st
ance. Either live Soviets will be
forced to surrender and to accept any
terms proposed by their enemies, or j
the. Russian people, desperate
■front famine and distress will them
selves put an end to the p J.metu
regime. In that ce the emigres
would return supported by the white
guards which would In the mean
time be organized in the Ukraine,
Finland and Siberia; and they could
set up in Russia a government back
ed by a military force sufficient lo
suppress any local resistance or any
future tendency to “disorder.”
The plan certainly offers an excel
lent promise of success. The Bolshe
vism would be unable to oppose it
except by the same means with which
tthey tried to oppose the German
army--that is , propaganda. But in
this case, as in the case of the Ger
man army, opposition by propaganda
would lie impotent unless their own
•efforts were supplemented by less im
ponderable assistance from other
sources. Gan such assistance be ob
tained? American statesmanship anil
■British and French labor have prob-j
nil.ly barred the way to the dispatch
iof additional Allied troops to Rus
sia. Will they be willing to connive!
at. this alternative method of destroy
ing the Soviet Republic and substi-|
tuting for it a “law and order govern
ment?’
The Now Republic cannot believe
that American statesmanship and
British and French liberalism will
consent. The plan of starving the
Soviets out is in many respects morel
ruthless, inhuman ami dangerous to
'he future of civilization than the
plan of direct Allied military inter
\ent>on. A sufficient Allied army of
o<' upation, repugnant as it would
ha to tlie instinct of democratic
people.;, would at i;:;st do a quick
and thorough job and prevent un
necessary bloodshed. If it were un
der American central it would not
fetor any one among the anti-Soviet
factions; and il would try to see that
;h • elections in a constituent assem
bly v. T1 fair. But the alternative
dan unless the resistance quickly
collapses would starve and drive
'totally ;!'■ -.i.irato millions of people. I
.r would reduce contra! Russia to a
tunrin desert which could not fori
•'••v.er * recover social vitality. |
'i'll:: oliiy government winen
nuu: ..f.: in such a wilderness would!
a t'.IUtsry dictator:'nip which like
that ,-:f the Romanoffs would insist
on vuiu:: donable obedience. Its
own behavior and standing would bp j
mvb that it could not afford to permit I
any crii.csm. to tolerate aiy consti
tutional opposition, or to seek any
oasis of .popular consent except fear, i
Democratic governments would, I
one would think, aim above all to I
safeguard Russia and the world
agamot so disastrous a reaction from j
the itn-.-'an revolution, yet officials
it iv.ris. London and even in Wash-!
ington, ccniemplate its happening!
■dtli apparent complacency. Their
"hole rfieri is io define the issm bo
■wo n ths Soviet Republic and its!
‘■.links as an issm- between order and ;
■ nat, iiy, and n ibis iwiy to sanction
1 1 udvanco ;:r.y amount of autocratici
utlu-rity and any employment of
nllltarj coercion as necessary to or
der. They are perfectly willinj; to co
operate with Russian emigre chiefs,
such as Admiral Kolchak and Gen-'
t‘l Dot: <Une, who are frank mon
archist reactionaries, and their pres- i
• !■ i iU< r;. . ;
■ ii pia.c.ug Russia and the Russians:
it the mercy of such people for an
'■'definite period. Hence it is that I
i.cri.v Russian liberals,such as Kor-|
■ l:y. who formerly favored inter-1
on now oppose it, because they!
■ 'u~ the policy and the purposes
of ths Allied governments in Russia. |
i icnee it i.i also that many Social Rev- j
iutionai'ics, such as Gorky, who are
IO. lie to Hie Bolsheviks have recently
'allied to their support. They fear
i iVh.ak and Deidkine nioqe than j
hey do Lenlne. Asked to choose be-1
‘ween the revolution even with Boi
■hevism and a monarchist reaction,
ihey are for Bolshevism.
it is a vicious and a fatal policy
for the governments of democracies
to erect Bolshevism into a protex* for
supporting reactionary Russian mon.
archisin. if there is any one consum
mation which would be most likely toj
undo the work which the Allied vie-!
tory has acompliohed for the .libera
tion of the peoples of central Europe,]
it would be the restoration of aj
bureaucratic military government.
Such a government, both because of
I he huge mass of the Russian people
end the large army which it would i
seed to coerce the Russian people,
ivould soon become a danger to the
security of its neighbors, and this i
nsceurity would compel them to sac- 1
■ifice their autonomy and to draw,to- £
{ether into some kind of effective i
Military combination. The forces cf
ittraction and repulsion which re- i
iulted in the formation of the German -
Vustrian and Russian empires would
igain dominate central Europe. They i
would in one way or another i^o- .
luce a group of competing and %us- .
licious states which would resume
Me old business of oppressing nilnr- .
ties, conscripting peoples and sub
ordinating popular wblfare to the in
exorable demands of military organ
ization and policy. The old empires ;
were not accidents. They were born
>f the retarded national development
and the mor acute condition of inter- .
national disorder which prevailed in
that region during the several cen
turies when modern Europe was be
ing formed. If their destruction is to
be final, the economic and social de
velopment of these peoples must be
accelerated- by the prevention or at
least the discouragement of central
European disorder and insecurity. A
military dictatorship in Russia would
perpetuate this condition of nterna
:ionai unrest. Any physical “order”
which it was strong enough to im
pose on the Russian nation would be
the outward and visible sign not of a
social order hut of sheer moral vio
lence.
The policy of the western democ
racies in Russia should ’above every
:Mng else seek to avoid a military
dictatorship and the renewal of a
highly centralized irresponsible ad
ministration. Russia is so huge and
lie Russian people are so profilic
that (heir neighbors will never be
>:;.fe and Europe will never settle
down as long as they are organized in
1 way which permits military and po
Utical aggression. It .s hard to un
derstand the blindness of French and
British statesmanship in this matter.
Every since the Russian revolution
they have labored unceasingly to re
establish a “.strong” government in
Russia—meaning thereby a govern
ment which exercised complete con
trol of the resources and energies of
the Russian people, just as the Amer
ce.:; government during the war ex
ercised complete control over Ameri
can resources and energy. Such a
government has not proved to be
physically possible; and they should
have known enough of conditions in
Russia to understand its impossibility.
But if it were possible, its immediate
military advantages to an anti-Ger
i! i ' mil ion would ;ib
outweighed by its grave political dis
advantages. A “strong” Russian
•rovernment would erect an impass
able barrier to any political organ!
‘-("m t*r central 1-Jv.iupe, GXCept Oile
U; term inert by a preponderance or a
balance of military forcers. It would
.-.fan inevitably the perpetuation or
the revival it: some form of German
and A east loan imperialism and under
I no new conditions the encourage
ment of a Rolish imperialism.
French and British statesmen have
■on, their best to destroy the most
rUuory aspect of the Russian revo- j
:atipnary democracy—.is fear of an;
authoritative centralized goveruiuen !
end its ptvfrence for a loose politico !
or anization. Xupoleon predicted[
tan: Europe would become republican
or Fostsai U. Europe was saved dur- j
n the nineteen:It century from be
coming Cossack by the corruption!
and ine.Tu icncy of the Tsarist i i. -
raaucracy. it is now becoming re-1
publican, but we have to 'hank God
for this result rather than ihe polii-'
■i.ai leader.-.:.'ip f tile v,u stern demor
ra-.ies. They ha vo tried to keep Rus-!
Cossack and to prevent it from
C.' Mining republican. They could
newt* dismiss from their minds the
analogy of ;ho French Revolution
■ hkh resulted in the formation of a
•• .,;;srous national democracy whose
‘rength. although impaired by ;n
temal disputes, was nourished on the
dogma of national indivisibility But
a Russian national democracy after
the centralized French example might
he more -dangerous to the peace of
Europe than a Romanoff empire. Eu_
rope could tolerate a vigorous (level-;
upmont of French nationalism be- ,
cause, the French were not numerous'
enough to over-run Europe. But any'
-•Bnliar development of Russian na
tionalism. no matter whether it was
or was not estensibly democratic,
would imperil the independence ofj
ill European peoples who could belj
reached and overwhelmed by a really!
national Russian army.
In seeking to form a loose federal!
republic, in spite of the opposition of;
ill flie western democratic govern- I
ments, the Russians were acting on a 1
wise conception of their own inter- '
?sts and of the common interests of i
ill peoples. Instead or accepting f
from the old regime a centralized 1
luroaucracy as did the French re- i
niblicans, and thereby surrendering <
hemselves to an instrument which i
hey could not control, the Russians S
itarted by destroying the Tsarist bu- t
■eaucracy and by substituting for it i
ts most complete possible political o
ipposite. They went back to the d
ocal and trade assembly in which i
,11 sound working democracy origi
ng li t*~• ri'cr;ii - r r 11* c ".ncils
’heir poor success up to date in keep
ng these assemblies democratic is
lot surprising. Surrounded as they
vere by enemies who had no sympa
hy with their aims and who never
onsulted Russian popular interests
ir needs, handicapped as their gov
■rnment was by the destruction of
hew.iaterial and social equipment of
Russia, they could not he expected
0 succeed. Vet they are groping in
1 direction which may well lead them
o a source of political light at once
or themselves, for Europe and the
uture of popular government. They
sre attempting to constitute political
tnd social units which will provide a
raining ground for democratic, cit
zenship and which will be too tough
tncl too deeply rooted to permit
hem.selves to be overgrown by a
>ureaucratic centralization. They
•calize what they have suffered and
ost from an official, administrative
•aste which exploited and/cultivated
jopuiar political ignorance and in
difference. They fear a centralized
lemocracy just as we Americans did
,vhen our democracy was young,
rhey have the more reason to fear
t, because their bureaucracy has
jeen corrupt, ignoble and oppressive,
rhey are struggling blindly and wila
y but still justifiably for some method
if escape.
Instead of having their escape
tarred they deserve all the assistance
from the western democracies which
me people can render to another,
rhe dominant object of French, Brit
ish and American policy towards Rus
-,ia should be to assist the Russians
in founding a government which,
whatever else it may he, is at least
in experiment in constitutional de
mocracy. The Soviet Republic has in
it the possibilites of such a demo
cratic experiment. The present con
trol of the Soviet by the Bolshevists
end the capture of the Soviet Republic
by a pljofitairian dictatorship is
traceabie to fugitive causes derived
from the war and the revolution. It
does not imply a necessary association
between Soviet government and Bol
shevism any more than the capture
of the French convention by the
.facobine involved a necessary assoc
ations between a constituent assembly
and a government by terror. The
•.vestera democracies should seek to
untie the a.=soch;^'on between the
Soviets and Bolshevism rather than
lo tie the knot closer. They need in
Run: ’a precisely the loon, inoffensive
i loo well organized democracy,
preoccupied with its own internal
nrnbh?mB, which a .S(R pub. C. 1:
■o far as it was successful, would
probably become. Vet they are do
ing their Best, to include the Soviet
democracy in the condemnation which
they are justified in fastening on a
proletarian dictatorship. They are
forcing on Russia as the only alterna
tive to anarchy and fore gn interven
tion the detester and discredited yoke
of a . ey.'.ralived military bureaucrat v.
The ccnuection between the Soviet
Republic and ihe proletarian dictator
ship w ill never be broken by coercion.
H can only be broken by striking at
tho:;e economic and social evils which
have enabled ihe Bolshevists to cap
ture the Soviets. Bolshevism like
French Jacobinism was able to usurp
political power because the pouiar
mind was possessed by hunger, fear,
•lHuielon and despair. Its power is
ing ptrpto uat; d by the apparent I
ntion of the governments of ai;
>tiier peoples to intensify ibis hunger.
T r, suspicion and despair. Tile <ier
i an plan of isolating Russia and
-.prying the central Russians s now
being imitated by the Allies. They
?.re* s -irving the Russians in order
0 place in power emigre monarch ;sts
o-ch as Koik and Denikine. This
policy must be reversed mile- the
western democratic governments pro
ms; to involve democracy in Russia
n the same ruin as the poletarian
lictatorsh p. Let them begin by as
suring Russians* that they will not
o-eperate with a reactionary dicta
orship any more than they will with
1 revolutionary dictatorship and that
hey will not connive at ihe substitu
iijii of a black or a white terror for
he red terror. Let them prove their
merest in the welfare of the Russian
leople by sending into Soviet Russia
he indispensable economic assist
mce wrich could be done without pre
udice by using the powerful and in
I pendent agency of the Russian cn
qx raiive sock lies. While this assisst
nce was being rendered, let them put
he Soviets on probation. Let them
nake future recognition of the So
iet Republic depend first upon a clear
emonstratinn of its future ability to
overn with the consent of the pre
onderant element in Russian public
pinion, and upon its renunciation of
rganized revolutionary propaganda
a other countries. In this waV the
ovlets with their democratic pos
illties might be separated from the
roletarian dictatorship and started
n a career of orderly constitutional
evelopment. Such a policy would
icur the danger of all such plans of
breaking down in practice, but it ■
would have incontestable advantages I
over the plan which the Allied gov- i
ernments are now putting into execu
tion. It would strike at the cause 1
of Bolshevism rather than the syinp- <
toms. It would alleviate rather than <
increase the sufferings of the Russian i
people. It would if, successful, tend ]
to promote self-government and pop
ular education in Russia rather than
popular ignorance, irresponsibly,
stagnation and oppression.—The New
Republic.
I
NEW
WUli SEN If ROOD
PARIS, April 17—-It has been offi
cially announced that the Allied
War Council has agreed to send food
to Russia to relieve the situation
which is becoming very critical, pro
viding the Bolsheviks cease all hos
tilities.
According to the announcement
food will be forwarded as soon as the
Russian Soviet accepts the conditions
imposed upon them by the Allies.
The distribution of all supplies will
he supervised by a commission whose
members are natives of neutral coun
tries and will be headed by FrulLot'
Nansen the famous Norwegian cx !
plorer.
Whether the Bolshevik government;
I will accept this offer with its’ attend-1
| in;.; stipulation is a subject of con
siderable speculation here.
i
Ql'OTKK PRESIDENT
PARIS, April 17—The ‘‘Petit
! Parisien” quotes President Wilson as
. saying that, it would be the sorrow of
| his life if the great peace we are mak
ing should be jeopardized by any dif
ficulty between the l'. S. and France.
SERBS BOATS
WASHINGTON, April 17—Chair-!
j man Hurley of the Emergency Fleet :
: Corporation began the sale of the'
Heat of wooden ships built under gov-1
! eminent auspices today.
Mr Hurley disposed of fifteen wood- 1
■ en vessels to a New York Shipping;
I firm at an average price of one hun
dred and forty five dollars per ton.
This is considered by shipbuilders
to be for less than the cost of con- j
struction.
HEN!? MOKK TROOPS
BERLIN. April 17—The ‘‘Berlin
Tagoblatt" announces that Bavarian
j loyal troops are advancing upon
Munich from two directions, to assist
ilte troops battling against the radi
cals in the latter city.
; Severe fighting is expected to oc
cur when the loyal troqps who are
■veil equipped with artillery and bomb
hrowers, come in contact with the :
idical forces.
BERNE. Switzerland. April 17—
German dispatches state that the gov-1
eminent troops which are being .cm! ■
■a Munich to restore order number!
full-' 27,000 men while the radicals:
. us ter at most 10,000.
I! is expected here that the radi
cals outnumbered as they are will be
unable to prevail against the large j
force of loyal troops and thai they!
will be forced to relinquish the con
trol of Munich.
BLANCO KILLED
MEXICO CITY. April 17---Tt'iiasj
been officially announced that Gea-1
•ral Blanco, revolutionary leader was!
killed in a battle between government
to ops and rebels at Tlaxcala.
General Blanco who was Minister
of War in the cabinet of Pro; len; j
.vuerta left New York several v.votcs
ago io launch a revolution against j
the Carrarf.za government, lie suc
ceeded in gathering a considerable i
cnee, which after Blanco's death was
easily dispersed by tho Carranza
forces.
LEFT FOR BREMERTON
SEATTELE, April 17—Senator I
Poindexter left this morning t'orj
Bremerton, where he will deliver an
address on the League of Nations.
WORKING IN STYLE
SEATTLE, April 17—The investi
gation of the illicit liquor traffic now ]
ebing conducted here by Federal offi
cials has unearthed some astonishing
facts. j
The Federal officials claim that five
big syndicates, working independent- (
ly have been engaged in the liquor |
business in this city. They were t
equipped with fleet motor cars, which (
were usud to bring the liquor into ,
town and to distribute it among their .
agents, who were doing a very lucra
tive business until the heads of the i
syndicates were arrested by the Fed
eral authorities.
SEATTLE, April 17—Ex policeman 2
Ed Hagen who was arrested for illicit 1
vhiskey peddling was released on
:5000 bonds, but immediately after
wards rearrested under a new charge.
The Federal authoities claim that
le is credited with a thirty thousand
lollar bank account which he has ac
umulated during the past four
nonths by his activities in whiskey
leddling.
GOES 15V AIR ROUTE
BREMERTON, April 17—Senator
3oindexter completed the flight from
he Lake Union hangar in Seattle to
his city, alighting at the Navy Yard,
n twenty minutes.
Senator Poindexter stated on land
ng her? that it was the most beau
iful experience he ever had and that
re would like to fly to Alaska.
The Senator will leave here by the
lir route for Everett Saturday after
loon.
He established a unique record In
leing the first Senator to visit his
■onstituents by airplane.
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Keep Posted, Rend the WORK Eli.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court of Koyuk Pre
cinct, Second Division, Territory ot
Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of ERIt.
JACKSON, deceased..
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed
Administrator of the estate of Eric
Jackson, deceased: Notice is further
given that all persons .having claims
against the estate of said deceased,
are required to present them, with
proper vouchers, within six months
from the date of this notice, to tho
undersigned Administrator, at his of
five at Dime Landing, Koyuk River,
in said Precinct. Territory of Alaska
Dated. March 22. 1919.
JOHN LAMONTAGNE
Administrator of the estate cf Eric
Jackson, deceased.
Pub.—liar.22, 29. Apr. 5, 12. 19.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Felix Brown, your heirs, legal
representatives, or assigns:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended in labor and improvements
during each of the years of 1906 1907,
1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913,
1914, 1915 and 1916 the sum of on
hundred dollars ($100) on Placer
claim No. 1 above on Newton Gulch
No. 1 a tributary to Dry Creek in tho
Cape Nome Record ng Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 105 page
379 of the records of said Recording
Precinct. Said labor and improve
ments having been done on said claim
for the purpose ot holding same under
tho provisions of Section 2”2i Revised
Statutes of the United States.
You tire hereby required to con
tribute your proportion of said ex
penditure, as co-owner to the under
signed within ninety days from the
final publication of this noeo or your
interest in said mining «!•>ini will be
forfeited and become Uv property of
the undeisigned, your co-owner, as
provided by sai ! section of the Re
vised Statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska. February
15, 1919.
AUGUST IIOMR.V RGEli
Co-owner.
Published— I’, b. 22. Mar. 1, S, 12.
22, 29. Anr. 12, 19. 26. May. 3, 10
17, 24, 1919.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Joseph Kramer, Herman Piper,
John Brennan Max Anger, C. N.
lfrown and I). M. Brogan, your heirs,
legal representatives, or assigns:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that 1 have expended in labor
and tnpio . ements during each of tho
wears of 1906, 1907, 1 90S. 1909, 1919,
1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, and
1916 the sum of one hundred tWllars
($100) on the St Anthony Associa
tion Placer Mining Claim, situated
in the left ynilt of Newton Gulch No.
1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
fa pc Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
vhich is recorded in volume ill page
i08 of the records of said Recording
Precinct.. Said labor and improve
nents having been done on said claim
tor the purpose of holding same under
he provisions of Section 2324 Revised
Statutes of the United State;-.
You and each of you are hereby
eqaired to contribute your propci
iou of said expenditure as co-owner
o the undersigned within ninety
lays from the final publication of
his notice or your interest n said
lining claim will be forfeited and be
ome the property of the under* gned.
our co-owner, as provided by said
uction of the Revised Statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, February
5, 1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGER
Co-owner.
ublished— Feb. IS. 22. Mar 1, 8, 15,
2, 29. Apr. 5, 12, 19, 26. May. 3. 10,
7, 1919.