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RUSSIAN MAXIMALIST
“COUP” EXPLAINED!
FAILURE AK ALLIES TO RESTATE WAR AIMS LEADS TO RUS
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17TH, 1917 1NSSUE OK THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE
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(Concluded.)
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“I'ubll.sli Treaties, Says Lenin.
“Let I’eople Not Diplomats
Make Peace.”
Nicholas Lenin, the outstanding
leader of the Bolsheviki, or Max
imalists, is being assisted by Leon
Trotzky and Madam Alexandra
Kollart&y. both of whom were i:.
this country. "We roust take prac
tical measures immediately to ef
fect the promises giver, by the Bol
sheviki Party, the question of peace
is a burning one today; therefore,
the first act of the new Govern
ment which is to be formed is to
offer to all nations a democratic
pcr.ce, based on no annexations and
no indemnity. Such a peace is to
be concluded not by diplomacy, but
by the representatives of the peo
ple."
Lenin explained that by annex
ation he meant the forcible seis
ure of any territory in the past or
present without consent of the peo
ple. He asserted that all secret
ire. ties meant to benefit the bour
geoise mu3t oe published and void
ed to benefit all.
The proclamation of the Milita
ry Revolutionary Committee pub
lished at Petrograd read as follows:
"To the Army Commitees of the
Active Army and to all the Council
of Workmen's and Soldiers' Dele
gates and to the Garrison and Pro
litariat:
"We have deposed the Govern
ment of Kerensky, which failed to
carry out the mandates of the re
volution and the people. The
change which hrs resulted in the
deposition of the Provisional Gov
ernment was accomplished without
bloodshed.
“The Petrograd Council of
Workmen’s and Soldiers' Dele
gates solemnly welcomes the ac
complished charge and proclaimes
the authority ol the Military Re
volutionary Committee until the
creation ol' a Government by the
Workmen's and Soldiers' Dele
gates.
"Announcing this to the army at
the front, the Revolutionary Com
mittee calls upon the revolutionary
soldiers to watch closely the con
duct of the men in command. Of
ficers who do not join the accomp
lished revolution Immediately and
openly must be arrested at once as
enemies.
The Petimgrad Council of Work
men’s and ^Soldiers’ Delegates con
siders this to be the Program of
the r.ew authority:
"First—The offer of an imme
diate democratic peace.
''Second—The immediate hand
ing over of large proprletarial
lands to the peasants.
"Third-—The transmission of all
authorty to the Council of Work
men's and Soldiers’ Delegates.
"Forth—-The honest convocation
of a Constitutional Assemlby.
"The national revolutionary ar
my muRt not permit uncertain mili
tary detachments to leave the front
for Petrograd. They should use
persuasion, but where this fails
they must oppose anv such action
on the part of these detachments
.by force without mercy.
“The actual order must bo read
immediately to all military detach
ments in ail arms. The suppression
of this order from the rank ant1
file by army organizations is equiv
alcnt to a great crime against the
revolution and will be punished by
all the strength of the evolution
ary law.
"Soldiers! for peace, for bread,
for land, a'id for the power of the
people
“The Military Revolution Com
mittee."
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At the close of a sitting a de
claration was read from the tepre
ser.tatives of the Democratic Mini
malist Party of the Workmen’s and
Soldiers' Delegates, stating that
l he party disapproved of the coup
d’etat and withdrew from the Coun'
oil of Workmen's and Soldiers’ De
legates.
Later it was announced that the
split in the Council had been heal
ed and that a call had been sent
out for delegates from each 25,000
of the population to express the
will of the Russian Army. Follow
ing is the text ol this document:
'“To All Army Corps and Divi
sional Committees:
' Today there is a reunion of the
Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates
The army committees are ordered
to send delegates for expressing
the will of the army. We suggest
to you to send delegates immedi
ately from your midst. To refuse
to take part in deciding the de
stiny of the revolution is a sin
which history will not pardon.
Fleet a delegate from each 25,000
and send them to the reunion.”
"The Petnograd Woiknien’s aiul
Soldiers' Delegates.”
Subsequently the General Con
gress of Workmen's and Soldiers’
Delegates of all Russia convened
with 260 out ot 560 delegates in
attt udance. The .chairman declared 1
that the time was not propitious
for political speeches, and the or
der of business of the congress ap
proved was as follows:
Firgt—Organization of power.
Second—Peace and war.
Third—A Constituent Assembly
The officers elected comprise
fourteen Maximalists' including
Lenin and M Zinovielt', an associ
ate of Lenin, and Leon Tretzuy. In
addition seven revolutionary Soci
alists were appointed.
The Deatii Penalty re-establishe l
by Premier Kerensky has bee
abolished and complete freed..in for
political propaganda has been
established at the front. All revo
lutionary soldiers and officers who
have been arrested for complicity
in so-called political crimes are
to be set at liberty immediately.
“The Government considers a
peace to be democratic, and equit
! able, which is aspired to by a ma
jority of the working class of all
the belligerant countries worn cut
and ruined try the war. Tire peace
which the Russian workmen called
for on the fall of the monarchy. I*
should bo immediate peace, with
out annexation (that is to say,
without ususpation of foreign ter
ritory and without violent con
quest of nationalities), and with
out indemnities.
"The Russian Government pro
poses to all bellig'orants to make
ibis peace immediately, declaring
themselves ready without delay to
carry out alt tho conditions of this,
peace through plenipotentiaries of
all countries and nations.”
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UNCLE SaM AND
BROTHER JONATHAN.
BROTHER JONATHAN—Y«*u So
cialists are all wrong!
UNCLE SAM—Inasmuch as to
which?
B. J.—Why. don't you sec, you
want to-rob the capitalists of their
factories and the machinery. That's
wrong. That’s just as wrong as
for tlicrr. to want to rob the work
ers of too much of what they pro
duce. You’ll never do anything
that way. The workingmen will
haie to get together with the cap
italists and form an agreement by
which they will each get a fair
share. ^
U. S.—Your position is that a.
man wno has property, provided
he get it honestly, ought to be al
lowed to keep it
B. J.—Exactly.
U. S.—Ueg.-rdless of how he
uses it?
B. J.—Yes. If he uses it wrongly
let him be compelled by law to use
It right, but let him keep it.
U. S.—All right. Here we go,
cavalry and artillery, right through
your position.
B. J.—braces himself.
U. S.—Jeff Davis ar.d the South
ern plantation owning middle class
ram ho represented, posessed
si :;ves?
B. J.—Yes.
U. S.—Acquired honestly, by
purchase?
J■ Ye3.
u. t>.—^'rightfully maltreated,
and exploited by their owners t..
the last farthing?
B. J.—Yc-cs.
-<!. S.—And did they get to
gether, master and slave, and erme
to an agreement te fleece the
r laves less? •
B. J.—No indeed! We marched
down ti t re, “fifty thousand strong’
with Sherman, and a hundred
thousand strong with Grant, and
chit and c’nbbed the shnchclde:
into emancipating his slaves, aid
giving them a.chance to loiuv. and
care for themselves. And a glor
ious work it was. too!
U. S.—But, Jonathan, the slaves
and slaveholders should have got
together—.
B. Jr—Bcsh!
U. S.—But, Jonathan,' the North ^
should not have robbed the South j
of its slaves
B. J.—Bother! j
U. S.—But, Jonathan, the North '
should not havo used arms to en
force ita theft
B. J.—Hang it all man, stop ycur
-emfocloy. Don’t you know that
the South, couldn’t and wouldn’t
free its slaves ebcause it had in- :
•.'e3tcd millions of dollars in them,
and it wasn’t going voluntarily to
force all that loss upon itself? I
V. S.—But it might at least
have been made to treat its slaves
better, to feed them more plenti
fully, school them more diligently,
and work liiora more moderately—•'
B. J.—Some more of your non- f
sense. The South couldn’t do that
either. If a planter began that
game, he would find himself bank
rupt in short crdcr. He couldn’t
keep up with the competition of ,
his fellow planters, all anxious to
get ahead of him on the market,
and his business would have gone
to smash. ®
U. S.—But the robbery, the
arms to sustain it
B. J.—Won’t you ever sec? The
South couldn’t and wouldn't free
its slaves. The freeing had to be
done. The North freed them and
was compelled to resort to arms
to enforce the decree of its Presi
dent. It had to.
U. S.—Had to? Why?
B. J.—Because slavery was a
crime. Because it denied the De
claration of Independence, which
was grounded on the equality of
of man. Because it was a sin in
the eyes of God for one man to
own another. Because slavery
was a pitfall in the path of civiliza
tion and human progress. Because
the Chriotloa ideal could not be
realized while it existed. Because
slavery
U. S.—That will do. What has
become of your position that pro
perty honestly acquired must be
held sacred, and 'improper use of it
curbed by law?
B. J.— (Looking around tor his
position)—Torn to shreds, I must
confess.
U. S.—Yes, Jonathan, ripped
through and through, as will be all
hasty defences thrown up to with
stand the heavy guns of Socialism.
—Weekly People.
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at 10 o’clock sharp. Wear your
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Free.
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