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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1919.
MISJUDGING RUSSIA.
A strange confounding of two
antagonistic ideas by some of the
statesmen at Paris is responsible for
much of the clash of counsel in the
peace conference, for the indecision
and many of the errors of the con
ference, in fact of the greatest peril
that confronts it. It is the chief pur
pose of the conference to end the war
by a formal treaty and to erect safe
guards against a recurrence of war by
creating a league of nations. In Mr.
Wilson’s words, the world is to be
“made safe for democracy.” Cherish
ingt his noble aspiration, some of the
commissioners have, nevertheless,
Ibeen persuaded that the soviet gov
ernment of Russia must be viewed as
a part of the world movement toward
democracy, that it is democracy, and
if not treated with and recognized, is,
at least, not to be considered as a
subject for repressive action. That is
an astonishing delusion, for almost at
the outset of its career, Bolshevism,
by dispersing the constituent assem
bly, a representative body chosen by
the suffrages of the Russian people,
showed itself to be the very opposite
of democracy, a denial of the founda
tion principles of democratic govern
ment.
In their subsequent career of blind
destruction, the SSlshevikl have held
steadfast to that early rule of con
duct. They have suppressed freedom
of speech and of the press; they have
tolerated no opposition to their rule,
to their political methods and prin
ciples. They have slaughtered those
who resist them, those who were
giiilty of no offense against them save
that of belonging to a class they have
proscribed, a class against which they
arc making w^r. By innumerable mur
ders and assassinations they have es
tablished a reign of terror, which is
their great defence, against any at
tempt of the Russian people, the enor
mous majority of the Russian people,
to overthrow them. They have ruined
Russia they have destroyed its indus
tries, ley have brought its people to
the v< ge of starvation, and beyond
it, for many have actually starved.
Great cities are in large part depopu
lated. They are in arms against al
lied troops sent to protect the Rus
sian people from their violence. By
hordes of emissaries and lavish ex
penditure of money they have stolen
they are seeking to overthrow other
governments, and to establish pro
letariat rule with all its deviltries
throughout the world.
i nese are me tacts or me suuauou
now existing in Russia. They are es
tablished by a multitude of witnesses.
They are known by the incontrover
tible testimony of Ambassador Fran
cis, whose high character and un
equaled opportunities of observation
and experience gave him personal
knowledge of the truth. Why, then,
was it thought to be necessary to
send personal, unofficial envoys to
Russia to confer with the authors of
this devastation? Why, in particular,
was it thought expedient to choose for
this mission men disqualified for im
partial service by their extreme radi
calism, their known and avowed sym
pathy with the aims of the Bolsheviki,
mm of no competence for a task de
manding close observation and sound,
unbiased judgment? Why was the in
vitation issued for the Prinklpo con
ference? The answer to these ques
tions is to be found in the delusion
that Bolshevism is democracy, that its
aims are democratic.
It is a delusion that an intelligent
survey of Russian conditions should
dispel at once. It is a delusion that,
it would seem, could not survive the
briefest examination of the professed
and published principles of the'Soviet
government. It Is not a government
of the people, but by a clasB—the
least competent class. In the class
that now rules Russia there are many
criminals, there is little intelligence. It
is a government whose guiding prin
ciple is based, not upon Experience,
upon love of liberty and respect for
law, but upon hatred of all other
classes, upon* the resolve to destroy
them. All these things are of common
knowledge, and upon the basiB of this
knowledge public opinion in the
United States, in France and Great
Britain has come to regard the Bol
shevists as the enemy, not only of
Russia, not only of the allies, but of
mankind. That opinion is disre
garded, it is openly flouted, when the
statesmen at Paris or any of them
make advances toward the Bolshe
vists tending to create the impression
that they may be treated with as
though they were a civilized govern
ment, that dealings may be had with
them such as would be had with a
power lawful in its establishment and
in its intentions. There is no dissent
from this prevailing public opinion,
save on the part of a few individuals
or a few organs known to be misrep
resentative of the common thought.We
know that no good can come of the
coddling of Bolshevism; only evils, it
may be giant evils, can be the result.
That the contrary belief could have
been entertained anywhere for a
single moment is a cause of aston
ishment.
Along that path there is no deliver
ance for Russia, there is no hope that
tile peace conference can in that way
solve the problem in the East that
must be solved before it can give the
world peace and security. The dan
ger is great, it grows greater every
day. The menace in Germany is se
rious. Everywhere the belief is gain
ing ground that there can be no se
cure peace until the Russian people
have a government established by
their free will. So long as this con
flagration rages in Russia, no treaty
and no league of nations can make
the world safe for democracy.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Ketchikan from now on will grow
more rapidly than ever before. It
will be a large city when other preten
tious towns in Alaska have gone back
in the rank of small villages, because
this part of Alaska combines mining,
farming and fishery business in greater
proportion than any other part. The
fishing business is permanent, and
mining will flourish hereabouts when
the rest of Alaska is worked out. For
these reasons necessary improvements
should be made to last. The period of
makeshift is passed now for our pros
perous town. Let us go at the im
provement in a businesslike manner;
it shall be money ‘well invested.—
Ketchikan Miner.
The arrest in Seattle of officers of
the law charged with the robbery of
liquor in possession of a federal of
ficial, is dnly cumulative evidence
that indifference has its reward. With
these arrests, a police scandal is
threatened that will out-class any
previous scandals in the history of
the country; provided it is aired out.
But leave it to that community and
it shall come out with flying colors at
the expense of a goat or two, as much
and no more may be expected; for the
Spirit City is known to be in a class
by itself so far as geuine restrictions
or anything where money is involved.
That city is known far and wide to be
as liberal in many respects morally
as it is with its money, and that is
going some. With hundreds of patrol
men and a good sprinkling of detec
tives all over the* city, it would seem
that very little of that should have
passed unnoticed for any length of
time; but accordnlg to reports, the
traffic has been flourising for a year
or more. Prohibition may prohibit;
but it also makes thieves—apparently.
—Ketchikan Miner.
CRIPPLED GERMANY
CAN NOT PAY INDEMNITY
LONDON, May 1 (by Associated
Press).—It will be impossible to crip
ple Germany without to some extent
crippling British trade, Charles S.
Addis, a director of the Bank of Eng
land, told the Institute of Bankers re
cently. “To secure the maximum In
demnity for the minimum of injury
to the trade of the country,” he said,
“it would be necessary to afford Ger
many free access to raw material and
freedom to arrange her own mode of
paying the indemnity. This would be
for a moderate amount well within
her taxable capacity and on such
terms as to keep alive in the debtor
the hope' of redemption within a rea
sonable time. (
“A crippled Germany could not pay
a penal Indemnity and to suppose that
in crippling a nation you thereby gain
a guarantee of continuous peace is
chimerical. The only guarantee of
peace Is that, having beaten the en
Bmy, you should be ready to light him
again whenever he likes.
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“The idea of Germany being able to
pay, under any circumstances, the
amount of $120,000,000,000, at which
the expenditure of the allies was es
timated, should be dismissed as im
practicable.”
RELEASING PHYSICIANS
TO COMBAT DISEASE
LONDON, April 20 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).—Coin
cident with publication of the report
showing that during the last quarter
of 1918 the number of deaths ex
ceeded the birthrate for the first time
in the history of civil registration in
this country, the war office has an
nounced the release in one week of
700 physicians from the army.
Influenza caused the great increase
in the death rate, the number of vic
tims from that disease being 98,998,
or 41 per cent of the total deaths for
the period. Lack of physicians is held
responsible for the failure to curb
the epidemic. At the beginning of
this month, although 1,750,000 men of
the army had been demobilized, only
1,500 out of 10,000 physicians had
been released.
James E. O’Reilly, formerly super
intendent of construction in the An
chorage division of the railway work,
and a big property owner in that com
munity, is in the coarse money in
Canada. He is a partner in the big
railroad contracting firm of Carlison
& Feddy, who have large construction
contracts on railways building in the
province of Canada.
Messenger service by Lamprey
boys before and after school. Phone
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