South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-04-17
WAR WILL BRING
RUSSIA FREEDOM
M. RodZiankO Ouma President
Predicts Internal Develop
ment For Nation.

/ LONDON. April 17.--Free speech
and magnificent expansion after the
war We're predicted for Russia by
/ NJ. Rodzianko. president Of the 0u-
ma. in an interview with "a British
! correspondent just published here.
Russia and Great Britain are now
\ great friends. he said, and he COM
nented i'm this Humorous way on their
I former differences:
/ con. OF cotrse. we have quarreIl-
ed, Eut that was natural. Even nus
/ band and wife. Well. il is not so p
I But that Is lOns ago The mistake
~as that we did not know, till the
I war came. that We were-yes, that
\ IS it. that we were necessary each
60 the other.
" Now we know Those Germans
/ have taught Is. Ach, what a people
/ Phew, But we are good friends
/ England and Russia. Da. and we
shall remain so. But certainly Eng
I land and the sea Russia and the
people. We are both strong. The peO-
/ pie make us strong The sea, that
makes YOU strong. And we like each
other We are very proud and very
good company. We mix. Yes, we mix
very we'll That is what have
thought long time. The Russian.
the Englishman, they understand
one another.
''And something else. The vodka!
We gave up drinking. not q drop OF
LIQUOR 10 be sold. and when we most
needed the money. the revenue. we
who are so poor in Russia. Yes. you
like that too2
And 1t proves. yes yes. that the
liquor is not necessary TO the people.
The wOrkingmau does his work. the
soldier in the trenches too, without
the liquor. Wen. that is something.
Yes. il is something. People thought
that the liquor made them strong.
Now they know it is not the truth.
Wen. that is good. But come now
YOU tel. me about England. What d.
they think of u.s."
Wen, may i say this-?" answer
cd the correspondent.
But, yes. Of course. You may gay
anything" NJ. Rodzianko laughed
heartily.
while the whole nation admired
Russian valor and the self-sacrifice
OF government and nation, some of rs
would feel happier Am almost
afraid to say tiff the Duma were
not quite so often and quite so un-
Iintelligently dissolV ed"
Too Much War.
"Ah. but you see it is the war
which consumes us. We are so busy,
we have no time TO talk. This war
it is so immense, 1t Is so huge. it is
the whole world We have got to beat
those Germans, and must beat them
II wifi take a long time; it may take
a very long time. But we Will do it,
Ia, ia, And so we dissolve the
Duma It is no use to talk. All must
work. After the war we talk. Tes.
after the wax we talk. But not nov,
No. nov We must work.
After the war there will be free
speech, ana there will be no repres
SION. No repression whatever! II
will be impossible-im impossible to
stop discussion. After this war you
Icculd no more stop it-no one could
stop it say YOU could no more
stop il than d dam could hold the
winter floods when spring comes.
Yes after the wsr 1t will be in
Russia like a spring. But after the
war During the war. work and ST.
lence. After the war, the torrent;
away goes the dam-phuti-nO more
dam: and then the spring"
And tell me. do YOU think that the
revolution of Russia can proceed
peacefully by constitutional methads
land without violence?"
''tFhe future? You ask me about
the future? Ach, / cannot do it.
DO not prophesy. No But now there
lWiu be no revolution. / tell you that
Thee will be no revolution. Russ a
VIII nave a parliament. and Russia
viii grow. This war has given such
a knock. he doubled up his immense
fist and struck at the air. Ito the
old conservatism of Russia. that il
is no more. II la finished We shall
speak. sc shall discuss. and we
shall grow The future2--I cannot
tell Bgt 1 am sure that for many
years we shall have peace in Russia.
oh. do not thinR that R;sssia is
always g0in TO have "a revolution
Ii is not SO We have got rid Of min
listers who were not very good for
the war. and after the war we shall
have ministers who are good for re-
form herself She viii do il slow "
she will look ahead, Lut she will
change. Already she changes. After
the war size will change still more
And { think she viii change peace
fully. There will be much tau<ine
Eut revolutionary, no."