Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-09
America Will Have to Garry
the Load More and More
Lesson to This Country
in Russian Events.
German Agents Within the
Cause of Trouble-Semb
lance Of War May Be Kept
Up if Kerensky Succeeds
in Getting Away.
BY WILLIAM G. SHEPPARD.


Omitted Press Staff Correspondent,
who arrived today from Petrograd)
New York, Nov. eff Kerensky sue
ceeds in getting away from Petrograd
and establishing a new government at
Moscow, firmly believe he will be able
to carry enough of the army with him
to keep up a semblance Of war-and
that is the best we can ask of Russia
at this time.
There will be no civil war in Russia
aside perhaps from some street fight
ing In Petrograd.
There are two kinds Of soldiers in
Russia-those who want to fight and
those who don't-and it is just as hard
to get the latter to fight the former. as
It is to get them to fight Germans.
THE CARS MISTAKE.
The car modified too many men.
He put 20,000,000 men in uniform. The
great problem facing Kerensky in Oc-
tober was how to get some of these
uen back to their homes.
Every time there is a change in So
cialistic government In Petrograd the
geographical area over which the in
coming government has control is re-
tuced until now the new alleged gov
rrnment of Russia which has replaced
kerensky, Is governing Petrograd
alone.
In Russia there are vast forces at
work, quietly and often in an under
ground way. But they are bringing
Russia together. AS far as the Boil
sheviki are concerned, we may as we'll
look the facts squarely in the face.
SOLDIERS AGAINST WAR.
The average Russian soldier who
does not want to fight Is BolsheViki
not because of theories of Socialism,
but because the Bolsheviki are against
the war.
If this Bolsheviki happens to be a
peasant-then he is a double Bolshe-
wiki and he not only is unwilling to
fight but unwilling to remain at the
front. He wants to return home and
get his piece of land.
WELCOME TALK OF PEACE.
Behind Lenine and Trotsky there are
undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of
Russian soldiers who will welcome any
talk of peace.
II Lenine and Trotsky make a sepa-
rate peace, 1t will be a separate peace
for only a portion of the Russian army
which has been poisoned by the Lenine
doctrines.
Petrograd Is very likely to fall any
how. The Germans will probably get
HeIsingfors within a short time and
then they will cut the Finnish railway
which connects Russia with Sweden.
But even II we have to say goodbye
to Petrograd, this does not mean that
Russia is gone.
DEPENDS ON AMERICA.
The thing that impressed me most on
my arrival here-and particularly in
view of the latest news from Russia
is that we of America will have to car
ry the load 1t will fall more and more
heavily on us.
And l am astonished after having
been in all the warning countries OF
Europe to see the freedom with which
German aliens and sympathizers in the
United States move about in perfec,
liberty.
POISONED BY GERMANS.
1t was the Germans who poisoned
and paralyzed Russia. The greatest
piece of diplomacy in the war wa,
achieved by the German who frs
worked out the scheme of permitting
Lenine to pass through Germany intt
Russia.
I was on the steamer Christianaford
enroute from America to Russia, earl!
last spring when the Canadian author
tiles forcibly removed Leon Trotsk!
from our midst. This was at Halifax
IF he had been held indefinitely, his
tory might have been different in Rus
STA. So also with Lenine.
Both Trotsky and Lenine have beeI
In New York. They have friends, ant
sympathizers here yet-men who be
= lieve as they do about the war ant
men who. ii given opportunity. will tr!
to do the same things in the Unite,
States that they are doing in Russia