Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09
INSISTS
AMERICA MUST
ASSIST RUSSIA
Notwithstanding. r e c e n t
Events, He Strongly Ar
CUES Against Abandon
ment Of Cursed Country.
Leadership, and Counsel
From This Nation More
Necessary Now Than Sup
plies and Money Declares
the Idaho Senator.

(Senator Borah proposes that the
United States should make real eff
fort to save Russia, not only as an act
of humanity, but to keep her from be-
coming a permanent ally Of Germany.
For if she stops fighting with us, he
saws, she will be cajoled into fighting
against us.)
BY WILLIAM f. BORAH.
If such a thing is possible, the out
look for Russia is darker now than IL
was at any time under the rule of the
Romanoffs. 1t is difficult to conceive
of anything more demoralizing, more
crushing and cruel than the remorse-
less bureaucracy of Russia as it eX-
listed prior to the revolution. But there
are some things even worse than that
and one is the utter chaos which fol-
lows upon the effort of millions of peo-
pie who, without sane leadership, with
out any WELL conceived ideas OF ND
erty seek in vain to establish LOT
themselves self government.
Perhaps the most soul -moVing scene
which the human family presents is
that of "a people with no experience 40
training in self government starved,
stunted and brutalized by centuries or
oppression. seeking to realize the bless
ingsc of liberty and unable to do so.
The world is now looking upon such
a scene in Russia.
ABANDON THEM NOW?
Have we done, all as a humane ana
liberty loving nation that we can do Tor
this noble people struggling in blind
ness and in madness to be free? Shall
we abandon them to themselves and TO
the machin atoms of the powerful and
ubiouitous activities of the German
propaganda?
Already they are starving. MS
winter women and children will die by
the hundreds of thousands, the same
splcndid breed of women who few
weeks ago went to the battlefields to
fight for their liberties and against
the common enemy. One shoulders TO
contemplate the things which these
people are to experience if the present
program continues-the French revolu-
ton will be enacted over on more
stupendous and revolving scale. With
out leadership without counsel or ad-
vice, and apparently without SYM
pathy. these people, a people of noble
possibilities are plunging to an indie
scribable hell, where starvation and
to hold high glee like dancing devils
above the burning Marie. And what Is
even more menacing still, to be
whipped into shape at last for cog ir
the German military machine.
Cannot the United States do some.
thing? Have we done all we can do
shall we simply turn aside, curse the
few leaders and forget the mass of thu
people? Shall we content ourselves
with matchmaking the Bolshevik
and shut our ears to the wall of thu
masses? Is it no use to try? 1t is VI
to us to exert our influence. W.
should send men powerful to deal will
such situations, not for a visit, but t.
stay until order is brought out o
chaos We ought to determine to de
feat Germany in this game; otherwis
we shall have some difficulty in de
feating her upon the field of battle
Unless we do something and can dem
onstrate that we can do something.
would be well to modify our preten