Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-14
RUSSIA, THE YELLOW DOG"

In speaking of Russia, citizen of
this town remarks, Russia has played
the part of "a yellow dog in this
war" AS matters now stand there
is no question that the Allies ard the
neutrals us we'll, have lost faith in
and respect for, the Russians in this
war. AT one time much was justly
expected from the Russian revolu-
ton. The Allies had every good rca-
son for believing that the Russian
army, which rad witiistood bravcly
and we'll the attacks and onslaughts
of Mackenscn's veteran army, ill
equipped "and barehanded" as they
were, would with Americas help
money and sympathy, stand firm and
go on, and help win the war during
1917. "She laid down on the job"
made an armistice and peace, ut least
temporarily, sufficient to enable Ger
many TO withdraw hordcs of troops
from the Russian and Roumanian
fronts to hurl against the Italians and
against the Western front. Russia
in violating her positive agreement
with the Allies that no separate peace
should be made without tie consent
of all, has betrayed her friends and
must assume the responsibility what
ever and all of the evil by reason of
her cowardly course. Says the Saint
Louis Republic: "The dazed Russian
has sold his hard earned birthright
for mess of Prussian pottagc, cook
ed in Potsdam. lie listens to the Trot-
zys and Lenines, who have come out
of the Greenwich villages of the East
Side and beer halls of the worlds y =
He puts one Gar away Siberia,
while the helmeted blocking" minion
OF another Caesar comes to him in
Petroglud and forces his ncrveless
hand to sign an armistice while the
papers are being drawn for Il scpa-
rate peace.
"And forever and always the Rus
sian talks. He is drunk on speech, in
toNicated by the sound of his own
voice. He mouths of world brother
hood and internationalism while the
iron collars are being forged on Ger
man anvils, the iron collars that the
lvans of the future will wear for Il
thousand years. His sin against the
world freedom, his broken faith with
his own dead, carries with il its own
punishment.
"If the Bolsheviki, the little tailors
from the anarchist nails, the Red Rad
icals, the cold women of both sexes"
the long-haired men and the short
haired women of Russia are to rule
from Tsarkoe Selo and the Krcm-
lin, the millions of Russian dead have
died in vain. The phantom dead OF
Russland who people the hills of Ga
licia, the forgotten men who died in
the Mazurian lakes. the men who
fought with naked hands against bare
steel in the Carpathian passes, these
have no voices TO reach the pigmy
accidents of fortune, capering and
simpering in the halls OF Holy Rus
STA. The Russian dead in the millions
of graves that stretch from the Bal
tic to the Caspian have died that en-
Uttered fanatics and gold-bought
traitors might sell the soul of Rus
STA in the market place.
Belgium faced the steel that the
world might live, and fights on, the
she has not seen her blackened roof
trees for three years, Serbia dies
.,l, Nrt IN a.t t,n,.
has been no whining from the gallant
Serb for a separate peace. Rouman-
ian fights on, while the weak kneed
giant upon whom she pinned her faith
whimpers of armistices. separate
peace and international brotherhood
with the brutes who have set tho
mark of the beast on the worlds fore,
head. Russia alone is playing the crav-
en-. 1t is Russia of all the allies that
tears up treaties, publishes agree
ments sacredly and solemnly made
and permits motley crew of insane
radicals to play the part of monkeys
chattering in the mausoleums OF the
great, dangling in hairy fingers the
skulls of rulers and befoulng tho
grave-clothes oil real men.
There have been men in Russia.
They have proved it on a thousand
CHASTITY fields in this war. Doubtless
they still live. If they cannot save
Russia from herself, she will play a
shameful part in the great day of set
Element. Like the German, with whom
she barters unashamod in the sight
of the world, the name of Russia will
become "a byword and Kissing"
among the nations. The Russia that
is not with us is against us.
THE CLAMOR FOR HIGHER