The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-19

brown hair, cut short and
rising straight from his head.
He has square shoulders,
much grace of bearing and
an excellent poise for his par
ticuiar job, which Is oratory.
But in private conversation
he has something of Grover
habit of not look
ing much Mt the person with
whom he Is talking, q trick
that as i'm Cleveland's case
produces q certain impression
OF shyness.
Except when he gets started or
one of his extraordinary flights o.
eloquence he is one of the mos
retieent of men.
1t is hard to draw him out or
any ordinary topic and still harder
to Judge what he really thinks
about it unless he gets interested
and sits up to take notice of hi!
surroundings.
Then his blue eyes betray him
But at that he will never be q
prize-winner at conversation, hay.
ing too much of a fondness for
words of one syllable and only q
few of those.
He is an old-time revolutionist
and tasted all the bitterness that
the old regime handed out to men
of his faith.
He is a socialist, but that is nj
distinction in Russia; nine-tenths
of the people are socialists.
He is also an idealist and
at the beginning OF the revo-
luton was rs dreamy as any.
He, too, had this notion
that the downfall of autocracy
in Russia sounded Gabriel's
big horn for the Earthly Par
adise.
There were to be no more d.
visions among men, and Of
course, there were to be no more
wars. UNIVERSAL BROTHER
HOOD HAD ARRIVED ON THE
MIDNIGHT TRAIN.
Everybody was to love every.
body else; the lion was to lie down
and the lamb. was to cease to BIZ
chops for him.
1t was atfine, good feeling ant
one that reflects great credit or
the Russian people. They had 10:
themselves and they wanted al
the neighbors to come in and have
some.
There we're two men in Russia
that never for a moment allowed
their enthusiasm to distort theiy
knowledge of the world as it real
ly is with Germany in 1t.
One was Prince Kropotkin, the
old-time philosopher and revolu-
zionist, whose daring escape from
the fortress of Peter and Paul IL
one of the most stirring chapters
in the imperishable history OF
Russian democracy, and the other
was Paconoff, who first unfurled
the red flag Of revolution in the
Nevsky Prospekt, the great thoro-
fare of Petrograd.
These elder warriors in the Iona
fight continually warned their
countrymen that so long as Ger
man autocracy remained in the
world unbrokep there was nc
chance for democracy either in
Russia or in any other place.
! heard Prince Kropotkin speak
on this subject one Sunday after.
noon in the Norodny Dom, great
peoples palace of Petrograd. and
his logic was like an avalanche
rushing down a Swiss mountain
side. It swept all before it.
Kropotkin and Placonofi
steadily insisted that the first duty
of the new democracy In Russia
was to give to the other democ-
racies of the world all possible
help in the life and death strue-
gle against autocracy. The revo-
luton was only a few weeks old
when Kerensky came out of bis
trance and saw that these men
were right. He has not wavered
since from that conviction, which
has grown steadily among all Rus
sian people that think.
He is good parljamentarian
but not so good as Tseratelli, the
silent man of Russia, nor as
Tschaidse, the resourceful chair
man of the National Council.
These two, in my judgment, have
no superiors in any parliamentary
body of the worlH
| have seen Tschaidse steer the
council SO swiftly and skillfully
around perilous shoals and thru
difficult straits that he made ell
the other presiding officers of my
acquaintance seeno bunglers. He
was like old Hank Haff, the prince
of Nantucket shippers. He knew
instinctively in advance every
change in wind or weather and
had everything ready for It.
But Kerensky is pretty good al
that sort of thing. The time tile
council was about to split over the
anarchists demonstration and wa.
saved by as clever q piece Of par
liamentary maneuvering as evel
was pulled off, the credit for ths
scheme. was told, belonged tc
him as much as to TseratelH aud
Tscbaidse.
As to his health and this
dream stuff about the race