The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-12-05
BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD


STOCKHOLM-It will be some
week before this article will be prin-
ed in America. At that time, anything
may be happening in Russia. But I
am willing to have this article placed
beside the newest, hot-from-Petrograd
cablegram no matter how bloody and
disturbing the news in it may be and
have these following words run side
by side with the description of the la
test Russian crisis:
Russia is following the lines of all
revolutions-an she is hurrying along
toward ironing out her difficulties.
Crisis Bound to Come
If my American readers do not
chance to see this article alongside of
exciting news from Russia, the chances
are that the exciting newswill have oc
cured a few days before; or that it is
due to occur shortly. For crises are
going to happen in Russia at an alarm
ing rate. l expect bloodshed in the
!: streets of Russian towns and cities. |
expect anything in the way of a human
STORM that imagination can picture,
Understand pat on the declaration that
Russia is being rushed through the
series of crises that must come to
to any country in revolution and that
by each crisis makes theRussian peO-.
pie saner and the Russian republic
stronger.
Knows Only Bloody Path
Kerensky knows revolutions by
heart; as physician might desire to
hasten the various stages of dis,
ease in order that the cure may be
made the more quickly, Kerensky has
not avoided one single crisis Blood
shed at wholesale, danger of death, the
apparent risk of civil war ~ he has
shrunk from none of these He will
not shrink, if his life is spared, from
any crisis that may come in the future.
This grim man knows of only one path
for the Russian revolution to take; it
is the path that all countries must
follow, and he knows there are no
daisy fields or resting places alongside
that rocky, bloody way. &
Russia is Forging Ahead
The world may expect crisis after
crisis, thrill after thrill, shock after
shock in Russia-but it will all mean
that Russia is forging ahead toward
new strength.
| have been in Russia almost six
months and through three great |
crisis.
The first crisis was a bloody one
the Rolsheviki uprising in Petrograd |
and other cities and towns of Russia. |
1t was a crisis that made us lose faith
in Russia. The killings of 500 men,
women and children in the streets, the
terrifying of 100000 citizens of the
capital of the largest country on earth,
the orgy of blood in which the Kron-
stadt sailors and the working men of
Petrograd INDUCED made it appear
that Russians were mamen, lusting
for blood. There SCENE no hope for
Russia il such madness were to have
sway
BlOOd-Letting Helps
But today, after having seen two
1ther great crisis, and looking back ,
he 10 weeks to those bloody days. 4.
t is easy to see that those blood-let-
ings helped Russia along the road to-
ward liberty and national unity. s
There came the second crisis OF the !
Ioscow conference. when we who sat +
n the beautiful Moscow theater that +
unny August forenoon expected, with :.
,ood reason, that a rifle shot from
he troops outside the theater, or
hot or bomb in the theater itself q
you'd dye might Russia inblood and p
ct it's cities and towns aflame. The e
Ioscow conference ended on the edge
catastrophe, and again we felt
nat Russia's case was hopeless. But
1day, looking back, and putting to- IN