Omaha daily bee., 1917-08-05
ROOT DECLARES
0I AlIn IAIlIIuvM!IsNA
V.s s,s,oos vsoIaoaslH s's's
OUT UWN liberty
Head Of U. S. Mission Says
Great, Free, Self-Governing (
Democracy Will Be Gre
ated in Russia.
(By Associated Press.)

A Pacific Port, Aug. Al have
abiding faith that Russia, through
trial and tribulation will work out,
create and perpetuate a great, free,
selt-governing democracy" Elihu
Root asserted today in an impas-
stoned speech at a luncheon in honor
OF the return of the American mis-
sion from Russia.
Protesting a sincere admiration for
the kindly character of the Russian
people, "considerate of the rights and
feelings of others, and with high
capacity for self control and a noble
idealism, heading always in better
way toward bigger things" he
pleaded for deep sympathy for the
nation, (which is struggling with the
problems that we have been studying
for l4O years and have not yet
solved
New Democracy Will Arise.
Declaring that america must mus
ter its manhood with democracy
against the power of autocracy," he
said, there will be death, widowed
homes, sacrifice and suffering, doubt,
almost despair. In the end will rise
great free country, re-made in the
spirit of our fathers, competent to
accomplish its divine mission and
carry liberty and justice throughout
the world.
Don't argue about why we are in
the war, but realize that the time has
now come when American liberty,
American justice, American inde-
pendence and freedom is the stake for
which we must fight"
u. S. Socialists Cause Trouble.
Charles Edward Russell declared
that the task of new Russia was
greatly handicapped by German in
fuences and the ceaseless activity
of the German propagandists.
Most of the trouble, however, has
been caused by Russians naturalized
as Americans who have returned to
Russia since the outbreak of the rev.
olution," he added, and said the Rus
slams from the United States spread
the report throughout the country
that America had entered the war
from sordid reasons.
"These propagandists," he contin-
ued, who pretend to an intimate
knowledge of American conditions
and American motives inform their
native countrymen that the govern
ment of the United States is more
oppressive that the old regime at Pc
trograd."
Declaring that the socialist party
in America is in the hands of Ger
man propagandists, Mr.. Russell
made his first answer to his expul-
sion from that party.
"The constitution of the socialist
party in the United States provides
that no one could be expelled with
out a hearing" he asserted, so |
consider that | have never been ex-
PEELED, but l have no interest in an
organization that is disloyal."
Rear Admiral Glennon tonight
learned for the first time of the death
of his son, which occurred three
weeks ago. Wireless messages carry
ing the news were directed to him,
but failed to reach him.
Russia Has It's I. w. w.
From the Russian revolution will
be evolved a stable government, &C
cording to James Duncan, vice presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor. Its establishment is retarded,
he declared, by the radical so-called
reformers, of the character of In
dustrial Workers of the World, who
have returned to Russia after having
lived a while in America The success
of the revolution Mr.. Duncan attri-
buted to the workmen of Russia, by
whom the propaganda of freedom
was first carried to the peasant class
at the time of the original Duma, in
1905.