The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-06-26
GRIM HUMOUR.

There's just a ray of smile in the Russian revolution which might be overlooked very easily.
 That is the difficulties in which the reactionary interests of this as well as other countries have in making a pleasant face when swal- lowing the really revolutionary fact of that Russian revolution.
 The revolution was not such a simple affair as at first believed and that it is still going some has been clearly enough evidenced.
 Moreover, it is a terrible blow to realize that the flag chosen to carry through that revolution was above all others: the red flag.
 Quite a few of the most candid of the reactionary papers have de lvered themselves of a candid opin- ion. not al all favorable to the Siays and their flag, and it has been al most a painful duty to praise the democracy of revolution which had actually to take the symbol ol human brotherhood as it's standard. upon the part of other journals not quite so candid.
 All instinctiyely feel, and trF hard to conceal, that there crumbled much more than the throne of the Tzar in that revolution. All endea- vor to conceal their real feelings under carefully worded hopes that they will be moderate and that the revolution will stop with the work half done.
 Russia is above all an attractive country to the plunderbund. Its wealth boundless. it's resources unli- mited and it awaits apparently only the advent of "capital' to develop billions as freely as billions have been developed in this country.
 1t is therefore most awkard at 1his iuncture that the people would allow themselves to be misled by foolish theorists who have a quaint notion that the best thing for the people to do is to develop the country for themselves by them selves with themselves. It's not i'll the game. Or it has not been the rules of the game as heretofore played.
 So it is that this red flag business is all wrong; it upsets all arrange ments. Why, just short time before the revolution, the Wall Street Journal, that organ oi the inner circle Of privilege, was urging the monied men not to be alarmed about the Russian loans. It argued that an, autocratic country must be regarded by American bankers as the safest of all countries for in vestment. The exact words were: "There are four systems of possible governments in the world and they progress in the following order: namely an autOcratic government, a limited monarchy, a republic ana lastly 4 socialistic government. The scale represents the proresslve as sertion of the will of the people.
 There are three evolutions the Russian government will have to gC through before it reaches this stage of socialistic government from which the autccratic government to- day is a long way removed. Il there is a change in Russia it vii be to a limited monarchy as in Eng land, where a true state of repre- sentative government exists anc order and property rights prevail That is why I consider our loans tt Russia the safest of any we arc making"
 The banker-writer was thinking about evolution when considering 2he safety of "our" loans to Russia Apparently the possibility of "revo lution" did not take his minds at ,ention for teeting minute, ant hence that Russia could ever reacf the final stage in the progressive assertion of the will of the people seemed to him utterly impossible.
 So there has been some amusing concern over the state or affairs II Russia Surely that concern wal manifested wholly for Russia. It il wonderful how all the reactionar, interests" have been unselfisni, thinking of the well being of Il