The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-17
OUT Or EVIL.

Surely the first good thing that has come out of the Great War in Europe is the revolt in Russia; and whether it is put down or whether it is ultimately the means of re- generated Russia, builded upon an extension of democracy, it is sign of the best for the future.
 The government of Russia has been an unaduIterated evil It would be hard to imagine com plete social disintegration which would have been as productive in certain misery for the masses as has been such a governmental organiza- ton as prevailed in Russia.
 Russia has been a compound ot bureaucracy and theocracg. The power Of the Orthodox church has been hardly second to that of the roterte of Grand Dukes and aristo- cratic parasites who were interested in maintaining despotism ot which the Tzar was in a great way merely a fgurehead.
 The tyranuies Of the Holy synod were scarcely less oppressive than the exaetions of the hereditary chiefs that surround the Tzar, an.' what progress Russia has made, las Teen made in spite of the most un- ,o,,.- r,l .4ira,, n, sta r1qpc
 Russia has usually been consider ed the most backward of the na- tons. IL is more truly described as 4he country which never had a chance. Serfdom was prolonged long after il was abolished in other countries. and even today there eX- ists in many districts a semi-feudal condition which finds its counterpart onlv in quite another era in other countries.
 It is commonly agreed that the uroersss of d nation is to be gaag- .d Hv rae industrial development .here within. and if is safe to say mat uusssa's industrial development .eu lsss behind the industrial de- .,Iapmeat elarasur,zcG England as lar back as the beginning or the Nineteenth Century.
 Yet it is remarkable that ill science. in art and in literature Russia has given the European con tincnt names as great as any. Fam ous physicists, zoologists, chemists and above all mathematicians have come out ot this strange country while it's literary lights have been buruing almost throughout cen rury in unequalled modern briill- ancy.
 The wealth Of Russia, that is the natural resources in almost all pro- ductive lines, is above that of any other nation in tl.e world Its mi neral deposits are enormous. It's forests are the equal of the United States in quality and much more extensive. Throughout Russia and Siberia there is a wheat belt which can not find it's equal the world over except possibly in central Canada lis oil wells are not confined to southern Europe although compe- rent American experts have de ,lared that hose Caspian wells are inexhaustible. even if the grade is lower than that Of the Pennsylvania fields.
 Its industrial future then. given ordinary opportunity for develop ment. is certain. But it can only he hampered by its present system of government.
 If compared to the United States Congress, as a law making body the German Reichstag is joke, the Russian Duma compared with the Reichstag was merely debating society. Any time that the members ,evinced disposition to run counter to the imperial wishes of the bureau .rats they brought down obloquy upcn themselves and disaster upan the Duma.
 Yet it has been apparent to any person that the power of the Duma was stealthily growing. Unconsci- .ously the people insisted upon giv- ing it a real power which it was no intention of the bureaucrats il should posses. And it became espe- cially dangerous to the bureaucracy in that it formed the nucleus around x..hich the wild ynrtax of the nation.