The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-01
G. Conservatives IN Russia Would
Be Considered Ultra Radical
In United States SaysRussell

fore, is asliberal course of instruction
in our OWnssuperiOr ways about these
things Wrought to show to the low.
lv Russians some of the men we send
to the house of representatives and
senate, and bid them do likewise.
You may notice almost every day
that certain American newspapers
print solemn sided stuff about the hor-
rors of the Russian national council
of workmenls, soldiers and peasants
delegates, (Which is the only govern
ing power in Russia), telling how the
conservative elements in the land are
about to rise and overthrow the ter
rible radicals.
The conservative elements in
Russia! Excuse these smiles.
Conservatives! DO YOU know what
a conservative is in Russia? He
is a man that in this country
would be regarded as such a dan
gerous and fre-cating radical that
his neighbors would avoid him, a
respectable press would blacklist
him, and most persons would re-
fer to him only with shudder
and groan.
The most conservative man in all
Russian politics or public life has
gone SO far in advance of the aver
age Americans political and sociO
logical creed that looking back with
great care the hindmost Russian on
the march can just make out the top
of William J: Bryan's hat. Some
times he isn't quite sure it is a hat
Maybe it's a gopher. Anyway it looks
like something moving away down the
road there.
Overthrow the radical element!
Why, there is nothing else That is
the hard fact for the reactionary
American to swallow, that is what all
but suffocates the American and Eng
lish colonies in Russia, so sadly de-
prived of a court in which they could
prank about. THE WHOLE COUN'
TRY is RADICAL, radical to its fin
ger tips, filled with enthusiastic faith
in a political and social program that
would shake American society with
panic alarm.
Do YOU know what the real split in
Russian politics is about? DO you
know what the issue is between these
clements that the American neWspa
pers call the extreme left and the con
servatives?
The extreme left want the govern
ment to put into effect at once the
extreme program of sweeping radical
social reforms.
| The conservatives want the govern
ment to put into effect the extreme
program of sweeping, radical socla
reforms, but not at once.
AS to the wisdom and necessity o.
these reforms there is no dispute II
Russia. All of the political partie!
that cut any ice proclaim and affirm
them. Anybody that should question
them would be viewed as a curiosity
He would be classeu with abnorma
persons that dispute aXioms and self
evident facts. But they are change
that in this country would be deemed
the impossible dreams of fanatics.
You can see. therefore, why the
| new Russian democracy will never b.
popular with the American reaction
| airy and his obedient press. You ca1
see why all the agencies he control:
are busily engaged in forecastirS thu
failure Of the Russian democracy ant
trying, in his funny little sniping way
to bring it about.
The American reactionary's view o
democracy is state wherein the
farmers and the workers, although
constituting the majority Of the popu