The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-22

Duma, it may be inquired why it is that it presented such a radical career relatively speaking in Rus sia.
 The explanation can be explained readily by analogy, and the story of the struggle of the Parliament, that is the Commons, against the King and the Lords in England under King Charles will furnish whole parallel. The Duma faced the entire might of Russian govern mental power, and saw the little rights which had been conferred upon it emasculated by the Senate, the Sovyet, the Holy Synod and the Council of Ministers. And this oc- casioned resistance. because really the economic interests represented by the Duma and those by it's higher political foes were to a great extent antagonistic.
 IL is true that these higher bodies were also somewhat curbed by the apparently plausible ukase of the Tzar whereby it was declared that no measure could become a law without the consent of the Duma. But as this did not subject the far greater power of imperial veto to any limitation, there is no particular reason to regard this ukase with any particular veneration as an offering to the Goddess of political free dom.
 What has been happening in Russia has been the natural evolu- tion of power from a class higher in the social scale to lower. T. partakes in a great measure of the nature of a similar revoluticn that occurred in Great Britain just at tha Commonwealth and in France al the time of the Great Revolution and the tendency has been fo1 wealth to take the place of nobllli; in the administration of govern ment.
 This process seems to be inevit- able in every country, and the sue cess Of a great bourgeois class to power seems to mean the. ending of the power of an autocracy or a nobless. The transition is gradu- al not cataclysmic, and the consum- nation of the revolution in Russia during the past few days while ap- bearing cataclysmic, is merely the realization of a movement which has been proceeding with accelerated motion for considerably over g quarter of century; movement
 which was increased in motion by the establishment of the Duma, anC still further accelerated by the cir cumstances of the war. It was the bureaucracy which was the govern mental machinery called upon to dc the most strenuous service and tC
 bear the most intensive pressure and it broke down under it, but i would have eventually have broker down from sheer political and socia wear and tear after longer period:
 in peace.
 We cannot better conclude thl:
 article than the able summary by
 Karl Kaustky in the Neue Zeit pub lished as far back as 1955 when an other but abortive revolt occurred il Russia: These (social) forces ar'
 working so energetically and SC
 irresistibly for proletarian interest
 that we have not the slightest reasol
 to take a pessimistic view of Rus sian affairs or to speak of chao
 in the Russian democracy. Chao | exists far less in the ranks of thu
 socialists than in the ranks of thu
 ruling classes. It is there we fint dissensiCn, anarchy and mutual an tagonism on the increase .. :. Thi
 chaos will grow ever greater, bu in the degree that it grows vii
 grow the power and influence O
 an industrial proletariat, united
 through the teachings of the clas'
 struggle, impressing more and more
 it's stamp upon the new Russia. tha l will finally arise from the chaos. So it is. This is not the New
 Russia that the Duma has formed but it is the within this Russia tha
 the embryo of the new. regeneratet Russia will be formed.