Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-09
NEWSPAPER MAN, BACK
FROM RUSSIA, EXPECTS
KERENSKY TO TRIUMPH
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD
tied Prc1S Std0 Correspondent tCho arrived
today from PCtrOOrdd

| t'OrFCSDDUdeuf
| today from PetroOrdd
| NEW YORK, Nov ..
| II Kerensky succeeds in getting away
! from Petrograd and establishing a new Gov.
ernment at Moscow, l firmly believe he will
! be able to carry enough of the army with
that is the best we can ask of Russia at
| this time.
/ There i'll be no civil war in Russia, aside
! perhaps from some street fighting in
| Petrograd.
There are two kinds of soldiers in Russia
| those who want to fight and those who
| don't-and It is just as hard to get the
| latter to fight the former as it is to get
them to fight Germans.
The Car mobilized too many men. He
put 10000 900 men in uniform. The great
problem facing Kerensky in October was
how to get some of these men back to their
homes.
Every time there is a change in Social
lstc government in Petrograd the geo.
graphical area over which the incoming
government has control Is reduced until
now the new alleged Government of Russia.
| which has replaced Kerensky, is governing
Petrograd only.
In Russia there are vast forces at work,
quietly and often in an underground way.
But they are bringing Russia together As
far as the Bolshevik are concerned, we may
as well look the facts square in the face.
The average Russian soldier who does not
want to fight is a BolshevilI-not because
of theories of Socialism but because the
Bolshevik are against the war.
If this Bolshevill happens TO be a peasant
then he Is a double BOlshevik, and he not
only is unwilling to fight but unwilling to
remain at the front He wants to return
home and get his piece of land.
Behind Lenine and Trotsky there are un-
doubtedly hundreds of thousands of Rus
sian soldiers, who will welcome any talk Of
peace.
If Lenine and Trotsky make n separate
peace 1t will be a separate peace for only
a portion of the Russian army, which has
been poisoned by the Lenine doctrines.
Petrograd is very likely to fall anyhow
The Germans will probably get Helsingfors
within short time and then they will cut
the Finnish Railway, which connects
Russia with Sweden. But even if we have
to say good-by to Petrograd, this does not
mean that Russia is gone.
The thing that impresses me most on My
arrival-and particularly in view of the
latest news from Russia-is that we Of
America will have to carry the load. 1t will
fall more and more heavily on us.
And l am astonished, after having been
in all the warning countries of Europe, to
see the freedom with which German aliens
and sympathizers in the United States move
about in perfect liberty.
1t was the Germans who poisoned and
paralyzed Russia. The greatest piece of
diplomacy i'm the war was achieved by
the sGermans who first worked out the
scheme of permitting Lenine to pass
through Germany into Russia.
was on the steamship Christianaford,
en- route from America to Russia carly last
spring when the Canadian authorities
| forcibly removed Leon Trotsky from our
| midst This was at Halifax. If he had
been held indefinitely history might have
| been different in Russia. So also with
| Lenine.
Both TrotslSy and Lenine have been I'm
| New York. They have friends and sym
| pathizers here yet-men who believe as
| they do about the war, and men who, If
| given opportunity. will try to do the same
things in the United States that they are
! doing in Russia