The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-11-22
THE DIVIDED HOUSE.

'HSl0 VIII De no permanence or de
pendability OF government, sufficient
ever to make a peace, with the ele
ments suppirting Lenine and Trotz.
ky in nominal control of affair that
Travelling nation. 1t is already shown
that no matted how popular the Boil
sheviki may be With the soldiery and
the workmen, and it is popular with
those now practically controlling ii
uncertain elements, the BoIsheviki
caRnot agree with itself. 1t is i'm
possible that it do so, was impossible
from the start of it agitation, says
The Macon Telegraph
Government worthy of the name
rest on settled convictions as to gov
eTnmental processes held to and
! agreed even by contending schools OF
political thought outside that gov
ernment itself. This is the one ba-
sic and necessary thing to any gov
! ernment that The Bolsheviki OF Rus
STA cannot bring to any government
it may set up and the one thing it
can never form from within itself,
because it is not a movement for
governmental reform, only a move
ment of revolt against the existing
conditions, or, rather its leaders have
taught the rank ard file existing con-
diticns were. It's leaders, before the
RED" Lenine and the crafty based po
litlCal agitator Trotzky, got control
sensed in their own propaganda anil
the rown doctrine this incapacity for
al government in tmeselves and
their school Of thought, and refused
to accept any responsibility for gov
ernm snt on that occasin in Moscow
when Kerensky offered them a voice
IN the onicialdom of Russia as it was
then constituted. These men knew
that they were agitators. that their
ends could only be served as heir
agitation and their harrassing of the
soberer elements provoked a series
Of compromises with them. But Lee
nine and Trotzky forgot in the splen-
scepter the fundamental of radical
ism that reforms are no tset up in
anew governments and reyolutionided
governmental forms but are wrested
from reluctant and reactionary ex-
listing gov ernments and governmental
forms.
They seized power and what is
happening to them is what wiser and
steadier men knew would happen to
any extreme radical thinkers and be-
levers swept into supreme power.
They are already the victims Of the
unsettled. undetermined and stormy
shools OF thought and pools of Doliti-
cal passion in their CONSTITUENCIES, and
already we learn the Socialists have
become their conservatives and are
pulling away from item. A radical
0ut Of Office is useful, IN fact they
form and ad,ance We nave made
have given us what 70, ernincntal re-
throughout the centuries, bat q radi
cal in office, where his power is great,
is certain to wreck nothing bur his
Own ruin and the shaking CT conf
dence in the faiths and progressive
ions he originally and appealingly
preached.
AS to Kerensky coming back, in
the light OF very recent dispatches
that would seem absurd. And yet it
is rumored. 1t is not impossible for
it would be very like KerensNy 70 dc
such a thing as that. But his rela-
tion to the whole problem tolay is
not nearly SO important nor is i SO
absorbing as is the certain disscnsion
and the widening riffs that now grow
apace in the BolsheviKT itself A
house that Use divided against itself
cannot stand. And when divided
houses fall newer, better and stronger
ones are usually built on the same
site. Which is Just what Russia
needs.
HOLY LAND RECLAIMED.