Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-04
THE LAND OF BROKEN FAITH.


known in Missouri editorial writer and political
reporter for many years following strong article
about Russia in the editorial of the ST. Louis
Republic:
The allies may as well face the that Russia
is out of the war ally of the free nations There
is no denying that hoped much from Free Russia
When the news of TIE overthrow of the Romanoffs
we visioned Russian armies, freed from intrigue un
Swallowed by the blight of Germanophe court hurting
themselves upon the thin lines of the Germans from
Courland to 1.-THE Beech Woods" We knew that the
Russians had fought like men. that they had stood up
unblenching barehanded against Won Mackensens vet
erans and that they Austria to blind panic
time after time We saw ending by the autumn
of 1917 We had reason to believe that Germany was
desperate that the allied drives the west and Rus
sian advance the east would crumple bending and
battered Germany But as Lloyd George has expressed
it. zone jaw of the pincers broke and Germany given
breathing SPELL turned upon Italy and broke through
the Alps almost overnight
The dazed Russian has sold his hard-won birthright
for Prussian pottage cooked in Pottsdam He
has listened the breed of agitaors that has howled
like wolves every metropolis of the world for decade
before the war listens the Trotzkys and Lenines
who have come out of the Greenwich Villages. the East
Sides and the beer of the world and throws the
real Russia into prisons He dances behind
Red Flag while the mighty soul of mighty Russia gasps
itself away He puts one Car away Siberia while the
hemeted hoching' minon of another Caesar comes to
him in Petrograd his nerveless hand to sign
an armistice while the papers being drawn for
separate peace And forever and always the Russian
talks He drunk speech intoxicated by the sound
his voice He mouths of world brotherhood and
ntenatonalism while the iron collars being forged
German anvis the iron collars that the ivans of the
future will for thousand years. His sin against
world freedom his broken faith with his dead car
ries with it its punishment.
the Boshevki, the little taors from the anarchist
halls. the Red Radicals the "od of both sexes,
the ghaired and the shorthaired women of Rus
STA are to rule from Tsarkoe Seo and the Kremln the
millions of Russian dead died in vain The phantom
dead of Russland people the hills of Gaca, the for
gotten who died in the Mazurian Lakes the who
fought with naked hands against steel in the Carpa
THAN passes these have no voices reach the pgmy
Trotzkys and Lenines caperng and simpering in the
halls of Holy Russia The Russian dead in the millions
graves that stretch the Baltic the Caspian
have died that embtterei fanatics and godbought trail
might sell the soul Russia in the marketplace
Belgium faced the steel that the world might live and
fights on though she has not her backened roof
trees three years Serbia dies the last
and there has whining from the gallant Serb
separate peace fights on, while the weak
kneed giant upon whom she pinned her faith whimpers
of armisces separate peace and international brother
with brutes who The Mark of the Beast
the worlds forehead. Russia alone is playing the
Russia all the allies that up treat
les publishes agreements sacredy and soemnly made
and permits motley of insane radicals play the
great handling hairy fingers the skulls of dead
and befouling the grave-clothes of the dead
There have been men in Russia. They have proved il
thousand CHASTITY fields in this war. Doubtless they
still live If they Russia from herself she
will play shameful part in the DAY of settlement
Like the with whom she barriers unashamed il
the sight of the whole world the of Russian viii
become "a byword and a kissing" among the nations
The Russia that is not with is against u.s.
Kansas has asked for five hundred troops to guart
the mills elevators packing houses oil properties
against the depredations of the W. w Secretary vii
sons industrial peace commission better sit
state for little session and then turn i'll a report con
demnng the action state officials dangerous
pernicous and Illegal well blow against corstu
tioral rights and a blemish upon personal character
There eleven thousand children in Tucson who