Denver labor bulletin., 1917-04-07

Livery WORKING IlaH WHO mas d Wlue
vision of things will rejoice as he con-
siders the far reaching results for
good to humanity that will result from
the revolution in Russia. The common
man has arisen in his giant strength
and flung off the intolerable burden
of the house of Romanoff together
with all the army of princes, mobiles,
counts, lords and beaucrats that had
sucked away the vigor of the people
for many dismal and weary years.
Two groups were conspicuous in
this movement for freedom-the labor
unions and the students of the great
universities. Labor and learning joined
hands in the emancipation. The fac
tory and the university Joined in the
movement for freedom. The soldiers
also played an important part When
they were commanded by their Off
GERS to shoot down the workingmen
they shot down their officers and joined
the workers and then led them against
the police and won the victory.
Russia will now be a republic es-
tablished upon the consent of the peo-
pie, guaranteed by universal fran
chise. Political freedom, religious
speech is absolutely assured. AS a
tion and the completeness of popular
control the people have determined to
confscate the vast estates of the czar
and the mobiles. The cZar alone owns
$50, 100000 acres of land, about 80 900
square miles. This vast area, capable
of sustaining seventy million families
was a vast hunting range. In the
midst of this vast tract is splendid
palace and hunting lodges at conve-
nient points all thru it. The thousands
of mobiles, lords, princes and counts
We'd with the cZar in the vastness of
their estates and the splendor of their
palaces.
With clear vision the people saw
that the emperor, the mobiles, the pal
aces, together with all the glittering
array of privilege, was a huge lie and
a monstrous steal, and at one stroke
they destroyed it and they take back
that which always belonged to them.
The privileged classes, possessing the
cupidity and the shrewdness, had eX-
plotted the stupidity of the masses
for 500 years and they imagined up
to the last moment that their position
they slept upon volcano. What was
that volcano? What was the dyna-
mite that blew that rotten system
with all its external splendors into
shreds? 1t was the dynamite of
ideas. 1t was the explosive power of
an awakened intellect in the masses.
eye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free" For many
years great Russian thinkers have
been teaching the Russian people the
truth. Tolstoi, Gorky and many others
- novelists, dramatists, essayists,
scientists, musicians and poets-have
proclaimed the truth. The privileged
classes have used all the power at
their command to destroy the truth.
The great leaders of free thought were
murdered and banished to Siberia.
Their books were burned and their
estates confiscated. Their blood red
dened the snow of Russia. But prin-
ciple refuses to be slain. Truth can
not be killed. Every book that con-
tains truth when burned enlightens
the world. The fire that burns the
martyr writes the principle he stands
for on the clouds. So the great ideas
of Russia's saviors, like the light of
the sun, entered the minds of the peo-
pie and gave them internal freedom.
In the strength of this internal free
dom they rose and hurled the burden
of 500 years into oblivion.
While we rejoice in Russia's free
dom it would be well for every working