The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-17

rations could center and solidify. from the uncertain nebula that de- veloped in the chaos that involved everything below the bureaucrats
 The Slay is the oldest European race. It peopled Germany before the Germans and it has never lost it's attachment to the soil. Commu- nal life persisted long in the Rus sian social life because the con- munity feeling was bred in the bone of it's social existence. Patience, mysticism. finding expression in deeply religious moods, and tenaci- ous nationalism which hardly sue cumbed to the internationalism that evolved from the nihilistic teaching of the unselfish revolutionists whose sacrifice is marking different periods of Russian history with bloody punctuation-these are the virtues of the s'ay.
 The faults which have been laid at the door Of Russia have not been Russian faults They have been the faults Of the Holy synod or the Germanist Bureaucracy The peo- pie Of Russia even in moments ot wild eyed patriotism never posed as 1 the bear that walked like man. But just as other countries identi- fy Americans with the activities O. Wall Street, and from the guilt ot l one account the criminauty oI d as Aeneas judged the Greeks. s5 the ruling classes in every county are those whose actions are judged as the actions of the people. Hence
 it is that few nations understand 1 Americans if they judged Americans alone by the pIunderbund of Wall : Street. IL is absolutely impo 5si5ll . 10 properly appraise the British by l the antics of the jingoistic imperial
 ists. and so it cannot be right to st- tempt to judge Russians by the crimes of the bureaucracy.
 Almost all nations are akin. There are very few better than the othel. And as human beings they respond JoIdcnticaI stimuli in identical ways -pIcascd when their sensations are pleasurable elevated in mind and deed when their inspiration is lofty . and noble; pained when the sences are hurt
 The bureaucrats in Russia have l been engaged in compelling one CT ] the greatest nations and one of the greatest races to reduce all its i forces towards the end of their en- richment, their aggrandizement. their increased pomp and power
 Graft, boodling. corruption and op- pression went hand in hand. In the piping times of peace when the army had no other purpose than | to suppress, all was we'll and the l bureaucrats fattened upon the mise
 ry of the people.
 Tn war time. and especially war which had no victories, but which put every available resource of the 1 bureaucrats to the test and found each and everyone wanting, it was i another matter The strongest feel 1 ing of the Russian is that national l ism of the Slav to which reference | has been made. They took it witf them from the banks of the Elbe and it was part of their impedi' menta as they were driven by sue. cessive Teutons across the Nistula and across the Nieman. It was the vestal fire that under no circum- stances has been extinguished and which at any time was liable to
 burst into a flame would scorch the land.
 1 Patience and self sacrifice is na- ] tural to the Slav; it Is the higher type of mind which in such exalted altruism finds the true egoism which sees in mutual aid the strongest means of individual help.
 Hence it is, that the first good thing out of this wholly evil war is that the Slav should find himself That he should confront the power that has weighed him down like the Old Man from the Sea these centuries and turn against it and prepare to rend it. is one of the most fortunate signs of the times.
 Now if every nation would purge itself as Russia is preparing to purge, itself. there Is indeed hope for a better world.