The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-03

NOo from the pillow
handle and the work shop sitting
now in the national Legislature
and deciding the national policy
They are grieved and hurt to
learn of country in whose gov
erning body there are no lawyers,
bankers, capitalists or million
aires, but just plain farmers and
workers.
They are sure that any nation
with such legislature must go 10
the dogs.
Nothing, it is we'll known, can
save any country from going To
the dogs except plenty of lawyers
and corporation agents In the leg
lature.
What is needed in Russia
therefore. is liberal course oil
instruction in our own superior
ways about these things.
We ought to show to the lowly
Russians some of the men we send
to the house of representative and
senate, and bid them do likewise
You may notice almost every
day that certain American news
papers print solemn sided stun
about the horrors of the Russian
National Council of Workmen S
Soldiers and Peasants delegates
(Which is the only governing pow
err in Russia), telling how the con-
servative elements in the land are
about to rise and overthrow the
terrible radicals.
The conservative elements
i'm Russia! Excuse these
smiles.
Conservative! DO you
know what conservative Is
in Russia? lie Is a man That
in this country would be re-
gartied as such dangerous
and fire-eating radical that
his neighbors would avoid
him. a respectable press
would blacklist him, and
most persons would refer TO
him only with IA shudder and
grOan. :
The most conservative man in
all Russian politics or public lie
has gone so far in advance OF the
average Americans political ana
sociological creed that looking
hack with great care the hindmost
Russian on the march can just
make out the top of William j.
Bryan's hat. 1919
sometimes he isn't quite sure
# is a hat. Maybe it's gopher.
ANYWAY. it looks like something
moving away down the road there.
overthrow the radical element!
Why. there is nothing else. Ihat
60 the hard fact for the reaction
ary American to swallow, that Is
what all but suffocates the Amer
team and English colonies in Rus
STA. so sadly deprived OF a court
in which they would prank ABOUT;
THE WHOLE COUNTRY Is
RADICAI,, radical to its finger
tins filled with enthusiastic faith
in political and social program
that would shake American So
ciety with panic alarm.
No YOU know what the real
snlit in Russian politics is about :!
DO Won know what the issue 10
between these elements that the
American newspapers call the
Extreme Left and the conserVa-
tives? A.. oy-
The Extreme Left want the gov
eminent to put into effect at once
the extreme program OF sweepihs'
radical social reforms.
THE conservatives want the gov
eminent to put into effect the ex-
IRENE program of sweeping, raul-
cal social reforms, but not at once.
As to the wisdom and necessity
of these reforms there is no as
pute in Russia. All of the poii.l-
cal parties that cut any Ice pro-
claim and affirm them.
Anybody that should question:
them would be viewed as a cufios-
itv He would be classed with
abnormal persons that dispute
axioms and selfevident facts.
But they are changes that IN
this country would be deemed the
impossible dreams of fanatics.
You can see, therefore, why the
new Russian democracy will never
be popular with the American re-
dictionary and his obedient press.
You can see why all the agen-
cies he controls are busily engaged
in forecasting the failure of the
Russian democracy and trying, In
his funny little sniping way, to
bring Il about.
The American reactionary'