The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-06-05
RUSSIA'S WHITE FEATHER.

RUSSIA'S WHITE FEATHER.
The military correspondent of the London Times,
urging that American soldiers be sent to France at once
adds, Neither we France afford the losses of
great general offensive for the moment"
What is meant by the words "affOrd the losses" is
obscure Great Britain and France probably could break
through the German line if they willing to afford
the losses" They have more men than the enemy and
perhaps very heavy preponderance of guns and ammun
ton The correspondent may mean that neither the Eng.
sh nor French afford to take the chance of losing
several million only to discover at the end of the
rce that they had not accomplished what the set out
to do.
If Russia steadasy in the war the allies in the
west would take the risk They would have trusted Gear
Nicholas to cooperate with sufficient power divert
Hindenbugs attention largely to the eastern front Under
republican, rather revolutionary rule Russia is not
be trusted despite the ublant speeches in the paria
ments of England and France when the downfall of the
RomanOff dynasty proclaimed 1t is becoming clearer
every day that the revolution in Russia triumph
ter the Germans The prOGerman ntrigueS among the
cars encouraged did not prevent General Brussloff from
conducting the most successful allied offensive in the
II it had not been for the drive into Gacia last spring
Verdun would have been captured and northern Italy
overrun.
There has been claorous denuncaton of the and
his advisers in all the allied countries In the United
States especially most rd stories have been told of the
corruption and treachery among bureaucras and in the
war department. 1t may begin to dawn slowly the
world that the faithful to his country and there
was not as much treachery there incompetency
and chaos
The provisional government has hold upon the peo
pie The council of workmens and soldiers deputies is
playing the German game fore effectively than the offic
ais who have been furously denounced in all the
tente countries and in the United States Apparently
few officials of the provisional appreciate
that Russia is bound by the most sacred principles of
honor not to make separate peace but the workmens
and soldiers deputies to have little realization of
tonal honor and quite little realization of Russias in
tereStS free nation
If the Russians having declared for free institutions
should fail to support the democraces of the world in the
present crisis they will be anathema among freemen If
the allies win without their help they will always feel
of shame; if the allies ose the sense of shame
may be obscure for time by the sounding brass
and tinkng cymbals of the RussoGerman alliance but
history will write Russia down the Benedict Arnold
among nations Much of the dshonor which already has
upon Russia result of the disputes and riots
in Perograd the assertions from the army and the theft
of land by the peasants who not willing to wait for
just method of appropriation may be ascrbed in centur
les of serfdom and ingnorance, but if Russia becomes
criminal the plea of hereditary faint and vicious environ
ments will relieve the Russian people from the stigma
which history will affix to them
Men who are inspired by the genuine spirit of freedom
would rather die than be slaves. In Russia the socialists
agrarians and pacfsts would rather be hralls of the
Teuton than to fight That spirit make free
nation; it easily restore the Romanoff despotsm
Great Britain and France, especially France have paid
heavy price for participation in Russias quarrel for it
must not be forgotten that whatever the remote causes
of the war; the approximate dispute between
Austria Hungary and Serbia into which Russia immedia
tey projected itself France supported Russia because of
alliance and Great Britain entered the conflict when
Belgium invaded Had France been faithess to
desert her ally at that time the French Begians and
English would be at peace today The would have
ended quickly with the crushing of Serbia and Russia
Now the Russian people want to commit dishonorabe
ofrylo holh Inv Tho