Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-11-30
A NEW RUSSIA? MAY BE.

InOS0 VINO KNOW huSSldn QlSCOTy
understand perfectly how matters will
end" Is the blithe assurance of the
London Posts Petrograd correspon.
dent, quoted yesterday in Associated
Press dispatches.
. Isn't that asking little too much
even of the most Industrious deliver
among dusty, musty volumes Of his
tory? II anyone can tell what will be
the outcome Of that medley in which,
socialism. anarchy. Prussianism AMI
possibly, a dash Of common sense are
mingled, he is wasting his time II he
is devoting 1t to history reading. He
should be brushing past the guardians
at the door of the presidents sanctum
and telling that official the answer to
the riddle that is Russia.
Presumably. the Posts correspon-
dent takes the view that General Xal-
edines, rallying about him the military
force Of the cossacks and the moral
and financial backing of the conserva-
tive elements of Russia, will be able
to stem the tide Of proGermanism
which has risen to such stage in
Russia with the assistance Of Lenine.
Trotzky and their fellow extremists
that they have a staff Of German Off
GERS in Petrograd for their advisers.
Kaledines has splendid start to-
ward supremacy, to be sure. He has
a sporting chance. at any rate, to sue
coed where General Korniloff failed.
1t seems that he is not befuddled with
the socialistic ideas and ideals which
foredoomed Kerensky to failure, and
apparently he has been able to profit
by Kerensky's sad collapse. For not
more than week ago 1t was reported
from various sources in Russia that
the public finally had awakened to the
fact that the self-styled Savior of
Russia was only dreamy socialistic
agitator with socialism's fatal inabil
ity to understand the necessity for a
constructive policy in the formation OF
a government.
Kaledines, like Korniloff knows
that for long time, at the very least,
Russia must be ruled by military law.
Like Korniloff, he knows that the
basis Of military law is military discip.
line With brand of common sense
which 1t is refreshing indeed to find
in Russia, he has started to build his
following among the people Of the
great stretches of country outside Of
Petrograd and Moscow, where the sup
ply Of food originates and where the
gold that was the empires is hidden.
With the cossacks as a nucleus for
his army, he need have no fear of the
make to unite under the Russian flag
If indeed any other than the red
banner of anarchy still remains-the
scattered remnants of the great mill
tary force which Prince Lvoff inherit.
ed after the revolution and which he
and Kerensky frittered away with an
extravaganza that was criminal. The
cossacks are the real soldiers in Rus
STA because they are the real fighters.
They are not blighted by socialism
nor attracted by its vaporings They
are land owners and substantial citi-
zens. They can command the respect
and the confidence of that great mass OF
Russian citizenship which, despite the
faint that socialism and anarchy have
laid on the land. is intelligent. patri
otto and possessed OF sound reasoning
powers.
lneSe COHCiusioHs, pe ~ uhoStstooc'
are subject to the whims that we must
expect always in that riddle which is
Russia. These conclusions are set
down without more than an average
readers knowledge of kaledines OF
his individual abilities and qualifica
tions. They are based on the readinS
Of Russian history which, according to
the Posts correspondent, qualities any
of u to prophesy Russia's future. but