White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-17

Ell Win revolutionary doe rines ~
the Bolsheyiki that they could NO
longer be trusted?' What a stupen.
ooas yet characteristic piece of Ger.
man stnpidity-this to scatter ths
eontagion of revolution throuob a,
army not hitherto infected,
fernient IN Germany and Austria.
The preachings of the Bolsheviki
Ike the incendiary bombs TIM. the
6ermans have used in their warfare
nave sci fire wherever they fell. Theso
teachings have been deliberately scat
tered behind the German lines aud
throughout Austria-Hungarv. and
have been largely responsible for the
ierment sthat has beeen d~istracaine
the Governments of both countries
Auteeraey cannot endure such teach
ings. The right of the people 10 rule
themselves Is a teaching in the light
OF which autocracy of every kind
shriyels up like "A worm on a hed-hot
stove.
The German officers protested
irantically against such unheard-of
doings. They could view with COM
plaeeney the dropping of dynamite
bombs upon their soldiers and their
eities-that was war. legitimate war.
As they look at such things-but the
scattering OF ideas of liberty, equality
fraternity, into a land where despot-
ism rules behind a bulwark oil bay
onets was an intolerable. an unthink-
able atrocity,
We see the same stupid policy in
the action of the German Government
IN sentencing to ten years .imprison-
ment British airmen who had been
captured while scattering reading
matter over German soil.
Now, it seems 10 me that almost
as stupid as the tactics OF the German
General STAFF have been those OF the
diplomacy of the Allies. The great
est and most effective enemy of Ger
many. the enemy which It has view
ed with the most anxiety. and 10
which In many ways it has devoted
the most solicitous attention; the
enemy against which IT has known
no way 10 fight effectively. has been
treated by the Allied Governments
with GOODNESS amounting 10 hostility.
So marked has this attitude been at
times that in Russia they have sus-
pected thai the Allies wanted to see
the Gar restored TO power.
Democratic Russia and autoeratic
Germany cannot exist side by side:
or. as Senator Root put it, America
feels that the new freedom of Russia
cannot live as a neighbor 10 the mill
tary autocracy of Germany" II the
Allies will realize this fact once for
all they will give reasonable support
To the Russian people. millions of
whose men have died. and millions
of whose women aud children have
suffered and starved to help the
thing that the Allies are fighting for.
With such support. generously &C
corded. Russia can regain her feet
and her stability and can beat lmpe-
rial Germany with the one weapon
the autoerah knows not how to resist
Friendly 10 America.
Late In the day though IT is. 1t Is
still criminal folly to proceed upon
the assumption that Russia is conn
pletely LOST TO the cause of the war
against the Central Powers and
against the things for which the Cen
tral Powers stand or. because OF
this. that. or the other extreme ut
teranee. attributed to the individuals
Ienine or Trotzky, 20 assume that the
Bolsheviki are hostile TO America.
| Neither of these things is true. the
Bolsheyiki are doing more damage
To the Central Powers to-day with
their ideas than they were ever apie
to do With their bayonets,
As for their attitude towards the
United States. | am in a position to
say that they are all ears TO hear
what we shall say to them. me
Presidents wonderful speech In
| which he stated to Congress the war
aims OF the United States, was cir
culated not only throughout Russia
but also throughout Germany and
! Anstria-by the Bolsheviki' Lenine
telegraphed that speech word ior
word TO Trotzky at the Peace Confer
ence at Brest-Litoysk. II from ms
hands II burst there, like the I'M
shell that 1t was. in the faces oil the
German officers. IL is our words oil
sk~epticism. GOODNESS, and hostility
that are diligently oabled oack 10
petrograd BY German agents mere
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