Arizona republican., 1918-02-17
THEMINES OFARIZONA

love of freedom in its heart. Russia Is a government of the workingmen and the soldiers, of the peasants and the mechanics. It is a democracy which is striving for the uplift of the great masses. The one great desire of perhaps 94 per cent of Russias 1S0.000,00O people is to have peace; to
 have land which they can control and call their own; to have part in the industrial life of the country, and feel
 that they own a part of it; to live lives of order, unrestrained by any cZar or dictator; to acquire education and improve their condition. This iG
 the impulse which has stirred the
 Russian people long before and ever
 since they overthrow the cZar.
 l have been deeply impressed with
 the effect of the new found liberty
 upon the great masses of the Russian
 people. It did not turn them into
 a vengeful horde bent upon wholesale
 massacre and bloodshed, the news
 paper reports in most part to the
 contrary notwithstanding. As a mat
 ter of fact, it did not change them
 very much except that from a sad,
 brave. protesting people they became
 glad, amiable but somewhat bewil- | dered people. They are a kindly people and as 6 nation they have very !
 high ideals.
 | It was the Russian democracy | which gave to the world the cry | that there should be no annexations
 and no indemnities. That is a cry which should have been appreciated
 earlier in America, and should have
 resulted in the unswerving sympathy
 of America being extended to the Rus-
 sian democracy. It was the democ-
 racy of Russia which injected into
 this war the cry, No secret treaties."
 It was the democracy of Russia which gav~s to the world the principle U.
 self-detcrmination by small nationali-
 ties, which President Wilson has
 crystalized in his message, and which
 will form the basis for the freedom
 of the world. In the face of declara-
 tions like these from the Russian | democracy there has been a torrent
 of abuse from some of the upper Rus
 sian classes and the American press, | which, I am sorry to say, does not
 comprehend some of the most impor-
 tant and fundamental elements of the
 Russian situation. Attempts hava
 been made to stop all supplies going
 to Russia from the United States.
 Advice was given for all allied repre-
 sentatives to withdraw. If this advice
 had been followed it would have tend-
 ed to put Russia into the arms of
 Germany. Do you realize what this
 would have meant? The German general staff in time would dominate
 Russia, socially, commercially and po- , litically. All Asia would be German
 ized, and Germany would realize her
 ambitions on the Pacific similar to those which she entertained on the Atlantic. We are sending our best blood to the trenches and we owe , them the best diplomatic advice and
 service that we can possibly obtain. I urge strongly that we do not relax . our efforts to help the Russians. We , should not grow impatient because
 of their attempts to put in practice | what we might regard as wild
 theories. We should always remem- Der our own shortcomings whilst our :, government was in the making. Some |, of the things which We have intro- , duced into our government and which :. | have worked out satisfactorily would . have been regarded as wild populisn :, 30 years ago. The Russians are grop- ', ing for light. The revolution and tn, '. experiments in government are tht ; natural outbursts of untrained meI e organizing freedom on their own lines
 It must be remembered that priol I to the revolution over 160.000,00i ,r human beings were in a condition n not much better than serfdom. Gu
 negro slaves before the war wer' ., better cared for, as most of them haI q good masters who lived on the soil = On the other hand. in Russia mos F of the masters lived away from th' = land, ofttimes at Berlin, Paris, an, = Monte Carlo. What I saw in Russi;
 n m = cessity for cooperation between em Q ployer and employe. First, Russii t' had an extreme Right under the czaI n exploiting labor as it was never eX ,s plotted outside of the Congo. The . we had Kerensky endeavoring to unit ;s labor and capital in a government m Capital was arrogant, and did no If want to let labor have voice. Ker 70 ensky fell. Now the government i m all labor.
 "a Great forces are moving in ever ,g country. l would like to urge m e friends to ponder seriously the prob i. lens which we shall have to meet a ,.. the end of the war; indeed, perhap sv before the end of the war. If we ar ,d wise. we will prepare for the tim If which should soon come when genuin ar capital and genuine labor, if both ar ", wise will be sitting around the offic in table and in the halls of congress e. settling great questions at issue be .,r tween them
 or We must stop to consider whethe ,g we have not delegated the lawmakin ht power, so far as it relates to capit; ,b and labor, too much to paid attor vo neys. No one will accuse me " undertaking the usefulness of law
 yers They can be used too mucl ,- however, and if there has grown u f. a system of legislation by proxy :, this country, then it should be ende 't- With lawyers representing labor ar
 capital in congress and in our lesi: nd iatures, both labor and capital g ,ir what might be termed the ''absel of treatment" and that is not geo rs thing for either.
 ,i- Many of my friends who are nd this room tonight were pioneers 'or the far west when civilization W; h being carved from the wilderness bo They had no government except ar they made it. We know that miner n,. law sometimes reinforced by | ;,s9 vigilance committed, was good lar ne This law was made by the workin: bo men. Our problems then were part ;aI those that Russia has today, on ,es hers are a thousand fold greater. IT r- (Continued on Page Fourteen)