The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-26
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tention to the will OF the people.
Among the five delegates was the
writer Of this article. Having
seen the machine guns placed
around the meeting place, We
asked the commanding officer to
spare his brother and not shed the
blood OF his own countrymen.
The commanding officer an
severed quite candidly that we ap-
pealed to him as q brother but
that being In the Russian uniform
he was no such thing, that he was
the servant OF the car and was
forced to do whatever he was told.
And this servant obeyed his mas
tier, opening fire after the people
left the hall. Twenty-six were
killed and 81 wounded.
breathe Freely
No wonder the Russian soldier
deals so hard with their officers
now. II The Times were published
in Russia and the editor had the
nerve to publish this article, its
author would flee the country for
the second time, and the editor.
the grey-haired type-setter, and
the love expert, Miss Grey, would
have to pay their penalty in jail.
Now. we can breathe freely. The
car is gone, I hope, never to re-
turn to Russia. So we can now
deal with the bolsheviki.
The bolsheviki too, do not rep
resent the majority of the Russian
people. They, the bolsheviki. aim
to at once bring into reality the
social democratic ideal. Theirs is
a very dangerous enterprise.
Lenine, the inspirer and leader
of the bolsheviki, is a great ideal
list, but sorry to say, not prac-
teal man. He, as we'll as others
like him, want to take advantage
of the psychological moment, 9TH
erwise they fear the old regime
will succeed in re-establishing it.
self. But they fail to perceive
the danger that menaces Russia.
TrotslSy Is Orator
AS a good orator Leon Trotsky
tries to influence the people with
his eloquence. He tries to follow
the footprints of the French and
other revolutions where shrewd
politicians divided the soil among
the poor peasant, thereby arrest
ing the movement Of the revOlu-
ton and themselves remain in
power. But this betrays the ig-
norance of the Trotsky-Lenine
clique concerning the Russian
people and especially 80 per cent
of the peasants.
In the revolutions of western
Europe, the French, German and
English, the land workers wanted
to get a piece of land for their
own to become farmers. This is
not the case with the Russian
peasant. He says, "The land be-
longs to no one here on earth II
Is Gods"
The peasant considers 1t q
crime to sell slave or chattel
and 1t is quite as criminal, he
thinks, to sell land as 1t was ere
lated by no mortal.
We must remember. too, thai
all the gold that did not find Its
way into the cars pockets wa
paid for bad ammunition. ant
thanks to spies, exploded before i
reached the front or never wa
delivered at all.
And SO the Russian people are
left poor both in money ant
knowledge of how to organize. A
people left penniless, tho for thu
first time chainless, Is still help
less as a little babe.
Don't Agree With Them
We, peasants, do not agree will
I the bolsheviki, but at least the.
will not sell out their country al
the beaurocratic government did
Should Russia disintergrate
even then will 1t be the fault O
the bolsheviki or will it be TIT
fault of international high financ,
and German monarchism and mil
litarism? Neither will the fault b,
with the Russian people becaus,
the old regime held them bacl
from progress.
II would be unworthy of us
readers, to look at the Russian
thru the eyes of tourists. 1t 4
true that the Russian is not edu
Gated as to manners, but that i
no reason to despise them. On tn,
contrary, we ought to pity ant