Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-14

institutions of the old regime. Even
the church has been reyolutionized.
ISays Mr.. Mott, "In Russia all religion;
now stands on an equality. Men ey-
leryWhere are free to worship God ac-
cording to their own convictions and
FORMS. They are also at liberty to
organize their own religious associa.
lions and to conduct their work with
out restrictions. Even the Jews now
have equal rights before the law and
Ian end has been made to the long
tragedy of prosecutions and massa-
cres. h attitude of any Christian
nation toward the Jews isgamong the
most searching tests of the character
81 us freedom. The Russian Orthos
9 church is undergoing a thorough
reorganization. The process may best
pc dehned as a decentralization of the
church. There has been a complete
break with the old bureaucratic re.
glme. The power of the church has
been de~centralized. President Muir.
lin, OF Boston University. is another
firm belieyr in the ability Of Russia
to find herself. According to President
Murlin the United. States and allied
nations should have sent tons and.
tons of literature broadcast through
out Russia, together with a large nun.
Der of t~actful, we'll Informed, sympa-
thetic personal workers. Thus we
might have 5counteracted the treacher-
Gus German spy system in that I'M
happy country.
According to the Bolsheviki, the.
Workingman is king, policeman, Judge,
prime minister, the whole govern
ment. Bolsheviki edicts are class
edicts with a vengeance. The king
Jobs have usually gone to the nobiI-
lity and the BolsheviN intends to try
ibis hand at the game. Courts, armies,
laws. legislatures, business institu-
ttions as we know them, have no place
in his program.
This is no surprising. Russia as
Well as Germany; all Europe, for that
matter, has given the workingman i
raw deal" for a good many centuries.
Russia and Germany have been SPLEEN
Cid examples of Inherited nobility.
Russia is reaping the whirIwind; Ger
many may come in for her share of
the harvest.
Authority has sobered the Bolsheviki
to- some extent. According to Mr..
Ellis, writing to the Saturday Eve
ming Post, Petrograd and Moscow are
better governed than at any time
since the great war began. In spite
of the glaring contradictions Of the
movement it speaks for the common
people, as against the middle, upper
and nobility classes, for you must re-
member that in Russia the common
people are neither middle nor upper,
they are peasants.
Boishevism and Autocracy.
The fatal defect in the philosophy
of the ]. w. w. in this country and
the Bolsheviki in Russia is identical
with the weakness of autOcracy: ne
cessity knows no law. This has ever
been the motto of tyrants. They would
not understand that serfs and peas
ants and factory slaves would some
day pick up the weapons that had been
used against them for so many cen
i turtles. Necessity knows no law
said the German chancellor, August
1914. The social revolution, says
Trotzky in his book, The Bolsheyiki
and the Worlds Peace. twill not be
bound BY paths. Governments repudi-
ate their sOlemnly acknowledged obli-
cations and the national church ties
Its God to the national cannon like
a criminal condemned to hard labor.
Is 1t not clear that all these circum-
stances must bring about q profound
change in the mental attitude Of the
working classes. curing them radical
ly Of the5hypothesis of legality? Ne
cessity knows no Law, the workers