The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-08-03

the Independent state" is being or
ganized with the view Of making ba-
sis Of operations against the Soviet
Government of Russia. Such sus-
picion would create innumerable other
difficulties which would make questi-
enable the possibility Of an Allied re-
sistance to the Germans on the Muir
man coast. Therefore quite natural
ly the question arises: Why not con-
slider an easier and more efficient So
luton of the situation? The major
ity Of the Finnish people bitterly re-
sent the German occupation Of Fin
land and the rule Of the white
Guard" junkers. In Russia there are
tens of thousands of Finnish "Red
Guards, driven from their own coun-
try blythe German invaders and they
would jump at the possibility Of coop
Grating with forces opposed to Ger
man domination Of Finland. There
are sixty thousand of these soldiers,
imbued with the most intense hatred
against Germany. Why not try to
organize them into an effective body
which from the midst of Germanized
Finland, as we'll as from the rear,
would attack the German Finnish
forces now striving to occupy the
Thurman coast? This of course can
be done only on the basis of d sincere
agreement with the Russian Soviets.
My contention is that the value Of
such an agreement should not be I'M
derestimated nor made possible by al
liances with counter-revolutionist in
Russia, who quickly would betray the
Allies as did the Ukrainian Rada and
the Finnish "White Guards" Send a
commission to Russia composed Of
men who have=the confidence of the
Russian Workers Government, and it
will be much more easier than is gen.
orally imagined to establish some real
cooperation with the Finnish and Rus
sian Soviets, which would count very
much against the Finno-German
junker rule in Finland and on the Ar
tic coast.
If the Allied public and especially
the public of America were less under
the influence of the wilfully lying
stories circulated by pro-German
sources discrediting the Finnish So
cialists and if they were less pref
udiced against cooperation with the
Finnish Socialists, it would be easy on
the basis of cooperation with the Fin
nish Workers Government to bring
about genuine understanding be-
tween the Russian Soviets and Amer
lea. To. slight and to ignore and even
to take steps deliberately hostile. to
the Russian Soviet by encouraging
counter-revolutionary elements in
Russia is to play game from which
Germany alone can profit. The pro-
posed armed Intervention in Russian
affairs will bring nothing but civil
war and weakening of the only ele-
ment in Russia and Finland which
naturally is anti-German and to en-
courage such elements whose all in
terests lie with Germany.
America today in the midst Of the
world war and as the most important
in the international situation is called
upon to understand the conditions Of
Europe intelligently. Why should
America, which so carefully is guard
ing herself against the influence of
German imperialistic propaganda in
this country, allow her policies in the
near East to be guided by advice pre-
venting her from rallying to the sup
port of the logically only anti-Kaiser
elements in the struggle for the down.
fall of Gergan Imperialism