The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-01-24


appoint a congressional commission to
visit Russia and has asked Senator
Borah to become one of the number.
The Idaho senator has the matter I'M
der consideration and is expected to
go. An article written by Senator
Borah and published in the New York
Times of December 2 dealt with the
deplorable conditions in Russia and
the duty of our government to help
restore orderly government. This ar
ticle is said to have greatly impressed
the president and led to his request
that the author accept place on the
commission Millions Of copies Of Sem
ator Borah's article In the Times have
been printed and circulated by the
Russian American alliance. The arti-
Gle here follows;
Must Save Russia.
If such thing is possible the out
look for Russia is darker now than 1t
was at any time under the rule of the
Romanoffs. It Is difficult to conceive
of anything more demoralizing, more
crushing and cruel than the remorse-
less bureaucracy of Russia as 1t exist
ed prior to the revolution. But there
are some things even worse than that,
and one Is the utter chaos which fol-
lows upon the effort of millions of
people who, without sane leadership,
without any well conceived ideas Of
liberty, seek in vain to establish for
themselves self government.
Perhaps the most soul-moving scene
which the human family presents is
that of people with on experience,
no training in self government, starv-
ed, stunted and brutalized by centur-
les OF oppression seeking to realize
the blessings Of liberty and unable to
do so. The world is now looking upon
such scene in Russia.
Have we done all as humane and
liberty loving nation that we can do
for this noble people struggling in
blindness and in madness to be free?
Shall we abandon them to themselves
and to the Vaccinations of the power
full and ubiquitous activities of the
German propaganda?
Already they are starving. This
winter women and children will die by
the hundreds of thousands, the same
splendid breed of women who few
weeks ago went to the battlefelds to
fight for their liberties and against the
common enemy. One shoulders to con-
template the things which these peo-
pie are to experience if the present
program continues--the French revo-
luton will be enacted over on a more
stupendous and revolving scale. With
out leadership, without counsel or ad-
vice, and apparently without sympa-
thy these people, a people of noble
possibilities. are plunging to an indie
scribable hell, where starvation and
pillage and assassination and chaos are
to hold high glee like dancing devils
above the burning Marie. And what
Is even more menacing still, to be
whipped into shape at last for cog
in the German military machine.
Can not the United States do some
thing? Have we done all we can do.
shall we simply turn aside, curse the
few leaders and forget the mass of the
people? Shall we content ourselves
with matchmaking the Bolsheviki
and shut our ears to the wall of the
masses? Is it no use to try? 1t is up
to lis to exert our influence We should
send men powerful to deal with such
not for a visit, but to stay
until order is brought cut of chaos. We
ought to determine to defeat Germany
in this game; otherwise we shall have |
some difficulty in defeating her upon
the field of battle. Unless we do
and can demonstrate that I
we ca ndo something, it would be we'll |
to modify our pretensions as to maxi |
ing the world safe for democracy.
Lloyd George IN his Paris speech I
spoke in brutal frankness" of the mis-
takes of the allies, He was the only
man who could thus speak, and he did 4
It in splendid fashion. THE war has I
been prolonged by particularism." Yes,
the same particularism, a rather eu-
phonious word to denote harsher
term, which planted the seeds of dis i
solution in the peace treaties of 1915, I
md which has left the germs of con-
'lict In every European settlement
rom that hour to this, But to recur
o his indictment, here it is in part
he failure to assist Serbia. the failure
o assist Rumania, thereby turning
'ver her wheat fields and oil wells to I
he enemy He might have included |
he failure to assist Russia.
The neglect of Serbia and Rumania
vas no more pronounced upon the part {
# the allies than the neglect of Rus
la after the revolution. Undoubtedly I
may be truly said that it was due
0 the same cause-particularism-
want of solidarity, a lack of unity, a c
ack of broad gauge comprehensive t
rogram. But the premier discloses in a
sentence one reason, perhaps, why Y
lore attention was not given to di-
Getting affairs in Russia. He says: u /
ay II, no matter what may happen to o
.ussia or in Russia. revolutionary L
ussia can never be anything but a r
lenace to Hohenzollernism." This s.